Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

But can you learn and give your kids something that you didn't have?

Yeah, and it goes to the flip side, doesn't it?

You might have had the best teenage and adolescent life where your parents made sure you had all the right inputs.

So you've had great bone density building.

but you may be living a sedentary lifestyle and be doing nothing.

And so it's still gonna start declining, right?

So I think the message is empowering whatever you are, whatever your start was, it's never too late to start paying attention to your health and wellbeing.

You made that case throughout the book.

Just come out to gut health for a minute, because I do think that's a really provocative line.

Gut health in midlife is both a mirror for our past and a compass for our future.

I think in that chapter, you're sort of making the case that all the choices you've made, some you were aware of, some you were not aware of, have influenced your gut health.

And it might be in your 40s that it's coming home to roost, right?

And you have covered this, but I just want to make sure we've clarified it for people.

They hear the latest podcast on gut health.

And as you say, they go all in.

Fermented foods and kimchi and kefir and stuff.

And they're bloated and they've got wind and they don't like the way they feel, right?

I think your message is really be patient.

Yes, 100%.

Can you just elaborate on that a little bit?