Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.

When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible

results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.

I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,

creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. I am passionate

about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. Let's get started.

Hello, everyone everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show. I hope you're having a lovely

week and a lovely period right now around the holidays and as we come into New Year's,

there's a real window right now. I feel like

this portal of time as we step into the new year to really deeply consider shifts we want to make

and to deepen our understanding of really powerful aspects of our lifestyle, which is what,

of course, our show is all about.

Saloon is all about these four cornerstones. Today, we're going to be talking about understanding

the gut, heart connection, and the role of probiotics. So I've been talking about gut health

for many years. Those of you that have been with me since the Beauty Detox Solution,

which was published back in 2011, I will recall I was talking about digestion before a lot of people were. And this was

from this seeking, this really organic way of crying out and trying to figure out how to deal

with my bloating and my acne and my waking and my extreme anxiety and insomnia.

And I really came to understand how important the gut is.

And to this day, I really focus on digestion and gut health.

And what's really interesting as the work has expanded.

And now the new book, The Hidden Power, the Five Hearts,

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