When you stress and distress are the two categories of stress, you stress makes you stronger because your body has the resources it needs to respond to it.

Distress is stress that actually degrades your ability to perform and long term is bad for you.

That's a concept that's lost on a lot of people, particularly in the fitness world where it's just punish the client more and expect better results.

The psychological and emotional stress, even though it isn't some kind of physical toxin,

has the same effect. You'll talk to these people who say, yeah, I never had allergies

until my mother died. You know, these traumatic experiences, all this mind-body medicine becomes

relevant. But what I take issue with in that world of mind-body medicine is these guys don't look at all at other elements of the case. Lots of people come to me and say, yeah, they said it was all in my head. And I say, yeah, but look at your moldy H-VAC system. Ooh. Look at the tap water you were drinking. Look at the well water you were drinking that was contaminated. Look at all these heavy metals on your hair test.

And it's shocking to see how much aluminum or mercury or whatever other mineral or heavy metal they've got accumulated comes out when they start to really heal. And that's why every little bit of stress reduction makes a huge difference.

Leland, it's been a minute.

I was just telling you before we hit the record button that this is going to be an incredible conversation because I'm finally getting to talk to you friend to friend instead of doctor to clients. So man, welcome to the podcast. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me. It's been great to work with you over the past year. I mean, the birth of my daughter and me going through sinus surgery and just all kinds of things that we'll get to unpack

today. You know, it's really close to my heart, man, is what makes us do what we do. And it's written

all over you when I've met you at Runga, when I've worked with you as a client. And I know where your

heart is, but I saw something really cool on your website that I did not know about you. And you said that you had a lot of issues with the way you breathe and ADHD and just certain

health complications as a kid.

That's actually part of the fuel that allowed you to step into being a medical doctor

and now functional medicine and everything else that you do.

So pull the e-break.

I don't know if you've done a

time machine back to that point in a long time, but take us back there as to the fuel for why you even

do what you do, work with clients across the world. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it's so, you know,

it all started when I was really young. I mean, really young, right? I started to have ear infections, sinus infections

at two or three years old, was on antibiotics for my mom says like a year straight. And she

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