Fat on a essential part of your diet, but how do you know it's high quality fat?

Hi, this is Dr. Dr. she is in the process of actually writing a new book and has served as a consultant for the

Los Angeles Lakers.

So, and she's really articulate advocate for some powerful nutritional principles that were discussed today.

So welcome and thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me on.

This is very exciting.

Yes indeed.

So I'd like to delve a little bit into your story where what catalyzed your journey into this area of medicine, which is different.

It seems like the majority of clinicians from my experience do have some type of

personal experience like yours. I didn't. I was just always passionate about health.

Not that's good or bad. It's just was my focus since I was a little kid.

But you got sick in 2001 and you did a deep dive into studying biochemistry and molecular biology,

which I think are absolutely essential to today's tools and you try to figure out

what the connection was between your health problem and your diet and didn't

reconcile with what you were being taught in school so why don't you discuss that journey?

Because I think it would be very beneficial for many.

Yeah, so I was practicing family medicine

in Hawaii at the time.

And I had gone to medical school with this fantasy that I would get to the underlying cause of some you know of diseases particularly

Selfishly the ones that I tended to get as an athlete which were

connected tissue. I had bursitis of every eryitis and I was always doing more stretches.

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