Hello, welcome to the show. I'm your host Evan Brand. Thanks for joining me. If you're new here,

I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner and nutritional therapist operating worldwide via phone,

Skype, FaceTime. However I need to speak with you, that's what I do. I love helping people get to the root cause of their health problems.

If you haven't heard my story, I'll try to make it short. Basically, I had many, many gut issues and mental health issues as a teenager that led me into college,

working third shift to pay for college, ended up losing 25 pounds without trying.

Thought I had something majorly wrong with me.

Turned out I had various infections, H. pylori, which is a bacterial infection,

along with some parasites,

bacterial overgrowth, candida. It was a whole mess in my gut, and it took many, many years,

but I was able to successfully eradicate using herbs, eradicate these infections in my gut,

and restore my microbiome, which now has significantly changed things. My skin, my hair,

my nails, my teeth, my gut. I mean, I thought it was normal for people to have stomach pain

after you ate. I just thought, oh, you eat. Your body's working hard. That's normal to have this.

And it's very interesting. I talk with so many clients every single week and many people say

the same thing that they start to put off these symptoms. Like they just attribute their symptom to something

else. Like, oh, it must be that. It must be that. And you never really think that something is wrong because

you're so busy paying bills and working hard that you're just hustling in life and you're not

paying attention to these symptoms. However, the symptoms don't magically go away. You have to find out what's going on and you have to

fix them. So I encourage you, if you've got a symptom, don't ignore it. You know, whether you reach out

to me or whether you reach out to somebody else that can help you, I mean, that's fine. But you've got

to do something because you're not going to be able to eradicate your

mental health problems by doing nothing you're not going to be able to watch netflix and all of a sudden

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