{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"White Coat Black Sheep","title":"It's Not In My Head","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3410,"description":"David has spent nine years building a following of more than half a million subscribers for his police accountability work in the San Joaquin Valley. Off camera, he's spent almost as long trying to figure out what's actually wrong with his gut. GERD as a kid. An acid reflux diagnosis in his twenties. A diverticulitis flare up that led to antibiotics one doctor now says he never needed. A proton pump inhibitor that sent him into a middle of the night crisis. And a phone call with his primary care doctor that ended with an offer of antidepressants and the suggestion that he stop Googling his symptoms.\nIn this episode, \nDr. Civelli sits down with David to walk through his entire health history, symptom by symptom, and talk about what a real root cause workup actually looks like: stress, activity, food, and the testing most doctors never mention because insurance rarely covers it.\nTopics Covered 00:00 – Intro: where science gets curious and dogma gets uncomfortable 00:22 – Meet David: nine years of police accountability content, and how his approach changed 02:06 – Losing his mom to cancer in 2014, and the nutrition question that never left him 03:42 – Years of unexplained pain, and doctors with no answers 04:56 – Childhood GERD and growing up in Wasco, California 06:09 – A CT scan, a diverticulitis diagnosis, and antibiotics he didn't need 07:27 – A proton pump inhibitor sends him into a middle of the night crisis 08:18 – Turning to Dr. Berg and other online doctors for answers he wasn't getting 08:58 – A diverticulosis diagnosis, and learning to walk after every meal 10:20 – A slight fatty liver, and the fast to feel human again cycle 11:26 – New chest pain, clean scans, and a ChatGPT rabbit hole 12:16 – Losing 30 pounds in two weeks, and surprising his own doctor 13:53 – Ruling out parasites, H. pylori, and IBS one test at a time 14:24 – Meeting a functional medicine doctor who questions the good bacteria script 15:53 – The doctor who wouldn't let him speak, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r7Fg59MgUhATCba7AaSRKVP-0dmWKpcE4ZsKXb08Qjs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mOGVl/NmI3Yzg5ZDdlOGIz/NDcyYTdmZjY4ZDIw/N2E3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}