Hi, it's Mark Sisson.

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.

Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times bestselling book

and send your questions to info at ketoreset.com.

This is your host, Brad Kearns, co-author with Mark Sisson, of the book The Keto Reset Diet.

And we're here to welcome you to the wonderful world of ketogenic eating and complementary

lifestyle practices that help you reject carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning

beast. We all know that keto is pretty hot right now. It's the latest fad diet, you could call it

that, but it's really not a fad because when you think about the ketogenic state where you're

consuming low carbohydrates in the

diet and producing this internal energy source called ketones, this is truly the original

human genetic factory setting throughout our history of evolution when we had historically

low carbohydrate intake in comparison to today's standard American diet, and also

the uncertainty of external calories. We survived and we evolved by creating these wonderful

internal energy production mechanisms and becoming fat and keto adapted. So inside our human

genes, waiting to be activated, waiting to be realized

the wonderful benefits of becoming fat and keto adapted, but we've overridden this with our

high carbohydrate standard American diet intake patterns, where we become carbohydrate dependent,

where our main fuel source is the regular feedings, external calories

coming from high carbohydrate meals. So what we're here to talk about is how to do it right,

how to transition away from a carbohydrate dependency diet toward and making progress toward

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