Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining us today. Welcome to the Eat to Lip podcast. Today, my daughter, Jenna, is not around, so she's not with me today.

But luckily, my friend, Dr. J. Sutliff, is visiting from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

And Dr. Sutliff is Professor of Nutrition and Food at Northern Arizona University.

And interestingly, he's the head of my research team. And the research studies we've done together, like five research studies published

already with more in the queue coming out. And Dr. Sutliff runs a team at NAU. He teaches nutrition

there. And he's also a researcher and professor there. So he's a PhD and

very knowledgeable, not only in human nutrition, but also in the difficulties people have in

achieving optimal health once they even learn about good nutrition. So we're going to talk about him

and how he got into this, and right now it should be a fun conversation. Let's get right into it.

All right. Hey. Hey. Well, so exciting to have you visiting me here in San Diego.

This was great. First time I've been here for a few years.

Well, cool, cool. So tell our audience, how you like that started, your enthusiasm with nutrition and what

like kind of got you into it.

And then how you found out about my work and how that intermingled and like blended

with what you were thinking of and you were doing.

Okay, so growing up in the 60s and 70s, I was born and raised in a town called Grand

Forks, North Dakota.

And my parents always had gardens, things like that.

But back then, remember, we didn't have many labels on food and different items like that.

So I didn't really know much about nutrition other than what my mom would make most of our food from scratch.

Okay. So going through grade school, high school, very active person. I played a lot of sports, multi-sports, and then also did a lot hunting and fishing outside a lot. But my grandfather always

instilled in my head that I needed to get a college education. And so I didn't think much about it, but I wanted to play sports in college, so I went off to play hockey in college.

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