Mel Robbins

Nothing is too awkward.

And I promise you, if you've ever had that thought, is it just me or

where you've turned around to flush the toilet and thought, what is that?

This is the episode where you stop guessing, you stop feeling weird about your body or uncomfortable in your own skin and finally understand what your gut has been trying to tell you.

Because once you understand your gut feeling, you know how to work with your body instead of against it.

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast.

I am so fired up for our conversation today.

I know we're going to laugh.

We're going to learn.

It's such an honor to be together and to spend this time with you.

And if you're new here or somebody sent this episode to you, maybe it showed up in your family group chat, I want to personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family.

Today's guest is one of the world's leading experts on the gut-brain connection and how your body influences your mental health, stress, and decision-making.

I'm talking about Dr. Trisha Pasricha.

Dr. Pasricha is a board-certified neurogastroenterologist, a physician-scientist,

and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

She also holds a master of public health in biostatistics and epidemiology from Harvard.

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.