Episode 111: Dr. Zoe Harcombe

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. Zoe Harcombe joined the show. Zoe is a PhD in nutrition. She is a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health. Her particular areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary fat), nutrition and obesity.

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0:46.8	Zoe, welcome for being on the show. Like I said, it is an honor to have you on. I've been a fan of a
0:52.6	lot of what you've been doing. A lot of people have been really impressed by some of the stuff you're saying. There's a lot of people that have not been impressed, as you said, this little statin behind and being one of the UK's leading notorious statin critics along with Malcolm Kendrick and Assam al-Hatzer, I'll be talking to Aesem next month at low-carb
1:12.4	Seattle. We'll be podcasting with him, I think. But it's a pleasure having you on. And what I
1:16.9	talked about, and we're being mindful of your time, you know, what I talked about is seeing you
1:22.2	present in Zurich, Switzerland, talking about the knowledge we have based on nutrition science and being somewhat
1:30.7	critical of some of the conclusions that are being drawn based on really, you know, nutritional
1:38.5	epidemiology, which I don't think we can draw very many conclusions.
1:41.1	But you did point out the fact that the things that you find compelling
1:44.6	or at least something we should consider as possibly compelling are lack of associations being
1:50.2	more helpful than seeing positive correlations, particularly when we see these sort of weak relative
1:55.9	risk numbers. Can you elaborate a little bit on this lack of association and the meaning of it?
2:03.0	Yeah, absolutely. And I do think it's a very important aspect of epidemiology, but not one
2:08.9	that tends to get reported. So when I did my PhD, which was looking at the dietary fat
2:14.1	guidelines, total fat restriction of 30% and saturated fat restriction of 10%.
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