Hey there, this is Ari Witten and welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast.

Today with me again is my good friend and colleague and fellow writer, researcher, contributor to the energy blueprint.

He has a, he's got a master's degree in nutrition.

He's on the teaching staff of the University of Western States Human Nutrition

and Functional Medicine Program, and he's the former senior researcher at

examined.com.

He's one of the most brilliant minds for health science and nutrition science that I've

ever known in my life.

And that's why I hired him to work with me because he's just phenomenally knowledgeable

and wise.

And his level of understanding is just very, very nuanced. And he understands

how to piece together the science to logically speculate and draw conclusions on what might be true.

He understands, hey, this research has some caveats and we can't draw strong conclusions from

that. He's just

phenomenal at what he does. He's one of the most brilliant minds that I've ever met when it

comes to health science. So welcome again, Alex, such a pleasure to have you back on the show.

Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here. Yeah. So I want to recap what we talked about in the last

podcast. So we talked about obesity or excess body fat being overweight, having a large amount of

excess body fat, and the relationship of that to, in particular, we talked about it and how

it links with immune dysfunction, which is especially relevant in the context of what we're all dealing with right now with COVID-19.

So just first, before we get into some other layers of the story,

recap the gist of what you covered in the last podcast.

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