Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health.

Today we are joined by Dr. James Nickle Antonia, who I've interviewed in the past for his book

The Salt Fix and he's written a number of other books but the one we're going to talk about today is the upcoming one that he and I both wrote which is Superfuel which talks about fats and the importance of them and how to discriminate between the good

and bad fats and what is really a healthy fat.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. So you had basically done,

compile most of the research on this and invited me to contribute to it.

So I was happy to, especially knowing

the work you did with the Salt Fix, which

was really an important book that helped

changed many people's views on the dangers of salt or the importance of

salt for health. So what motivated you to write this book? Yeah well I mean so this is

kind of like you know ketogenic diet 2.0 right it's I mean everyone's doing

keto diets now where their diets are mostly 70 80% fat and it was like how do we

enhance that diet you know what's what's the healthy fats and

what type of fat should people be eating since it's making up the majority of

their calories and I think a lot of people doing the ketogenic diet they're

doing some things right but they're doing a lot of things are wrong and so this book was really to build off of

You know a diet that that is dramatically improving people's lives but we can actually enhance their lives by

selecting good fats versus bad fats and we really that's really what the motivation

was for this book.

Yeah it's pretty sad actually because many people just simply summarize Kito or

paleo as being high-fat and well that is it's really not the full picture and if you

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