Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 449. I am so excited for today's guests. We have back on the show Dr.

Neil Bernard. You were in episode 256 so it's been a while.

Now we're in the 400s in our interviews.

And we had you on for one of your books,

The Cheese Trap, which which was amazing I highly recommend

listeners go back and check out episode 256 if you haven't already

Dr Bernard you are on the forefront of the whole food plant-based movement showing people that we can heal our body with food and now you've come out with a book teaching

us especially women how we can balance our hormones fertility, breeze through menopause, and even how to

manage things like cancer when it's hormone-related cancers all using food as medicine. I'm very

happy to have you back on the show. Well thank you. It's great to be back.

Absolutely. We did dive a bit into your bio in our last interview so and what led

you to want to become a doctor that practices whole food plant-based food as a way of healing people. So I want to jump right in. Why did you write

your latest book, your body and balance? Why did you, what compelled you to want to

help use food to balance or hormones?

Up until now most people have thought of food in rather modest terms, that if you're

eating the wrong kinds of foods, you gain weight, you change your diet, you lose weight, maybe your cholesterol will

go down, your blood sugar can improve, that kind of stuff.

We can be much more ambitious than that when it comes to tuning up our health. And almost every function of your body is

controlled by hormones. Hormones are made in one organ.

They go through the bloodstream to reach another organ,

and they tell it what to do.

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