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Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode. Today I speak with James Maskell about his book,

The Community Cure, and how community-based treatment and history taking in functional

medicine can reduce the cost, actually improve the

efficacy. One interesting note he made is that when people are going through, let's just say,

you know, how to eat healthier for gut health, together, they actually problem-solve barriers to implementation when they're both

having to go through the same dietary changes. And how this community model, again, can not only

decrease costs but improve effectiveness and solve for loneliness, which is another problem that's

fairly endemic. He also discusses his find functional.com website offering, which I think is actually a

fantastic idea, where you input data and the system directs you to the level of care that you need. Now, this is something

I discussed in Healthy, Good, Healthy You and something I discussed in our post from a few years ago

now, but continues to be one of the most viewed posts on our website, how to find a good

functional medicine doctor. And I lay out, you don't necessarily need to go to a doctor,

which is evidenced by the fact that many people have improved their gut health just by going

through the protocol on healthy gut health of you. So the screening here helps direct one to the

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