You'll spend six months researching your big screen TV, but you'll go online and buy supplements from anyone.

We just buy whatever's the cheapest or seems like the best deal or has the best marketing scheme.

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Hey, everyone, you're on air with Ella, and today's guest is unlike any guest I have had before.

My guest today is Gary Collins, and he comes to us with a background from the U.S. State Department,

the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

and time with the FDA as a special agent. Gary's got some pretty strong opinions. It's going to

blow the lid off of the supplement world for us. So without further ado, Gary Collins. Hey, Gary,

how you doing? Great. Thanks for having me on. Gary, I can't even begin to do your

background justice. Can you please explain who you are and what you do? I've done quite a bit,

and it's just a wide variety in kind of where I come from. But I grew up hunting, fishing,

running outdoors from dawn to dusk, or dusk to dawn and just did everything that I

could athletically, played athletics all my life, but like everyone else, ate horrible. My main

diet as a child was Pop Tarts, Captain Crunch, and Kool-Aid and Delvita and white bread sandwiches.

That was another one.

And the thing was I was surrounded by free-range chickens.

We had chickens, grass-fed, free-range cattle.

I had basically exposure to everything in my area, but did we eat it?

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