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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I speak with

Jim Howard from Biosense, which is a validated medical device for breath ketone monitoring.

And I'm actually quite excited at the prospect of how this may personally help me dial in some of my diet.

I had used the device for a few weeks and I was surprised to see I was getting kicked out of ketosis from inocuous or seemingly innocuous foods,

like some coffee with a little bit of half and

half and butter. But if I'm able to, and this is something that Jim through our conversation

today helped me better realize, if I'm able to pick out what few things may be thwarting my

ketosis, that could be helpful. But also, what Jim

helped me to appreciate, and we'll, of course, elaborate on this in the body of the discussion

today, is that kind of ongoing ketosis may not be the ideal mark, but rather these periodic

bouts in ketosis to realize therapeutic gain, where you kind of

prime yourself and you kind of get ready for ketosis, and then you aim to spend as long in that

therapeutic target area of a day or a few days or so, perhaps even longer, depending on what you have

going on, as you can. And you use use the biosense breath ketone monitor to help you

learn what you can do and what you shouldn't do to maintain those therapeutic episodes

that you're trying to purposely get into ketosis. So definitely very appreciative of Jim, his time, the company,

the work they're doing, the validation that they've gone through, and helping me kind of better

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