Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today I'm joined by Dr. Ben Pickman who is a professor and teaches

information that you're going to want to learn about with respect to the keto diet and how it affects your physiology.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Dr. McCullough, thanks for the invitation.

I'm delighted to be here.

So for those of watching who aren't quite familiar with you,

why don't you give us a brief history so they can place the information you're going to provide us in proper context?

Yeah, my main interest historically, well, well, early on was looking at how the body adapts to obesity.

That was my master's thesis in, which was my master's degree,

was exercise science here at Brigham Young University.

And then I sensed this deficiency with regards to

biochemistry and I ended up pursuing a PhD in bioenergetics at East Carolina

University under this wonderful scientist named Linus Dome.

And his focus had been looking at how lipids cause insulin resistance.

And that was a very expressed interest of mine because I thought this was starting to connect

or starting to explain why and well how more accurately how the body is becoming insulin resistant

in the midst of weight gain in the midst of obesity

because that was the kind of obvious to me at the time the connection

was how is obesity connected to type to diabetes and

insulin resistance is that connection.

And I saw during my PhD we were looking at inflammation and people who were losing weight during following

gastric bypass procedures and how improved inflammation is is likely part of

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