Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your show hosts Aisha and Dean Sharesai.

In this episode, we took on what we consider one of the most important challenges of our times,

an attack on science. In this case, specifically nutrition science, at a time when what we choose to eat can have profound effect on our health, environment, and the health of the next generation.

Hope you enjoy.

And we're back today, Dean.

Glad to be here for another podcast.

What a week it's been for us.

Amazing week.

We woke up one morning last week to crazy news online and on social media about

coline and brain health and how people who have colonel deficiency can actually be dumb.

We woke up to crazy headlines for magazines that talked about vegetarians and vegans having

higher risk of stroke despite having lower vascular risk factors. So we have a lot to talk about

today. I know. I mean, for us, it was significant at two levels. One is we have kids, we have family,

and we worry because we've raised them with

a plant-based diet, you know, that's their food from birth till now. And they don't seem to be

dumb. They didn't, they've done well. I mean, two of them, they both got into college at age 12,

and I'm boasting here, but I just want to throw that in there. And so we were worried from a personal point of view, although not worried, but just

you get disturbed that information like that can get out there.

And then on the science side, like, wait a second, that's our life, you know, our masters,

our research, our work, our clinical work, our life you know our masters our research our work our clinical work

our you know graduate work everything we've done has been around nutrition and science and mountains

and mountains of evidence points to the contrary yet all of a sudden a paper comes out and that

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