Hey everyone.

Hi.

Wow, judging by how packed this room is and the line and the fighting that's happening in the hallway because they want to get in, I would say that we all really want to make America healthy again.

My name is Alex Clark.

I am the host of Culture Apothecary.

It's a

little health and wellness podcast.

I don't know if you've heard of it.

And this is my friend Courtney Swan,

host of Real Foodology Podcast.

Courtney and I met last September testifying at the Senate with RFK Jr.

and Callie and Casey Means and the food babe protesting and talking about the chronic disease

epidemic that has absolutely rattled this country.

And so I'm so proud of Courtney.

And she's been in this space so much longer than me.

And she's so much smarter than me. So we're really excited to hear from Courtney. But I thought we'd

start first. Courtney, if you want to start talking about who you are, your credentials, and why you

became a prominent Maha figure. Yeah. So I always joke that I was Maha way before maha was actually a movement. I got started very young. My mom actually was cooking everything from scratch for me as a kid. And at the time, I didn't know how good I had it because I grew up in what I call the Dunkeroo's generation. I mean, we were eating Dunkeroo's and Pop-Tarts and all my friends were getting all this junk food that my mom wasn't allowing me to have.

So I went to college and I had an opposite experience where I was eating fast food that I wasn't

eating before and I was eating junk food. I gained weight really rapidly and I felt super sick in

my body. I had acne that I never had before. I felt fatigued. I just I felt the way that I think

many Americans feel

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