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I’m BigDave, and this is my home on the internet. This is where I write sporadically — even erratically — about stuff like food, diet, health, brain usage, and living large.

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who am I?

I’m a middle-aged “fathlete” who discovered the ketogenic diet as a way of managing my weight, my health, and my epilepsy. Over the past few years, I’ve become obsessed with the topic of ketogenic and low-carb diets, culminating with my publication of the book My Unremarkable Brain.

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Check out My Unremarkable Brain: A Fat-Fueled Adventure into the World of Epilepsy and the Ketogenic Diet, now a book from New Degree Press. You can buy it on Amazon, Bookshop.org, or wherever fine books are sold!

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Teacher, writer, middle-aged "fathlete," relentless learner, world's luckiest epileptic.