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Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Today is a controversial

topic. We want to forewarn you. This is for adults only. This is adult

content. We're going to do it in a way as appropriate as possible but this is adult content. We're going to do it in a way as appropriate as possible,

but this is real life and real stories.

And we have a very courageous guest on today.

And Trot and I realize we're taking a huge risk that we may offend, we may upset people, but as clinicians we have an obligation.

If we see something and we're making observations, that's our job is to say, hey, do we see,

is there something to this or not?

We're not making any claims of proof,

we're not making any claims of being experts.

We are not experts in the area of addiction medicine and we'd love to talk to people who are and get their feedback on this

But what we are doing is we're bringing on a very courageous guest that's you know I knew we had to have mom when I saw his story and his response to what Trot was saying so

Trot why you give people a little background of how they started how we got on this topic and and what your

observations have been clinically.

Sure one of the things I and what your observations have been clinically?

Sure, one of the things I do in my practice,

so I've come to see a lot of different patients

who are ketogenic or low-carb or on a carnivore diet. A lot of them have found me on the

internet and a lot of them have sought me for care whether it's for their

cholesterol or and so I try to I try to help them

okay one of the things that I do when I screen all of my patients because I spend 90 minutes with them at the first visit is I look for addiction.

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