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 the show. I hope you're having a wonderful and relaxing holiday season.

If you're listening to this episode on the day that it's released. If not, disregard that previous message,

because it's probably not the holidays for you anymore. But what I want to do today in this episode,

since we are getting to the end of the year, is give a recap of some of the things that we covered

in 2024, some of the main topics, some of the specific topics that we addressed, and give some

lessons from the podcast over the past year.

And as I was going through some of the episodes, a few themes came out that I want to talk about.

So one of the top things that I seem to be talking about quite a bit.

And this is the case on social media.

This is the case when working with clients is really these nutrition fads. So I get a lot of

questions on social media. I get a lot of questions in working with clients. I get a lot of questions

all over the place about a variety of different fats. So this year it was raw milk and seed oils

and red number 40 being poisoned and worrying about foods that are banned or ingredients that are

banned in other countries that aren't banned in the United States.

Coal plunges, which is not nutrition related specifically, but is another thing that's

very popular among these health and wellness influencers.

Glucose spikes, another thing that we discussed.

We had a whole episode talking about glucose spikes

and why this isn't something that you need to be focusing your energy on.

Plant toxins.

This is another topic that we discussed.

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