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Good morning, Pedro. How are you? Fine. Thank you very much for the opportunity.

No problem at all. It's great to have you on.

So before we get straight into things, perhaps you want to just give people a rundown of what type of research you're doing at the moment.

Anything else interesting going on?

Okay, so my name is Pedro Bustos and Portuguese.

And I've been a fan of the ancestral or the evolutionary template applied to nutrition for some time now

uh... first started by reading some of professor Lauren Cordane's scientific papers

and then from that from those papers I started contacting him and he has been a mentor and a friend and also

during this time I met what it is today and not only a very good friend but also a

mentor and my current PhD supervisor which is Dr. Stefan Widenberg from Young University, and he is the

one who has done not only the famous Kitava study, but also his research team has conducted

two important trials, intervention studies with paleolithic diets.

So I'm currently doing my PhD at Lune University under his supervision.

And my main focus is the connection between the Western diet with endotoxemia, leaky gut and inflammation,

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