Welcome back to the Diet Doctor podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur.

Today we have a special episode focusing on the preliminary data release for the lean mass hyper-responder study.

Now, the background, we've talked about this before on the Diet Dr.

podcast with Dave Feldman, with his hypothesis of why LDL is elevated in someone who's on a ketogenic

diet, that is because of energy needs, basically in energy transport. He's published papers

about his lean mass hyperresponder phenotype and his mechanistic hypothesis about the energy

model. And now he has been designing, along with Dr. Matt Budoff and others,

an actual study to measure with a CT angiogram,

the amount of plaque at baseline,

and one year later for those who have elevated LDL

while following a ketogenic diet.

And of course, meeting other criteria that we will discuss,

otherwise very healthy, basically.

He presented the preliminary data at low-carb San Diego,

and there was a lot of excitement,

and on social media, a lot of pushback.

And part of this has to do with just our own interpretations,

people's individuals' interpretations

and reactions to the presentation rather than the presentation itself.

So what I want to do in this episode is we're going to talk with Dave and we're going to

talk with Dr. Matt Budoff and we're going to go over sort of the intention of presenting the

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