Dr. Donald Layman

Nutrition is much more complicated than that.

And so I think what Kennedy is saying is what we need to base our science on is well-controlled studies.

And if we don't have well-controlled studies, we shouldn't make conclusive answers.

And I think that's where we're at.

And I think that's what the report reflects.

The science that's used is pretty hard and fast.

And places where we don't have an answer, we say we need more research.

And I think that will ultimately help guide HHS and NIH in terms of the research they fund.

I worked on one part of it.

I worked on the protein part.

Which is arguably the most important.

As one might expect in this conversation.

And so Heather Leidy from University of Texas in Austin, she and I went back and

We had a relatively short period of time.

We just started working on it in August.

So what people do are, A, look for a lot of randomized control studies.

How many can you find?

They like to do systematic reviews to pull that all together.

So we did a combination of systematic reviews and narrative reviews to pull it together, both in the topics of

How much protein do we think is optimum for adults?