Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection.

Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Today we have a guest that does not need an

introduction. Most everyone knows who he is. We have Denver's Diet Doctor, Dr. Jeff Gerber, who's been a huge influence in my life, a huge influence

bringing me into the low-carb realm and I was one of those critics sitting in the audience thinking,

can this guy be telling the truth and is this stuff right and I had to go back and look at my patients look at my life experience and then make a decision so Dr Gerber I hope everyone doesn't hold it against you that you were a huge influence on me and I

think also with Tro. Well, hi Brian and Trot, thanks for having me. I'm honored and

to be honest, my discovery just happened a few years before yours.

Yeah but you have a lot more experience and if it weren't for you we want to be here.

So tell us about your story quickly for people who don't know.

You kind of were on the same kind of path, but not to the extreme of pro and myself,

but you had to make some lifestyle changes for yourself, and then you kind of

started adopting those to your patients, like a lot of us dogs do.

Yes, yeah, well this story begins 20 years ago.

There really wasn't this internet or email or anyone else out there.

There were just a couple books, a couple journals, papers,

and my patience, I have to thank.

They came to me and actually together we challenged traditional nutritional advice.

So all patients have some success doing non-standard diets that were low-carb, did some additional reading, and then learned about the metabolic syndrome in particular and had some personal experience.

I had lost 40 pounds way back then,

having done a low-carb diet and just realized

that we got nutrition wrong.

And from that point forward, I've just been passionate about

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