So you're trying to eat better. You want to eat healthier foods. Maybe you'd like to

lose weight. Maybe you're looking to build lean muscle. Maybe you have a hormonal imbalance

PCOS or low testosterone. Maybe you need more energy or whatever your motivation is. It's

admirable. If you'd like to eat healthy food, the challenges you go out there into the

wild world of Amazon or the grocery store and all you find are books and packages and

labels and approaches that are really confusing. They're often trademarked, they're contradictory

and it just feels really frustrating. I first got into food nutrition in 1999. So it's

been a long time. And so many things come and go, come and go more than anything over

the years. I like to pay most most attention to the through lines. What has been consistent

over those years, over those decades? What are the things that keep coming up? What are

the things that the ideologues on either side of the aisle agree on? And that's pretty

interesting. And I think what everybody agrees on is that we are living in a nutritional

mind field where unless you're careful, you will step on something that will blow up.

And that's really challenging to navigate and it's really difficult to admit. But I truly

believe that's the world that we live in. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future

of food. I'm not sure why. I think a lot of people like to think about the future. Think

about flying cars, travel to Mars. I don't know, colonization of the moon. I like to think

about food systems that I like to think about insects and algae and lab grown meat and how

all of this is going to work. Because everywhere that I go, I see this mass urbanization.

I see people moving to cities. I see people staying in cities. I see the appreciation for

nature going up. I see the desire to preserve nature going up. Even these moves for environmentalism,

those, if you really look at it, will drive people to cities so that we can protect these

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