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

Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Unfortunately, we are

troll list this morning. Trot got tied up and had stuff going. He did a

early podcast when I was tied up, so anyways, we have a good one today. I'm really

excited about this one. This is someone the first guy we're going to talk about is

Bill Erico. He's a doc up in Washington. Someone I met at low-carb Denver and

he's been collaborating with Franco-Lopez who's a registered dietician.

Now a lot of people think that we're at war with each other and I think this is a really important

topic because we need to realize hey

we're on the same team we got to really look out for the best interest of our patients.

So Bill, welcome.

Thanks so much. I'm really honored to be here and thanks for giving the opportunity.

No, it's so good to have you man. Good. It was great. We had a fun time in Denver getting to meet each other

and I saw that you're a bigger than life personality, you're an outgoing, super cool guy.

So tell people your story how you got started in this stuff and where you're at now and how you

started collaborating and how, you know, basically how your practice changed in the last couple of years since you started doing low-carb step.

Sure thing, yeah, definitely.

So, I'm Bill Erica, so I am a family medicine doc and it's interesting, I found out Trot trained at his medical school

was Truro College of Osteopathic Medicine. So I'm a DO and I'm trained by

Turro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in San Francisco, California.

So I was like, wow, the Turo Connection.

So anyway, so I graduated med school in 2004,

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