Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson

Dr. Drew.

Wonderful to see you.

Right, right.

That's exactly it.

So, you know, we've been told for 50 years that all saturated fats are bad.

It was a big driver of movement away from whole fat dairy products primarily, right?

That was a big driver.

We said no more whole fat milk, no more butter.

And as a result, that took out all types of dietary saturated fats, including dairy.

But we're now understanding that there are good and bad saturated fats, the good ones being these odd-chain saturated fatty acids, exactly like you just explained, Dr. Drew.

It's really simple.

If it has an odd number of carbons in it, like 15, C15 is one of these really special foundational nutrients discovered and unlocked thanks to the dolphins.

But now we know that C15 is just as essential.

essential and foundational to us.

We took it out of our diet and that appears to be driving what we're seeing as a deficiency syndrome, the biggest deficiency syndrome of our generation.

So yeah, for reptiles, it sounds like a dinosaur, but it's not.

So it ends up, it's this entirely new way that our cells are dying.

When we went to cell biology class, for those of us who did that, we learned that there were three ways, really only three ways that our cells could die.

And now this group at Columbia University back in 2012 discovered a fourth way to

that our cells were dying.