This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

I'm delighted today to have Amy Berger with me.

She is a US Air Force veteran

and certified nutrition specialist who specializes in low-carb and ketogenic diets.

Her motto is keto without the crazy. Love that. Clearing up the confusion and making

keto straightforward and simple to stick to.

She blogs at www.2 at nutrition.com where she writes about weight loss,

metabolism, diabetes, thyroid function, and more.

She has presented internationally on these topics and is the author of the

Alzheimer's Antidote using a low-carb high-fat diet to fight Alzheimer's disease,

memory loss, and cognitive decline.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Now, I know that ketogenic diets for so many people are profoundly transformational and I feel like a lot of the women that are in my programs, you know, they're north of 35, they're stuck and so my sense when they come to me as they've tried

keto but they haven't necessarily done it the right way and what I love

about your approach is to really keep things simple which is a lot of what I say to my people.

So let's kind of deep dive into how can we keep keto simple because I think for so many people

they're overthinking every

decision that they're making it's almost paralyzing for them.

Yeah oh that's um that's absolutely right I've I've joked it's not really a

joke though when I get an email from a prospective client and they you know tell me what's going on I I can feel the anxiety radiating out of the screen coming at me like it's palpable I can touch it

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