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Dr. Josh Axe        

Wellness Physician, Radio Show Host, Physician for Olympic Athletes, Nutrition and Fitness Coach

Dr. Josh Axe, DC, DNM, CNS, is a doctor of chiropractic, certified doctor of natural medicine, and clinical nutritionist who is passionate about helping people eat healthy and live healthy lifestyles. In 2008, he started a functional medicine center in Nashville, which grew to become one of the most renowned clinics in the world.

Dr. Axe founded DrAxe.com, one of the top natural health websites in the world today. Its main topics include nutrition, natural medicine, fitness, healthy recipes, home DIY remedies, and trending health news. His website includes a group of credentialed editors and writers and a Medical Review Board.

He has also been a resource for many professional athletes. In 2009, he began working with the Wellness Advisory Council and Professional Swim Teams. He worked with professional swimmers, providing nutritional advice and performing musculoskeletal work on the athletes to increase their performance. He also traveled to the 2012 Games in London to work with USA athletes.

Dr. Axe has authored several celebrated and bestselling books, including: "Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It" (Harper New Wave, March 2016), "Essential Oils: Ancient Medicine for the Modern World" (January 2017), "Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Reverse Disease" (Little Brown & Company, February 2019), and "Ancient Remedies: Secrets to Healing with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History" (Little, Brown Spark, February 2021).

Millions of people have read his books and gone through his programs, including Healing Leaky Gut and Essential Oils Transformation. These books and programs combine the power of advanced nutrition with recipes, herbal remedies, and lifestyle improvements to help people reach their health goals.

Dr. Axe has been a regular guest expert on "The Dr. Oz Show," covering such topics as the gut microbiome, weight loss, digestive health (such as leaky gut and candida), and herbal medicine. Dr. Axe has taught corporate wellness programs for companies such as Nissan, Whole Foods, Mercy Ministries, and Lifeway and has been featured as a keynote speaker at conferences all over the country, including South by Southwest (SXSW), PaleoFX, and the Autism Education Summit. He discusses using food as a natural remedy for ailments and conditions, and he will show the scientific evidence behind why eating foods like coconut, bone broth, wild-caught fish, fermented vegetables, and leafy greens is essential to a healing diet.

He is co-founder of the BurstFIT interval training program with his wife, Dr. Chelsea Axe. Dr. Axe's videos, such as BurstFIT and BurstFIT Fire, have received rave reviews for being among the most effective exercise programs ever created to support the body in getting toned and fit and burning fat with the Tabata method. Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Chelsea Axe also appear on YouTube and Facebook to discuss and demonstrate smart nutrition, fitness, and more.

In 2015 and 2016, his company, Axe Wellness, ranked #1 in the state of Tennessee, #3 in the health industry, and #35 nationwide on the Inc. 500 list for fastest-growing companies. In their Nashville office, they have kombucha on tap, vegetable juice, and Paleo donuts for breakfast, daily exercise times to do planks and push-ups, and more!

Dr. Axe and Jordan Rubin are the founders of Ancient Nutrition, whose mission is to restore health, strength, and vitality by providing history’s healthiest whole-food nutrients to the modern world. We are transforming the health of millions of consumers through our pioneering lines of Bone Broth Protein™, Multi Collagen Protein, Essential Oils, Probiotics, Keto products, educational materials, and more.

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