Karen Alladin is a first generation Filipina-American originally from Arlington, Virginia. She is an acupuncturist and herbalist who owns Meridian Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, a Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic in Louisville, Kentucky. She owns and operates Meridian Acupuncture with her husband, Robert Patrick Gittli, a Louisville native with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Together they have two children, Aurora and Ridley. She is passionate about food, a proponent of food as medicine, and educating her patients to take their health into their own hands. She is also a yogi and an aerialist who has performed on aerial silks with Turners Circus in Louisville, Kentucky. As someone with her own varied interests and passions, she believes a person can have many facets. Karen believes a person's ethnic background and upbringing helps shape them as complex humans beyond definition.

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Song Clips in this episode include: 

"Oo" by Up Dharma Down
"Bayan Ko/ The Impossible Dream" by Ryan Cayabyab Singers featuring Denise Parungao &Ejay Arisola

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