Hello and a very warm welcome to another episode of The Lizard Wellbeing Show.

Super excited for today, I'm joined by Dr Linda Anagawa, an award-winning doctor dedicated

to the treatment of metabolic and weight-related disease. She is also the author of Not Another

Quito Book, the obesity medicine solution to lose weight, boost your metabolism and feel

great. Well, if that's not a promise, I don't know what it is, and we are due for a really

interesting chat today about all things metabolic health, including why it matters and how to

measure our own, as well as low-carb eating, its potential benefits for our health and how it

differs from the stricter ketogenic diets, and what it looks like to eat this way on a day-to-day

basis. Linda, I know, is full of really great insights, so please do share with anyone in your life

who may well be struggling with metabolic or weight-related diseases, so let's get comfy and

dive straight in to today's episode. So, very warm welcome, Linda. This is a subject so close to

my heart. I'm delighted that we've been able to catch up. I know you're currently in Hawaii,

so we've been juggling time zones, haven't we? We definitely have. It's not easy to connect

halfway around the world, but I am just delighted to have this opportunity to chat with you, Liz.

Well, it's so timely, I mean, especially I think, because we start relatively soon into the new

year to be kind of thinking about our overall health, metabolic health in particular, which I'd

love to drill down into, but first of all, how did you come to work in obesity medicine? What's your

background? Yeah, well, my background is in very traditional academic primary care. I was seeing

patients and teaching residents and medical students, and you know, over the course of about

a decade, I found myself really starting to get honestly kind of sad about the, you know, the

lack of impact that I felt that I was really having on patients. I mean, I would see my patients

month after month in the office, and all I was really doing was adding on medications to their

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