#207 Why dietary guidelines are wrong and how algorithms can help with Prof Eran Segal
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Can an algorithm help us eat better?
That’s the question I’ll be discussing with my guest today, Professor Eran Segal, a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), heading a lab with computational biologists and experimental scientists who have extensive experience in machine learning and computational biology allowing them to decipher how something as complex as diet, interacts with something infinitely more complex … us.
Our genes, microbes, and unique environments are obviously going to impact how we respond to different foods and diets and Professor Segal is on a mission to figure out how we can use his favouroite tool, algorithms, to help us eat according to our unique biology.
We first dive into our unique blood sugar responses and their seminal paper published in Cell that demonstrated the drastically different responses we all have and potential reasons why.
How we calculate GI and GL index and what’s wrong these, what happens when we have high blood sugar excursions (after a high refined carb meal for example) and the dangers of gameifying our diet too much.
Plus we look into the future with the Human Phenotype Project, the role of faecal transplants and I invite Professor to give us a snapshot of how we practice nutritional self-care in the future with all the ‘omics’.
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| 0:34.0 | I'm Doctor Rupi, your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:45.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 0:55.0 | Can an algorithm help us eat better? |
| 1:02.0 | That's the question I'll be discussing with my guest today, Professor Aaron Segold. |
| 1:07.0 | A professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Wisement Institute of Science, |
| 1:13.0 | heading a lab with computational biologists and experimental scientists who have extensive experience in machine learning and computational biology, |
| 1:22.0 | allowing them to decipher how something as complex as diet interacts with something infinitely more complex. |
| 1:30.0 | Us, our genes, microbes and unique environments are obviously going to impact how we respond to different foods and diets. |
| 1:39.0 | And Professor Segold is on a mission to figure out how we can use his favourite tool, algorithms, to help us eat according to our unique biology. |
| 1:49.0 | We first dive in to our unique blood sugar responses and their seminal paper published in Cell that demonstrated the drastically different responses we all have and potential reasons why. |
| 2:01.0 | We also talk about how we calculate GI and GL indices and what's wrong with them, what happens when we have a high blood sugar excursion after a high refined carbohydrate meal, for example, |
| 2:13.0 | and the dangers of gamifying our diet too much plus we look into the future with the human phenotype project, which is mind-boggling. |
| 2:22.0 | The role of fecal transplants and I also invite Professor to give us a snapshot of how we practice nutritional self-care in the future with all the omics. |
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| 3:01.0 | Onto my conversation with Professor Aran. |
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