Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Muscle Intelligence Podcast.

I'm your host, Ben Pocolsky.

Today, we frame this podcast around living your greatest life in a body you love and take a little bit of a different approach today.

So today's guest is a functional medicine practitioner with an extensive background in getting results

with people with autoimmunity and health optimization. Dr. Will Cole joins me today to talk

about strategies behind optimizing your diet and your lifestyle for you. Now here's the catch. He's what he calls a ketotarian,

which is a vegetarian approach to ketogenic dieting. Super interesting. Now, he does divulge

some interesting realities about the way he approaches his diet now, which may interest you

a little bit more. But it's really, I think, interesting to hear perspective

on someone who isn't dogmatic about any approach to health and nutrition. He just says,

this is what works for me and my genetics, and this is why I do it. And I think that's really

interesting. And he talks a lot about how he approaches his clients and his first line intervention

strategies for helping people actually make a change.

I know you're going to love this conversation because Dr. Will is a wealth of information.

Now, I'm not an expert in genetics.

So I'm not able to say if the information that he's providing around how certain nutritional interventions affect genetics or how genetics will affect how you should

approach your nutrition.

However, he seems to have a very good grasp on certain specific genetic alleles and predispositions

to give you a little bit of advice on how to work around it.

So it does a really good job.

We keep the conversation really, really simple. Don't get too deep into the weeds around the genetics and such, just so you can

have a few really, really valuable takeaways. So whether you are in belief that you found the diet

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