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Today, we have a treat for all of you, our listeners! Vinnie Tortorich, one of the very first people to ever talk about the benefits of low carb and ketogenic diets on the internet, is joining us as our guest.\xa0\nVinnie started his Fitness Confidential Podcast nearly ten years ago. The show has produced well over 1,700 episodes, and it amasses more than a million downloads per month. Vinnie published his book, Fitness Confidential, in the year following the launch of his podcast. It instantly became a bestseller and continues to sell well on Amazon and Audible.\xa0\nIn 2019, he wrote, produced, and starred in Fat, a documentary that rose to number one in several categories across iTunes and ranked incredibly well on Amazon and Amazon Prime. It is currently the best selling movie ever released by Gravitas Ventures and is teamed with a sequel titled Fat: A Documentary 2, which is now available for resale on iTunes and was released worldwide in the first week of January 2021.\xa0\nVinnie has had a fascinating journey! Sometimes, we may not understand why our life takes a particular direction at the time, but looking back, it all makes sense.\xa0\nIn this episode, Vinnie talks to us about his journey into health and fitness, exercise physiology, and nutrition. Be sure to listen in today to find out what made Vinnie fall in love with the human body and how he eventually ended up working with the Hollywood elite.\nShow highlights:\n\nVinnie discusses how he went from being an exercise physiology student in New Orleans to ending up in California and becoming a major influencer in the low carb/keto zone of genius.\n\nVinnie talks about the point at which he started changing his philosophy and thinking beyond conventional wisdom.\n\nVinnie describes the nutritional environment in which he grew up.\n\nThe dietary changes that Vinnie made when he began putting on too much weight.\n\nVinnie discusses what led to him moving from New Orleans to LA in 1991.\n\nThe resistance that Vinnie encountered in LA when he suggested that kids should stop eating sugar and how that eventually led to him working with the Hollywood elite.\n\nWhy most people fail to understand how much of a chemical processed sugar is.\n\nVinnie talks about how and when he realized that being in ketosis is an important tool for maintaining physical health.\n\nVinnie explains what keto is and what it is not.\n\nWhat happens when you eat too much fake food.\n\nWhat it took for Vinnie to get UltraFat, his real, vegan, keto-friendly, on-the-go product on the market.\n\nWhat you can expect to see in Vinnie\u2019s new move, Fat: A Documentary 2.\n\nVinnie shares his feelings about censorship in the health and wellness space.\n\nVinnie talks about what he will be working on next.\n\n\xa0\nConnect with Vinnie\nUltrafat is available from NSNG Foods\nOn Instagram\xa0\nOn Twitter\nOn The Fitness Confidential Podcast\xa0\nConnect with Cynthia Thurlow\nFollow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn\nCheck out Cynthia\u2019s website