Hi, this is Dr. Mercola and welcome to our Take Control of Your Health

podcast in which we bring you the latest cutting-edge interviews to help you

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Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are

joined by Dr Robin Shutcan who is a gastrointestinal neurologist that's a doctor

who special specializes in the gut and is going to help guide us through some of these details.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Thanks so much for having me.

So you are out in the Boston areas, the Mecca of conventional medicine and I'm

sure people would be interested in understanding how you came to become involved with this area and then

hear your story because it's typical of many doctors who are open-minded and

interested in the truth, which most doctors lose in my experience

once they finish getting brainwashed in a med school, but you didn't for some reason because you walked

out, it sounds like from reading your book that you

walked out brainwashed just just as brainwashed as I was but then evolved and matured in your thinking

and then progressed into what you're doing now So why don't you share your story?

So it's definitely a gradual evolution and I finished medical school, gosh about 25 years ago in

1991 and at the time fully wholeheartedly believed in the marvels of modern medicine

and the importance of pharmaceutical intervention whenever possible

as frequently as possible.

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