Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio with me, your host, Danny Lennon.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. We're at episode 285 of the podcast today.

And it's time for something just a little bit different in this episode.

So with the upcoming Nutrition for Health Enhancement Seminar that's taking place in Dublin on July 20th,

and I won't go into the full details here, but if you are interested in coming along or looking at what the topics are essentially going to be,

all those details are up on the website, just at sigmautrition.com you can find out the details

about that but with that coming up the whole focus is essentially around how nutrition can be viewed

and used and how it influences health and kind of getting away from sometimes what people get lost in

is specifically focused on body composition or the specific methods that are kind of commonly used

to manipulate body composition like tracking macronutrients right or or thinking about calories and

there's so many other elements to nutrition.

And even from our own personal perspectives of how to influence health,

there's a lot of cool areas and a lot of important areas.

But within that, to kind of take a step back,

what I wanted to do today was outline a framework

that I've tried to think through myself

to essentially get at the core of the question of what is health.

How should we define what health is in a human context and what does it take to be

truly healthy? And this is something that started quite a few years back. I think I originally

wrote an old blog article in maybe 2014. And then from there, I kind of presented some of that

framework at the 2015 Sigma Nutrition

seminar that I did and then over time my views have obviously changed and developed a bit

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