Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Globe at podcast. My guest today is Dr. Stephen Cabral,

host of the Carrow concept podcast and author of The Rain Barrel Effect. Stephen has spent over

20 years studying to become an expert in all things alternative health, including studying

with health experts around the world,

gaining his PhD in natropathy and completing over 600,000 pages of research study. On today's

episode, we spoke all about what wellness means to Stephen, what integrative health is and how it

can help alleviate some of the most common health complaints

so many of us are experiencing. I absolutely loved chatting to Dr. Stephen, who is just a wealth

of knowledge and I really hope you enjoy listening to this episode. Let's bring on the wonderful

Dr. Stephen Cabral. Even welcome to the podcast. I am so excited to have you on here and talk to you

all about wellness and nutrition, which can be incredibly confusing subjects. But for those who

don't know you, I'd love to hear about your story, your journey to wellness and what

inspired you to do what you do now. Absolutely. Thank you for having me on. And I mean,

I'm excited always to be able to share the message that I have. And a lot of people that get

into this field, whether it's nutrition or health or fitness, oftentimes we do that because

we're so passionate about teaching

others what we learned because it came from a place of not knowing and it came from a place

of frustration. So for me, at 17 years old, I mean, I was living a normal high school life

or so, but I was eating poorly and I was not getting the rest I should and I was all stressed out,

taking my SATs to go off to college and all those different things. What happened was I got

extremely sick one day at 17 years old. Now, it wasn't your typical wintertime cold or flu,

whatever it might be. This was a shutting down of my immune system. So what happened was all of my lymph

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