You know I think you get to this point where you feel like you have something so compelling to say that you can't not say it.

I would describe it that way for me, where I felt I have information,

some of it sort of hard one through this difficult experience and we have lots of scientific data to back up what I'm saying and if I don't say it and I don't put it out there I'm not

being a good human being in a way almost you know so I would say I felt compelled to share that and you know

people just weren't practicing that way so we're in this weird era where like the doctors were like oh oh that stuff doesn't matter what you eat blah blah blah but the patients were like I think it matters I mean I saw and she had had a condition called posterior

urethral valves where the urethra has some valves that cause a urine to back up

and so she was having urinary tract infections all the time.

And she'd been on literally like four years of antibiotics non-stop and her gut was so messed up.

And I remember thinking like, parents need to know like this is not okay. There's a minor procedure they could do to correct this problem,

but you can't put your kid on antibiotics for four years.

You know, I was seeing people who had been on antibiotics for acne, who were coming in with really, really problematic

GI issues as a result of that.

So it just felt like you got to put it out there.

And the crazy thing, none of the stuff in the book is so like out there.

It's basic stuff that we know, but at the time,

I remember I was at Georgetown and I got called into my chairman's office and he said that somebody had complained that you know had heard me like on a radio program or something and said like who is this hippie doctor at Georgetown telling people soda is not good for you and it was like a

surgeon in North Carolina who was incensed and was like demanding that the hospital fire me because I had written in the book I mean good

thing that at that time I already had my practice so I was voluntary faculty but

the hospital was like you're not firing anybody because can you imagine I had said things about

soda being bad for us and he was like that's nonsense so you know it wasn't even that

long ago but I think it's a lifetime in terms of what people know and what we accept and the public awareness

around a lot of these things.

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