Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the science of nutrition, health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so very much for tuning into the show this week. Hello and how are you? EC.

Wonderful. How are you doing? I'm great. We are going to return to what I can only assume is a stack of newspapers in your house. That's right. I like post-its and I like stacks of newspapers.

No, we are going to return to the news. We do every once in a while an episode where we sort of bubble up some of the articles or things that you find on the internet that you think is interesting and worth talking about.

So we've got three articles this time around, as we often do. We're going to talk about gut health and probiotics and how often they're misunderstood and how yogurt fits into the conversation.

We're going to talk about the challenges of nutrient deficiencies for GLP1 users.

And then we're going to talk about something called functional foods, which I'm excited to get into.

I feel like it's a term I've heard before, but I'm excited to actually learn what that is.

So let's do the first one first, yeah?

Yeah.

All right.

So this is a news article from the independent titled 117-year-old reveals eating three

yogurts a day could be the secret to a long life.

And the subheading was Maria Brenas Morera said the secret to her longevity was eating

three yogurts a day.

So I guess we

should perhaps start with yogurt and why they are the miracle that they are. Yes. Why is yogurt

getting this woman to 117? Pretty crazy. That's a, I've seen estimates that like people think

kind of 120 is the upper limit of longevity. So she's, she's there. Brian Johnson, though,

he's going to go to 190. That's true. That's true. With no yogurts involved. That's also true. It's probably too processed for him. But anyway, yeah, so kind of as you hinted at, the primary angle here is that Maria has this really healthy gut, and that's really the reason for this extreme longevity at 117.

And when you hear healthy gut in the media, what they're talking about is kind of what species

and in what numbers the person has along their GI tract.

And we have thousands of these species.

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