Rich Roll podcast. Hey everybody, what's going on? Welcome to the podcast it is I Rich Roll coming to you from the acrid Tangerine Skies of what was formerly sunny, California now turned some kind of Blade Runner just copia our state Ablaze in the largest Wildfire season in recorded history indeed as 20/20 continues to unfurl the Earth Humanity seems to remain intent on sending all of us deeper into the anguished abyss of distress and I myself find that I'm vacillating between this kind of periodic Melancholy and a sense of powerlessness on the one hand and on the other hand gratitude and hope and at times when these darker moments do descend upon me really the only thing that keeps me sane is trying to maintain some adherence to this idea of normalcy continuing to do the podcast letting go of the many things over which I have no control trying to focus on the things that I can control like my actions my reactions looking for the hidden opportunities spending time in nature spending time with my family moving my body eating right sleeping right meditating and extending myself in service to others. That's all I know how to do and yet like most people I suspect waves of anxiety and sometimes even despair flow over me and it is in those moments that I've really come to rely on a battery of simple, but generally quite effective contrary actions to jumpstart me out of the funk and get me moving feeling acting behaving reacting and a healthier and more productive and happier Manner and this is really the briefest way in which I can introduce today's conversation which really centers on the theme of practical steps that we can all undertake to not only - correct those mood swings but actually and ultimately reframe our reality and serve the long-term interests in a sustainable way of our general mental emotional and physical well-being. Our anchor for said exploration is one of the most influential doctors in the UK a Pioneer in the field of progressive functional medicine as well as a good friend. His name is dr. Rangan Chatterjee and he's here today returning for his third. Third cast his third spin on the RRP flywheel a podcast host himself wrong and prevails over the wildly popular feel better live more podcast. He has appeared on seemingly every prominent media outlet from the BBC to the New York Times his Ted Talk how to make diseases disappear has been viewed almost three million times and he is the author of three number one Sunday Times bestselling books the most recent of which and the focus of today's exchange is Titled feel better in five