Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is best-selling author Jimmy Moore, the man behind the

live in La Vida low carb podcast, and such books is keto clarity, cholesterol clarity, and the complete

guide to fasting. His personal journey from morbid obesity to champion for healthy living is also

ultra inspiring. And Jimmy, I've been following you now for a very long time. We were talking

when you came for years now, which is crazy that this is the first time that we're meeting face to face.

And that's far too long. Far too long. And the question that I'm dying to ask you, change as

profound as yours, usually comes with the cost of pain. That's usually the thing that causes people

to change. What was it in your life that caused that spark that made you lose all the weight and

learn all this stuff? So my older brother Kevin passed away at the age of 41 at morbid obesity, heart

disease and diabetes. But he had his heart attacks in 1999. And that was the first year that I

kind of went, whoa, for the first time in my life, I really got serious about wanting to get healthy.

But I always went back to the default. And the default was no fat, lots of healthy carbohydrates

for energy, and then exercise to drop. So I did that in 1999, successfully lost weight, but I was

miserable. I was angry, and I couldn't sustain it. And I think anybody that's trying to find a

nutritional modality or a lifestyle modality that's going to give them long-term success, it has to

be something that you literally can do for the rest of your life and be happy about. From day one

of keto, other than day number one, which was bad. It was not bad at all. And it's been nothing but

living levita low carb ever since. So there's a book called Change Your Die. The punchline of the book

is that most people, and I forget the percentage, but it's way less than 10%. When all they have to do

is take one pill a day to increase their, or to decrease their mortality risk by some like

astronomical percent, like 40 or 50%. They don't do it. They still don't do it. And I was just like,

how is that possible? So looking at, if it was your brother's heart attacks, it was the impetus for

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