Personalized Nutrition – Too Good To Be True?

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, clinical and academic dietitian Dr. Nicola Guess, as they unpack whether "personalized nutrition" is worth all the hype. It’s the latest hot topic all over social media, and with a new trend comes new supplements, testing kits, online programs, and apps. So, could this diet be the miracle worker it claims to be, or is this just another excuse for pseudoscientists to make a few bucks? Tune in to learn the facts (and fiction) about personalized nutrition and whether it’s just too good to be true.

Danielle and Nicola discuss:

What personalized nutrition actually is and why online programs can be problematic
Nutrition buzzwords such as microbiome and inflammation
Why the nutrition industry can get away with monetizing bogus products
The positive role big tech companies could play in the health industry

Dr. Nicola Guess is an experienced clinical and academic dietitian, registered in the UK and the US. Her clinical and research interests are in obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cardiometabolic disease. She has worked in the NHS and currently runs a private consultancy. Her expertise in type 2 diabetes is globally recognized and she is a Diabetes UK Allied Health Professional Fellow, a National Institute of Clinical Excellence Scholar, a Winston Churchill Travel Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:07.5	They're basically just giving advice that anyone with a diet sheet and a CGM could figure out for
0:13.5	themselves. But that doesn't sound sexy, does it? It sounds sexy when you say, oh, we're measuring
0:18.0	the microbiome. It's personalized. We can predict what your
0:22.4	glucose is going to be. It's like, yeah, of course you can because you're predicting that a high
0:26.8	protein low carb diet lowers glucose and there's data showing that it does.
0:36.9	Welcome to wellness, fact versus fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Ballardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves
0:42.7	evidence-based medicine and nutrition science. But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness
0:47.8	vads take over social media. It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top
0:52.9	expert physicians and scientists
0:54.5	to help us determine what is fact versus fiction when it comes to your health. It's time to leave
1:00.3	the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness.
1:20.2	Hi everyone. I am so excited to be back on wellness fact versus fiction with one of my favorite people on earth, my good friend and brilliant nutrition scientist, Dr. Nicola Gess.
1:26.4	Dr. Nika Gess is a dietitian from London. She's an
1:29.6	RD Ph.D. PhD. She currently leads the management of national type 2 diabetes remission program
1:35.3	at the University of Oxford. Her research and clinical interests are predominantly in diabetes,
1:40.8	type 2 diabetes, and cardiometabolic disease. Dr. Gess is one of my very good friends.
1:46.6	She, if you follow her on social media, you know she's a bit of a no nonsense, no bullshit,
1:51.6	all things evidence-based dietetics. And she is just an incredible science communicator.
1:58.9	She's well known for her tweetorials that include some
2:01.2	hilarious GIFs incorporated in. And I'm so thankful to have her as my friend and colleagues.
2:07.6	So welcome, Dr. Gess. Thank you, Dr. Vallado. Nice to chat with you. Nice to chat with you, my
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