Keto Diet: Stinky Side Effects!
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Does the Keto Diet really have such a smelly side effect?! A growing chorus of women are claiming that they have developed a very foul odor in an intimate area since going on the high-fat high-protein diet. There are so many stories out there that the Internet is now referring to the phenomenon as "keto crotch."
But are these claims real or does this stink of a phony urban legend?
Join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll and plant-based board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Christie Cobb as they sniff out what's fact and what's fiction.
Plus, dietitian Lee Crosby returns to the show to talk about other proven side effects of Keto, including constipation, the "keto flu" and a little unpleasant something called "disaster pants!"
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exameral Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee |
| 0:12.6 | High. |
| 0:13.6 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:14.9 | Thanks for giving the show a listen this week. |
| 0:16.9 | As always, it just tickles my fancy that you're doing so greatly, greatly appreciate it. |
| 0:23.9 | Question for you. |
| 0:25.6 | Is it real or is it a coincidence? |
| 0:28.9 | Or is it simply an internet rumor run amok? |
| 0:32.6 | That is what we will set out to tackle on this episode of the Exam Room as we investigate |
| 0:39.1 | Keto Crotch. |
| 0:43.9 | The alleged smelly side effect of a high fat low carb diet has been blowing up social |
| 0:49.6 | media like nobody's business. |
| 0:51.9 | And really, you kind of have to get in there and pitch your nose to even read some of |
| 0:57.3 | the stories that have been flooding sites like Reddit. |
| 1:00.3 | All of them lamenting an unfortunate odor coming from the most intimate of areas. |
| 1:07.0 | And what's truly fascinating about all of this is that the women who are posting these |
| 1:12.1 | stories say that that odor didn't even begin to wafed up until after they went on the |
| 1:17.9 | Keto diet. |
| 1:19.6 | And thus we have the vulgar term for that smell. |
| 1:23.1 | We're going to be talking about some of those claims and diving into the science behind |
| 1:27.5 | them with Dr. Kristi Cobb, who is a plant based OB-GYN. |
| 1:31.6 | She's going to be joining us via Skype from her office in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
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