Hi, I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com. Welcome to episode 7 of the Wellness Mama podcast,

where I provide simple answers for healthier families. This episode's interesting facts

are that people under stress who don't handle the stress of financial issues are twice

as likely to develop gum disease than those who don't. Additionally, it's a myth that

stress turns hair gray, but it can cause hair loss. Telegine, effluvium, or hair loss

can start up to three months after a stressful event. And I've actually had personal experience

with that and I made that connection. But there's hope because banging your head against

a wall can burn 150 calories per hour and who knows it might help deal with stress.

As you might have guessed, we're going to be talking a lot about stress today. Our guest

today is Dr. Kevin Cicaro, who has an amazing website and podcast called Straight Shot Health.

And he's a doctor who struggled with the current healthcare system and he was frustrated

because he only got to see patients once they had already gotten sick or had a problem.

So he left his private practice and he now works to help educate patients and focus on

making healthy changes and preventing the problems in the first place. So welcome, Kevin.

Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Katie. I'm extraordinarily excited to be

here and love what you're doing. Awesome. Thank you. Well, I'm going to go jump right

in because I think you have such great information to start. Can you tell us about your background

and how you got into your current area of expertise? Yeah, sure. So I'm an osteopathic

physician. I went to a DO school to really because I was interested in how the body

related to health and it was moved focus holistically. And then what happened is you get

in a medical school and you start getting into your rotations. And I fell in love with anesthesia.

And I love that operating room environment. I love being able to actually see the effects

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