Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project Podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings, here as always with

EC Sinkowski. Each week, we simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health and fitness

that will help you perform better, feel better, and of course live better. Thank you so much for

tuning into the show. Hello, EC. Hey, what's going on? Oh, we're just going to answer some listener questions.

Let's do it. One of our quick bites where we take a bunch of, not a bunch, we take five questions. You try to answer them in about five minutes. We usually pretty good at this. You've gotten this down pretty well. I always like to ask where or how or what's the best way of folks do have a question that they might want to get into an episode. what's the best, most efficient way?

Yes.

Optimizemeatutrition.com slash. What's the best way if folks do have a question that they might want to get into an episode? What's the best, most efficient way?

Yes. Optimize me, Nutrition.com slash email is how you join my email list. And you get a weekly newsletter.

Weekly-ish.

I would say it's gotten back on a weekly schedule.

I was waiting for the period.

I was waiting for the age.

I was running for the age.

Which was more ish.

We're back to weekly. But yeah, if you click or reply to any email I send out, it is the best way to get in the queue because I have a good way to store them, not Instagram. Not Instagram. And I will say, sometimes the questions you get, we end up actually folding them into fuller episodes or sometimes they're like, oh, you know what? There is a full episode in there. And sometimes they end up in an episode like this where questions are great, but perhaps they don't need 30 minutes. They just need five minutes for you to answer. So that's what we've got today. We've got five of them. You want to just jump right in? Let's do it. Cool. All right. First one's from Kate. Could you potentially cover the ingredient EPG? I know you've covered a variety of different artificial

sweeteners ingredients, but with the recent quote unquote drama surrounding the David

bar acquiring apogee, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, apogee was the first I've

heard about this ingredient. I'm super curious

on the health benefits slash risks with such a new additive and find it super interesting that a

larger company didn't acquire it before David Barr, especially if it's as great as it seems.

It is or was also an ingredient in Nick's ice cream bars, Gatsby chocolates, wonder spread, etc. We've talked about the

David bar before. Maybe we do a little reminder of what that even is. Yeah, the David Bar is the protein

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