: Episode 1321 – Dr. Eric Westman, internal medicine doctor and keto expert, joins Vinnie this Friday to discuss how he learned of the benefits of a low carb high fat diet, Dr. Atkins, the history of veganism, science deniers, and more in this fascinating one on one.
DR. ERIC WESTMAN
- Dr. Westman is an incredible internal medicine doctor
- He has been on the podcast before — check it out here
- Currently works at Duke
- He is a huge part of the Fat Doc
- Did not hear any of the other interviews
- Wrote this great book
- Dr. Westman is very vocal in the low carb health world
- Took him seeing low carb benefit his own patients that really led him in this way despite his classes teaching him CICO and SAD
- Would visit Dr. Atkins, learned a lot from him
- Now, Dr. Westman pays this forward and invites other doctors/scientists to come learn from him
- Notes there’s a lot of pushback that is unwarranted
- Bad science promoted by things like religion
- Learned a lot about this from the Fettke’s as well
- Veganism has not been around for long
- Came from one woman’s premonition
