Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection.

Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast we are glad to have Trob back

Trot and I have been doing our own thing a few weeks just because of our

busy schedules and and because you guys get tired of hearing both of us at the same time

but today you get a treat. Today we have Dr. J. Riggly who's a functional medicine and

naturopathic doc. He's going to teach us internal medicine docs a little bit

about supplements and women's health and hormonal imbalance and all that kind of

stuff. So doc, welcome, thank you so much for coming and all the way from North Carolina, right?

Yeah, thanks Brian.

Hey, hey, thank you so much.

I'm so glad we could all hook up and get together and do this.

So Doc, tell us about yourself.

What got you involved in

naturopathic and functional medicine and and your journey of weight loss

and all that we have so much stuff to offer we really want to hear as much as we can in this next hour.

Okay, let's see, I'll begin with my journey started out as an athlete playing basketball in college in Indiana and along the way I got an

interest in health and fitness and things like that and took the next step and came

back to Charlotte, North Carolina where I was getting ready to start medical school at Chapel Hill.

And I took a job in the hospital as a phlebotamus for the summer before I started school and had this wild experience of this, you know, this cannot be what I want to do with my life because I saw continuously they bringing people into an environment that was such an unhealthy setting and putting them in dark rooms without sunlight and they people getting sicker and anyway that was my own

my own come to a

record realization that something was it was of miss here in what I was getting ready to give

my you know myself to my profession to and so I took some time I decided to do some traveling and I ended up in Southeast Asia where I was going to go for a couple of weeks to just try to clear my head because I had a friend who had done so.

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