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Welcome back to the podcast.

Today, I am joined with Dr. Michael Cummings.

He has no conflicts of interest nor do I, and today we will be discussing Valpro Acid.

We will be going through the history of Valpro Acid, the mechanism of action.

The efficacy, talking about bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, anger, aggression,

agitation in dementia, and then we will be going through some of the side effects, you

know, thinking about it as someone who treats people and what are the things that we look

out for, what are the contraindications and drug monitoring, and maybe some things about

how Valpro Acid actually helps people reopen critical periods of learning, like absolute

pitch.

Did you share that one with me or did I find that one outside?

I shared that one with you.

Maybe we should start with the history and we will get to that eventually.

Okay.

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