What's the best way to stay healthy in the face of so much conflicting nutrition information?

Well, ideally you would go to the source, the gold standard, the purviewed medical literature and read through the stacks of the latest medical journals.

But who's got time for that? I do!

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast on your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Did you know that medical journals can cost tens of thousands per year for a subscription and even access to a

single online article can cost dozens of dollars.

But the founder of the website, SiHUB, a woman known as the Robin Hood of Science, set out to change that.

Here's her story.

The first issues of the first scientific journals were published back in

1665,

in which it was noted things like, hey, it looks like there's a spot on Jupiter.

Thanks to New Telescopes invented by a certain Mr. Newton,

whose friend Halle described a comet.

The same journal that reported that oranges and lemons could cure scurvy,

and something in willow tree bark could bring down a fever.

Also published a letter by some guy over in the colonies about playing with kites during lightning storms,

an account of a remarkable eight-year-old musician by the name of Amadeus.

And within this last century, some sketchings of the structure of some molecule called DNA,

a journal still in publication to this day 350 years later,

available now online and in print for the low-low subscription price of only $6,666 a year.

As you can imagine, the high price of journals leaves doctors and developing countries missing out

on relevant information about health. At that time back in the 90s, there was optimism,

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