How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Christopher Gardner. Dr.

Christopher Gardner is a professor of medicine and director of nutrition studies at Stanford University. Dr. Gardner has conducted groundbreaking research on dietary interventions for over 25 years, focusing on what dietary interventions reduce weight and inflammation and for generally improving physical health. He is known for doing extremely well-controlled studies of nutrition, where calories, macronutrients, so protein, fat, and carbohydrates, and food quality are matched between the different groups, and not simply comparing one intervention to the so-called standard American diet. as so many other nutrition studies do.

As such, his work has been published in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. Today we discuss several important nutritional controversies and we examine what the science actually tells us. First, we explore protein requirements, how much protein we actually need, and do those needs change based on activity levels, age, and health status? And I should say that even though we started out with rather discrepant stance on this, We converge on an answer that I think will be satisfying at least to most people, and then you can tailor that answer to your unique needs.

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