Hi folks, this is Abel James, and thanks so much for joining us on Fat Burning Man,

where we talk about real food and real results. Today's episode of the show is with Dr. Pedram

Shoujai, and he's a good buddy of mine, a fan favorite,

often requested by you guys. And let's see, he's a physician, filmmaker, a podcaster,

Taoist priest, been chased by lions in Africa, and much, much more. This is a really interesting

interview. We actually do something a little bit different. We talk about the health,

diet, fitness industry and how you guys can navigate it to make sure you're following the good

guys and not the bad guys who are trying to peddle their wares and basically confuse you into

buying their product over and over again. So before we get to the show, I have a very quick

request of you this week,

and that's very simply that you go into Apple iTunes, find the podcast for Fat Burning Man,

the audio version, and click the subscribe button. And if you feel so inclined, it would be very

helpful if you left a review for the audio version of Fat Burning Man on iTunes. Now, I'm going to

tell you more specifically why I'm asking you to do that in just a second. But if you could just

take a quick moment to hop into iTunes and leave a review for Fat Burning Man, I would really, really

appreciate it. So here's the quick backstory. I originally started this podcast to spread the

truth about health and get a lot of the top minds in health who are doing great work together

to help share the truth with you guys. My quick backstory is that I had been basically following the

wrong advice, starving myself, overising, eating the wrong foods that were

recommended by my doctor, fitness magazines, diet books, and what have you, that were basically

making me fat and sick in my early 20s and my health was falling apart for basically no reason

when I should have been in my athletic and health prime. When I looked into it myself and

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