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to help you and your family take control of your health.

Welcome, everyone, Dr. Mercola, helping you take control of your health, and I'm beyond delighted to have a new guest on the podcast, Dr. Brooke Schallert, she's a clinical nutritionist, and she's going to share her story with you and I'm really

excited because this is a new interest and passion of mine and like most clinicians

I was seriously deceived and confused about the truth about alcohol.

As we're going to learn, alcohol is not your friend.

There is essentially no evidence to support that it's used at mild or moderate levels has any

therapeutic benefit.

It is a metabolic poison, converts to the same similar poison, a reactive allehyde that little ache does and it destroys

your mitochondrial function and it definitely leads a premature agent to death.

So I know that may sound like a lot, but you're going to reach that conclusion after we talk to Dr.

Shala. So I, she has her own personal story which I'm going to let her share, which is very powerful,

and it really explains why she wrote this whole book about this topic.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Thank you so much for having me, Dr. Mercola.

I'm thrilled to be here.

I am so happy you're covering this topic on the podcast and we're really

starting to see it become more of a conversation in the health and wellness space and that's

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