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 so...
Nutritional Sciences: Basic Science and Clinical Perspectives