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Welcome to Dr. Russo Radio.

Today, I am here with Dr. David Perlmutter, who's a pretty well-known author amongst

other pretty impressive things on his list of credentials.

And we're going to be talking about the

gut brain connection so david welcome to the show well michael i'm delighted to be with you today

tell people a little bit about your background i'm sure people have probably heard your name before

but can you give us a brief synopsis for anyone who hasn't i'd be delighted delighted to. I am a neurologist. I'm also a

board, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, so right off the bat, I'm disruptive, as it

were. I feel that our lifestyle choices play a huge role in terms of brain health, and I've really focused my efforts in the past 25 years or so to the notion of really getting

out the best information I can to people who want to make changes in their lives

in order to prevent the very diseases that we fear the most.

And as it relates to things in my field,

like autism, Alzheimer's, ADHD, depression, you name it, I think that we've got a long

way to go to really raising the bar in terms of public understanding that, you know, things that

we choose to do in our lives,

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