Welcome to the Just Ingredients Podcast. I'm Kar-Linn, and here we talk all things nourishing to the mind,

body, and soul. This is a place where you can find just good ingredients to life.

Dr. David Jockers is a doctor of natural medicine and runs one of the most popular

natural health websites on Dr.jockers.com, which has gotten over one million monthly visitors,

and his work has been seen on popular media such as the Dr. Oz Show and Hallmark

Home and Family. Dr. Doctors is the author of the bestselling book, The Keto Metabolic

Breakthrough by Victory Belt Publishing and the Fasting Transformation. He is a world-renowned expert

in the area of ketosis, fasting, brain health, inflammation, and functional

nutrition. He is also the host of the popular Dr. Doctors' Functional Nutrition Podcast.

I feel really privileged and honored to have him here on the show today. So thank you,

Dr. Doctors, for being here. Thank you, Carolyn. It's an honor and just really appreciate everything that

you're doing. Well, thank you. Well, you tell my listeners just a little bit about yourself and how you

got involved in medicine, things like that. Yeah, I'm a doctor of natural medicine. I've got a

popular website, Dr.jockers.com. And really the way that I got into this was growing up, my mom actually

was studying to become a natural path. But as kids, we really rebelled against a lot of what she

taught. And for me, I was always into sports. I was an athlete growing up. And so that's how she

appealed to me when it came to my nutrition. I would ask, why do I need to eat this kale or whatever it is that she made?

And she would say, you know, that's going to help you have more energy.

That's going to help you recover from, you know, such and such injury or whatever it was.

And that really spoke to me.

I realized, hey, the food that I eat can actually make an impact in how I felt and my

energy and my brain function, how I performed on a day-to-day basis. And so later I became a

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