I am a professional chef with over 30 years of experience cooking in restaurants all over America and the world. I ,like most of you ,took the Standard American Diet and the food pyramid to heart and tried to stick to it. When that did not work ,I would go on fad diet after fad diet, normally it would be another version of a low fat high carb solution. I soon developed insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, inflammation and a host of digestive issues. After mainstream medicine failed to help me, I turned to research. I started to implement what I learned into my cooking and diet. In under a week Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-nutrition/support