Hello, welcome to the podcast, and we are into the winter. Maybe you're listening in the future,

and you're like, who cares that it's winter? But the winter solstice is a really cool time of the year.

You've got the shortest daylight, but there's so much magic and beauty that happens in the darkness,

if you pay attention. Just the other day when I drove up the driveway

at nighttime, there was a skunk right there in the driveway just hanging out. I was like, wow,

that's cool. How often do people see skunks alive? Most people, when they see a skunk, it's dead,

and you drive across it, and then shoo-wee, and then that's it. But, you know, to see a skunk living is pretty cool.

So with the increased darkness, you have new things, new creatures that you may see.

Oh, we saw a great horned owl.

Oh, my God, that was awesome.

I could rant about it, but let's just say I've never seen a great horned owl this close in a tree.

It was beautiful.

Let's get into the show on mood issues. I hope you enjoy. And if you

need help clinically, check out my site, Evanbrand.com. Schedule a call. Here we go. And we are live. It's

Dr. J. and Evan Brand here in the house. We're going to be chatting about root causes to mood issues.

Evan, how you doing today, man? I'm doing very well. This is an exciting topic

because depression is the number one leading cause of disability in the U.S. and there's a ton of

other mood issues that come along with depression and your psychiatrist is not telling you

that you need to detox heavy metals and get infections out of your

gut and stop eating pesticides and all of the other things that are causing your mood issues.

They just give you a drug to treat it and give you a Band-Aid, which has saved lives, but it's not

root cause.

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