Hello, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand, certified functional medicine practitioner.

I work with clients worldwide with a huge, huge, huge range of different issues and different root causes, right?

If somebody says they're the gut expert, be concerned because it's never just the gut.

If someone says they're a thyroid expert, it's never just the thyroid. If someone says they're a thyroid expert,

it's never just the thyroid.

So yeah, work with those people if you want to,

but really what you need is a very special generalist,

which is what I try to consider myself as,

someone who knows enough about a huge range

of different categories to get someone better.

I don't wanna just be the single

expert that's so deep on one topic with a microscope because then you miss the big picture.

And that's where a lot of practitioners fail and that's where a lot of specialists fail. And you

know this. Look at conventional medicine, right? If you look at the gastro doctor and their approach,

they miss the boat a lot

they don't know that mold causes diarrhea for example so they're just going to give you a drug to

help the diarrhea they're not going to address the mold they're not going to address the parasites

you know their testing is just not very accurate so that's another problem about the conventional

testing so that's that but about the conventional testing.

So that's that. But let's dive in.

Today we're talking with J.W. Biava.

I had him on the podcast before.

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