Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be discussing three popular topics.

The first thing that we're going to talk about three popular topics. The first thing that we're

going to talk about are peptides. I've been seeing a lot about peptides, getting a lot of questions

about peptides. We'll discuss what peptides actually are and whether or not there's something that you

should be paying attention to. The second thing that we're going to cover is apple, cider, vinegar,

and blood sugar control control and weight loss.

So I've gotten a lot of questions about that. Is it good for blood sugar control? Is it something

that if you have a high HBA1C you should be using? And also does it help with weight loss?

So we'll discuss the actual research behind apple cider vinegar. And then the last thing that we're

going to discuss is chia seeds and whether or not you should grind your chia seeds. So we'll talk about

whether there's benefits to grinding them versus eating them whole because I think there's a lot

of misconceptions around this particular topic as well that I've seen through various discussions.

All right. So let's go ahead and start with talking about peptide. So what is a peptide?

A peptide is just a string of amino acids, a short string of amino acids. So proteins are

strings of amino acids that are 50 or more amino acids long. And peptides are strings of amino acids

that are between two and 50 amino acids long. And what are amino acids? I've talked about this

quite a bit more in the protein episode. So I'll link down the show notes and I recommend checking

that out. But amino acids are essentially the building blocks for everything in our body. So the amino acids that

come from protein. So when we eat a protein, our body breaks that protein down into amino acids.

...