Episode 231 - The Secret Life of Fat with Dr. Sylvia Tara

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sylvia Tara (@SylviaTaraPhD) holds a PhD in biochemistry, and in her new book The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means For You she examines the function and behavior of fat, why it's essential to our lives, how our genetics, gender, hormones and microbiomes affect it and much more. Her book is on sale December 27th, and you can pre-order it here or visit thesecretlifeoffat.com for more information.

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0:17.9	Probably science. as research.
0:28.9	Hey, everyone.
0:32.3	Welcome to the last probably science before Christmas.
0:34.0	The holidays.
0:35.6	Sorry, yeah.
0:37.4	Before Hanukkah.
0:41.5	I don't even know what Hanukkah is this year, but we still say, did it already happen?
0:46.1	No, it's actually almost exactly coincides with Christmas this year.
0:46.6	Oh, okay.
0:49.0	I think the first day is Christmas Eve.
0:53.7	I think there's almost a condescension to saying, I'm not one of the, I don't care about the war on Christmas,
0:54.5	but like, when we say just happy holidays as if like all of them, so then that makes Christians
1:00.1	sort of come to think that Hanukkah must be as important in Judaism as Christmas is in Christianity,
1:05.3	which it isn't at all, right? It's a third tier. Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely not one of the bigies, except for the
1:11.3	fact that it
1:11.6	coincides with
1:12.1	Christmas.
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