Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.

I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm really, really excited to speak with Dr. Jessica Nurek.

She's a PhD nutrition scientist, registered dietitian, and mom of two who's on a mission to cut through the noise around food, wellness, and parenting. On her Instagram, TikTok, and substack, she breaks down

complicated nutrition science challenges misinformation and offers thoughtful, evidence-based

takes on everything from baby formula to nutrition. She's passionate about making science

accessible, and she calls out fear-based

messaging when she sees in. I have loved watching your account just really take off. I mean,

you've been growing and you've been so successful on social media for such a long time,

but I feel like post-election and post-inaguration in particular, you've really just been

going for it and going there, and I appreciate that so much. So thank you for coming to the podcast. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. So I did go a little bit into your like credentials in the intro, but I would love to just hear a little bit more about your background and what kind of got you interested in the field that you're in in the first place? Sure, yeah. So I have a PhD in Nutrition Science, and I'm a

registered dietitian. And my research trajectory was really in the prevention of chronic disease,

mostly type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. So looking at how nutrition, exercise, and other

lifestyle strategies can,

could mitigate or prevent or reduce risk, I should say, disease. And so that was kind of what

I studied throughout my PhD. And then as a professor, I was a professor at the University of

Nevada for a few years. And so that, that was really, what got me really interested in that was,

I mean, a lot of things. I've been kind of like a lifelong athlete. Wellness has always been

very important to me, you know, living kind of like the healthiest lifestyle I can. And when I was

a senior in high school, my grandfather, who was only in his 60s, he was kind of a young grandpa,

he died of a heart attack, just a sudden heart attack while snowblowing. He had type 2 diabetes

at the time. And it got me really interested in kind of how could we prevent or reduce risk of

that and definitely prevent it that early in life. And so that was, it really informed kind of my

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