If you live outside of Metro Detroit or were just *way too busy* to come to one my my book signings, you're in luck. We captured the last (and clearly best) talk on video. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

On Monday, September 19th, I was asked to appear on WDIV Channel 4's Live in the D to cook a recipe from the Healthy Gut Cookbook. Check it out!

So, where were we? Ah yes, the small intestine.

Once the chyme has gotten past the door of the pyloric sphincter it finds itself in the first section of the small intestine, the duodenum. Here’s where it’s very important that things have gone well so far in the digestive process. The chyme is supposed to be acidic enough at this point that it will trigger certain reactions.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally arrived at Ground Zero of digestion—-the stomach. Woo-hoo!

I like to think of it as Ground Zero because when most people think about digestion (which I’m sure is almost never because most people aren’t weird Food Nerds like me), the first thing they probably thing about is the stomach. But looking at the whole north-south progression, it’s actually right in the middle, between the brain and the mouth above and the small intestine and large intestine below.