Hello, fine ladies and gentlemen. I'm super excited about today's podcast because I speak with Dr. Bruce Ames, Dr. Joyce McKen, and Dr. Mark Shiginaga about so many interesting topics.

This is the first time that I interviewed three people at once, and it was a little nervous about how it would turn out, but I must say this is a fantastic discussion about general health.

There are so many nuggets of gold in this conversation because Bruce, Mark and Joyce are all fabulous scientists that contribute a unique perspective.

We talk about so many different things, including the different types of HDL and LDL cholesterol and what they do in the body.

We discuss a low-calorie micronutrient and fiber dense nutrition bar referred to as the Cory bar that Bruce and I briefly touched on in a previous conversation.

We discuss how each of the components of the bar from the vitamins and the minerals to the fiber and polyphenols are all really important but have separate functions in the body that can work together in much the same way that an orchestra play their individual parts to create a symphony.

That is larger than the individual roles themselves. We discuss how the Cory bar raised HDL in lean adults in just two weeks.

How eating the Cory bar raised HDL, lowered triglycerides and small LDL particles and improved insulin sensitivity after eight weeks in overweight obese individuals, all without them changing their diet.

We discuss so much more that if I tried to summarize it all, it would take another hour.

Please keep in mind that the Cory bar is not available for consumers yet but you can keep up with the Cory bar updates on BruceAims.org.

That's BruceAims.org, forward slash Cory bar.

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Dr. Ronda Patrick here. Today I have the extreme pleasure of sitting with my mentors, my colleagues, and my friends. Dr. Bruce Ames is a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Center, and he is the director of the Nutrition and Metabolism Group.

Dr. Joyce McCann is a staff scientist in the co-director of the Ames and Nutrition and Metabolism Group. And Dr. Mark Shiginaga is a scientist at Cory and is also an expert on gut health.

Today we're going to be talking about an ongoing project that Bruce, Mark, and Joyce have been working on over the past several years involving a low-calorie micronutrient and fiber dense nutrient bar also referred to as the Cory bar.

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