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Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser.

This is the podcast designed to help you live your life enthusiastically.

Today, tomorrow, and every other day.

I am your host, Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health psychologist

and also author of the award-winning and bestselling book, Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm.

My website is the Mental Health Gym. It's your source of information for all things about positive psychology, goal achieving psychology,

which is my spin on the field, wellness in general, and rejuvenaging.

And it's also a place where you can contact me to recommend additional guests for the podcast.

As listeners to the podcast, no. We tend to feature very interesting, informative, and in some cases entertaining guests.

But they all have in common the fact that they live their lives enthusiastically, and they have something to tell us that can help us to live our lives with enthusiasm too.

And in that case, we have a guest today who is really special and brings new information and a new way of helping us to be the best version of ourselves wherever we are in the lifespan.

Dr. Melanie Keller is a naturopathic physician. Her clinical expertise is in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO or SIBO, I understand its pronounced both ways.

She's an alumna of the National University of Natural Medicine, an important organ where she was a contributing physician in the development of the SIBO center and the SIBO symposiums.

She is particularly passionate about epigenetics and nutrigenomic influences that contribute to digestive health and longevity.

So I think we're probably going to learn lots of different things, including some new vocabulary terms. Dr. Melanie consults with clients virtually, which I guess means online, and she is based in Los Angeles.

Dr. Melanie, welcome to Rejuvenating with Dr. Ron Kaiser. It's such a pleasure to have you with us. We've never had a naturopathic physician on our program or looking forward to your enlightening us and giving us more ideas for how to live our lives enthusiastically wherever we are in the lifespan.

Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here in the first naturopathic doctor.

Yeah, you're breaking ground for us. We're looking forward to it. I said, we're probably going to learn some new vocabulary terms on this program.

But why don't we start with the obvious one? What is a naturopathic physician? Many of us know what a physician is, but I suspect that some of us haven't heard of naturopathic physician before or if we've heard of it, we're not real sure what you do.

Sure. Yeah, it's a good thing to get straightened out because there are people who may have, let's say there's maybe a spectrum of you've heard the word naturopath.

Someone may have an online degree like education. However, an naturopathic doctor is an ND similar to a medical doctor, MD.

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