Hey folks six listeners can't be wrong another addition to the paleo solution

podcast today my guest is one of my good friends. Diana Rogers.

Diana is a registered dietician.

Do not hold that against her.

She's also a NTP.

She is certified in multiple functional nutrition modalities. She also lives on a sustainably managed

permaculture farm somewhere in the frozen northeast. Diana, how are you

doing? I'm good, how are you?

Good, good.

So as I've said a few times recently, I'm famous for giving incredibly paltry and under sophisticated

introductions. I know a ton of the listeners are familiar with

your work, they follow your blog, they read your books, tell folks a little bit

more about who you are and why we are chatting today. Let's talk a little bit about your health

journey that brought you into this ancestral health space first.

Sure, I let's see I was really really sick as a kid and found out at age 26 I had

Celiac disease which explains why I was hospitalized several times with dehydration and could never seem to put on weight all through my childhood.

And at the time when I went to go visit my registered dietitian to find out about the gluten-free diet which I thought

at the time was the most evil thing you could possibly do to somebody.

I basically just swapped out my standard low-fat, you know quote-unquote healthy type

diet with a gluten-free version of that so I was eating gluten-free toast for breakfast

with a sandwich for lunch and maybe some gluten-free pasta for dinner and maybe a gluten-free

beer.

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