Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.

Check out KetorReset.com for details about my New York Times bestselling book and send your questions to info at Ketorreset.com.

Welcome to Kito Questions. I'm your host, Brad Kearns.

Thank you for joining me.

Thank you for writing these wonderful questions to info at ketoreset.com.

And that's the landing page where we have all the books published since the keto reset diet, two other

cookbooks, coming soon, fabulous new book that Mark Sisson and I just turned in, titled

Keto Longevity Release Date December 31st, 2019. And this book is somewhat of a sequel to the New York Times best-selling keto reset diet in that we

are helping you leverage the tool of metabolic flexibility that you developed through low carb,

low insulin producing ketogenic eating patterns. So that starting point of being metabolically flexible

and then pursuing a

comprehensive approach to longevity. But we can't even talk about longevity until we escape

carbohydrate dependency and become fat and keto adapted, become metabolically flexible.

If you remain in carbohydrate dependency, which is essentially

what we've been doing for decades in the standard American diet, getting our primary fuel source

every day from dietary carbohydrates, regular feedings of dietary carbohydrates, this sets the stage

for a lifetime of disease patterns, lifelong accumulation of excess body fat.

We have the metabolic syndrome markers that more and more people are landing into as they get

up into the older age groups. You know, we can do anything when we're kids, teenagers,

we hang in there in our 20s, maybe 30s,

and then the spare tires start to appear, the health problems start to occur.

One day you go to the doctor, you get a bad blood report, you get a disastrous diagnosis,

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