Have you considered eating Oreo cookies to lower your cholesterol numbers? Nick Norwitz did just that, with success, along with many other metabolic experiments. Nick is an academic, a researcher, and a scientist at heart. It was a lot of fun to do a metabolic deep dive with him and I know you'll also enjoy this episode. 

 

What we discussed: 

 

• Nick's background and personal journey with illness and nutrition (2:15)
• His personal experience with the ketogenic diet and his frustration with the criticism (4:13)
• Challenges and misconceptions in nutrition science (7:22)
• The powerful role of personal stories in the nutritional space (11:12)
• Nick's research on lean mass hyper responders (23;24)
• The impact of ketogenic diets on lipid markers (34:08)
• The role of functional data in health decisions (45:12)
• The satiety per calorie model controversy (55:00)
• Nick's egg experiment and social media strategy (1:12:55)
• Future experiments and research interests (1:16:41)

 

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• YouTube

 

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