Food Is Medicine: Christopher Gardner, PHD On Using Diet To Prevent Disease

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Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Here to guide us toward an evidence-based, rational model for nutritional health and teach us how to distinguish good nutrition science is one of the world’s leading and most innovative researchers, Christopher Gardner, Ph.D. Dr. Gardner is the Director of Nutrition Studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and a Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He's been researching the health effects of a plant-based diet for 20 years, and his research has provided significant and practical health insights to better inform our everyday dietary decisions. Today we dive into the following topics: What we know and don’t know about diet, weight loss, obesity, diabetes, heart & metabolic health; the diet wars: plant-based vs. carnivore vs. Mediterranean & low-fat vs. low carb; common misconceptions about protein requirements; the importance of personalized nutrition and finding a sustainable diet for long-term success; what makes a rigorous scientific study and why knowing a study’s funding source is important; what defines a healthy microbiome; and why diet is the most under-appreciated, underutilized factor in preventing disease. Dr. Gardner is an absolute delight. It was an honor to spend time with him. I hope you find his insights clarifying, informative, actionable—and perhaps even life-saving. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: ROKA: roka.com/RICHROLL On: on-running.com/stories/rich-roll AG1: drinkaG1.com/RICHROLL InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RICHROLL Whoop: whoop.com Athletic Brewing: athleticbrewing.com Plant Power Meal Planner: https://meals.richroll.com Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	It's my mission to show how much more consensus there is than controversy.
0:18.0	More vegetables, more whole foods, less added sugar, and lesser fine grain.
0:21.9	Those are four of the biggest problems with the U.S. diet.
0:25.0	If you put all those together, they are all well aligned with a plant-based diet.
0:32.3	There is just such a colossal amount of nutrition information out there, readily available online.
0:39.8	So much so that it's pretty easy to get confused and perhaps even easier to find studies that
0:46.8	rationalize a misguided default diet preference, which setting aside how dubious poorly designed
0:53.9	or misinterpreted so many studies tend to be, this is a dynamic that unfortunately too often
1:00.9	paralyzes people from making better choices or affirms their unhealthy habits, which in turn
1:07.9	further fuels the social media diet wars, which of course are predicated on tribal alliance over
1:15.1	evidence-based rigor. Today's guest, one of the world's leading and most innovative nutrition
1:22.0	researchers, truly a legend in his field, is here today to provide much-needed clarity on this
1:28.6	issue, to help us cut through the nonsense like warm butter and leave you realizing a very important
1:36.1	truth, which is that when it comes to vetted peer-reviewed research, there actually is way more
1:43.0	consensus than there is controversy. His name is Christopher Gardner, PhD, and he is the director
1:50.1	of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and a Renborg Far Car Professor
1:55.4	of Medicine at Stanford University. Over his story 30-year career, Dr. Gardner has distinguished himself
2:02.1	for his many investigations into the potential health benefits of various dietary components and
2:08.8	food patterns through extremely well-designed trials that have provided significant and practical
2:16.3	health insights to better inform our everyday dietary decisions. Towards this end, he has also
2:22.9	been researching the health effects of a plant-based diet and its components for 20 years at this point,
2:28.9	and interestingly has also extended his scientific approach to better understand a variety of ethical
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