To Africa and Back with Craig Emmerich

If you’ve been in the keto space, chances are you’ve heard the name Craig Emmerich and time or two. Craig is an engineer and has taken that approached and followed his wife into the nutrition field. He has dedicated his time to working with hundreds of clients to help heal their bodies and lose weight. Craig also authored the books Keto: The Complete Guide and The Carnivore Cookbook. It was a pleasure to have him back on the podcast and catch up.

 

What you’ll hear in this episode:

 

• Highlights of his trip to Africa, including a close call with an elephant (2:46)
• Battling Lyme disease and chromic inflammatory response syndrome (8:43)
• His nutritional protocol (9:51)
• The catalyst for the inflammatory response to the Lyme disease (11:15)
• Hyperbaric therapy (18:10)
• Craig’s definition of strict carnivore (21:10)
• The benefits of removing coffee from one’s diet (25:44)
• Nuances to protein sparing modified fasting (30:13)
• Intermittent fasting and chronic restriction (34:38)
• The importance of context when it comes to PSMF (37:45)
• The rule of thumb as far as protein consumption is concerned (42:44)
• Looking at macros (47:27)
• Supplementation (50:28)
• Feeding their children (59:19)
• The Keto Condo (1:07:09)

 

Where to learn more from Craig:

 

• Instagram
• Keto Maria

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