Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the FeelGood Podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your most authentic, highest self.

And this is the place from which your energy, confidence, creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode.

Every week we provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast to premieres truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder of Salona, New York Times bestselling author and holistic wellness, nutrition and meditation teacher. Let's get started.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Here's a question I hear almost daily. Dr. Gundry, should I try the keto diet?

Well, as you'll hear in today's episode, there is one big problem with most versions of the keto diet.

And it's not necessarily what's in the keto diet, but what most people leave out of a ketogenic diet.

And it's not just the keto folks either. In fact, just 5% of the US population gets enough of this important nutrient from their diet.

Which is too bad because when you combine this super nutrient with a true keto diet, it can actually help you transform your metabolism, strengthen your microbiome, balance your hormones and help you lose weight.

I'm talking of course about fiber. Now, on today's episode, I'm chatting with Naomi Whittle, the New York Times bestselling author of Glow 15.

And she's got a brand new book out called High Fiber Keto, all about how to make the keto diet work for you.

Naomi and I will discuss how a modified keto diet can help you lose weight, shrink, body fat, improve blood pressure, lower blood sugar and even more.

Naomi, thanks so much for coming on the Dr. Gundry Podcast.

Dr. Gundry, I'm absolutely delighted to be here with you. Thank you for having me.

Well, this is going to be fun. So I want to start with a big picture for our audience and listeners.

Why keto? For those of you who don't know and everybody's probably heard of keto, give us the basics. Why should we even consider a ketogenic diet?

It's a great question and it's one that I never considered personally until a couple of years ago, about three years ago, when my body had gotten to a place where the inflammation I was experiencing was starting to really impact my day.

I mean, I have suffered throughout my life through different autoimmune disorders such as eczema and I have to always be very careful about the foods that I would eat.

And now that I'm in my mid-40s, I got to that place where literally I'd wake up in the morning and my joints would be hurting.

I would have stomach upset and I've been in the health and wellness industry for my entire career. So I had to do something and it had to be extreme.

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