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Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Today's a special day for me.

I have Jen Eisenhardt. She's making a she's made a huge movie that's awesome that's really going to impact our

community I want to make it clear I have no financial interest in this film at all

but I am in it and my patients are in it and I think it's a powerful movie I know it's a powerful movie because I've seen the

rough cut and I'm super impressive it's even better than I thought it would be

it's called fat fiction and if you wanted something to convince your neighbors and

friends and people who are on the fence or people who are totally against low

carb I think this film does a fair job of when when I say fair, I mean very fair as far as trying to present the data

and then allowing the person to decide I don't think it's going to be taken as a propaganda piece like so many

other films have in the past. And I think it's a fair and balancing so Jen tell us your story and how you got called to do this movie and why you felt called to do it and and what's happening now and how we're going to get it out so we could all see it.

Yeah, well, so we've been working on the film for about two years, and it was about two years ago that I took a nutrition class called the

Restart Program. It's a five-week sugar detox class and I sort of always knew that I

had a problem with sugar and I thought oh this would be good for me

you know take a sugar detox class and the first day of the class the nutritionist

said well not only do you not be eating sugar but you need to be eating a lot more fat

including saturated fat and I was shocked and I was very surprised and that was the start of my own personal inquiry into this

whole idea of saturated fat because I my degree is in journalism and I've been a news journalist,

television journalist my whole career and I can tell you how many stories I did

interviewing nutritionists and dieticians telling us that we all need to quit eating

saturated fat and replace it with processed vegetable spreads, that that was more healthy for us.

Yeah, and you finished the movie about three weeks too early because now more data is coming out.

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