Hey everyone, Benkuma Radio, episode number 413.

I am very, very excited about today's show.

You know, after you've done 413 episodes of a podcast,

I will admit that sometimes you might feel like you're, you know,

kind of clutching its straws to kind of think of new and different angles, but today,

today we have that. we have an amazing guest to talk about the

extreme side of obesity and what can happen when you get to the extreme end of obesity which some people will

resort to bariatric surgery and I want to delve into kind of why this happens

what we're kind of looking at when this happens, because, you know,

if you're going to get, you know, massive, massive surgery and huge amounts of weight is going to fall off the body. There's going to be some

downsides to that. It's not all roses and I don't know in my head I'm thinking

actually there's probably more downsides than upsides because you know it's so extreme there's already a lot of damage on the body but anyway I get it I'm waffling I'm fascinated by today's show and so to join me on today's show I have Nicola, Ludham, Rain, I'm hoping

I've spelt that, pronounced that, sorry, right. Nicola hello. Hello Ben,

thanks for having me. Did I pronounce it?

Yeah, even I can't pronounce it.

Yeah, Luddlum rain.

Oh, victory, let's go.

Well, we need to introduce you to my audience. You need to say, hey, this is what I do, but more

than anything I'm interested in why you got into the work that you do, what inspired you to follow a career in nutrition?

Yeah, so I qualified 10 years ago now to be a registered dietician.

From school, all I knew is that I was interested in sport on how the human body works.

So I did sports at Loughborough.

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