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.

All right, today we are talking to Ted Neyman.

He's a board certified family medicine physician in the Department of Primary Care at a leading

major medical center in Seattle. His personal research and medical practice are focused on the practical

implementation of diet and exercise for health optimization.

He is the author of the PE Diet.

Welcome, Ted.

Hi, thank you. Welcome.

So nice to have you.

So I'd love to hear a little bit about your story because I find the journey that kind of takes us from

like the traditional kind of Western medicine mindset to the evolution where we're really

focusing on food as medicine is really interesting. As I've had more and more health care

providers on, I love to hear their kind of transitional

process how that started for you because I know you are you post a lot of photos of

where you were like when you're a medical school versus now and I think people

would really find that interesting what that journey's been like.

Oh yeah, well, so basically I was raised a Seventh Day Adventist which is sort of famous for being a vegetarian.

And I don't know if everyone knew that about me,

but I've told that backstory before.

And so I had this Adventist upbringing.

And on paper, my diet was really great because it was you know

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