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Dr. Christopher Gardner

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Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

It's in his post that he does wherever—I don't know, is it LinkedIn or is it his letter? And the response is, if you're going to test a vegan diet versus an omnivore diet— It would have to be different in saturated fat and fiber, B12 and cholesterol, eggs and lentils. It would have to be different in many, many categories.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

It's in his post that he does wherever—I don't know, is it LinkedIn or is it his letter? And the response is, if you're going to test a vegan diet versus an omnivore diet— It would have to be different in saturated fat and fiber, B12 and cholesterol, eggs and lentils. It would have to be different in many, many categories.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

It's in his post that he does wherever—I don't know, is it LinkedIn or is it his letter? And the response is, if you're going to test a vegan diet versus an omnivore diet— It would have to be different in saturated fat and fiber, B12 and cholesterol, eggs and lentils. It would have to be different in many, many categories.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And so to circle back to your original comment, good science has to isolate the variable. It depends if the question is the vegan diet versus an alternative pattern. then the variable you're isolating is the diet pattern. And so it would have to be absent in meat and eggs and chicken and everything. And that doesn't undermine the science.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And so to circle back to your original comment, good science has to isolate the variable. It depends if the question is the vegan diet versus an alternative pattern. then the variable you're isolating is the diet pattern. And so it would have to be absent in meat and eggs and chicken and everything. And that doesn't undermine the science.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And so to circle back to your original comment, good science has to isolate the variable. It depends if the question is the vegan diet versus an alternative pattern. then the variable you're isolating is the diet pattern. And so it would have to be absent in meat and eggs and chicken and everything. And that doesn't undermine the science.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

So I got crap for not publishing the decks of data, which I didn't have. Peter gave me crap for that. And I got one other piece of crap that I really addressed really well on Twitter. And I'm super proud of this. Somebody went to the supplement. where many of the tables were because they didn't fit in the main paper.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

So I got crap for not publishing the decks of data, which I didn't have. Peter gave me crap for that. And I got one other piece of crap that I really addressed really well on Twitter. And I'm super proud of this. Somebody went to the supplement. where many of the tables were because they didn't fit in the main paper.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

So I got crap for not publishing the decks of data, which I didn't have. Peter gave me crap for that. And I got one other piece of crap that I really addressed really well on Twitter. And I'm super proud of this. Somebody went to the supplement. where many of the tables were because they didn't fit in the main paper.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And they saw the caloric distribution in the two arms during the feeding period and when they were eating on their own. And what they noticed was during the phase where we were feeding people and delivering food to them, the vegans were eating fewer calories. And the criticism on Twitter was... When you fed them, you gamed the study by delivering less food to the vegans.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And they saw the caloric distribution in the two arms during the feeding period and when they were eating on their own. And what they noticed was during the phase where we were feeding people and delivering food to them, the vegans were eating fewer calories. And the criticism on Twitter was... When you fed them, you gamed the study by delivering less food to the vegans.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And they saw the caloric distribution in the two arms during the feeding period and when they were eating on their own. And what they noticed was during the phase where we were feeding people and delivering food to them, the vegans were eating fewer calories. And the criticism on Twitter was... When you fed them, you gamed the study by delivering less food to the vegans.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

They lost weight because you under-delivered calories to them. And maybe all the differences that we're seeing are just a caloric difference. They're not the diet type. That would undermine the whole study. And it was great. I had the chance to respond. So I used to do a lot more on it. I don't anymore, but I did tweetorials back when it was Twitter.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

They lost weight because you under-delivered calories to them. And maybe all the differences that we're seeing are just a caloric difference. They're not the diet type. That would undermine the whole study. And it was great. I had the chance to respond. So I used to do a lot more on it. I don't anymore, but I did tweetorials back when it was Twitter.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

They lost weight because you under-delivered calories to them. And maybe all the differences that we're seeing are just a caloric difference. They're not the diet type. That would undermine the whole study. And it was great. I had the chance to respond. So I used to do a lot more on it. I don't anymore, but I did tweetorials back when it was Twitter.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And I said, that is a great catch that you saw this. Thanks for going to the supplement. That's pretty cool. So let me explain something else. So for the food company that delivered the food, we absolutely matched the caloric intake that we were delivering But in a nutrition study, it doesn't come with a gavage. You can't cram the food down their throats. You have to let them eat what they want.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And I said, that is a great catch that you saw this. Thanks for going to the supplement. That's pretty cool. So let me explain something else. So for the food company that delivered the food, we absolutely matched the caloric intake that we were delivering But in a nutrition study, it doesn't come with a gavage. You can't cram the food down their throats. You have to let them eat what they want.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

And I said, that is a great catch that you saw this. Thanks for going to the supplement. That's pretty cool. So let me explain something else. So for the food company that delivered the food, we absolutely matched the caloric intake that we were delivering But in a nutrition study, it doesn't come with a gavage. You can't cram the food down their throats. You have to let them eat what they want.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

So we didn't actually publish what we delivered. We published what they said they ate. And they ate slightly fewer calories and they lost a small amount of weight on the side. So good for you for catching that, but let me have the chance to show you this. And there's actually another Twitter person named Dr. Tro who trolls me and gives me grief for some of my studies.

Huberman Lab
How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner

So we didn't actually publish what we delivered. We published what they said they ate. And they ate slightly fewer calories and they lost a small amount of weight on the side. So good for you for catching that, but let me have the chance to show you this. And there's actually another Twitter person named Dr. Tro who trolls me and gives me grief for some of my studies.