Hello, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand. And today is a fun interview.

We're going to be chatting with Dr. Paul Saladino. You may have heard of him. He is a guy who wrote a book

called The Carnivore Code. Mark Sisson did the foreword for that book. And he is really, really

shaking things up. And I'm super glad that somebody like him is pushing, pushing,

pushing this conversation to the mainstream because Lord knows we need it and Paul is here to help

us do that. So without further ado, let's dive in to this podcast all about him and his trip to

Africa and much, much more about the carnivore lifestyle. If you need help clinically, check out

my site, Evanbrand.com. We'd love to help. Enjoy the show. Man, it's great to be here. Thanks for

having me on, Evan. So my first question is, did you, did you ever go into clinical practice,

and then you decided that you wanted to be like the carnivore guru spokesperson or did you just go straight from medical

school into the carnivore deal or how did this happen? It all happened in parallel. So I was,

you know, I was doing residency at the University of Washington and it was during that time that I kind of thought about animal-based diets and thought about

paleolithic diets a little differently and cut out a lot of the plant foods or all the

plant foods in my diet for my own eczema.

And so I was in residency doing clinical practice there.

And then I finished residency and had a virtual practice, kind of a virtual, I want to say,

root cause-based practice as a physician.

And then I've continued to maintain that with a small select group of clients.

But most of what I do these days is writing and thinking about things

and researching and podcasting and debating people whose views are different than mine respectfully,

but trying to share the different perspectives on things and hopes that these ideas, which I believe

are fairly unique, will be helpful for people

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