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Dr. Kristin Oja is the Founder and CEO of STAT Wellness, a one-stop wellness shop that focuses on both functional medicine and movement. Dr. Oja obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice and MS in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner focus from Georgia College & State University. She’s an entrepreneur and nurse practitioner, and her mission is to transform healthcare one patient at a time.  In this episode… The food quality of a typical American diet is grounds for health concerns. We are getting a lot of high fructose corn syrup and sodas, which makes our fat cells very plump and impacts how our pancreas makes insulin and how our body stores fat. These days, we’re much more sedentary, and our energy, carbohydrates, and glucose exceed what we can fit into our cells. Instead of pushing glucose into muscles, which happens in an active state, we’re pushing it all into our fat cells. We're also beginning to store this fat around our liver and kidneys. More concerning is that we are seeing this in children a