Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you deep discussions

about all things nutritional and health sciences. I'm your host, as always, Danny Lennon,

and we're at episode 307 of the podcast. Now, there's no shortage of books that have been published on the topic of

nutrition or health, promising all sorts of different ways that we can improve our health,

body composition, and life through alterations in our diet and or our lifestyle. Now, the problem becomes that there is a huge variance in the accuracy and quality of these books written,

but that is often discordant from the popularity of those books, of the mainstream reviews of those books, and the esteem at which

they're held at a wide population level. And there's no real good way for most people to be

able to vet books in this area, because many of them can seem like they're credible. So oftentimes

we will have a author who looks like they're

really well credential to be able to talk about a specific topic within nutrition. Oftentimes

they'll come with a title of a doctor, whether that's as a medical doctor or have a PhD in a

specific area. And on paper, that is a tick of credibility for most people looking in.

And of course, ideally it should be.

But oftentimes we have, for many different reasons, a set of narratives or conclusions

within a mainstream book that isn't necessarily accurate.

On the other hand, we can have books that are incredibly accurate, very well written, and very

true to what we see within the scientific literature, but they don't seem to get the same degree

of fanfare or attention that they perhaps deserve, or perhaps they're just not seen as any

different from some of the other books of more questionable integrity.

And so how do we go about that process of separating which books are useful resources and

which are not?

Stefan Guine set out to set up Red Pen reviews,

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