Welcome to this blog!
If you've found your way here, I hope it's because you have an interest in the intersection between nutrition, physiology, metabolism and genetics/genomics!
I decided to start this blog for a couple reasons:
1. In the life of a grad student, you don't always get to study exactly what you want - I'm hoping this blog motivates me to stay grounded in my interests in nutrition and evolution, and gives me a venue to educate those who are interested, as well as myself (through my own research and your comments!)
2. There seems to be a lot of interest in the ideal human diet. With diets like Paleo having taken off, this concept of what is and is not ideal for human health, from an evolutionary perspective, has been wildly popular amongst the blog-o-sphere but seems to have gotten little attention from true academics. I loosely follow a few sites and often see huge perversions of the research. I'd like to provide an alternative viewpoint to some of these.
There's a littany of blogs out there addressing nutrition and health, and I strive to make this blog a bit different. I hope that this can be a resource for interested Healthcare professionals and scientists, as well as the educated lay person - I plan on using, and to the best of my ability, explaining scientific concepts and their applications in research/health in scientific terms, aka you won't be seeing loose terms like enzymes and toxins thrown around without scientific names attached. I also plan to reference things as much as possible. (if you are interested, I have also begun covering nutrition topics in a more disseminat-able manner over at Registered Dietitian Zach Breeding's page, the-sage.org)
My goal is to begin with evolutionary theory and diet and work our way down to the biochemical and molecular aspects of nutrigenetics, while also addressing some pertinent debates in the realm of policy, public health and sustainable food systems.
Hope you Enjoy! I'd love for this to be a forum for peace discussion and scientific inquiry! Much of the research/topics that I will cover are new, contestable and/or can have multiple conclusions drawn - I would love to hear your opinions as well!
If you've found your way here, I hope it's because you have an interest in the intersection between nutrition, physiology, metabolism and genetics/genomics!
I decided to start this blog for a couple reasons:
1. In the life of a grad student, you don't always get to study exactly what you want - I'm hoping this blog motivates me to stay grounded in my interests in nutrition and evolution, and gives me a venue to educate those who are interested, as well as myself (through my own research and your comments!)
2. There seems to be a lot of interest in the ideal human diet. With diets like Paleo having taken off, this concept of what is and is not ideal for human health, from an evolutionary perspective, has been wildly popular amongst the blog-o-sphere but seems to have gotten little attention from true academics. I loosely follow a few sites and often see huge perversions of the research. I'd like to provide an alternative viewpoint to some of these.
There's a littany of blogs out there addressing nutrition and health, and I strive to make this blog a bit different. I hope that this can be a resource for interested Healthcare professionals and scientists, as well as the educated lay person - I plan on using, and to the best of my ability, explaining scientific concepts and their applications in research/health in scientific terms, aka you won't be seeing loose terms like enzymes and toxins thrown around without scientific names attached. I also plan to reference things as much as possible. (if you are interested, I have also begun covering nutrition topics in a more disseminat-able manner over at Registered Dietitian Zach Breeding's page, the-sage.org)
My goal is to begin with evolutionary theory and diet and work our way down to the biochemical and molecular aspects of nutrigenetics, while also addressing some pertinent debates in the realm of policy, public health and sustainable food systems.
Hope you Enjoy! I'd love for this to be a forum for peace discussion and scientific inquiry! Much of the research/topics that I will cover are new, contestable and/or can have multiple conclusions drawn - I would love to hear your opinions as well!
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