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How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, I want to switch it up a little bit. So in this episode,

I'm going to tell a story. And this is my own personal story. And the reason that I want to tell

it is because I think it's going to help some of you who may be on a similar journey,

just kind of understand better why I do some of the things that I do. And then overall,

just help some of you understand what got me into this field and why I'm

so passionate about certain things that I am passionate about and speak out about quite often.

So without further ado, I want to just go ahead and jump into it.

I want to keep this episode pretty brief and just get through some of the background of

how I got into this field. So when I was a graduate student, so I got my bachelor's degree in

exercise science. I was getting a master's degree in exercise science as well. And my intent was to

get a PhD in a similar field, exercise physiology, biomechanics.

And I wanted to train athletes. Like that was something that I had really been interested in.

That was what I was trying to build my career path on. What happened, though, while I was doing my

PhD is number one, I took a class in

public health nutrition, I think, is what it was called, or public health disparities or something

along those lines. And we had to write about the biggest health problems in society and then also

like the risk factors and things that we could do in order to

improve those things.

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