Welcome to the Just Ingredients Podcast, I'm Cara Lynn and here we talk all things nourishing to the mind, body and soul.

This is a place where you can find just good ingredients to life. Joel Warsh, aka Dr. Joel Gator of the popular parenting

Instagram account is a board certified pediatrician in LA California who

specializes in parenting, wellness and integrative medicine.

He is the author of the newly released book Parenting at Your Child's Pace,

The Integrative Pediatrician's Guide to the first three years.

Welcome back to the show, everyone. Today I am excited for our guest, as you heard from the

bio. We have a Pediatrician on today. I have so many of you that are moms and

dads and have little kids and so I know this is going to be a very helpful

conversation for a lot of you so thank you Dr. Wash for being here. Thank you for having me.

So before we get started, will you just tell my audience a little bit about yourself and maybe why you chose to become a pediatrician?

I always love working with kids. I grew up in

Canada and used to coach my brother in sports and then started running camps for kids and so I

just always loved working with kids and also love science and so that was the natural progression I decided I wanted to do medicine but it was always to become a pediatrician.

It was important to me to get to kids early and to help prevent illness and work with families so that

way we can have healthy kids and I never really loved working with the adults when I was

going through med school so it was a natural easy choice to go into pediatrics for me.

And as I went through my medical training,

I got a little bit frustrated with the regular system

and medications for everything

and really have seen that medicine has moved away from prevention and

so that's what really led me into integrative medicine and integrative parenting and

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