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Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, I'm Arnalto from Skydett Medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

And I'm Sydney McAroy. So Justin. Yes, Sydney. There is a trendy popular topic that I've been getting lots of questions about lately.

Probably know about it then. If it's trendy and hot, I'm looped in probably already, but I'll hear you.

Well, by all means then. Well, I'm not a mind reader. I will probably know all about this hot topic.

Well, I get, as you may guess, I get lots of questions actually about weight loss in general. A lot of patients who are trying to lose weight and are not sure how to do it.

And so as a result, I am usually kept abreast of most of the new kind of fad diets because somebody's always trying them.

And a lot of the times this works the way like backwards. I hear about them and then I have to go read about them and figure them out and kind of come to a conclusion as to whether or not they're dangerous or whatever.

And the one that everybody's talking about these days is the ketogenic diet.

Yeah, keto. A lot about that. I've dabbled in the low carb and slow carb worlds.

And so I've heard a lot of chatter about keto diet and have because of my time with with addkins, I know with the name refers to.

But I don't know much about it. I don't know how it differs from like other sorts of plans that are out there.

It's I thought this would be a good topic and we've had lots of people I should say suggest this tweeted and and Facebook message and email us about this because it is so popular and wanting to know is it real does it work.

And as I started to dig into it the history of it, it's funny. This is one of those things that as I started to read, I thought I remember learning about this in medical school.

But I hadn't really thought about it since then. Okay. So the keto diet specifically differs from these low these other low carb diets.

I think most interestingly in its origins. How so the keto diet actually dates back to the 1920s.

But it was not initially developed as a weight loss plan.

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