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Hey, Professor Phil, it's wonderful.

Thanks for coming on and be so generous with your time.

I am excited to talk to you. There's a lot of interesting stuff that is in your wheelhouse that I think would be interesting to get through. Appreciate you coming on. You're up in Ontario.

Is that right? You got it. Awesome, awesome. So let's just get right into it, Max. I don't know how much time you have, and he's got so much good stuff we want to cover. But, you know, we had a guy on, I think about two weeks ago. His name was Mickey Banddor. He's an anthropologist, and so he was talking about human evolution. And he went through, you know, what plausibly was likely going on, which drove human evolution in the, you know, one million to about 300,000

a year range where humans started to evolve.

And during that time, he postulates that humans evolved, eating a diet that was probably

somewhere in a 30 to 50 percent range of protein, most of it coming from animal sources.

And that is in great contrast to what we see in the normal population, particularly in Western

society, where we're eating anywhere between 12 and 50 percent of our calories from protein.

I know you have just tremendous knowledge around protein metabolism and that stuff.

And so I want to touch on that.

And so there are a lot of about protein.

Protein damage your kidneys. Protein protein damages your liver, protein causes you to

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