Dr. Fuhrman, thank you so much for joining us today.

It's such a pleasure meeting you face to face.

Of course, Dean and I admire you and we've known of your work for such a long time.

Thank you so much for taking the time to come on our podcast today.

My pleasure.

Excited to be here.

We have a large population of doctors, residents, medical students in different fields of

medicine who are big believers of the power of lifestyle and are implementing that in their

patient populations and they know of your work.

Whenever we start a conversation with a leader in

healthcare, we always want to know a little bit about their journey. What happened and what made

them go through this journey? What made lifestyle stand out for you? So if you could share that

with us, we would really appreciate it. Well, it's a long,

complicated story. I'll try to summarize it.

My father, when I was in my teenage years,

was overweight and sickly.

And he started reading books from Herbert Shelton,

from the American Natural Hygiene Society,

who wrote most of his books, I think, in the 40ss and 50s and so my father brought this way of eating into our home and we kind of thought he was nuts at the be you know early on but then the exposure to all these people eating so healthfully

watching them transform their health and him improving his health had an effect on us when we were teenagers and I was on the United States world figure skating team

I was competing as a competitive athlete always looking to better our stamina and strength but also not wanting to get ill to miss training or to you know know, not be able to, you know, being able

to be well and never get sick.

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