Episode Transcript: #1050 - Dr. Shawn Baker

Thanks for having me Joe you are one of those guys that

Came up so many times on Twitter. I had to reach out to you so many people were like have you checked out what this guy's doing

He's eating nothing but meat and he's a doctor. He's super healthy

I was like, okay, let me check out what this guy's doing and then I saw you and I was like

He's serious about this and I was like, okay, this isn't a gimmick. You're actually an educated guy and

You you're pursuing this carnivore diet

Yeah, I mean, it's you know if you would ask pull this thing up close to you if you could there you go

If you would have asked me two years ago, I would have said that's fucking crazy

I mean, I mean, that's what I would have said, you know, if you'd asked me even five years ago

I'd say I doesn't really matter that much just train your ass off because I'd been an athlete just training my whole life

You know, I didn't really until I got in my mid 40s and all of a sudden I was like

Crap training ain't working. I'm just getting fat. I'm getting you know, high blood pressure, you know, probably pre-diabetic

And then I you know, I went down this

You know this dietary journey where I went from, you know doing the low-fat

Low calorie fish and vegetables almost vegetarian training three days three times a day

Just about trying to try to get lean and then I went down to you know, that I was like man, this sucks

I'm miserable. I can't can't can't maintain this, you know, then I went on the paleo diet

Started looks like man bacon looks pretty good. And then I went and I started reading some more than I went on to

You know low carb high fat and then I did ketogenic for about two three years