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

Thank you for joining us for another edition of the

low-carb MD podcast. Today we're super excited to have Joy Kitty with us.

She's a low-carb high-fat dietician. It even says that on her website and it hasn't been shut down yet

because she's showing some huge benefits. Trot do you want to add something?

Yeah absolutely Joy I'm so happy that you've come on the show with us. I've been following you on Twitter and I've been following your blog for a very, very long time. I can't, I say I've personally related to your story and I know many of my patients who follow you online and

follow your recipes and follow your kind of your journey and you've inspired many people so I'm so happy to have you here and one thing that I think is a little

you know something that most people might not know is you know as people know and our listeners know, you know, Jason Fung and Megan Ramos are kind of part of this

Podcast and and

He had an impact on you in getting your clinic set up, so I want to hear, you know, kind of all about your story. I'm so happy to have you here and, you know, just super humbled that you've come on.

Well, thank you very much. I yeah

Jason was amazing I reached out to him about almost five years ago now

when a girlfriend of mine who was a retired physician came to speak to me because I'm a dietician

and she was wanting to put her husband on a low-carb diet to address some of his metabolic issues and wanted to know what I thought.

And I didn't have any thoughts because I hadn't really considered a low-carb diet since back in the days of Atkins.

And I'm old enough to remember it when it came. carbed

since back in the days of Atkins, and I'm old enough to remember it when it came out the first time.

So she had been reading Dr. Fung's blogs at that point for he had been blogging for about a year and a half I think and she was

discussing some of his insights and I was going this makes so much sense like we both

learned this when we went to university this is the physiology and the

endocrinology that we all learned and then we promptly chucked it out the window and taught Canada's food guide, like what's up with that?

And so I committed to her that I'd read through his blogs not realizing how long he had been

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