Dr. Mark Hyman
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And then I went to work in a small town in Idaho called Orofino, which nobody had ever heard of.
It was a logging town with 3,500 people, no stoplights, and not even a McDonald's or any kind of chain of any sort.
And there was five family doctors and one drunk surgeon there.
I was probably the most highly trained in obstetrics and also in C-sections.
I was a C-section guy.
So I had to cover all my own patients and I had to cover their patients.
And so I was exhausted after four years, but it was an amazing experience.
I mean, delivering babies is just one of the highlights of my whole career.
I mean, it's such a joy and, um,
And I was very deliberate with my pregnant women about how to stay healthy.
A hundred percent.
I didn't even know what I know now, but I studied nutrition in college.
I was always a healthy eater.
I really studied a lot about this just out of my own interest before medical school.
Yeah.
I actually took nutrition at Cornell.
So I was really very aware of it.
You know, it was one of the highlights of my career.
And I was so frustrated that people just didn't understand this and didn't understand how important it was to regulate their biology in a way that you have a sacred duty here to create a little human.
And how do you create a healthy little human?