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Welcome to the Self-Helpful Podcast.

I'm Kevin Miller and this is the podcast people tune into for in-depth discussions on the latest research from our four most leaders in self-improvement.

So you can be growing and more equipped to live at your fullest capacity in body, mind and soul.

We're in an age when prescription drugs and surgeries are prescribed with really little hesitation, especially in the American healthcare system.

Yet most health-minded people like you who listen to this self-helpful podcast are not so eager like me to just accept a pill or to go under the knife.

I've been prone to boycott such things, but my dear friend Randy James and co-host of this episode are resident medical doctor and functional medicine expert has taught me there are times when these methodologies are helpful and even necessary.

This is my functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness so we have the physical and mental capacity to help ourselves and others.

And today we're talking about prescription drugs and surgeries.

In a perfect world with perfect health we would not need these things, but it's not a perfect world and none of us can be in perfect health.

Sometimes we get injured or sick and relatively broken and then pharmaceuticals and surgeries are lifesavers.

We just like to see those times to need them as very few and very far between.

When they are needed, what can you do also to prepare yourself for the best outcomes? That's this episode.

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Next up, Dr. Randy James and I talk about prescription drugs and surgeries.

And when you need them, and if you do, what can you do to best get through them in the strongest fashion?

All right, prescription drugs and surgeries.

I mean, I wanted to hit on this because obviously it would be easy to hear the functional medicine, you know, a bandwagon that we're on and think that you, Dr. Randy James, you would never prescribe a medicine or a drug and granted.

Of course, you're trying to get people healthy and well so they don't have to do that.

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