Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my

absolute honor to welcome back onto the show, investigative journalist, and the CEO and co-founder

of the Broken Science Initiative, Emily Kaplan. Now, if you missed my original conversations

with Emily, they were so incredible that I actually, for the

only time ever, split them into two episodes, episode 752 and 753. In this second conversation,

we discuss a host of topics from the metamorphosis of the Broken Science Initiative,

their incredible health platform, the Broken Science Initiative, their incredible health platform,

The Metfix, their program directed at first responders, fit for duty peak performance,

debunking nutrition myths, practical fixes for shift work, nutrition and mental health, the importance of sleep, and so much more.

Now, before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just take a

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hear them. So with that being said, I welcome back onto the show, Emily Kaplan. Enjoy.

Music the show, Emily Kaplan. Enjoy. Well, Emily, I want to start by saying thank you so much for coming back onto the Behind the Shield podcast today. Well, you know, I feel like of all the interviews I've done over the last few years, yours is one that really stands out. You did your research last time. You were on top of it. You asked me questions. Nobody else has asked me. So I'm more nervous to come on your show than I than others because I know how well get things out of people, which as a former journalist, I definitely appreciate it. So thank you for having me. Well, it was such a good conversation that we ended up doing. I can't remember if we did it all in one go or two parts, but it's the only episode in over 1,200 now where I've actually done a part one and part two back to back. I think each of them were like two, two and a half hours. So yeah, we took a deep deep dive that time. Maybe I just talked too much. I don't know. That could just be me. No, no. This is the thing. There was so much great information.

So the last time we did speak was April 2023. So that was three years ago.

So before we take a kind of dive into the very pertinent work that you're working on now,

let's roll the clock back three years. What has changed as far as the broken science initiative and some of the innovations that

you've seen on that side?

Yeah, so the broken science initiative really started in part, I mean, in large part,

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