Hey folks. My name is Rob Wolf. Mark Smelly Bell paying me and asked me to answer a couple of questions as part of his new short format podcast. I'm incredibly honored to do that.

He fired off three short, but really great questions for me,

and hopefully it's worth your time listening to this.

So just as a little bit of background, I was a research biochemist in my past life, mainly in the areas of cancer in auto immunity.

I was a former California State Powerlifting champion, a half decent tie boxer at one time, not particularly good, but I was incredibly

nearsighted.

So most of other people's movements looked like a blur instead of something that was actually

helpful in a combative sense.

Today I'm a main activity is old guy Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I have a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and this kind of leads into one of the first questions that Mark fired off to me, which is,

how am I using carbohydrates today for my life and fueling and whatnot?

This is kind of an interesting story and clearly the high-carb

low-carb deal is like as contentious as like some sort of northern Ireland

like you know truck bomb type type deal people are super spun out on on all sides of this you have the

low-carb jihadis that insist that low-carb is the only way to eat you have other people

that just dismiss outright that there's any efficacy to reducing

carbohydrate for folks and you know my own experience in this is growing up I

basically was in a fog my whole life until I was about 28 years old when out of desperation

due to a host of health problems including some really, really nasty gut issues that I had including

ulcerative kaleidus and went on a low-carb diet. I basically picked up an

Atkins book and read it and it made a lot of sense and felt better within a few days of doing that than literally I had ever felt in my life.

And this is almost 20 years ago, like it's a few months away from 20 years.

As I'm recording this is the this is the day before my 46th birthday and so it's been quite some time since you know I first

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