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We are recording a special podcast and this is going to be, we're going to kill two birds with one stone.

We have somebody really special here who's been on several times, and we're happy to have him back on.

If you're joining from social or you're listening through the podcast or you've been living

under a rock, this is the amazing Doug Reynolds and he is the president and the chairman

of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners and the president and co-founder of

low-carb USA. He's an author, he's a speaker, and we are

absolutely excited to have him back on. We're sort of doing a little bit of an impromptu call to

action. So the main call to action for the listeners here is come support the metabolic

health initiatives, come support chronic disease reversal, come support all the medical doctors,

all the scientists out there who are in the trenches, working on research projects, presenting

on these topics in Boca Raton in January of

2026. The conference is an amazing conference. It's the SMHP Boca conference. It is going to be focused

on cardiovascular disease, which is a huge topic. It is the number one leading cause of death. It is the

most common cause of morbidity. And this is an important topic. This is why we are all here

invested in metabolic health because we want to live disease-free lives, and particularly,

we want to live cardiovascular disease-free.

So we are also going to talk about a state of the union, so to speak, of the SMHP, the Society

of Metabolic Health Practitioners, what Doug and the board has been working hard on over the past couple months because some

of our listeners may not know.

And so if you're joining us from Twitter, if you're joining us in the Tord Health app, if you're

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