Dr. Trisha Pasricha

Yeah.

Well, here's a number that made me realize that we have a gut health crisis hiding in plain sight.

40%.

40%?

40% of Americans say that their bowels disrupt their daily lives.

40%.

So that means all of us

Know somebody, love somebody, maybe we are somebody who's dealing with this every single day.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

15% of Americans have irritable bowel syndrome.

Three out of four Americans can't poop in a public restroom.

One out of three struggle to go to the bathroom on vacation.

One out of 10 live with chronic, unexplained pain every time they eat.

One out of 10.

And the kids are also not all right.

In my own lab, we found that college students, about a quarter of college students, spend more than 10 minutes at a time trying to have a bowel movement every time they go.

And the crazy thing here is that

most of these people would not identify as being sick.

They wouldn't think necessarily that they have a problem.

They kind of would have normalized all these symptoms.