And I hope you don't have SIBO, but if you do, I'm glad we found each other.

at the end of the small intestine is where the microbiome starts about, you know, 10 to 20% of your microbiome is in the upper small intestine.

And then the upper large intestine is where the majority of your microbiome is.

And whatever doesn't get digested, broken down and absorbed at this point is going down into the large intestine where our microbiome is.

And what's crazy is that our microbiome, it's so symbiotic to us.

We're aware now that it's so beneficial for so many areas.

It's literally like another organ.

So

Mm-hmm.

But, but that doesn't guarantee what is on your plate and that big Whole Foods bill you have actually gets through your digestion into your cells and where you want those nutrients.

And so I find it, I find nutrition and this food focus to just be a extraordinary limiting point of view, because the digestive tract is what controls whether or not that grass-fed steak, and kale, and sweet potatoes does anything.

Because it could...

That meal can, can produce inflammatory processes, and bloating, and, uh, negative- non-health promoting signals just as much as it can be a, a health promoting, you know, signaling and processes and nutrients to rebuild your muscles and your brain and your heart and all these different things.

And so the controller of what is the, the end result of, of the nutrition you choose is the digestive tract, the organs that make up the digestive tract, the immune system that is, uh, innervated and completely interwoven into the digestive process, the microbiome, which is in and of itself it's...

I think it's its own organ.

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