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Welcome back to the show.

Today we have a bit of an unplanned episode.

So we're planning on releasing a Q&A episode this week, but there was an event that was organized recently that's

been getting a lot of press in the nutrition and health space. And it's brought up some

important discussion points that I want to talk about today. So that's what we're going to do

on this episode. And the event that I'm referring to was a roundtable discussion that was organized by Senator Ron Johnson.

And the discussion was titled American Health and Nutrition, a Second Opinion.

And Senator Ron Johnson invited several people to present to Congress.

And these individuals included a lot of influencers,

a few physicians who are also influencers, but many individuals who don't actually have a

background in public health or nutrition for that matter. There wasn't a single individual

who had a background in nutrition.

So the panel included Dr. Casey Means, who is one of the medical officers of levels, which is a glucose monitoring company.

If you are not familiar with my stance on glucose monitors for the average person as a non-medical device,

they're life-changing for people who have type 1 diabetes or for people whose pancreas

doesn't work for whatever reason. But these glucose monitors, like wearing a blood sugar monitor

all day, is completely unnecessary for the average person. And creating a company to sell that to people is completely unnecessary.

This was a company taking advantage of medical technology and selling it to a consumer

that doesn't necessarily need it and just doing a lot of marketing through various podcasts to sell it.

I was approached multiple times by this company to promote those glucose

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