Timothy Caulfield | Exposing Misinformation in Wellness

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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With continuously emerging fads like macrobiotics, vitamin IVs and cryotherapy, the wellness industry has been rapidly growing for decades. And the more its monetary value and list of buzzwords grows, the blurrier the line between scientific truth and pseudoscience hype gets. That’s why Timothy Caulfield, a Canadian professor of health law and science policy, has focused his career on clearing up the difference between fact and fiction. On this episode, the bestselling author tells us why the wellness industry is prone to misinformation, how we can spot it and what we can do about it. He then lays out some common misconceptions about the five facets of fitness — mindset, movement, nutrition, recovery and sleep — and shares simple tricks to help us recognize accurate research.

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0:00.0	This is John Benoit Samuelson and you're listening to Trained Body and Mind.
0:04.8	Oh, hello.
0:06.6	Welcome to Trained Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:11.6	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:13.7	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:18.5	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:21.6	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:24.3	Today, I'm talking with a Canadian professor and author who studies the origins and impacts
0:29.7	of misinformation in the health and wellness spaces.
0:33.1	When I first started working and debunking, there was sort of a difference in that people
0:43.7	pushing, for example, alternative wellness strategies often talked about a different
0:49.0	way of knowing, or it's a spiritual approach, or maybe there's even a religious component
0:54.6	to the practice.
0:55.8	So it wasn't necessarily presented as if it's scientific.
1:01.4	That's changed.
1:02.4	Now, almost everything is presented as if it's scientific.
1:07.6	And so a lot of things really have moved into the realm of what I would call pseudoscience.
1:14.3	That's Timothy Caulfield, and he wears a lot of hats.
1:17.3	Timothy is a professor at the University of Alberta.
1:20.0	He writes and researches at the intersection of health policy, ethics, and law.
1:24.6	He's a fellow at the prestigious Royal Society of Canada, and for decades, his passion has
1:29.6	been making a science of studying pseudoscience.
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