Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast I am speaking with now LA-based

chef author restaurant tour and wellness advocate Seamus Mullen.

More than a decade ago, Seamus was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune disease

that causes pain and swelling in your joints, among other things that we're going to talk

about. But through diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes he was able to turn things

around. Now he's using his experience to help others.

Seamus, welcome to the program. It's good to see you.

Good to see you as well. Thanks for having me. Thank you. You know I was on your Goopfellow's broadcast.

Yeah, not too long ago.

We had a great conversation.

We had a good time and thank you.

So you've opened multiple successful restaurants

and have been featured on shows like the next iron chef

chop the today show and like I mentioned co-host of the Goopfellow's podcast. Yep.

So you've made a name for yourself in the culinary world.

So how did you get into that in the first place?

You know, I was really lucky to grow up on a small farm in Vermont, so I was around good food from a very, very early age, and my grandmother was an exceptional cook, and she was my primary caregiver, my parents were working.

So I got to spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her when I was little.

And it's funny, when people asked me when I learned to cook,

I actually can't ever remember not cooking. Cooking was just one of the

chores that my brother and I had to do at all time, you know, when we're growing up.

There was one night a week when we had to cook starting from a very young age. And the more I realized when I made food

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