Hello, my friend. I'm so excited to see you here today. It's episode 393 of the keto diet podcast and today

I have a long time friend, Dr. David Jockers on the show. He's a doctor of natural medicine and runs one of the most popular natural health websites

Dr. Jockers.com, which has gotten over one million monthly viewers and his work has been seen on popular media such as the Dr. Oz show and hallmark home and family.

Dr. Jockers is the author of the bestselling book, the keto metabolic breakthrough by victory about publishing and the fasting transformation.

He's a world-renowned expert in the area of ketosis, fasting, inflammation and functional nutrition. He is also the host of the popular Dr. Jockers functional nutrition podcast.

Dr. Jockers lives in Canton, Georgia with his wife Angel and his two boys David and Joshua and his daughter's joyful and sunshine.

I am so excited to have him on the show today. Dr. Jockers and I have done lots of stuff in the past together. I've been on his show. He's been on mine.

In the show notes, I will link up to the episode that we did on his show and then if you want to connect with him on an episode that we did on my show,

I will also include the links in the show notes. Also, David and I talk a lot about different books that we've read, eat for energy, end of Alzheimer's, melatonin miracle.

We talk about Dutch testing and tons of different supplements and things. So I'm going to include all of those links in the show notes.

And for the supplements, there's a website that I like to use called full script and I'll include the link in the show notes there. If you sign up using my link, you get 20% off supplements and they are way cheaper than Amazon.

The reason why I never, ever, ever, ever suggest that anyone get any supplements from Amazon like ever is because they don't care about the quality of the supplements, meaning they will let supplements sit in the sun in their boxes for days on end.

A lot of them come expired, so I just, I generally don't suggest getting supplements off Amazon and with full script, you save money and I'm not paid to say that.

It's just a great service. And so I set that up. There's a bunch of protocols in there and details in there plus you get savings. So it's good all around.

Today, we're going to be talking about understanding your hormones and melatonin production, how melatonin works in the body, why it's so incredibly important, fear of supplementing around hormones, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, how you should test your hormones, blood work versus Dutch testing, estrogen metabolites and why that matters.

How to have optimal hormone synergy, cleaning up the body, addressing root causes and we finish things off by talking about inflammation and the role in your body overall. It's a good one. I can't wait to share with you. So let's just get to it.

Hey, I'm Leanne Vogel. You're listening to the keto diet podcast. I've created a free guide with tips on how to start keto and maintain your fat fueled life. Grab it at healthfullpersuit.com slash free as a little thank you for listening to the show.

Hey, Dr. Jockers, how are you?

Great, really great to reconnect, Leanne.

Yeah, it's been a really long time. This incredible love. If people haven't listened to our past episodes and things that we've done together, can you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself?

Yeah, for sure. So I am a doctor of chiropractic and a doctor of natural medicine. I'm just really passionate about helping people get get well and actually I started a clinic in 2009. It's called Exodus Health Center in Kennesaw, Georgia.

And I actually eventually sold that clinic, but they still do functional medicine and chiropractic care there. And I run a really popular website drjockers.com that I started in 2012.

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