What is a Causal Risk Factor? (AMA with Alan)
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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About this Episode:
We've just released a lengthy 'ask me anything' episode, where Dr. Alan Flanagan addressed specific listener questions, over on the Sigma Nutition Premium feed. In this episode, you'll hear one detailed answer from that AMA, in which Alan discusses the concept of "causal risk factors".
This is a term that is regularly mentioned on the podcast, and has a very specific and important meaning. This episode will give you an in-depth understanding and comfort with the term, which will enhance your future understanding and learning.
If you wish to hear the other 10 questions Alan answered, you can subscribe to Sigma Nutrition Premium here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you deep dive discussions into all things related to nutrition science |
| 0:22.6 | and health science my name is Danny Lennon but in this particular episode you're going to be hearing |
| 0:28.6 | from dr. Alan Flanagan who recently conducted an Ask Me Anything session for Sigma Nutrition Premium |
| 0:35.6 | subscribers which is out this week. So a brand new Ask |
| 0:39.3 | Me Anything session where we had 11 really, really interesting questions in this particular block, |
| 0:45.4 | and they are available over on the Sigma Nutrition Premium feed. If you are unfamiliar with |
| 0:50.8 | Sigma Nutrition Premium, that is our exclusive premium offering where you get extra |
| 0:56.0 | podcast episodes, you get detailed study notes to every usual podcast episode, and you also get |
| 1:02.0 | things like transcripts as well as these bonus Ask Me Anything sessions that we do quite regularly. |
| 1:08.9 | In the one that has just gone out today, as I said, |
| 1:11.6 | there are 11 really interesting questions across a whole range of topics, everything from |
| 1:16.9 | LP. L.P.L.A. and cardiovascular disease to PCOS pathophysiology and PCOS phenotypes to things like |
| 1:24.8 | insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes and how that might be related to intracellular lipid accumulation. |
| 1:30.7 | We also had a number of questions asking, is there good evidence for impacts of diet on things like joint health, on ADHD, on autoimmune diseases, and a number of others, alcohol impacting blood glucose management, |
| 1:47.5 | as well as more meta thinking about how our position may have changed on certain topics |
| 1:53.5 | throughout nutrition. So a really wide, diverse set of questions that we got for this, |
| 1:58.7 | and Alan did a tremendous job of going through them. |
| 2:02.7 | In this episode that you are listening today, I wanted to bring you just one of those particular |
| 2:08.1 | answers, and that was an in-depth answer to a question we received about causal risk factors. |
| 2:14.1 | So that question was asking about what a causal risk factor is, because this is a term |
| 2:18.9 | that we have used in many previous episodes of the podcast. So if you're a regular listener, you will |
| 2:24.2 | have heard us bring this up time and time again. But the question came in about when we're using |
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