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Hi and welcome to episode 16 of the Wellness Mama Podcast where I provide simple answers for

healthier families.

I'm so excited for today's guest but a random fact for your day first. Did you know that

people with higher numbers of moles tend to live longer than people with fewer and that

one human hair can support 3.5 ounces which is about the weight of two full size candy

bars and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head that makes the tail of

Rapunzel a little bit more plausible but definitely still fictional.

And today's guest and I are going to talk about hormones and hormone balance which affect

both skin health and hair health so it's going to be a fascinating conversation.

Our guest is Reed Davis who is the founder of the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Program

or FDN certification. He's a clinical advisor to bio-health laboratory and I've taken a lot

of their tests and they're really good tests and he helps their practitioners interpret

the test results and develop the protocols to really restore health and not just treat

symptoms and he's extremely successful in a very experienced clinician and just a wealth

of knowledge. And his passion is teaching people how to properly assess their chronic

stress conditions and health conditions especially when it comes to hormones and the immune

system and digestion and detoxification and I could not be more excited to talk to him

today. Welcome Reed. Thank you so much Katie it's really

a pleasure to be here with you. Thanks so much for being here and for agreeing to talk

to us and I'd love to just jump right in. I know that you do a lot with hormones so

could you give us a primer on the endocrine system and that delicate balance that it

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