Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast I'm Katie from Wellness Mama.

And this episode is all about how to get rid of puffy weight gain around your

middle or at middle age and why this might be a deeper insight into something going on genetically.

And we get to go deep, especially on the topic of the genetic side of this. I actually learned a lot in this episode,

and I'm here with Dr. Sam Shay who is extremely well spoken on this topic and in his day job he solves health

puzzles for moms for entrepreneurs and for people with Aspergers so that they can exit survival mode and reenter community.

And he started this journey based on his own chronic health struggles.

And now he specializes in functional lab and genetics analysis and is known as the affiliate lab nerd.

He loves to teach on podcast.

You'll see why when you hear him speak today.

And he has some very specific and actionable suggestions for understanding your own genetics and figuring out what he calls

your individual fault lines and correcting them and how often problems stem from having a

mismatch between our genes and our current environments and how to fix it. I always enjoy talking to Dr. Sam,

whether it be in a podcast or just offline, and I always learn a lot. I know that you will as well. So let's join Dr. Sam.

Dr. Sam, welcome back. Thanks for being here again.

Thank you, Katie. Good to be back. Well, we've got to do an episode recently to

talk about stand-up comedy, which I will link in the show notes because that's a deviation

from our normal topics around health, but I think an important one.

And today we get to tap into your other area of genius, which is in the health world, and

go deep on some topics that I think will be relevant and helpful to a lot of people listening.

So to start broad, can you walk us through, I would love to talk about what you define as puffy weight in today's episode, which I think you make a really strong case for not just being normal fat gain that you might see in other areas.

And I think this is a common complaint.

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