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The Dr. Drew Podcast

Vinnie Tortorich on Keto, Filmmaking, and the Fight Against Big Food

The Dr. Drew Podcast

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew welcomes back fitness expert and documentary filmmaker Vinnie Tortorich to discuss the ever-evolving world of health and nutrition. Vinnie shares updates on his latest documentary, Dirty Keto, and dives into the challenges of distributing a film that exposes the food industry’s deceptive marketing tactics. They also reflect on the rise of "keto-friendly" products and the dangers of misleading labels like "net carbs" and "keto-certified." Vinnie also shares his thoughts on intermittent fasting and hormone replacement therapy.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to the podcast it is the one and only Vinny Torture

0:13.3

joining me today. Of course, Vinny is the author of Fitness Confidential Adventures in the Weight Loss game.

0:19.2

Speaker, a podcaster, as I said, best-selling author. He's a documentary that you all know is

0:24.4

fat and there is a new documentary called Dirty Kito. Vinny, thank you so much

0:29.3

for being here.

0:30.3

Thanks for having me, Drew. It's always a pleasure. So is Fat still making the rounds? I imagine people still refer to it.

0:36.1

You know you're not going to believe this and I can actually I'll send you a text later. About three weeks ago I got a message showing that we were ranked at number 21 on all

0:49.7

documentaries on iTunes. That movie drew us five years old now.

0:55.0

And by you were one of the stars of that film.

0:58.0

Oh, so fun.

1:00.0

It was so good.

1:01.0

And I feel like it moved the needle, you know what I mean?

1:03.0

You've got the, you've got the means siblings out there now sort of advocating similar stuff.

1:09.5

You've got everybody questioning the government's recommendations on everything, thank God.

1:16.0

And these sort of ridiculous ideas around fat and food pyramids, things you've been talking about forever.

1:25.3

Now we're becoming commonplace I think yeah.

1:27.6

You know it's funny I was in Washington DC yesterday I was I did a speech at a rally

1:32.1

right there on the mall next to the Washington Monument.

1:38.8

And I'm there with some of the, you know, the people behind this.

1:42.4

Dr. Georgia Eads was there.

1:44.4

Robert Lustig was on the same stage with us.

1:48.0

And I could go on and on, Chris Palmer, and just on and on. And then we all went to dinner afterwards and we're sitting around and we're talking out are we moving the needle and I said look guys I hate to put the wet blanket on this.

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