If you've been watching this show, you've probably heard me talk about how impactful the keto diet has been on my own life in terms of reducing inflammation.

And I wanted to put together this special episode, which is a collection of some of the brightest minds in the keto space,

to help you understand why the keto diet can be so impactful, the myths you should look out for,

and how to determine if it's right for you. Enjoy and be legendary.

What is the keto diet?

Why is it that people need fat?

And what's the experience that you think that they'll get out of switching their diet around?

Well, so that's a very complex question.

And there's a complex equation behind it, but people need fat. Fat is a, you know, provides not just

a burnable calories fuel, but fat, certain types of fat play critical roles in the creation of cell membranes,

in the communication between cells, in certain hormone precursor situations.

Certain amount of body fat is just sort of requisite to be healthy in the first place.

So we're not all striving to be 2% body fat people.

But the idea that fat makes you fat has been long to spell.

I mean, this was like, that's a quote from Susan Powder back in the 80s, right?

And it's still somehow made its way into medicine for some unknown reason, because the research has

been very clear. We need certain amount of fat in our diet. And that's kind of the beauty of

keto, for instance, is that we look at how we can take this millions of years of evolution and

harness it to become really good at burning fat, to become less dependent on glucose, to spare the

protein that we otherwise would be burning for calories. And it's all part of this great

system that we evolve. I don't want to co-opt your show here, but I want to talk to you about something.

Okay. We talk about metabolic flexibility a lot now in this new era of macros.

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