267: The Biggest Lies You've Been Told About Nutrition and Losing Weight | Kevin Bass
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Kevin Bass is an MD PhD student with a master’s degree in immunology. He runs the website The Diet Wars, a site devoted to debunking misinformation about nutrition and exercise. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/267
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| 0:00.0 | What a family welcome to episode 267 of the Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:17.8 | What's crack-alacking everybody welcome back to another episode of The Genius Life. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm your host Max Lugovira Filmmaker, Health and Science Journalist, |
| 0:24.5 | and New York Times best-selling author. |
| 0:26.4 | I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we eat and how we live, |
| 0:31.0 | affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease. |
| 0:36.7 | This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. |
| 0:41.5 | Guys, on today's episode of the show, I welcome Kevin Bass. |
| 0:45.7 | Kevin is an MD-PhD student with a master's degree in immunology. |
| 0:50.9 | He runs the website The Diet Wars, which is devoted to debunking health misinformation online. |
| 0:56.8 | More importantly, he's one of the deepest and most open-minded thinkers I know on topics like nutrition, |
| 1:02.6 | exercise, longevity, chronic disease prevention, fat loss, and more. |
| 1:07.8 | We've become good friends over the past year or so, and I not only value his opinion on things, |
| 1:12.6 | but I really respect his humility and open-mindedness, which is not always what you'd expect from somebody |
| 1:18.4 | on as hardcore and academic path as Kevin is. |
| 1:21.0 | As I mentioned, man is an MD-PhD student. |
| 1:24.6 | That might be the very definition of hardcore. |
| 1:27.6 | I think you're going to love this episode of the show, in which we tackle the top nutrition and wellness myths circulating online, |
| 1:34.5 | including, is saturated fat, healthy, or unhealthy. |
| 1:38.8 | Our plant-based diets, helpful or harmful to mental health. |
| 1:42.8 | What is the truth about ozempic? |
| 1:45.1 | The latest celebrity weight loss obsession? Is it a revolution for diners or just another fat? |
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