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Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.

Today I have a special guest.

Someone who I ran into in Boca Ratan.

He's part of my whole life change stuff and and has been a huge influence on me.

So it's an honor having him back.

He has a crazy story.

I heard it when we were talking in Florida

and I said, we have to get you on the podcast, man,

because it's pretty dang awesome so

Raj. Welcome man. Rod Seth with airline pilot, man of mystery he's done everything in

his life and he has quite a story so Roger tell people your story I think even if we let's go back and start at the beginning you know what your childhood was like and what you had to deal with and and then we'll just go through the progression because I think your story really needs to get out.

Well Brian, thank you very much for having me. I can't believe I'm on this podcast. I fan doling here. You guys have a great podcast. Anyway to start at the beginning I was a fat child. My nickname was Fatty and everybody made fun of me. I grew a thick skin and developed a fat persona, you know, fat people, a jolly and all that.

But what scared me once I got to be slightly more

sentient was that my whole family was diabetic and they were everybody was

obese and knowing that it was a genetic disease I was afraid that at some point

it was gonna get me and then I was destined to go down that same pathway.

Yeah, you said it was just like it was like a pre-destiny that you had,

like you just knew it was going to happen.

Everybody knew, or at least I knew then that everybody knew, diabetes was genetic.

Obesity was genetic.

And if your family had it, you were destined to get it, and there was no reversing it,

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