Welcome to the Shalene show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling author celebrity fitness trainer and

Obsessed with helping you live your dream life ladies and gentlemen. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you

Someone I consider a friend and someone who I also consider a mentor

Especially when it comes to the realm of nutrition Dr. Dan Wikowski. Thank you so much for joining us here today

It's great to be here

Well, let's start if we can with your background you kind of taken a sharp turn left as it comes to your medical profession

Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, I mean it was just an enlightenment what happened was

A little bit what was going on in my practice and a little bit what was going on with my own family in my practice as I started to follow

Patients over a long period of time

You know in residency you only see patients for a very short period of time

You really can't follow them to see that they you know acquire certain conditions or you know

They start to gain weight or have other problems that are chronic like hot disease and get put on medications

They're taken off medications, so you really don't have that chance that trajectory right?

So during my OBGYN residency

I didn't see people over a long periods of time, but as I became an

Obstetrician gynecologist in private practice

I started following people in about 10 years into that practice is when I started to realize that people were asking me questions that I couldn't answer

Most of them about some of the medications they were getting put on like

Lipitor insulin because you know, they were saying they were having problems with diabetes or they were having problems with their cholesterol or high blood pressure medicines

And they I couldn't explain why that was happening to them

I mean I could deliver there baby

I could take care of any of their female problems

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