I was forced to say, okay, diet is causing this stuff for me, right?

It doesn't matter what anybody else tells you.

When you're in a stroke ward for four days with a bunch of med students staring at you like you're a fascinating butterfly,

you really start thinking hard what is going on here.

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Pleased to meet you again. Good to see you. How are you? Not too bad. I'm kept busy for

sure just getting this new podcast going and a lot of other things in the background. So you're doing well yourself, I guess. You look great there. Thank you, sir. Yes, I am. I'm doing well. Looking forward to a little bit of a blizzard. They're promising us. We'll see what actually happens. All right. None of that over in Ireland. Just rain. That's all we get.

Well, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to start off with a little bit of your backstory because a lot of us technical people who got into the health arena and research and metabolic health and biochemistry came because in middle age we had health issues that we had to address.

We didn't get great satisfaction, maybe from our doctors.

So you have a backstory where you had a few significant issues and you had to research them

yourself.

So maybe run us through a little of that.

Yeah.

So that in hindsight, I had had a long series of things that I might have realized

were caused by diet, but didn't put it together until later.

What triggered me to realize something was going drastically wrong was when I seemed to have

a stroke when I was 38 years old and spent four days in a stroke

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