The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast
Welcome to The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast! We aim to be your go-to source for accurate and cutting-edge information to help you achieve your best health ever! Led by Dr. Bret Scher, a practicing cardiologist with over 20 years of clinical experience, we are going to help you explore evidence based, practical information and dive deeper into the controversies as it relates to your health and your healthcare. © 2017 Bret Scher. All Rights Reserved.
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LCCP040: Carrie Diulus M.D. —Vegan Keto, Type 1 Diabetes, Exercise and Self Experimentation
09/10/2018
LCCP040: Carrie Diulus M.D. —Vegan Keto, Type 1 Diabetes, Exercise and Self Experimentation
Doctor Carrie Diulus is a spine surgeon with an amazing story. Her life has been littered with maladies such as Celiac Disease, type 1 diabetes, gastroparesis, and a serious knee injury and yet she persists with athletic triumphs and incredible health. How she accomplishes this is a testament to her ingenuity and resourcefulness. Dr. Carrie shares her story of how data collection, self-experimentation, and analyzing the results led her down the opposite path from the advice of her doctors.
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LCCP039: Lierre Keith — The Dark Truths Behind Veganism & Vegetarianism
08/27/2018
LCCP039: Lierre Keith — The Dark Truths Behind Veganism & Vegetarianism
This week, the Author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, Lierre Keith, joins me to dispel the three pillars vegetarians lean on to justify their dietary and lifestyle choices. Her book, published in 2009, is still widely discussed and referenced today. In this stirring discussion, Lierre reveals that just six corporations (who she calls grain cartels) own the world’s food supply and how they deceitfully market industrial by-products in the form of soy-based products.
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LCCP038: Dr. Nasha Winters, ND — Treating the Whole Person, Not Just the Tumor
07/24/2018
LCCP038: Dr. Nasha Winters, ND — Treating the Whole Person, Not Just the Tumor
This week, Dr. Nasha Winters ND, FABNO, L.Ac, Dipl.OM and CEO of Optimal Terrain Consulting joins me to share her incredible, real-life journey of healing through lifestyle and emphasis on whole health. After beating a diagnosis of terminal cancer at the age of 19, she transformed her life into an ongoing resource for thousands of people who are navigating their way through cancer and standard of care treatments.
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LCCP037: Tucker Goodrich — Omega 6 Seed Oils and Our Health- Another Medical Paradox
07/17/2018
LCCP037: Tucker Goodrich — Omega 6 Seed Oils and Our Health- Another Medical Paradox
Tucker Goodrich shares how he healed himself of diverticulitis, irritable bowel Syndrome, and stroke-like symptoms all by changing his diet. Getting little help from contemporary medicine, Tucker decided to focus his professional problem-solving skills towards his personal health issues. This ultimately lead to eliminating wheat and omega 6 seed oils from his diet and resulted in immediate resolution of his symptoms.
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LCCP036: Dave Feldman Challenges Everything We Think We Know About LDL Cholesterol.
07/02/2018
LCCP036: Dave Feldman Challenges Everything We Think We Know About LDL Cholesterol.
Traditionally we are taught that any elevation of LDL cholesterol leads to heart disease. Not so fast, says Dave. In this episode, we discuss why this does not apply to LMHRs and what that means for LCHF individuals and what it means for the medical world as a whole. We also discuss how recent PCSK9i drug trials prove his point, even though contemporary medicine promotes them with an opposite conclusion. Sound confusing? Well, it isn’t once you hear Dave explain his case.
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LCCP035: Dr. Jeff Stanley — How Ketogenics is Changing the Game of Treating Type 2 Diabetes
06/20/2018
LCCP035: Dr. Jeff Stanley — How Ketogenics is Changing the Game of Treating Type 2 Diabetes
This week, I welcome Dr. Jeff Stanley of Virta Health back to the podcast to discuss the results from their one-year Cardiovascular Risk Factor Assessment clinical trial. The results, which are published in the peer-reviewed publication Cardiovascular Diabetology, include some very impressive findings. Findings that may just shake up conventional wisdom about a high fat diet.
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LCCP034: Dr. Shawn Baker — Creating a Community of Carnivores
06/05/2018
LCCP034: Dr. Shawn Baker — Creating a Community of Carnivores
This week, Orthopedic surgeon, World Record Holder and Master athlete Dr. Shawn Baker shares his solution for thriving as a human being. He eats meat. Lots of meat, and only meat. He is the leader of the carnivore movement and has created a community of carnivores through his social media efforts. This may have been considered “fringe” or “crazy” a few years ago, but now, thanks to Dr Baker’s efforts, the carnivore diet is becoming an accepted diet for health and human performance.
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LCCP033: Siobhan Huggins — Reverse Engineering Cholesterol Misconceptions
05/21/2018
LCCP033: Siobhan Huggins — Reverse Engineering Cholesterol Misconceptions
This week’s guest, Siobhan Huggins, is a stellar citizen scientist who has a passion for dissecting complex topics, and understanding how misbeliefs lead us astray. She has a remarkable gift of analyzing complex topics and reframing them from a systems and engineering point of view. Plus, her own personal journey through the low-carb keto lifestyle prompted her deeper dive into lipids, inflammation, insulin resistance and more. She understands that cholesterol is not inherently evil.
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LCCP032: Nina Teicholz — The Nutrition Coalition
05/08/2018
LCCP032: Nina Teicholz — The Nutrition Coalition
Nina Teicholz joins me for a second time (listen to our first interview in episode 8), this time to discuss her groundbreaking work reforming our dietary guidelines. During our discussion, Nina shares the origin of the nutritional guidelines, and the unbelieveable story of how they came to be. She also shares the frightening reality of how deeply the guidelines influence society and how they are based on flimsy data in desperate need of an update.
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LCCP031: Dustin Schaffer — The Power of Exogenous Ketones
04/12/2018
LCCP031: Dustin Schaffer — The Power of Exogenous Ketones
My good friend Dustin Schaffer of the SchafferMethod.com is a master at helping people live their lives better. In this interview he shares his personal health journey that eventually led him to ketosis. Since then, he has helped his clients find their own path to health, and has been very successful at it. But now he has his most powerful and favorite tool- the combination of exogenous ketones and strong community support.
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BH030: Dr. Victor Montori — Revolutionizing Health Care
04/10/2018
BH030: Dr. Victor Montori — Revolutionizing Health Care
As a Professor of Medicine and Endocrinologist specializing in diabetes care at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Montori is an expert in patient care experiences.. He also runs the Knowledge and Evolution Research Unit (KER) unit, which focuses on medical evidence, patient wishes, and minimally disruptive care. He is the co-founder of Patient Revolution.org and his book, Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care is a testament to his passion towards transforming the current healthcare industry.
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BH029: Dr. Ben Bikman — Raise Your Protein Intake and Your Insulin IQ
03/26/2018
BH029: Dr. Ben Bikman — Raise Your Protein Intake and Your Insulin IQ
Ben Bikman believes wholeheartedly in a low carb diet. As an Assistant Professor and Scientist at BYU, he focuses on modern day diseases that are influenced by metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes. During our conversation, we walk through the role of protein in the metabolic system, the fuel requirements of athletes, and why it’s important to separate emotion from science when we talk about food.
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BH028: Vinnie Tortorich - Exercise and Nutrition in a Fat-Adapted Diet
03/20/2018
BH028: Vinnie Tortorich - Exercise and Nutrition in a Fat-Adapted Diet
Vinnie Tortorich is America’s favorite celebrity trainer, podcaster and author of Fitness Confidential. Vinnie shares how he got started in his career as a trainer to the stars, and he highlights the key differences between training celebrities for shoots and films, exercising to be health or training for competitions. As a long-time competitor in ultra-endurance races, Vinnie shares how he has used nutrition to help him achieve spectacular results in these grueling competitions.
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BH027: Dr. Jason Fung of the IDM Program: The Benefits of Fasting
03/06/2018
BH027: Dr. Jason Fung of the IDM Program: The Benefits of Fasting
My guest, Dr. Jason Fung is a passionate advocate for reclaiming our health through low-carb nutrition and intermittent fasting. As a Nephrologist, he recognized his diabetic patients on dialysis uniformly declined into worsening health. He knew something had to change. That is when he went against the prevailing paradigm and starting using low-carb nutrition and intermittent fasting as primary therapy for his patients. And he hasn’t looked back.
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BH026: Professor Tim Noakes of the Noakes Foundation Helps People Take Control of Their Medical Futures
02/26/2018
BH026: Professor Tim Noakes of the Noakes Foundation Helps People Take Control of Their Medical Futures
Prof Tim Noakes put his career and his reputation on the line by saying three simple words that we infrequently hear: I Was Wrong. In the 80s and 90s, he was the preeminent authority on sports performance, and he wrote the defining book explaining the importance of a high carbohydrate diet. Fast forward 20 years, and Prof Noakes’ own personal struggle with diabetes opened his eyes to the unforeseen dangers of the high carbohydrates diet.
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BH025: HD of Hormones Demystified — Part 3: It’s Time to Revolutionize Health Care
02/19/2018
BH025: HD of Hormones Demystified — Part 3: It’s Time to Revolutionize Health Care
In this episode, we explore HD"s own personal journey with Time Restricted Feeding, and of course we tackle insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia and how that relates to low-carb diets possibly being the cure for IR and even diabetes. We delve into the brave new world we are in with an army of engineers and critical thinkers forcing us to reframe how we see certain paradigms in medicine, and how the new venture with Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan will change medicine as we know it.
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BH024: Dave Feldman of CholesterolCode.com- Part 2 To Help Us All #RethinkLDL
02/06/2018
BH024: Dave Feldman of CholesterolCode.com- Part 2 To Help Us All #RethinkLDL
During Dave Feldman’s second appearance on the podcast we delve deeper into the results of his Ketofest experiment and how his research is revolutionizing the way we look at cholesterol. According to Dave's 'energy status' theory, the body as a system anticipates its energy needs and regulates how it mobilizes long term and short term energy storage. This makes cholesterol a passenger in an energy delivery system, not an inherently harmful doer of evil.
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BH023: Insulin Resistance: A True Measure of What Ails Us? With Ivor Cummins
01/29/2018
BH023: Insulin Resistance: A True Measure of What Ails Us? With Ivor Cummins
After a blood test left him with more questions than answers, my guest, Ivor Cummins, began applying his problem-solving, tactical engineering point of view to explain why his blood tests were abnormal, an answer his physicians were unable to provide. From there, he turned his attention to explaining the root cause and pathophysiology of the most common diseases of our time- obesity, diabetes, and heart disease just to name a few.
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BH022: Finding The Sleep Solution With Dr. Chris Winter
01/16/2018
BH022: Finding The Sleep Solution With Dr. Chris Winter
How to get a better night’s sleep is on the front of just about every magazine cover these days. New methods, products, and books promise a sleep experience like no other. But, few of these practices or gadgets get to the root cause of why people aren’t sleeping. My guest, Dr. Chris Winter, is an expert on sleep with over 25 years of sleep medicine and research experience.
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BH021: Moving Past the High Cholesterol Myth and On to Preventing Metabolic Disease with a Low-Carb Lifestyle With Dr. Jeffry Gerber
01/02/2018
BH021: Moving Past the High Cholesterol Myth and On to Preventing Metabolic Disease with a Low-Carb Lifestyle With Dr. Jeffry Gerber
This week I welcome Denver’s Diet Doctor, Jeffry Gerber, to discuss how we look at cardiovascular risk and health in general.
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BH020: Cholesterol — Understanding How the Body Uses It and Are High LDL Levels Really Dangerous? With
Dave Feldman
12/12/2017
BH020: Cholesterol — Understanding How the Body Uses It and Are High LDL Levels Really Dangerous? With
Dave Feldman
Should we be tracing cholesterol levels as markers of cardiovascular disease or is the body just trying to feed itself in the most effective way possible?
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BH019: Meditation and Mindfulness:
A Practical Approach with
Dr. Danny Penman
12/05/2017
BH019: Meditation and Mindfulness:
A Practical Approach with
Dr. Danny Penman
After realizing there was a profound benefit to adding mindfulness into our daily lives, Dr. Penman partnered with Professor Mark Williams to write the international bestseller, Mindfulness: An Eight Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World. Dr. Penman’s latest work, The Art of Breathing, simply explains the concept of mindfulness through art.
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BH018: Go Against the ‘Grain’ of Prescription-Driven Health Care by Adopting Prevention with
Dr. William Davis
11/20/2017
BH018: Go Against the ‘Grain’ of Prescription-Driven Health Care by Adopting Prevention with
Dr. William Davis
Cardiologist Dr. William Davis wants us to take charge of our own health, and make prevention our top priority. But he warns that you won't get any help from you regular doctor. In his book, Undoctored, Dr Davis explains how the medical system has failed us, and how prevention has disappeared from most doctor's priorities. The first step we can all take toward promoting health is eliminating wheat from our diets. As explained in his book Wheat Belly, wheat comes from grass that we humans were never meant to digest. During the conversation, Dr Davis and I discuss the unnatural rise of grains in our diet though farming and agribusiness, the profit-driven and process-laden conventional health care system, and how we can alter our healthcare expectations and take charge of our health. After listening you will be inspired to take charge of your own health! Key Takeaways: [2:27] What motivated Dr. Davis to write his latest work, Undoctored? [11:27] What happens when we remove grains from our diets? [19:13] People can take care of their health on their own. [20:23] How wheat changed with agribusiness and genetic research. [28:54] Dr. Davis hasn’t found a grain that isn’t harmful. [35:45] Dr. Davis recommends high-fat, low-carb diets but balanced with fibrous foods. [44:39] Raising patients’ expectations to no longer be content with prescription-only care. Mentioned in This Episode:
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BH017: Is a Low-Carb Diet the Key to Treating Alzheimer’s? with Amy Berger
11/14/2017
BH017: Is a Low-Carb Diet the Key to Treating Alzheimer’s? with Amy Berger
Everywhere you go, it seems people can’t stop talking about the ketogenic diet but what is it, how does it work, and isn’t it just the Atkin’s diet revamped? Nutritionist and Author Amy Berger joins the program to share what she learned when researching the topic for her Master’s thesis and book, Alzheimer’s Antidote. Amy says there is proof the ketogenic or low-carb diet can be used to treat Alzheimer’s and other illnesses plaguing us today. Amy’s book, Alzheimer’s Antidote is one of the first books to delve deep into the subject of using ketones to feed neurons in the brain which would otherwise starve when they lose their ability to process glucose. Key Takeaways: [2:06] How Amy transitioned from nutritionist to author to write Alzheimer’s Antidote. [7:18] Ketones give the brain an alternative fuel to stave off dementia. [18:00] Using a low-carb diet to maintain proper insulin and blood sugar levels. [29:47] Overcoming doubt about treating Alzheimer’s with a ketogenic diet. [35:12] Cholesterol is essential for healthy brain function. [40:09] Are there downsides to a low carb diet? Mentioned in This Episode:
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BH016: Alzheimer's: A Unique Approach to Treatment and Prevention of Cognitive Decline with Dr. Dale E. Bredesen
10/31/2017
BH016: Alzheimer's: A Unique Approach to Treatment and Prevention of Cognitive Decline with Dr. Dale E. Bredesen
It is estimated that by 2050, 13 million people will be affected by Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s dementia. It is on track to become the second leading cause of death in the U.S. My guest today, Dale E. Bredesen, MD, is working toward reversing and preventing cognitive decline. Dr. Bredesen’s book, The End of Alzheimer’s, provides a programmatic approach to staving off neurodegenerative disease by identifying and eliminating the why behind the affliction. During our discussion, Dr. Bredesen discusses possible causes of the disease, preventative lifestyle changes and the future of diagnosis and treatment of cognitive decline. Key Takeaways: [3:53] Understanding why neurodegeneration occurs. [9:35] How can insulin resistance add to the inflammation which causes Alzheimer’s? [13:30] Is ApoE4 the Alzheimer’s gene? [25:25] How might intermittent fasting and Ketogenics help stave off Alzheimer’s disease? [27:40] Mercury and other toxins that burden our bodies. [36:44] Positives and negatives of proton-pump inhibitors, statins, and other drugs. [42:03] The Bredesen Protocol Mentioned in This Episode:
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BH015: How to Set Up Your Medical Team: Including Your Doctor and an Alternative Medicine Practitioner with H.D.
10/17/2017
BH015: How to Set Up Your Medical Team: Including Your Doctor and an Alternative Medicine Practitioner with H.D.
This week, Host Dr. Bret Scher welcomes returning guest H.D. to the program. H.D. is a well-respected Endocrinologist and Creator of the Hormones Demystified website. H.D. shares his thoughts on the copious amounts of testing performed by alternative medicine providers, how a person should address their primary care physician with questions about their naturopathic test results, the confounding variables in the diagnosis of gut microbiomes and how overworked physicians should look outside their job for fulfillment. Key Takeaways: [2:00] Testing by alternative medicine practitioners may not have an impact on a patient’s health. [7:30] Many people believe their personal health journey should include naturopathic and traditional medicine. [16:22] Filtering out the noise and delivering only evidence-based information isn't always easy. [26:37] How do I talk to my doctor about something I heard from an alternative medicine practitioner? [32:23] Not all Certifications are the same. [37:08] Working with microbiomes is like the Wild West of healthcare right now. [47:14] H.D.’s burnout post really hit home with a lot of over-worked physicians. Mentioned in This Episode:
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BH014: Anthony Ongaro - Break The Twitch
10/03/2017
BH014: Anthony Ongaro - Break The Twitch
Anthony Ongaro wants us to live an intentionally connected life with minimalism, habits and creativity. Anthony is the creator of the website, “breakthetwitch.com.” In today’s interview we discuss the concept of minimalism and how that leads to intentional living, finding our joy, and living purposefully. We discuss how minimalism is not just about getting rid of physical possessions, as it is equally important to promote the things you enjoy and find value in. We talk about practical tips, how to manage technology and how we need to be vigilant to prevent tech from creating more stress and more distraction inner lives. He gives a great example about the board game, Monopoly, sending us notifications while we sleep. Who needs that? We also connect the dopamine surge from technology to the same response from sugar, and how eliminating either is a process that takes time but is 100% doable. I hope you enjoy this episode, and i encourage you to visit Anthony’s website, and keep an ye out for his book, “Break The Twitch: A Practical Guide to Minimalism and Intentional Living,” which goes on pre-sale November 3rd. As always, thank you for listening. Music: Surfing Day by Marcos H. Bolanos Music can be found at freemusicarchive.org. Music has be altered and repurposed for and by Bret Scher of The Boundless Health Podcast. © 2017 Bret Scher. All Rights Reserved.
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BH013: Professor Robert Sapolsky
09/26/2017
BH013: Professor Robert Sapolsky
Why do we behave the way we do? The answer may surprise you. In his new book, “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” Professor Robert Sapolsky explains that the answer is more complex than we may think. It doesn’t just have to do with our neurobiology or hormone levels at the moment we act, but rather is influenced by days, weeks, years, even generations of experience. It is fascinating to apply this concept to modern topics such as justice, or even my favorite, health. In this interview, we talk about his book, Behave, and we also talk about his prior book, “Why Zebras Don’t get Ulcers.” This is a fascinating description of the effects stress has on our biology, and how stress management techniques may or may not be beneficial in different contexts. And not to dwell on the serious too much, we also explore why we cannot tickle ourselves, and why we don’t like new music after we turn 35. This was a particularly special interview for me, as I had the pleasure of sitting in more than one of Professor Sapolsky’s classes as a Stanford undergrad more than 25 years ago. This one brought back great memories! I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did, and I thank you for listening. Music: Surfing Day by Marcos H. Bolanos Music can be found at . Music has be altered and repurposed for and by Bret Scher of The Boundless Health Podcast. © 2017 Bret Scher. All Rights Reserved.
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BH012: Dr. Ted Achacoso
09/19/2017
BH012: Dr. Ted Achacoso
Is your cellular health optimized? Is your gut microbiome optimized? If you are like me, you probably have no idea. Dr. Ted Achacoso hopes to change all of that. As the founder of BioBalance, and creator of Health Optimization Medicine, Dr. Ted is pushing the boundaries of the intersection between health and medicine. In this interview, we discuss his amazing background, what led him to create Health Optimization Medicine, how he helps his clients achieve balance and optimization, and I try to get him to demystify the gut micro biome for me. As you will hear, he is an incredibly intelligent and charismatic individual, and it is hard not to enjoy listening to him speak. I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, thank you for listening. Music: Surfing Day by Marcos H. Bolanos Music can be found at freemusicarchive.org. Music has be altered and repurposed for and by Bret Scher of The Boundless Health Podcast. © 2017 Bret Scher. All Rights Reserved.
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BH011: Dr. Jeff Stanley
09/12/2017
BH011: Dr. Jeff Stanley
Virta Health wants to revolutionize the way we treat diabetes. Instead of ‘managing’ diabetes, they want to cure and reverse it using low-carb and high-tech. For decades, medicine has taught a management strategy of diabetes, rather than a cure-based approach, so this company is certainly disrupting the way we approach this costly chronic disease. Considering diabetes costs the United States $176 billion per year, any success they have will have a dramatic impact, not just on the health of the individual, but on society as a whole. Today, I am joined by Dr. Jeff Stanley, an internal medicine trained MD who works for Virta Health helping patients adopt a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet, and helping them safely treat their diabetes with low-carb and high-tech. With their proprietary technology, they are keeping their patients engaged on a regular basis and helping them improve their lifestyles, not just in the short-term, but but for the long-term to help cure their diabetes. Virta Health has published a 10-week trial with impressive results, and they have a 6- and 12-month data as well that we will hopefully learn more about. In this episode, you will hear all about how Virta works, you will learn some specifics about implementing a ketogenic diet, some of the benefits and pitfall of ketosis, the importance of individualize care, and so much more. I hope you enjoy this episode, and as always, we welcome your feedback. Thanks for listening! Music: Surfing Day by Marcos H. Bolanos Music can be found at freemusicarchive.org. Music has be altered and repurposed for and by Bret Scher of The Boundless Health Podcast. © 2017 Bret Scher. All Rights Reserved.
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