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Dr. Alejandro Junger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
846 total appearances

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I know you. I like you. I tell you one way in which I myself distinguish myself between who is just doing it for business and maybe this is not humble of me to say, right, but my company and my program is a result of my own problems, a solution searched for. I was searching for a solution for my own problems when I found the solution, which I was coming into, I spent the time in India.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Right, right, right. We got sidetracked. With all the meditation and the vegetarian food and all this. So my symptoms got a little better, right? But when I finished my time in India, I had to come back and go work. So I started working in a hospital again. And again, seven minutes per patient, eating in a hospital cafeteria, running, being on call. Again, my symptoms doubled, doubled down.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Right, right, right. We got sidetracked. With all the meditation and the vegetarian food and all this. So my symptoms got a little better, right? But when I finished my time in India, I had to come back and go work. So I started working in a hospital again. And again, seven minutes per patient, eating in a hospital cafeteria, running, being on call. Again, my symptoms doubled, doubled down.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Right, right, right. We got sidetracked. With all the meditation and the vegetarian food and all this. So my symptoms got a little better, right? But when I finished my time in India, I had to come back and go work. So I started working in a hospital again. And again, seven minutes per patient, eating in a hospital cafeteria, running, being on call. Again, my symptoms doubled, doubled down.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I was more depressed and more allergic. And until one day, some guy that I knew, I had seen 10 days before, knocks on my door. He was from LA, a producer, always very edgy and red in the face from alcohol and coffee. And when I opened the door, he came to visit me and I was like, oh my God, what happened to you? He was like 10 kilos less. His skin looked amazing. His eyes were white.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I was more depressed and more allergic. And until one day, some guy that I knew, I had seen 10 days before, knocks on my door. He was from LA, a producer, always very edgy and red in the face from alcohol and coffee. And when I opened the door, he came to visit me and I was like, oh my God, what happened to you? He was like 10 kilos less. His skin looked amazing. His eyes were white.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I was more depressed and more allergic. And until one day, some guy that I knew, I had seen 10 days before, knocks on my door. He was from LA, a producer, always very edgy and red in the face from alcohol and coffee. And when I opened the door, he came to visit me and I was like, oh my God, what happened to you? He was like 10 kilos less. His skin looked amazing. His eyes were white.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And he didn't have the redness that characterized him. I said, what happened to you? Did you get plastic surgery? And he said, no, no, no. I come from a detox center. I said, detox? I didn't know that you were on drugs. He said, no, no, no, no, that kind of detox. He said, come, come, I'll show you. And he took me to...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And he didn't have the redness that characterized him. I said, what happened to you? Did you get plastic surgery? And he said, no, no, no. I come from a detox center. I said, detox? I didn't know that you were on drugs. He said, no, no, no, no, that kind of detox. He said, come, come, I'll show you. And he took me to...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And he didn't have the redness that characterized him. I said, what happened to you? Did you get plastic surgery? And he said, no, no, no. I come from a detox center. I said, detox? I didn't know that you were on drugs. He said, no, no, no, no, that kind of detox. He said, come, come, I'll show you. And he took me to...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

10 minutes away across the highway to this place called the We Care Spa, that is a detox center. You go there, you juice all the time, and you have colonics, and you have massages, and this and that. And I was blown away when the results came. I go there and it turns out that the owner is an Argentinian woman. I'm from Uruguay. We get it off immediately. She started telling me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

10 minutes away across the highway to this place called the We Care Spa, that is a detox center. You go there, you juice all the time, and you have colonics, and you have massages, and this and that. And I was blown away when the results came. I go there and it turns out that the owner is an Argentinian woman. I'm from Uruguay. We get it off immediately. She started telling me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

10 minutes away across the highway to this place called the We Care Spa, that is a detox center. You go there, you juice all the time, and you have colonics, and you have massages, and this and that. And I was blown away when the results came. I go there and it turns out that the owner is an Argentinian woman. I'm from Uruguay. We get it off immediately. She started telling me.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I told her about my issues. She said, why don't you try the program here? I did. And my depression lifted and gone away. My allergies disappeared. My irritable bowel syndrome disappeared. And I was like, oh my God, this is kind of magic. I didn't know why. I couldn't explain in my medical mind what had happened to me until I found functional medicine.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I told her about my issues. She said, why don't you try the program here? I did. And my depression lifted and gone away. My allergies disappeared. My irritable bowel syndrome disappeared. And I was like, oh my God, this is kind of magic. I didn't know why. I couldn't explain in my medical mind what had happened to me until I found functional medicine.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

I told her about my issues. She said, why don't you try the program here? I did. And my depression lifted and gone away. My allergies disappeared. My irritable bowel syndrome disappeared. And I was like, oh my God, this is kind of magic. I didn't know why. I couldn't explain in my medical mind what had happened to me until I found functional medicine.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And when I found functional medicine and I learned about the detoxification system and the other systems of the body and how the gut breaks and how to repair, that's when I said, oh my God, of course, this is how doing that program completely resolved all my issues. So I started studying and eventually I quit the work in the hospital and I went on my own path. on my own path.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And when I found functional medicine and I learned about the detoxification system and the other systems of the body and how the gut breaks and how to repair, that's when I said, oh my God, of course, this is how doing that program completely resolved all my issues. So I started studying and eventually I quit the work in the hospital and I went on my own path. on my own path.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And when I found functional medicine and I learned about the detoxification system and the other systems of the body and how the gut breaks and how to repair, that's when I said, oh my God, of course, this is how doing that program completely resolved all my issues. So I started studying and eventually I quit the work in the hospital and I went on my own path. on my own path.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

No, no. There are similarities, right? But no. After learning functional medicine and really understanding and having more and more and more experience, I came to my own conclusions and put together from different sources, and I put together my own.