I'm Dr. Laura Schlesinger, and I'm going to be doing a series of interviews called

What is your backstory?

I'm most interested in that.

So today we're going to talk to Dr. Chad Walding.

He's co-founder of Native Path and a health expert.

And he's taken a really unique path, literally, from studying human movement and performance to spending time with indigenous tribes in the Amazon.

Chad brings fascinating perspective on how our modern lifestyles may be working against us and what we can do to get

it back on track. Native Path. I use your products. I'm counting on them to have incredible

powers. But mostly I was concerned, where did you get the idea, Native Path? I mean,

where does that name come from?

Oh, gosh. You know, what speaks to the way native people were eating and moving and living,

you know, as a physical therapist, early in my career, I became very interested in ancestral health.

I read this book by a man named Weston A. Price. He was a dentist in the 20th century,

and he studied these native people all around the world. And what he found is they had

perfectly straight teeth, and they had no cavities. And they also had really good health,

very low rates of heart disease and cancer and diabetes. But he was observing people living

down the road with the same genetic profile

who were eating modern foods, white flour, white sugar, the refined stuff, and they were having

crooked teeth and bad health.

This caught my attention because as a physical therapist in the conventional healthcare

world, I was seeing all kinds of heart disease and cancer and diabetes and, you know, patients

coming to me with high amounts of pain. So I started to change the way I ate. I started

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