Hey, Dr. Josh,

Hey everybody, Dr. Josh Axe here and on today's podcast, we have one of the people that's really help pioneer the paleo diet the keto diet and so much more it is Rob Wolf Rob welcome the show

Doc huge honor to be on the show thanks. Well cool know we're going to talk about a lot of stuff.

We'll talk Kito, we'll talk Palo, we're going to talk about the brain.

We're also going to even, you know, talk a little bit about, you know, sort of our health message and really what makes you so unique and what you talk about.

I know I've actually your wife, I've seen some of her work and that type of thing as well in the whole

paleos space, but I'd love to start off just hearing a little bit about your story you know why is it like what's your mission and because I know you have a new podcast out or a podcast it's awesome it's called the Healthy Rebellion Radio so we'll talk about that a little bit but

but really what got you in the natural health space what's your mission today and then let's jump into

keto paleo and everything else yeah, and I'll try to be succinct.

It's a long story at this point,

but I've always been interested in health and human performance.

I did a biochemistry undergrad.

I was kind of debating between medical school, naturopathy school, Chinese medicine, you know, I was really, or just doing like a PhD deal because I do enjoy research. I was actually doing

some bench chemistry research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

doing some lipid metabolism related work and it was right around this time I had a

really significant health crisis. I developed ulcerative kaleidus so bad that

they wanted to do all manner of surgery on me and I was the ripe old age of about 26, 27, and I was sufficiently

well steeped in medical practices that I knew that that was not a good option.

And so I was vegan at the time.

We discovered that my mother had Celiac Disease.

I had Celiac Disease. I'm intolerant to most grains, legumes, and dairy.

You can have a little bit of stuff here and there, but it was the discovery that of these kind of food

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