This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now here are your host, clinical health psychologist Dr Kelly Donahue and nurse practitioner Cynthia

Thurlow. Hello everyone we are so happy today to be joined by Michael Collins he's the founder of

sugar addiction.com and is the board chairman of Food Addiction Institute he has

been completely sugar-free for over 30 years.

That's right, folks, 3-0, 30 years

and has worked closely with others

to help them regain their lives

that have been ravaged by this addictive product.

Michael, welcome.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

I would love for you to kind of start off telling us

about your story and how you became interested in eliminating

sure. Yeah, I mean it's a like I said I had the podcast version it's kind of a

shorter version of the I mean a lot of times it brings up more questions

and answers but the the short version is I I grew up as a regular kid and you know

sugar was all around my mother was my favorite sugar junkie. And there's a great video on

YouTube, Eric Clapton, on his six million dollar antique treatment center being interviewed

by 60 Minutes in Ed Bradley.

And Ed Bradley says, so Eric, this addiction thing all started with heroin.

And Eric Clapton says, no, it started with sugar.

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