Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez. And today I want to start off with the story. And this story is going to start with two people.

Let's give them some names.

Let's say one person is Beth.

The other one is Greg.

And these two people purchased a car.

The exact same car, the exact same model, everything, the exact same today.

And they are both excited about their new cars.

Greg has decided that he wants to invest into upgrading the car to improve its performance.

He wants to put a new engine in.

He wants to change out the air intake and the exhaust.

I don't even know what I'm talking about because I don't know much about cars, but

let's say he's making some improvements to the performance of the car.

Beth, on the other hand, she doesn't really care too much about that.

She's more concerned about maintenance and taking care of the car.

So for her, her investments are more in the regular maintenance of the car.

Oil changes, tire rotations, regular maintenance that needs to be done in terms of changing fluids.

Greg, on the other hand,

he's not really too concerned about that. He is investing all of his money and energy into improving the performance of the car. So if you took these two people, Greg and Beth, and you

looked at whose car is performing better today.

That is going to be Greg.

So after he puts all the upgrades into his car,

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