Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and today on the podcast, I am really excited to chat with Tyler Jean from Functional Foods.

Welcome, Tyler.

Thanks, Dr. Kay.

It's a pleasure to be here, and thank you for having me back.

I have a special fondness for Tyler because he's studying to be a physician, and he has been really inspirational to me.

I love his Instagram.

If you guys haven't seen it, you should go check it out.

He teaches me actually a lot about foods and about metabolism and just a different way

of looking at health, medicine, and wellness.

So Tyler, tell me about what is functional foods all about?

So functional foods is looking at nutrition beyond just caloric density and looking at the different macros.

Oftentimes when we are, you know, thinking about food and nutrition, and we're focused on the proteins, the fats and the carbohydrates,

and sometimes those micronutrients, so vitamins and minerals

that are needed in smaller amounts compared to these larger macro groups.

And so functional foods provide health benefits beyond those macro and micronutrients.

And so it's really looking at food as nourishment and food as medicine, which is something

that I truly believe in, medicine, which is something that I

truly believe in, because food was this tool that I first utilized in my own health journey.

And I think that food can play a very profound impact on our quality of health and even be

an instrumental tool in reversing and preventing disease.

And if we may ask, how old are you?

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