Welcome to the CLS experience. I'm your host, Craig Siegel. I'm a born and raised New Yorker

who achieved success with multiple businesses, but I crave something deeper. So I dedicated

myself to personal growth and transformation by revamping my mindset.

I went from being unable to run a mile to conquering four marathons the following year.

Now, I want to help others manufacture big breakthroughs of their own.

The metabolites these bacteria make, they actually influence our mood.

They cross-talk with the brain.

And impact our cravings,

impact our mental health, impact so many things in our body, and our hormones, which impact our mood. So there's just so many, like, far-reaching pathways of how the gut, which is known

in the research as the second brain, how it impacts our mood and how we, our productivity

throughout the day. So we can just be our best and feel our best. And if you think about it,

even just on a basic level, the intestines even kind of even resemble the brain, if you think

about that. I think there's so many reasons why researchers call they got the second brain.

On today's episode of the CLS experience with a very healthy treat, he's a leading functional

medicine expert, and he started one of the first functional medicine telehealth centers

in the world, while also being named one of the top 50 function and integrative doctors

in the nation. No big deal. He specializes

in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional

medicine approach for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, and brain problems

just to name a few. He's the host of the popular and dynamic,

The Art of Being Well podcast, and best son author of a plethora of books, including the New York

Times bestseller, Intuitive Fasting, Instant Classic. His ability to break free from the limiting

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