Exposing the Biggest Lies in Nutrition - Alan Flanagan
Description
“We have, because of the nature of our information landscape now, essentially zero capacity to hold any accountability to sources of misinformation. So it's a really terrible time to be an evidence-based healthcare professional.” -Dr Alan Flanagan
Dr Alan Flanagan is a major myth buster in the nutrition space, holding an MSc and PhD in nutrition from the University of Surrey.
In this episode Alan and I debunk common nutrition advice you might be following, and explain the dangerous real life impact online influencers and “gurus” are having on your health.
Stay tuned to find out:
- The dangers of following extreme diets like keto and carnivore
- Why you don’t need to be worried about glucose spikes
- The limitations of personalised nutrition and microbiome research
- Why sweeteners and seed oils have been wrongly demonised
- How to spot a charlatan online
Chapters
(2:12 ) Real life consequences of misinformation
(8:00 ) Why people look to online “gurus”
(13:17 ) Personalised nutrition con
(20:36 ) Continuous glucose monitors
(26:59 ) Seed oils are healthy!
(32:50 ) Artificial sweeteners
(39:49 ) Cancer misinformation
(45:18 ) Does the time you eat matter?
(49:22 ) Microbiome research
(54:21 ) How to spot a charlatan online
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