Dr. Alejandro Junger
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282 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits & Hustle. Crush it.
Junger.
Well, I came too late to be on the show.
I don't know about better or bigger.
Do you actually feel the effect?
Do you like it? I like it. It's good, right? The taste is great.
I feel smarter already.
Yes. I was born in Uruguay, in South America. And when I was born, there were not even supermarkets there. We used to go with my dad to the farmer's market and we'd buy and choose our fruit. And we knew the guy that sold us the meat. And so life was very simple at the time when I was born. Later on, it became very Americanized.
But meals were cooked from scratch at my mother's kitchen, and we ate all together as a family, and life was simple.
And healthy by default. Once I went to medical school and graduated from medical school, I went to New York, I moved to New York to do my postgraduate training. So I started with three years of internal medicine at NYU Downtown Hospital, and then three years of cardiovascular diseases to become a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
The drastic change of lifestyle from moving from a simple place like Uruguay, where life was simple and healthy by default, to a fast-paced city like New York, living in hospitals, a lot of time in the emergency room, three days in a row being on call, eating garbage, never eating home-cooked meals. I remember going to the supermarket and looking at
The boxes and the smells and the fact that you got this colorful box and then you put it in the microwave and in five minutes you had something that looked like a meal that my mother would cook, you know, like a piece of meat or chicken with mashed potatoes. And it looked like it, right? But it wasn't really. Right.
I started eating from the hospital cafeteria, which now I know it's... I don't know that it's consciously designed, but it is designed to make people sick and as is hospital food for the patients. And when I was on call at night, there were vending machines. And I used to think, oh my God, these Americans, they figure it out. It's amazing.
I was like an aboriginal in a supermarket, like discovering this new world. I was excited and admiring all this. But then I started eating these things and I started getting sick. I started gaining weight. I started having seasonal allergies that then became a year-round ordeal. Then I started having digestive problems, you know, bad digestion, bloating and pains and constipation, diarrhea.
And then I started getting depressed and I started getting really depressed. So I couldn't take it anymore. I took three days off. And because I was working at Lenox Hill Hospital at that time, I was almost a cardiologist, I knew everybody. So I knew the head of psychiatry. I knew the head of gastroenterology. I knew the head of allergies. So I went to all of them for consultations.
And I ended up with three diagnoses, severe allergies, severe irritable bowel syndrome, and severe depression. And I ended up with seven prescription medications. Now, I get home from my home, my studio apartment that belonged to a building that belonged to the hospital, right, for the residents and fellows. And I put the prescriptions on a little desk that I had.
And I said, I know because I'm already a doctor and I'm already trained. And I know that these chemicals... are not going to heal me. They're not going to correct the problem. They're just going to force certain chemistry in my body that's going to suppress symptoms. But it's not going to correct anything, right?
Not only that, but the suppression of symptoms sometimes comes with side effects that turn into other symptoms. So I knew all of this. But at that point, at that moment, I had the aha moment that I said, this is not what I want for me. And if I don't want this for me, this is not what I want for my patients. My dream was to help people heal.
And what I ended up doing is a prescription writing machine. You know, you have five, 10 minutes to see a patient, you end up writing a prescription just in case. I don't know if you know this, but many times doctors put patients on medications to avoid a lawsuit. Yeah.
If something happened and you didn't put him on the medication, it's better to put him on a medication, even if it has side effects, but you can defend yourself. In our training, they used to tell us, imagine that when you write your progress notes, imagine you're in court and there's a jury and there's a judge.
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