: 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. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Coffee Club Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli F Bomb Crowd Cow 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