Mel Robbins

She's the director of the Institute for Gut-Brain Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she leads NIH-funded research on how the gut communicates with the brain and how that connection shapes anxiety, mood, and disease.

She completed her residency at Johns Hopkins.

She's also earned a master's in public health from Harvard.

She's gone on to specialize in neurogastroenterology.

And I still can't say the word.

She's that impressive.

She'll tell you how to say that word.

At Mass General Hospital, the number one research hospital in the world.

If she can help me with bloating and pooping, we're going to be good.

I don't care how you say her specialty.

Dr. Pasricha is also the longtime Ask a Doctor columnist for The Washington Post, where she's known for telling the truth, busting medical myths, and tackling topics most people are too embarrassed to talk about.

including digestion, pooping, and gut symptoms that millions of people live with in silence.

She's also the author of the new bestselling book, You've Been Pooping All Wrong, which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how fun, direct, informative,

this conversation is going to be.

Oh yes, we're going there.

This is one of those conversations where I'm asking the questions that most of us are just too embarrassed to talk about.

So without further ado, please help me welcome Dr. Trisha Pasricha to the Mel Robbins Podcast.

Thank you so much for having me, Mel.

Oh my gosh.

All right.