Hey, come back here! I assure you, I am not blogging from the toilet. Just watched Colbert have a very panguttaral (as opposed to cerebral) conversation with Dr Gershon, author of The Second Brain which says how our gut can really do the brain in - with a bloody diarrhea, as the doctor explained.
Via The Daily Transcript.
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