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Now, let's head

to the show. What a great conversation with Dr. Benhouse. If you were to take me and instead of

having my focus be the gut and thyroid, but rather instead someone who focused on metabolism,

body composition, exercise, stress, macronutrients,

and how to use all these things collectively for optimum energy, vitality, and body composition,

you would have Dr. Benhouse.

Very impressed by this young man.

He's published a number of papers.

He also has a clinic in

Costa Rica where he practices functional medicine with an emphasis on kind of health and fitness,

as I outlined a moment ago. Evidence-based, conservative, really knows this stuff, and he did a great

job of kind of tearing down some sacred cows. Unfortunately, they're incorrect sacred cows in

functional medicine, similar to what we've

talked about before but really picked apart some aspects of adrenal testing but also had some

very interesting stuff to say about mitochondrial function and how important it is for overall

health and brought it back to practical things that you can do to test and to treat these imbalances

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