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Hey everyone, welcome to the primal blueprint podcast. I'm your host, L. Russ, today, here with my

co-host, Eli Rody, and we're going to talk about paleo misconceptions, excuses, and objections.

Hey, Eli, how you doing? I'm great.

So, Eli and I have been talking over time since we've been paleo, and when friends inquire or people on the street, we get a lot of objections or excuses or just general misconceptions

about what paleo is. So we thought we'd address that today and go through some of the main ones that keep popping up.

The first one, I think it's just a general misconception that people have,

that they can't wrap their head around the disbelief, like they're in disbelief that fat is not bad for you.

You want to go ahead and touch a little bit more on that,

Eli? Sure. So I'm not sure if anyone or everyone saw some of the quote unquote breaking news

last week that was on the national news about cholesterol, technically not being bad for us,

which obviously it's not bad for us. But that's one of the

misconceptions is people will say it's a diet very high in cholesterol. How can you eat all those

eggs? How can you eat all that butter? How can you eat all that meat? And luckily, even conventional

wisdom is starting to bend on that. We know that cholesterol is important.

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