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podcast and to the premium version of our website today I'm joined by Nina T. Colts, the best-selling author of Big Pass

Surprise, White Butter, Meat, and Cheese, belonging a healthy diet. Nina, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me on

I appreciate it. So I was really excited to talk to you about this latest docu series on Netflix that came out at the start of the year on veganism

a team of researchers at Stanford University followed a few pairs of twins over an eight-week period to study the impact of a vegan diet.

Now, when I first started the documentary, I actually thought I'd have a similar reaction to the first, you know, set of a vegan documentaries come on Netflix called the game changers. It was out in 2018. I watched the documentary under lockdowns and actually was I mean I didn't know I don't even

writing about healthy nutrition for a year and a half but I felt so convinced by the documentary

that actually went vegan for a month.

Of course this was during lockdowns,

you know, I was living alone, no kids,

nothing else to do other than, you know, work.

I just didn't have, you know,

so many responsibilities and so I gave a

Shan I was actually a vegan for a month. I thought I would have a similar

reaction to this documentary but I actually left more skeptical about

the merits of a vegan diet than before. So I'm curious to hear about what you're about the

merits of a vegan diet than before. So I'm curious to hear about what your initial reaction to the docuiseries was.

Well, you know, I'm a science journalist and I have been writing about nutrition science for now like nearly 20 years.

And so my approach to it was I actually didn't even know about the docu series. I was interested in the eight week twin study and where they had looked at they had divided these twins up into two groups. They had given one a vegan diet and the other an omnivore diet and it was by the lead researcher

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