Welcome to the nutrition science podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and the doctor means that I have a PhD in nutrition. I'm not an MD. I don't want

anyone to think that I'm an MD. My specialty is nutrition, hence why I'm doing a podcast in

nutrition. For those of you who have listened to this podcast before, you may be wondering why

this is called episode one and what happened to all the old

episodes. So I have been trying to relaunch this podcast for quite a while and I have decided

that I'm just going to start over and do it right and do the podcast in the way that I know

is going to be most valuable for those listening. So that is why you'll see the old

episodes are gone and you're wondering why I'm introducing the podcast as if it's brand new. That's why.

For those of you who are new to the show, welcome. I appreciate you tuning in and I look forward

to helping to improve your understanding of this topic.

And this specific show and what I want to talk about in this show, the title of the show is

called Nutrition is a science, not an opinion.

And what I want to talk about in this show is discuss exactly what that means, why it's so

important for us to pay attention to the science in this topic as

opposed to listening to everyone's opinions.

And I also want to briefly discuss what this podcast is going to be about, what you can

expect from the show and what I expect you to get out of it if you become a regular

listener, which I hope you will. So first off, nutrition as a science and not an opinion. So

everybody eats and everybody seems to have an opinion on nutrition nowadays. If someone goes and gets a medical degree, they turn around and start putting out information

on social media.

There's medical doctors, chiropractors, naturopas, dentists, pharmacists, personal trainers,

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