Welcome back to the Diet Doctor podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur.

Today we have an episode really trying to dig into nutritional science.

And, you know, at Diet Doctor, we talk a lot about nutritional science.

And specifically, you know, does the recommendations that we hear from individual doctors

or from guidelines or from medical institutions,

do those recommendations sort of match the level of evidence? And I believe that that is not the

case. That frequently we get very strong, seemingly conclusive recommendations that come from

pretty weak levels of evidence. So, you know, one question is,

what do we do about it, right? How do we, one, how do we create better levels of evidence? But two,

how do we interpret the evidence that's out there and try and apply it to us as individuals,

or if you're a clinician, to the person you're trying to take care of? It's a lot easier to say

for general populations, but we're not general populations.

We're people.

And that's where there's a bit of a disconnect.

So in this episode, we're going to get a couple different perspectives.

We're going to hear from Gary Taubbs, who is a science journalist, but wanted to help create

better nutrition science and created this initiative, the Nusie initiative,

which we're going to hear Gary talk about, but also sort of the lessons he learned. And it was a

really sort of humbling and enlightening experience about nutritional science. We're going to hear

from Gary. And then we're also going to hear from Deirdre Tobias, who is a nutritional epidemiology

expert. And she knows nutritional epidemiology expert.

And she knows nutritional epidemiology probably better than most people and has spent her career trying to make it better, right?

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