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Let's jump into another round of listener questions.

And the first item I wanted to discuss actually wasn't a listener question, but it was something that came to me after reflecting upon the podcast interview between Dr. Susan Blum and myself.

And I really appreciated the conversation, and I have a few afterthoughts, and I just want to be very clear and saying on the front end,

these are not criticisms at Dr. Blum. They are merely things that came to mind after reflecting

on the conversation. We had some slightly different opinions on a few different items,

which is totally fine and understandable, have no issue with that. However, I was reflecting

on some of those disagreements, what may underlie some of those disagreements or differences of

opinion, I should say. And I wanted to speak to that. So just to be clear, none of these are

any way a criticism are a criticism of her work or her opinion. However, if you caught the podcast, you probably

heard her make the remark about the evidence showing that vegetarian and or Mediterranean diets

were the best for rheumatoid arthritis. And, you know, that struck me as odd.

Not to say I've done an extensure review of the literature on RA specifically,

but knowing what I know about gut health and the immense impact that has on autoimmune conditions,

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