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

Shogai, 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, over exercising,

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 actually figured out how to eat and

train most effectively, I lost 20 pounds in like the first month and all of those health problems

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