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

Did you ever wonder why you could be eating a healthy whole food diet and still not

getting better?

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

by a leading expert of truly innovative novel thinker who can answer that question.

And that individual is Dr. Stephen Gundry who is trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon.

He doesn't do much more of that anymore.

He really focuses on treating people naturally and he actually worked at the National Institutes

of Health for with a prestigious fellowship there and was a professor of surgery and pediatrics

in cardiothoracic surgery and head of that surgery department at the Loma Linda University

School of Medicine in California which you might recognize as being popular for vegetarian

proponents.

So he's got quite an interesting background.

There's no question.

You guys know that I read about 150 books a year.

Most of those are health books and it gets.

I can read many of these books.

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