Well, welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health. And today I'm

joined again by Dr. Brian Walsh, who is going to enlighten us about a number of things but primarily on some of the amazing

pieces of information you can harvest from your blood test imagine Imagine that. This is information. Most likely if you're

seeing a conventional physician, he will not tell you and he probably doesn't

even know more than likely. So you definitely want to listen to this because it's going to be fun. So welcome and thank you for joining us.

Thank you so much and I'll even add to that if you don't mind. I think that there's a lot of functional medicine practitioners, unfortunately,

that aren't aware of this information as well.

And it's not anybody's fault, just quite frankly,

I think rare is it that somebody really digs into some of the scientific literature and

pulls out some really useful stuff and I think that in the functional nutritional

integrative medicine world it's high time that we take what we have

been doing with blood chemistry at the next level. Okay so how did you get so

smart? How do you know this and they don't? Well first of all I don't think I'm

very smart. I honestly

think that most of us don't really know as much as we think that we do as a

medical industry even as an alternative medicine industry. But you know, my story, I will tell you in a sort of a shortened version,

is I graduated naturopathic school, really excited to practice.

And excuse me, let me interrupt there for a moment because there's two types of N.

There's the ones that went to the four-year schools, in school and generate typically a

debt of a quarter million dollars by the time to graduate, and and there's ones that do the night

school version or if you end up marrying one of your people in school then it's twice as

much. Because your wife's an MD too. That was the most expensive but best date ever. Yeah, so I went to one of the four

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