Breaking Down Popular Diets & Trends with Nutritionist Simon Hill

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Few topics are more hotly debated than nutrition. With contradictory messaging abundant, it can be difficult to discern credible health advice and navigate which dietary patterns are optimal for our health and longevity.

Simon Hill, nutritionist and host of The Proof Podcast, cuts through the noise and breaks down today’s most popular diets and trends. Simon has a healthy obsession with nutritional science and uses reliable science-based information to form his dietary thesis philosophy. He focuses on nuanced, evidence-based research instead of biased black and white thinking.

While science is not perfect, we do have clear biomarkers for longevity and preventing our #1 killers, and this episode goes into how these trends stack up against those markers. With so many experts letting their biases get in the way to form nutritional recommendations, Simon is the nutrition resource we need right now.

In this episode we cover:
- Popular diets: Paleo, Carnivore, Vegan, Keto, Plant Paradox, & Nourishing Traditions
- What “ancestral diets” get right and wrong
- Saturated fat vs. PUFAS
- Popular Trends: Butter, Bone Broth, anti-nutrients, seed oils, etc
- Eating to survive vs. eating for longevity
- Why what’s “natural” isn’t necessarily what’s best for long term health

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Simon's resources:
Polyunsaturated fats versus saturated fats:
* Cochrane Review Meta Analysis of RCTs
   * `https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32428...
* Dietary fats and cardiovascular disease (Presidential Advisory paper from AHA)
   * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28620...
* Dairy fats versus other animal fat versus polyunsaturated fats from plants.
   * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
LDL-C (or ApoB) as a cause of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28444...
ApoB is a summation of LDL, IDL and VLDL
PMID: 28444290
* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16441...
“The best available estimates suggest that those ancestors obtained about 35% of their dietary energy from fats, 35% from carbohydrates and 30% from protein. Saturated fats contributed approximately 7.5% total energy and harmful trans-fatty acids contributed negligible amounts.” - PMID 16441938
Polyunsaturated fats versus saturated fats and liver fat/metabolic health:
* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34257...
* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22492...
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Linoleic acid (predominant polyunsaturated fat in seed oils) and inflammation, CVD and mortality (studies measuring linoleic acid in adipose tissue and circulation):
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Anti-nutrients:
* Review of all anti-nutrients, effect on physiology and human health outcomes related to anti-nutrient containing foods.
   * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
* More than 50% of oxalates are made by the body. Animal protein, sodium and insufficient calcium increase risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones
   * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
* Body adjusts mineral absorption following high phytate diet that is habitually consumed:
   * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Organ meats and human health:
* Increased risk of fatty liver disease:
   * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35225...
* Organ meats have been shown to increase uric acid which is implicated in fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, CVD, inflammation and gout:
   * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29759...
   * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
Bone broth and heavy metal contamination:
* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23375...
Vitamin A status of vegans:
* Switzerland cohort of healthy adults comparing omnivores to vegetarians to vegans
* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502...