What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Iron Culture presented by Mass. It is me. Eric Traxwood, as always, by the Dr. Eric Helms-Helms. How are we doing today? Pretty good. Obviously, the state of the world is concerning. and I am like very disappointed in that there was a fitness conference that I was going to be attending this weekend that it looks like at least preliminarily maybe impossible to get to from New Zealand because of the thing that is between New Zealand and Europe, which

is the middle part of the world, which is in dire conflict at the moment. And not to make it

sound like there aren't people suffering a lot more than me. I was going to say, why? No, it sounds

like most of the kind of take home is, yeah, you and your fitness conference travel schedule is really

I haven't heard people talking about that on the news but they should be yeah I mean civilian

deaths Eric missed out on a conference it's there's it's I don't I think it's probably good that

they're focusing on the former because you just don't want to give too much bad news to people

all the same time but honestly I don't even want to go about it. This is really kind of crazy stuff that's going on. But it is, I think it just, when you see that something really does have such wide reaching effects, it makes you go like, this is kind of wakes you up a little bit. Because I think we all get in our little online silo bubbles and operate in a space that's not that. Yeah, no, I've, it was a little bit of a little sobering minor piece of that that, you know, inconveniences me at best and has made me think about that. So anyway, just putting out good vibes and best wishes to people who are much more immediately affected by this conflict. So I guess with that, I'm a little melancholy, I guess you could say. How are you doing? Yeah. Well, I'm good. Yeah, I don't have anything interesting to report. So I would say, honestly, we have so much to get to in this episode. It might be time to just dive right in. And as long as we get a little, we got to get a little love to the people to make our ability to dive in is worth what. So I will say, if you like the show, if you want us to dive right in, you know what, we'll spend a whole lot less time promoting the fact that we are Iron Culture presented by Mass if we get a lot more people sign up for mass and we can go, you know what, we're so just

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So I think with that out of the way, not that we are trying to get out of the way, we do value those things. We believe in those things. We appreciate those people. And we appreciate you, dear listener. Maybe we should get into maybe an update on what's going on in the wild, the wacky world of LDL lean mass hyper responder retraction drama research.

Yeah. And remind me, is that the most recent episode that we published, or is that two episodes

ago? So it's, because we're recording one ahead. Oh, yeah, I should, I shouldn't even ask,

I shouldn't even ask that. We're in this jumbled, chaotic thing. It was really a jumping off

point for me to basically say, we took a huge risk because we

basically, we recorded that episode about the keto CTA trial and all the LDL cholesterol stuff.

If you've been listening, you know when we published it. And it was really risky because we

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