Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the FeelGood Podcast with Kimberly Snyder.

My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your most authentic, highest self.

And this is the place from which your energy, confidence, creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode.

Every week we provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host Kimberly Snyder, founder of Salona, New York Times bestselling author and holistic wellness, nutrition and meditation teacher.

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So, you know, the South Beach Diet is one of the most iconic, low-carb diet plans in the world.

I think it started in 2003 there about recently the creator of the South Beach Diet has enhanced this plan to be compatible with keto.

The popular rapid weight loss diet that forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates.

So, on this episode of the Dr. Gundry Podcast, I'll speak with cardiologist, diet expert and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Arthur Agiston.

Yeah, actually, he and I have a lot in common.

So, Dr. Agiston released his latest book, The New Keto Friendly South Beach Diet in 2019.

Today, we're going to discuss the truth about ketosis, tactics for overcoming sugar addiction and the right way to slim down.

Dr. Agiston, welcome to the program.

Great to be with you, Dr. Gundry.

It's a real pleasure, you know, you're a world-renowned cardiologist, but your expertise goes far beyond coronary calcium scores, which your name is synonymous with and thank you, I guess, for discovering all this.

Okay, so you're a guy who figured out coronary calcium scores.

Well, what was your inspiration for developing the South Beach Diet? I mean, come on.

Well, it actually goes back to the calcium scores and with it, we're able to see people at risk with plaque, 20, 30 years before they developed enough plaque or athroscarosis to actually have a heart attack.

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