#500 – The Big Unanswered Questions in Nutrition Science
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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About This Episode:
This brings them into areas such as personalized nutrition, ultra-processed foods, time-restricted eating, salt & health, and the difference between being "evidence-based" and "reference-based".
We Discuss:
- Outstanding questions in nutrition science
- Personalized nutrition
- Ultra-prosessed foods (UPFs)
- Diet-Microbiome-Health
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Largely resolved questions
- Sodium & CVD risk
- TRE/TRF
- Macronutrient breakdown & weight loss
- Evolution in our thinking
- Epistemology at the forefront
- "Reference-based" to evidence-based
- Reading research: understanding "highest quality evidence"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 500 of the podcast, somewhat of a milestone, which we'll maybe mark in a specific |
| 0:23.3 | way. We'll mention a moment. But first of all, a big welcome to my co-host, Dr. Alan Flanagan. |
| 0:28.7 | Alan, how are you doing today? I'm very well, sir. It's a pleasure to be here for episode 500. |
| 0:34.2 | I was actually thinking it was 400 when we were in Oz. When we did the one with |
| 0:41.4 | Eric Helms and Omar, and that was for obviously our culture. I think we were discussing |
| 0:47.1 | episode 500 in that. I think 400 was well before that because it would have been close to two years based on a weekly schedule. |
| 0:56.0 | So our 400 is our full quack asylum episode. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, that was right, right. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | But yet in our discussion with Omar and Eric, we had mentioned that there was an upcoming milestone to be had in 500 episodes. |
| 1:10.0 | Arbitrary, of course, but still something |
| 1:12.6 | maybe we'll note down anyway. 500 not out, as they'd say in cricket parlance. Literally, not |
| 1:19.4 | out. Metaphorically, maybe. This field tends to beat one down and sends onto a pit of despair |
| 1:26.6 | relatively often. |
| 1:28.3 | Indeed. |
| 1:29.3 | Yes. |
| 1:30.3 | I think as we may discuss later on, one of the shifts in time for me has been moving more and more |
| 1:36.3 | into a more insular focus of literally just looking at research and talking about it as opposed |
| 1:41.3 | to trying to pay too much attention to what's going on on the |
| 1:45.5 | internet and otherwise because that in itself can lead to an infuriating hatred of the field |
| 1:51.7 | that can also be very stimulating and interesting if you focus your attention in the right place. |
| 1:56.7 | That's it. I think that's one of the major problems is that that whole conversation online, and of course there is this whole wave of people trying to come at it from an evidence-based perspective. But in reality, everyone's talking about this thing called science in that conversation, whether it's liver king or someone who's genuinely credible. And so I find |
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