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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. You know, I'm all the health advice circulating today. I know it's really easy to feel overwhelmed.

Information seems to constantly change and experts rarely seem to agree.

That's why today I brought a special guest who says that like focusing on just four areas of your life.

You can drum back, improve your health and your happiness. It doesn't want to be more happy.

Here is Dr. Runden Chatterjee, the star of the hit, BBC series, Dr. In The House, an author of How to Make the Zs disappear and his new book, Happy Mind, Happy Life.

In fact, he's had five books published in the last five years. He's trying to catch me both. So he's an important guy we got to talk about.

After a quick break, Dr. Chatterjee and I will be with deep dive into his four pillars of health, reveal the secrets to true happiness and help you put together an action plan for feeling fantastic.

So don't go away. This is an episode everyone can benefit from. We'll be right back.

Okay, welcome back. Dr. Chatterjee, pleasure to have you on the program. Congratulations on your BBC series. What's it like to be a famous TV star in the UK?

Well, that's going to be first of all. Thank you for having me on your show. It's it's a delight to be talking with you.

But that sort of famous TV doctor kind of angle never really appealed to me. The truth is, like many of us who are trying to promote health and wellbeing, you know, I was going to very frustrated in medicine, you know, as we speak, I've been practicing for 21 years now almost as a medical doctor.

And I would get very frustrated there. A lot of the time I was seeing symptoms that we were only just trying to suppress or hide with medication, rather than getting to the root cause.

So for me, it's always been a drive to help my patients understand what's the root cause of their problems and how can I help them make small changes that are going to make a big difference now as part of that journey. Yes, that has led to me being able to showcase this approach.

You know, on a huge scale. Yes, you know, BBC one our main channel here. There was a series for a few years where I would go into people's houses who were struggling with their health and pretty much all of them were already under GPs and or specialists.

They were usually on medications and despite that, they were still struggling and I feel very lucky and very fortunate to have been able to have shown 5 million people a week in the UK just what is possible within a few weeks when you take control of your lifestyle that that series has now been shown in 70 countries around the world.

So I feel, I feel the fame and being well known has come as a side effect of helping people and I'm okay with that because, you know, I'm quite a private person actually I like actually, you know, spending time with my wife and my kids.

And usually when people stop me is to say, probably like yourself, that's going to be to say something really nice and to say, oh, I heard something you did or I heard your podcast or I read one of your books and it's helped me with my anxiety or my type to diabetes or whatever it might be.

So what's it like? I just feel very lucky that I get to practice medicine the way I want to practice it and help create change on a large scale through things like television, podcasting and books.

Yeah, you know, I realized that, you know, my former career as a favorite famous art surgeon and, you know, I, I've operated on thousands of people in my lifetime, but I realized that I could teach people how to keep that I could, you know, help potentially billions of people.

And, you know, makes, makes a lot of sense. Now, it doesn't make sense if you're a art surgeon and teach people how to avoid you, but in fact, that's where the fulfillment is.

So we have congratulations on finding a way to reach millions of people with your message.

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