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Dr. Robin Berzin - Transforming Medicine, Balancing A Career & Motherhood, Overcoming Cystic Acne
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Dr. Robin Berzin (IG: @robinberzinmd) is a practicing physician and the founder and CEO of Parsley Health.
She combines the best of conventional primary care with a functional approach to health. This means that Robin focuses on getting to the root cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Robin became the 1st producer of Dr. Oz's radio show
- The epiphany that sparked Robin's medical career
- How yoga led to meditation
- Transitioning to eating real food
- Using a holistic approach to medicine to heal chronic illnesses
- Transforming medicine
- Robin developing bad cystic acne during medical school
- Getting to the root of the problem
- Triggers for intestinal permeability (aka leaky gut)
- Testing for food allergies & food sensitivities
- The elimination diet vs. the autoimmune protocol (AIP)
- Sugar is poison
- The personalized medicine approach at Parsley Health
- How Vipassana Meditation transformed Robin's life
- Balancing a career & motherhood
- Eating healthy is self-care
- Knowing how to feel good and get healthy
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