Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

I think, I hope most parents are certainly, this is how I feel, I want my kids to have a better life than I do.

I want to see them thrive and do things that I wasn't able to do or have opportunities that I didn't have.

And so if I, for example, didn't have the right inputs to me as a child,

I sure as hell want to make sure I'm giving my children that.

Yes.

So I think these conversations are important.

And I think sometimes, I don't mean at you, I think sometimes these days, maybe because of cancel culture, like we're sometimes too scared to say truth.

It's like, it's okay to say it.

It's like, you know, yeah, you may not have had the best start.

Okay.

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.