Hello everyone and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio here with me Tom I'm the usual co-host and the head of education at Ben's nutrition courses the BTN Academy and today I just wanted to talk a little bit about a concept that was raised within our sort of internal communications that I thought was quite interesting.

And that is the idea that often you can find experts in the field of health and nutrition who don't disagree with each other and I think it's interesting because obviously these people are all experts they're very aware of the literature and and so you would think that they're all trustworthy sources and to a degree they all are

but surely if they've all got access to the same data and they're all just as trustworthy as each other

they should come to the same conclusions and so it's quite interesting that they often don't.

So this was brought to our attention and I thought it was really quite interesting because a meme,

we were tagged in a meme which was a picture of a gentleman who used to be the head of

cardiology for I think the American cardiology society or or something of that fashion

he was a very highly respected cardiologist card cardiologist being a doctor who focuses primarily on issues related to the heart and the blood.

And what he said was that there are two different kinds of cardiologists.

There are those who promote a vegan diet and there are those who don't understand the

literature, which is an incredibly bold claim. I think you'll agree.

He's basically throwing a lot of his colleagues under the bus there.

And I think a claim like that demonstrates just how strongly some people do feel about this topic,

but the very fact that he was able to make that statement at all tells you that there are some

cardiologists who and I disagree with them are pretty damn clearly understand the literature like they're not

people who haven't read a book before but who don't agree with them.

They've cut to a different conclusion from the same block of data.

And this is why there is always a problem.

If you're getting all of your nutrition information purely from experts and I would include myself I would include Ben in this

And you're never looking for people who disagree with them or for people who have alternative perspectives or just generally looking at the advice and the information from other people.

You should always diversify the sources of information that you have because the issue that you run into is this

while nutrition data and scientific data in general is what it is it's objective it's

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