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I'm Dr. Alan Christensen

Alan is a New York Times best-selling author and a Phoenix, Arizona-based naturopathic medical doctor

who specializes in thyroid disorders and he's the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Adrenal Reset Diet, The Complete Idiots

Guide to Thyroid Disease and Healing Hashimoto's A savvy Patient's Guide.

Dr. Christensen frequently appears on national TV shows like Dr. Oz,

CNN, the Doctors and the Today Show, as well as print media like Women's World,

USA Today, Newsweek Newsweek and Shape magazine.

When he's not maintaining a busy practice, he's an avid mountain unicycler, a technical rock climber,

and he loves watching the stars and it is an absolute pleasure to have

him here with me today.

So Alan, it is such a pleasure to have you here with me on Natural MD radio and I'd love to share your brilliant and well-developed views on a topic that I feel like

there's so much controversy about in there's controversy about everything in the food world and I think there's

some things that everybody agrees on right everybody agrees that we all need good

quality protein wherever you're going to get it from. We all agree on high quality vegetables and

getting a lot of good antioxidant, multi-colored vegetables, greens, and

all of that. But then we get to carbohydrates and you know, it's almost like you can hear the penny drop or the

pin drop in the room when somebody says, yeah, I think people should eat carbohydrates. And I work with a lot of, it's really controversial.

And I work with a lot of women who are,

you know, they're smart, they're educated,

the women who are listening to this

podcast are there the researchers they're citizen scientists and a lot of

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