What's going on everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Science of Nutrition

podcast. I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez. Welcome to episode number two of the podcast. In this episode,

we are going to be discussing the different types of nutrition research, the different types of data

and evidence that we can use to help us make decisions about what we choose to eat, how we choose

to live our lives if we want to maximize long-term health.

If you didn't tune into the first episode, in that episode we discussed why nutrition is a science and not an opinion and why it's important to get your information from people who are presenting you with the

science so that you can make the best decisions for your health. So if you haven't listened to that

one, I recommend going and listening to that one because I talk more about what this podcast

is going to be about and then also discuss some upcoming topics. Today is something that is not

going to be as exciting as some of the other things that we discuss, but it's incredibly important

to understand this because when you get presented with information through other sources,

this is going to help you identify whether or not

this is something that you should really pay attention to. Because when it comes to nutrition,

there's a lot of sources of evidence. There's a lot of ways to construct very convincing

arguments for things that may not be entirely true. And you're going to be exposed to some of these

things in everyday life. If you're browsing on social media, if you're having conversations with

individuals, you're going to be exposed to different sources of information and you want to make

sure that you understand how to place those sources of information in the proper hierarchy of things

of importance of things that you want to pay attention to. So let's get right into it.

And what I want to do is basically discuss the different levels of evidence that we use to

make decisions about health behaviors. The first level of evidence, the one that we often want to place the lowest priority on

is what is called anecdote.

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