Q & A: Blue Zones, Choosing Carbohydrates, Food As Medicine, and More!!
The Nutrition Science Podcast
Dr. Adrian Chavez
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So in these blue zones, when we talk about their nutrition, it's probably not playing that |
| 0:06.0 | much of a role in their overall health. So one of the biggest factors when it comes to living to |
| 0:10.9 | 100, and this is what these blue zones are, people who tend to have higher rates of living to |
| 0:16.4 | 100, one of the biggest factors of that is genetics, like the biggest factor. |
| 0:21.3 | About 20 to 40% of living to these extremely old ages is determined strictly by genetics. |
| 0:30.4 | This is probably as impactful is almost everything you can do with your lifestyle. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise |
| 0:42.7 | and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health. |
| 0:49.3 | How's it going on, everyone? |
| 0:50.6 | Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I am your host, |
| 0:54.8 | Dr. Adrian Chavez. And in this episode, we are going to be doing a special Q&A episode. |
| 1:00.4 | This is going to be the first of most likely many of the Q&A episodes that I'm going to be |
| 1:06.3 | publishing on this podcast. So I thought it was a good idea. I've been doing Q&As on my Instagram for |
| 1:12.5 | quite some time. I've answered the same questions over and over and over again, but I always |
| 1:17.6 | get positive feedback from those Q&As. Everyone asked me to save the answers that I make to those |
| 1:22.8 | questions, and there's always positive feedback around the way that I answer those questions. |
| 1:28.0 | So I thought it would be beneficial and it would actually save the answers that I make to these questions. |
| 1:34.2 | And I'd be able to provide more nuance by just addressing some of those questions here on the podcast. |
| 1:38.9 | So that is what I'm going to do today. |
| 1:41.3 | We have five questions. |
| 1:42.6 | I will probably be pulling five questions every couple of |
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