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Welcome everyone, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today

I am joined by Dr. Ben Bigman who is a professor and teaches information that you're going

to want to learn about with respect to the keto diet and how it affects your physiology.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Dr. Mercola, thanks for the invitation, I'm delighted to be here.

So for those of watching who aren't quite familiar with you, why don't you give us a brief

history so they can place the information you're going to provide us in proper context.

Yeah, my main interest historically, well early on was looking at how the body adapts

to obesity.

That was my master's thesis in which was my master's degree was exercise science here at

Brigham Young University and then I sensed this deficiency with regards to biochemistry

and I ended up pursuing a PhD in bioenergetics at East Carolina University under this wonderful

scientist named Linus Dome and his focus had been looking at how lipids cause insulin resistance

and that was a very expressed interest of mine because I thought this was starting to

connect or starting to explain why and how more accurately how the body is becoming

insulin resistant in the midst of weight gain in the midst of obesity because that was

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