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Slow down, you move too fast, you got to make the and last just keeping down everyone and welcome to

dishing up nutrition brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness today we're going to explain a

rather complex and maybe it's unfamiliar term for many of you and that term is called the microbiome.

And if you're a nutrition follower, you more than likely have seen this term around,

whether it's blog articles you've read or podcasts you've listened to.

But we want to take some time this morning to really explain and explore and hopefully

answer some questions around this

concept of what exactly the microbiome is and how does it affect our health.

If you would like more information about the microbiome after this show, you can go to our

website, which is weight and wellness.com and read a blog article that I just

wrote and we posted, I believe it was just last week on our website. So the blog is titled,

what is the microbiome? What does it do? And how does it keep us healthy? And Leah, I know I've

talked to a few clients of mine who have already read that

and think it's just a really great resource. So kudos on putting that together and making it

easier for our followers and our listeners to kind of dive into this topic. Thank you, Shelby. I appreciate

that. It took many hours, actually, more than I expected to get that

blog article put together, but it came together actually fairly nicely. So in between that

researching and the writing and trying to wrap my head around this concept of the microbiome,

you know, I think I have a decent handle on what the microbiome is and just some of those impacts on our

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