Hey guys, welcome back to another episode. It's Cananarky. This is your host, Ecta, and I'm really excited about our guest today because she is a national bestselling author, and she's really well known for her work and has been featured in all of the major media outlets for her work. And I can't wait to chat with her today. I'm sure a lot of

you have heard of her book. It's called Eat to Treat Your Three Step Plan to Reduce Inflammation,

detoxify your life, and heal your body. So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to

Maggie Berghoff. Welcome to show, Maggie. Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, no, it's exciting to host you. And I'm excited to learn from you today because I think this is such

an interesting topic, you know, especially when it comes to just overall help, but also skin

health, you know, and I can't wait to dive in, but I'd love to learn about you a little bit.

You know, if you could tell us, walk us down memory lane. What led you to, you know, writing your book and going into this field?

Yeah. So I always wanted to be in the health and wellness field even as a young girl. And so I went

to Vanderbilt University and became a nurse practitioner. And from there, after a couple

years of practicing traditional medicine, I found

functional medicine really through my own health problems, like my skin breaking out and other

things like constantly bloated no matter what I ate, feeling dizzy, feeling headachey, being

tired during the day, even though I slept all night. So I had all these symptoms going on.

And the traditional medicine model, whenever I went to doctor's offices, they had no idea why this was happening and also no answers for how to fix it. And I'm a little stubborn. So I did not

accept that. And I dove into the world of, you know, healing the body with functional

medicine, integrated nutrition, mindset, lifestyle, and did just that. I healed everything that

was going on with me in six months or less, just fully got myself back, even better than

before. And that's when I really made this career pivot instead of

practicing traditional medicine as a nurse practitioner. I made a pivot and opened my own

online functional medicine consulting business. And that's really how that all started and helping

people in that way. And the book really came from after seeing lots and lots of clients

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