Courageous Mythbusting about Nutrition and Science with Dr. Garth Davis
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the raging myths around nutrition and health with a brilliant bariatric surgeon, clinician, scientist, and a fierce warrior for the truth, Dr. Garth Davis. He’s the author of Proteinaholic - a brilliant, fascinating and paradigm-shifting book that explores our false notions about diet, and best of all, presents decades worth of research showing the evidence and broad consensus on nutrition and health. Please join us as we discuss nutrition, public health, the prevailing myths, and the importance of scientific thinking. This is one conversation you don’t want to miss.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Cherzai. |
| 0:17.0 | We're so excited to have an amazing guest today, a friend and someone we admire for his work as a great surgeon, a clinician, a scientist, and a fierce warrior for the truth, Dr. Garth Davis. |
| 0:30.6 | He's the author of Proteinaholic, a brilliant, fascinating, and paradigm-shifting book that explores our false notions |
| 0:40.8 | about diet, and best of all, presents decades' worth of research showing the evidence and broad |
| 0:47.9 | consensus on nutrition and health. Please join us as we discuss nutrition, public health, the prevailing myths, and the importance |
| 0:57.9 | of scientific thinking. This is one conversation you don't want to miss. I hope you enjoy the |
| 1:03.4 | conversation as much as we did. Welcome, Gareth. Thank you so much for your time and for being here with us. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, thank you so much. That's awesome. |
| 1:13.6 | We're big fans of your work and the mere fact that you exist in the world of science and evidence-based medicine gives us a lot of hope and energy to move forward. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, that's too sweet. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's one of the things we wanted to discuss with you today, share some experiences |
| 1:27.9 | on how it feels to be a physician and a health care provider, taking care of patients on a daily |
| 1:33.4 | basis, and staying on track with what science has laid out, and also fighting against pseudoscience |
| 1:40.3 | when the time comes. Your fabulous book is called Proteinaholic, which we highly recommend for |
| 1:46.3 | people to read whether they're healthy or whether they're on their journey towards health |
| 1:51.8 | to get a better understanding of the nuances of nutritional science and the biases that can cause |
| 1:59.1 | confusion and what we need to do to stay healthy as a society. |
| 2:02.6 | We're also excited to learn more about your field. |
| 2:05.6 | You know, as a surgeon, I mean, no disregard, no disrespect to any surgeons. |
| 2:09.6 | When you go to all these conferences about surgeries, it's all about technique and method. |
| 2:14.6 | And rarely do you hear anyone talking about nutrition? It's like that even |
| 2:18.7 | in neurology as well. The nutrition sessions in any conference are way outside of the main conference |
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