Today we are joined by Chris Cresser who is a leader in the functional medicine

paleo movement and widely recognized a smart. He is a trained as an acupunctureist,

but he is actually a wounded healer,

and I'll let him tell the story.

He came to this discipline because conventional medicine failed him,

failed him miserably when he was seeking an approach,

a solution for his illness, which was an acute tropical illness, acquired, fever, chills, vomiting, severe

diarrhea, it messed him up for a long time.

And you know, this is a great example of how sometimes bad things

happen to us in life and we just get so distressed about it.

But then we embrace that and realize that it's frequently it's for the

greater good or for something far more beneficial for you that you can't see at

the time, but you only realize it in retrospect.

So welcome, and Chris is the co-director

of the California Center for Functional Medicine.

He's been on Joe Rogan a few times, I believe,

which is probably the most popular

podcast in the world.

So welcome and thank you for joining to say, Chris.

Thanks, Dr. McCullough, it's a pleasure to be here.

So I guess, why don't we just start with framing your entrance into this area through your personal experience because you can certainly share it better than I can recount?

Yeah, so in my early 20s I took off on an around the world trip.

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