What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

On the show today is a special guest, Dr. Joel, whom I recently met through Katie Kimball's

Life Skills Summit. He'll be teaching in that summit as well for all my listeners.

This is a reminder to go get your ticket, which is free.

Dr. Joel, welcome to the Maximize Minimalist.

Thanks for having me on.

I'm super excited to chat today.

So can you tell my listeners a little about your background and what inspired you to specialize in maybe a like a new

term to people, which is integrative pediatrics. Yeah. So I did all the regular pediatric training.

I trained to do normal, great Western allopathic program. But as I was going through training

and as I've, you know've gone on in my career,

I got a little bit more frustrated with the regular system, a super short visits, medications

for everything and focusing on treatment all the time. And so that's what led me down the path

to start learning about integrative medicine and natural medicine. So I always say, you know,

I think it's important. I'm not against Western medicine at all. I think that we have invented so many amazing things that can save your life. And

medications can be amazing when you need them. Sometimes you need an antibiotic. Sometimes you need a

steroid. Sometimes you need an MRI. These things are all great. But we use them far too often these

days. And we are seeing a massive increasing chronic disease

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