Constipation: What's Normal and When Should You Be Concerned?

Butts and Guts, a Cleveland Clinic podcast exploring your digestive and surgical health from end to end.

Hi again, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Butts and Guts.

I'm your host, Scott Steele, the president of main campus and colorectal surgeon here at the Cleveland Clinic in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio.

And today we're going to talk to our expert, Dr. Monica Moltani, who's a gastroenterologist at the Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic, Florida.

Monica, welcome to Butts and Guts.

Thank you guys so much for having me.

Today, we're going to talk a little bit about constipation and getting things moving.

But before we do that, let's give our listeners a little bit of background to you.

Where are you from? Where'd you train? And how'd it come to the point that you're here at the Cleveland Clinic?

Yeah, my name's Monica Multani, like you said.

I did my medical school training in Colorado, and then I came to Florida, South Florida.

I did my residency and my fellowship training at Larkin Community Hospital in South Florida.

And then I joined the Cleveland Clinic campus almost exactly a year ago.

So I'm really happy to be here as part of the gastroenterology department.

Well, it's great to have you.