This week we welcome to the show which author biochemist, Oriental Medicine Specialist, and teacher and trainer, Marjah Doost, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me delighted to be here.

Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to this one.

It was a series of synchronous events that led to this conversation happening exactly now when it needs to.

Oh, I love it when things unfold in that perfect way.

It's so good.

Absolutely.

And one of the things, and I'm going to modify the traditional first question

because I think this is an area of overlap between the two of us and I think you'll pick up what I'm about to say in the question.

Madjo, were you sick kid?

I was very sick when I was a kid correct a mondo yes because I've heard you talk about well

let me do it this way so tell us the story of how childhood illness turned you into,

contributed to who you became. Yes, happy to. I have very bad asthma growing up. I grew up in Canada in Montreal, so it was very cold and a lot of snow in the winter.

So if you have asthma, really hard for your lungs in the winter so if you have asthma really hard for your lungs in the winters there.

So I would just be home all the time in bed, sick.

I remember sometimes I would spend months home from school, but when I was young, like two years old, I had really bad pneumonia and I remember, I have a weird memory, but I remember vividly my mom was in my bed with me because I was so

sick and I had an out-of-body experience and I went and I could see myself and my mom in the bed but it was like from above

and when I woke up in the morning I asked my mom if we had an attic because somehow I

thought I had like gone up to the attic and was looking at us and I was like yeah I saw us from the attic and she's like what are you talking about?

And then I had like a series of events where I would kind of, you know, go out of my body when I was super sick and I would see a lot of strange things and experience a lot of odd things so I feel like that really

impacted my view of reality because I couldn't it I knew that what I was seeing was not the same as what most people were saying was reality

so I would kind of go internal more and just watch stuff.

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