Today on the exam room.

What is the doctor's prescription for keeping it real and keeping it regular when you're on the road?

So I think a few things. You're going to be changing your diet. This is not what your body is totally used to.

What are the things that we can reach for that will help our body, help our gut to still feel kind of consistent?

Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around

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This is episode 25 of season 8, number 624 overall.

And speaking of Miami, that is exactly where we are going today.

This is the long-awaited episode that Dr. Will Bolsowitz and I did live and in person in Miami recently.

Did this ahead of Dr. Neil Barnard's Bond Voyage Bash and oh, what a night.

This was truly a night to remember.

But the focus of our podcast is going to be on your gut.

Specifically, answering the question of, have you ever wondered why you so often have an upset stomach while you're on vacation?

And for Dr. B, the answer was quite simple. It's because your gut microbiome

gets so easily out of whack when you are out of your normal routine. So he and I spent the

first half of this podcast really talking specifically about that, getting into the gut healthy foods that can help you thrive

when you're on the road and help curb that upset tummy. And why? Why exactly it is that the gut

thrives on a routine? But then we got kind of nerdy. And Dr. B started talking about the

importance of sunlight for your microbiome. Yet you can't

eat those rays of sunshine, but they still have a profound effect on your microbiome. And did you know,

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