In Season 10, Episode #4, Dr. Marc Bubbs sits down with Dr. Stephan van Vliet, PhD, a nutritional scientist with metabolomics expertise who runs the van Vliet Lab which is at the nexus of agricultural and human nutrition.

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https://stephanvanvliet.com/

EPISODE SUMMARY

2:45 – Stephan’ academic background

3:55 – How production systems and diet quality impact chronic disease

6:01 – Meat, dairy and the phytochemicals they contain

9:08 – Herbs, polyphenols and why wine is a good idea to pair with steak

12:25 – Terpenoids: squalene, thaurine, anserine, and the like for cognition and health

14:00 – Unprocessed vs. processed meats

19:45 – The importance of ruminant animals in up-cycling nutrients

25:45 – Phytochemicals in meat may be comparable to plant foods

31:05 – Diet quality, saturated fat and what it means for health

33:40 – The ‘reductionist message’ problem in nutrition

40:58 – The challenges with studying chronic, complex conditions in science

44:00 – How to simplify nutrition & the external cost of ‘processed’ foods