Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm your host Evan Brand. You know, I've been doing this show for 12 plus years now.

I'm just super glad to be with you guys still. It's amazing to see how far social media and health

contents come. You know, back then it was me. It was Mark Sisson of Primal Kitchen now. And I guess he sold that to, who was it,

Heinz, Kraft. Anyway, amazing. But it was me and him and just a few

others a decade ago. Sean Croxton was on the web, not many others. And so it's amazing to see now

just how much content is out there. And I know it can be overwhelming and confusing. And I don't

want to say I know everything or I'm the best. But I will tell you, after a decade in the practice, working

clinically with thousands of people, I've been able to sort through the noise that I see come

across my feed. I get probably, I don't know, 50 messages a day just on Instagram alone from

people, hey, have you seen this? What do you think of this? Can you check this out? And there's so much now. And a lot of it is pretty good. But there's a lot of it that's not good. And there's a lot of it that's confusing for people. And it's sending people the wrong direction. So I just encourage you when you're vetting a practitioner, you're vetting information. Look for someone that's worked clinically. Just these n equals one experiments is not good enough for me, meaning someone who

has a million followers and I fixed myself by doing this, everyone should do that. I see those people,

I see the people clinically that follow those people and they're not perfect on paper. And this magic

thing they were supposed to do that they did did not fix them sometimes it

takes getting the functional medicine data getting the labs to see actually what's wrong some of

these people that eat perfect i've run labs on these major million plus health influencers some of

them they agree initially to do a podcast with me and then when we get their labs back they

change their

mind. I'll let you read between the lines on that. But I've seen these people on paper and they're not

perfect either. So let me help you get some data so we can figure out where are you at in your

functional medicine journey. Are you lacking in neurotransmitters? Are you lacking in nutrients? Do you

have malabsorption? We had a woman yesterday

eating very well, but her steaticrit was 30%, meaning she's not digesting her fats at all. So pretty

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