Welcome back. We're here with Dr. Paris Kid and we are in supplement week talking about the value of nutritional supplements and I want to tell you just a little bit about how I got involved in it,

because I'm a classically trained psychiatrist.

There was no supplements in my training.

You know, it's, you know, what symptoms do you have and what drug can I give you for them and when we

started our brain imaging work in 1991 I started scanning people who I had on

those medications and some of them were awesome and they clearly helped and some of them were downright toxic for brain function, especially the Benzo's like Xanax and Valium and Adivan and I'm like I'm making this

person's brain look like he's an alcoholic. I was not happy and then the opiates and I'm thinking first do no harm use the least toxic most effective treatment and then I think one of my best gifts is a physician is I actually listen to my patients.

Yeah.

So many of my patients, you know, they said, well, they told their doctor about this supplement or that supplement and they just dismiss them.

You know, what MD stands for, right?

Minor D.

Yes.

And so they just dismissed them.

And but I think for me I've always been good at paying attention.

And if they went off, as pertain and their arthritis went away,

well, I'd try it.

My arthritis went away.

And then people go, well, there's no science.

So I went to pubmed.com, and there's a huge body,

as you said in the last one, of science

around multiple vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids. Vitamin D, probiotics.

Right.

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