Naturally Nourished Episode 384
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

Have you heard the buzz about the new Netflix docuseries, You Are What You Eat? Has another friend told you they are thinking about going vegan “for health reasons”? Not to worry, we watched the docuseries and read the study so you don’t have to! Tune in to hear us give our hot take on the Vegan vs. Omnivore Identical Twin study. 

In this episode, we respond to the Stanford Vegan Twin study and the docuseries that came out of it. We cover the actual results of the study which were not impressive, how the results were misconstrued in the docuseries, and what actually happened to study participants in terms of their metabolic health and body composition! Plus we discuss B-12 deficiency, why TMAO isn’t as simple as the docuseries makes it out to be, and why we always have to follow the money when it comes to pieces like this. 

Also in this episode: 

• Beat the Bloat Live Program – Starts April 10th!
• Episode 42: Transitioning from Vegan
• Episode 51 What the Hell?! A Rebuttal to What the Health 
• Episode 162: Holiday Gift Guide and Vegan Rant
• Episode 165: Vegan Diet a win for the Processed Food Industry (Game Changers Documentary)
• Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins: A Randomized Clinical Trial
• Why LDL is a Poor Indicator for Cardiovascular Health
  • Episode 157 Cholesterol as Medicine
  • Episode 333 Understanding the Heart with Dr Stephen Hussey
  • Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy in a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder on a Ketogenic Diet: A Curious Crossover Experiment
• B-12 Deficiency on a Vegan Diet
  • B-12 Boost lozenge 
• Muscle Mass Loss on a Vegan Diet
• What TMAO Actually Measures
• Why the Libido “Study” Was Just Weird
• Bunk Environmental Arguments for a Vegan Diet
  • Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions | US EPA
• Conflicts of Interest

Sponsors for this episode: 

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