What's going on everybody? You are here with me and my friend Dr Dean. Somebody Luke has

wanted me to get on the show for a really long time. Unfortunately we didn't get a

chance to do it with Luke but we're going to do it today and

Dr Dean is hopefully going to give you guys a lot of information. This is episode number 46.

Doctor would you like to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your credentials?

Okay, first of all, thanks very much for inviting me on.

Like you said, it was something we were hoping to do with Luke.

Yeah. So people who know me, I am the formula of a UK supplement company called

supplement needs. I have a background in pharmaceutical chemistry and a PhD in synthetic chemistry.

I guess I'm best well known throughout the UK for being one of the educators for Jordan Peters

on his website at one point and then obviously my ideas that I've put out over the last few years surrounding applying what's known as

functional medicine to body builders and getting body builders to appreciate the root causes of how their health gets maybe slightly damaged or I guess

affected with the use of anabolic steroids and then we can actually try and address the root cause

rather than using I guess pharmaceuticals to band-aid.

Yeah, yeah.

Actually you know what?

I had a kind of a plan for the show, but I feel like the health aspect is really important.

So do you mind if we jump into that first?

Yeah, yeah, of course.

Okay, so I recently, one of the things a lot of the viewers of the podcast know is a doctor told me back in 2010 that I had high

blood pressure and he said that I had to retire from bodybuilding he's like you got

to retire this is no good you have high blood pressure and I didn't want to quit. So I didn't take the blood pressure medication and I didn't

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