Christopher D. Gardner

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And do not miss tomorrow's Good Stuff episode with Dr. Christopher Gardner.

He is the director of nutrition from Stanford.

No big deal.

Tuesday's about decluttering.

Wednesday, what is the good stuff that we want to fill our lives with? We've been doing a 10-week series on health.

And tomorrow is the big finale of that health series with Dr. Christopher Gardner.

So you do not want to miss that.

You also touch in the book the political aspect, which I think is important for people to be aware of, because I think sometimes even the government recommendations or things we hear, we think, oh, well, this is vetted and this must be true because it's out there.

I just interviewed Dr. Christopher Gardner from Stanford.

Dominic, I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he's a top nutritional scientist.

And he was one of the 20 scientists that were for two years assigned to create the food recommendations.

And just watch his reaction, right? Watch what the hell, right? Watch Forks Over Knives.

There's the twins experiment that Christopher Gardner did on Netflix.

I forget the name of it, but there's a lot of good documentaries out there today.

There's good documentaries on gut health.

No one wants to sign up for that study.

Like, it's really, really difficult." I had a great professor at Stanford named Christopher Gardner.

He had a Netflix special, um, published, uh, or released, you know, documenting one of his studies.

I think it was a, it was a twin study on nutrition that may have had to do with animal versus, um, [lip smacks] plant, uh, diets.

And so the key is to add it back, maybe add it back slowly.

But, you know, we just look at one of my favorite studies, Dr. Christopher Gardner from Stanford, it's called Diet Fits, and they were comparing a low-carb approach to a low-fat approach.

And they actually found that everybody did better because they were told to eat real foods.

So just focusing on real foods is going to be an improvement if you've been eating the standard American diet with lots of ultra-processed foods.

And, um, who...

I, I know, I was looking at the agenda for the next conference, Plant, uh, Power of the Plate conference in May, and I notice you have Christopher Gardner.

Has he spoken there before? 'Cause he's-

No. I'm so excited that Christopher Gardner's coming.

This is the first time that he'll be at our conference.

And, um, gosh, he's been involved in a lot of, um, uh, important projects and has really been an advocate for plant-based protein and helping to dispel many of those protein myths that are out there.

There really isn't a lot of research about how plant-based meat alternatives affect your health, but this is CrowdScience, and we don't give up that easily.

easily.My name is Christopher Gardner.

I am a nutrition scientist and a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where I have been for thirty-three years since I started a postdoc in nineteen ninety-three.

Christopher studies the health effects of different types of diet, and he's very interested in the question of plants versus meats.

As for health, you might think that it's exactly the same as farmed meat, but it turns out that's not quite the case.

You have to provide the rich environment that these are being cultivated in to grow.

That's nutrition researcher Christopher Gardner again.

And so if you swap out the nutrients or the base, are you switching the temperature? Are you switching the duration? Are you, are you adding nutrients that are deficient in the population, that this is one form of delivery? Are you changing the type of fat? Normal muscle tissue has this in it.