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Who Should Eat Keto and Why? | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, Joovv, and TrueDark\nChances are, you\u2019ve heard a lot of buzz about the ketogenic (or keto) diet. This high-fat, low-carb approach to eating has become extremely popular in recent years for helping with everything from weight loss to cognition. So is it worth the hype? Like any diet, keto is great for some people and not-so-great for others. Genetics, family history, personal health goals, and so many other factors tie into what type of diet will work for an individual. The one-size-fits-all approach to diet has led way too many people down the wrong path.\nToday, I\u2019m excited to chat with Gary Taubes all about the keto diet, it\u2019s complexities and benefits, and who might want to consider it. Gary is an award-winning science and health journalist, and co-founder and director of the Nutrition Science Initiative. He is the author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, and, most recently, The Case for Keto. Gary is a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for Science. He has written three cover articles on nutrition and health for The New York Times Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, and numerous "best of" anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers, and is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.\nThis episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, Joovv, and TrueDark.\nPaleovalley is offering 15% off your entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.\nRight now, Joovv is offering Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners an exclusive discount on Joovv\u2019s Generation 3.0 devices. Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY. Some exclusions do apply.\xa0\nRight now, TrueDark is offering podcast listeners 15% with code DRHYMAN15. Just go to truedark.com/hyman.\nHere are more of the details from our interview:\xa0\n\nHow an investigative journalism piece on salt and blood pressure led to Gary\u2019s ongoing inquiry into the obesity epidemic (9:11)\n\nWhy we get fat (13:58)\n\nWhy science mistakenly began focusing on calories, instead of hormones, to understand obesity (17:58)\n\nThe origin and perpetuation of fat shaming and obesity stigma (21:45)\n\nThere is no one-size-fits-all diet (29:02)\n\nUsing a keto (or low-carb, high-fat) diet to decrease insulin levels (37:20)\n\nHow ultra-processed, starchy refined carbohydrates are driving most of our global issues (50:15)\n\nWould humans and the planet be healthier if we all stopped eating meat and became vegan? (52:34)\n\nConnecting what you eat with how you feel (57:57)\n\nResearch on treating and reversing type 2 diabetes using a ketogenic diet (1:04:41)\n\nUsing a ketogenic diet to treat cancer, heart disease, heart failure, dementia, epilepsy, and more (1:17:05)\n\nLearn more about Gary Taubes at http://garytaubes.com/ and get a copy of his book, The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating at http://garytaubes.com/works/books/the-case-for-keto-2020/.\nFollow Gary on Facebook @GaryTaubesAuthor, and on Twitter @garytaubes.\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices