Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Hey everyone, with January and New Year's resolutions on the horizon, so are detoxes.

But detoxing deserves a total rebrand. Detoxing isn't about limiting your body or some gimmicky

juice cleanse, rather you should focus on what you're putting inside your system. There are

little ways to detox every single day that don't involve any sort of extreme cleanse.

And in this episode, Dr. Viv shows us how. With that, enjoy the show. Dr. Viv, welcome.

Thank you so much, Jason, for having me. It's such an honor to be here.

Well, such an honor to have you on the show. I've really enjoyed your content on Instagram

for some time now, so I am so excited that you're finally with us. And why don't you start by

telling us a little bit about your medical background and your personal story, which is quite

powerful. Oh, thank you so much. And I love the work you're doing with MyBuddyGreen, by the way,

you're putting so much amazing information and helping so many people. So, yeah, it's super

honor to be here. And so, for those that don't know me, my name is Dr. Viv. Well, Vivian.

I go by Dr. Viv on social media, because that's what people call me. But I'm a conventionally

trained MD. I went to medical school in the UK. And I am a big proponent of science and using

science as the guiding light to help people with their health. But through my own journey,

through my own family's health journey, I started to realize that although medical school

equipped me with a very good toolbox of symptom relief, so treatments that helped people

relieve their symptoms, we weren't very good at getting to root causes. And therefore, we weren't

very good at giving people long-term relief from their symptoms. So, I started to get the solution.

I felt like I was prescribing a pill for every ill. And my patients will come back to me

year after year, and they end up with more and more medications. And sometimes I was prescribing

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