This episode is produced in partnership with the Arizona Dairy Council. Dairy Fuels Network maintains full editorial independence. All views expressed are those of the host and guest.

Chris Cifelli, PhD is a nutrition scientist who has spent eighteen years at the National Dairy Council doing the research that dietitians cite. We like to think of it as the studies that change how people think about food. He wanted to be a medical doctor, but that first round of applications was a doozy. Then he found nutrition by accident and never left.

In this final episode of At the Table: the myths that frustrated him most, the science of the food matrix (why cheese and a Twinkie are not the same even if they have the same macros), why the gut is the largest immune organ in the body, how tryptophan in dairy connects to serotonin and sleep, and what perfect looks like when eighteen years of research finally lands: a world where there is a dairy food for everybody.

Ep. 05. The finale. Chris Cifelli.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 Cold Open

1:04 Welcome — The Series Comes Full Circle

1:46 What He Does — “I Sell Insurance on Airplanes”

4:13 Origin — Wanted to Be a Doctor, Found Nutrition Instead

6:53 What Brought Them Both Here

7:36 Hot Take — “We Could Have Done a Better Job”

10:09 Research Spotlight 1: The Food Matrix — Cheese vs. Twinkie

12:25 Research Spotlight 2: The Gut — Largest Immune Organ

13:47 Research Spotlight 3: Mood, Sleep & Tryptophan

15:13 The Microbiome Lawn — Fertilizer, Weeds & Dysbiosis

17:22 Dairy at Home — Chocolate Milk, Yogurt & His Family

19:24 The Perfect Picture — “There’s a Dairy Food for Everybody”

21:44 AI, Information Noise & 80 Peer-Reviewed Papers

25:10 Why Dietitians Belong in Hospitals

26:24 Creativity as the Future of Science Communication

26:33 Where to Find Chris

27:03 Fireside — Spaghetti, PB&J & Chocolate Milk Recovery

— ABOUT CHRIS CIFELLI, PhD —

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chris-cifelli-phd-fasn-06bb5211/

National Dairy Council: usdairy.com

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This episode is produced in partnership with the Dairy Council of Arizona. Dairy Fuels Network maintains full editorial independence. All views expressed are those of the host and guest.“If I’m going to do something, I should love it.”This is Episode 04 of At the Table, a short-run podcast mini series from Dairy Fuels Network featuring honest conversations with the people doing real work at the intersection of food, culture, and community.Courtney Bliss is a pediatric dietitian whose answer to "what do you do?" is five words: I help families have more fun with food. She didn’t start there. She started managing a pool in Las Vegas at 21, with 70 employees, three bars, and two kitchens, all before walking away from $40k a year to move across the country and become the dietitian she didn’t know existed until an advisor told her it was an option.In this episode: the ADHD she didn’t know she had, the moment she blew up her life, the families who have done everything right and are still struggling, why she tells her clients to stop Googling, and what she means when she calls her work "quiet resistance" — one family at a time.— CHAPTERS —0:00 Cold Open1:12 Welcome & Series Intro3:34 What She Does — "I Help Families Have More Fun With Food"4:37 The Work in Practice — Picky Eaters, Stressed Parents, Decision Fatigue7:55 The Villain Era Setup8:44 Origin — Pool Manager in Las Vegas, 70 Employees, 3 Bars11:21 What Called Her to Nutrition13:14 Soul Equity — Money vs. Meaning14:55 The Marathon, Not the Sprint — "You Don’t Quit"18:44 Dairy in Her Work20:09 Hot Take — "Your Googling Is Making It Harder"22:13 Best Case Scenario — What It Actually Looks Like23:41 "I’ve Cried With Families" — Quiet Resistance26:24 Fireside Questions — Tiramisu, Hot Dogs & Yogurt Pouches— ABOUT COURTNEY BLISS, RD —Instagram: @feedingbliss

This episode is produced in partnership with the Arizona Dairy Council. Dairy Fuels Network maintains full editorial independence. All views expressed are those of the host and guest.

This is Episode 03 of At the Table, a short-run podcast mini series from Dairy Fuels Network featuring honest conversations with the people doing real work at the intersection of food, culture, and community.

Christy Wilson is a registered dietitian whose career has always started from one word: teacher. She grew up not knowing dietitians existed, stumbled into nutrition in college, and once she found it, spent the next twenty-plus years using food to reach patients, families, and communities in ways clinical systems rarely do. She currently works at a Medicare clinic serving the Hispanic community in Tucson, and she does it bilingually because she knows what gets lost in translation when the language isn't there.

In this episode: why she calls teaching her DNA, the mentor who told her she'd only get in because she speaks Spanish, why dairy keeps showing up in her life (cottage cheese with salsa — yes), and what success actually looks like when a patient stops seeing food as the enemy.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 Cold Open — "We don't eat nutrients. We eat food."

1:28 Welcome & Series Intro

3:01 Who She Is — Teaching Is in My DNA

4:39 Current Work — Medicare Clinic & the Hispanic Community

7:33 The Calling — "I Had Never Met a Dietitian"

12:04 The Mentor Story — "Only Because You Speak Spanish"

15:35 Dairy in Her Life & Work — Lattes, Oatmeal, Cottage Cheese

19:27 Nutrition Philosophy — Taste Rules

22:19 Bilingual Superpower — "Everybody Eats"

25:39 The Vision — Tamales Without Guilt

28:47 Fireside Questions — Jicama, Hot Dogs & Cottage Cheese + Guac

— ABOUT CHRISTY WILSON, RD —

Instagram / TikTok / Facebook: @ChristyWilsonNutrition

Website: christywilsonnutrition.com

Forthcoming cookbook, stay tuned.

"I was not put on earth to work in some giant grocery store and make money for billionaires."

This is Episode 02 of At the Table, a short-run podcast mini series from Dairy Fuels Network featuring honest conversations with the people doing real work at the intersection of food, culture, and community.

Steven Cota Robles is the founder of the Tucson Family Food Project, a nonprofit that delivers weekly meal kits to food-insecure families in Tucson alongside a YouTube cooking channel to teach the skills to go with them. He didn't come from a nonprofit background. He came from 15 years in grocery and restaurants, a COVID-era news report, and the question he couldn't stop asking himself: what am I actually here to do?

In this episode: what "social wellness entrepreneurism" actually means, why one meal a week is more than you think, the moment a mom stopped him in a grocery store and changed everything, and why he believes we're just getting started.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 Cold Open — "I was not put on earth for this."

0:45 Welcome & Series Intro

2:35 Who Steven Is — Social Wellness Entrepreneurism

4:42 The Mission — Tucson Family Food Project & Meal Kits

7:33 The Origin — COVID, a News Report, and the Decision

11:06 The Hard Truth — The Problem Is Worse Than You Think

16:49 The Mom Story — The Moment That Grounds the Work

19:49 Dairy in His Life — Broccoli Mac, Arizona Butter & Ice Cream

22:00 The Vision — "This Is Going to Happen"

25:00 Fireside Questions

— ABOUT TUCSON FAMILY FOOD PROJECT —

tffptucson.org | @tffptucson on Instagram

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I started the Dairy Fuels Network because I was tired of watching people do real food access work with zero infrastructure behind them.

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This episode is produced in partnership with Arizona Milk Producers/Dairy Council of Arizona. All views expressed are those of the host.

This is Episode 01 of At the Table, a short-run podcast mini series from the Dairy Fuels Network featuring honest conversations with the people doing real work at the intersection of food, culture, and community.

In this solo episode, I'm telling you exactly why this network exists. Where it started. What it cost to build it. And what I believe about food, accountability, and who actually gets to sit at the table.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 Cold Open — The clinic. The family. The moment.

2:45 Introduction — What this network is and why it exists

6:00 Act 1 — The infrastructure nobody was building

10:30 Act 2 — Accountability and what "doing the work" actually means

15:00 Act 3 — Year one. What we built. Who's next.

18:00 Meet the Table — Upcoming guests and what's coming

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