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Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli. Welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things to do are diet and eat.

I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast, we're going to talk about all of it.

Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel. I'll talk to experts and the average person just like you and me.

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Today on American Glutton, my guest is Chris Cresser. He is an educator and clinician in the fields of functional medicine and ancestral health and the New York Times best selling author of the Paleocure and unconventional medicine.

I really enjoyed my conversation with him and I hope you do.

Chris Cresser, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Ethan, pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me on.

For me, my entire life, since I was a little kid, I was put on diets at a very young age. There was an evolution there where I didn't really know what was happening, but my mom would put me on these diets.

And the initial intention was get this guy to lose weight, right? And at some point, she kind of went like, well, nothing's working. So it must be something else. And I was put on every different variation of a diet.

And when I finally wanted to lose weight, I had to get really, really strict and responsible.

Now, I say that, but I know that many people do diets for different reasons. So I come into looking at the way people eat and go, that guy doesn't need to lose weight.

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