Hey folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for joining us on Fat Burning Man,

where we talk about real food and real results.

I'm going to start with a weird question.

What does amputating limbs day in, day out, teach you about health?

Our guest today is my friend and functional

medicine practitioner, Dr. Justin Markagiani. He experienced the shortcomings of conventional

medicine firsthand in kind of a morbid way. He actually began his career in the surgical

ward assisting with limb amputations. He was actually the guy holding limbs as they chopped him off. And so he realized

that there had to be a better way. And then he went, he basically took his career in a different

direction, decided to practice functional medicine down the road. And it's all about preventative

medicine, alternative healing. And a lot of times you can do that with good old fashioned nutrition,

fitness, and proper sleep and lifestyle factors.

So we're going to be talking about that today.

And I know you're going to like it.

But before we get to the interview, here's a quick update from the community.

We just wrapped up our sugar detox challenge in our online community, the fat-burning tribe.

And I just want to say congratulations to all of you who participated.

There are way too many to list right now.

But I'm going to share a few bits of feedback that came in.

We're definitely stoked to help you get the sugar monkey off your back because sugar is a nasty beast.

This is what Patty says.

She says, I'm on day 22 and still going strong.

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