Examine.com Inc.

And that book was named one of the best books of the year in 2017 when it was published by Publishers Weekly and called essential, quote unquote, by the New York Times Book Review.

He's also a senior fellow at GiveWell and a scientific reviewer for the examine.com Research Digest, which I also subscribe to.

On a personal note, I will say that back in I believe 2013 or 14, I first discovered Stefan's work and I was actually blown away with it and it completely changed a lot of my thinking around the topic of why people get fat, how to lose fat, and I was absolutely blown away by his research and it profoundly impacted my own work and my own thinking on this topic.

And even so much so that I extensively quoted him in my book, Forever Fat Loss, that I wrote in 2014.

So why would you think that a low fat diet would cause us to gain weight when implemented nationally? It just doesn't make any sense.

Right.

And one study I think that's worth speaking to, I think you were a part of examine.com's write-up on that recent study.

I think it came out last year or the year before, the really long-term study that was conducted by Chris Gardner.

There was a lot of shite out there.

greens powders again very expensive especially athletic greens very expensive but it's mostly spirulina which you can get a lot cheaper so don't worry about that i think the most important thing here to say is that supplements are regulated as foods companies do not have to prove effectiveness before selling them and that's the problem because marketing departments can make structure and function claims without kind of human trials and that's why you see where it's like supports energy helps cognitive function which are quite vague because meaningful claims require actual science which they often don't have if you want to evaluate supplements i would probably firstly go to examine.com which is like a it's a independent resource base where i get all my research when it comes to supplements And they basically collate every supplement research that exists and it's fantastic.

But you can ask yourself, is there human data with meaningful endpoints? Is the dose in the product what the research used? Is the mechanism plausible? Does the ingredient have safety data? Am I actually deficient or is this improving my baseline performance? If you can't answer yes to these, then probably be skeptical.

I'd say some practical takeaways are, as I said, supplements supplement.

So I think one of my favorite places to go, I actually have the app on my phone.

It's examine.com. And so it will tell you all of the research that you need to know around supplementation and what the actual measured outcomes are by using any of those tools.

So I just pulled up NMM because I'm not super familiar with it.

And the claims surrounding its benefits mostly stem from animal research.