Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson
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Hi, Dr. Drew.
Wonderful to be here.
Yeah, absolutely.
So our work with the Navy, Dr. Drew, like you had mentioned, found that C15 is this critical, essential, saturated fatty acid, which we're going to talk about.
And that's critical to healthy aging.
All this work was funded by the Office of Naval Research.
And so our Office of Naval Research actually funded the development of a pure C15 ingredient, which we put in fatty 15 to help support long-term health.
Yeah.
So what we're finding, you know, it's getting a lot of attention right now, including an article that just came out in New York Times, but also getting coverage with Joe Rogan and CNBC and others is the topic of around saturated fats.
And that's because as part of the Maha movement, you know, there's a lot of discussion and push to get whole dairy fat back into the
at least children's lives, right?
If not all of our lives.
And so it's really brought to fruition exactly what you're saying, Dr. Drew, which is, you know, 1977 Congress released recommendations, dietary recommendations for all Americans to decrease their intake of dairy fat, to decrease their intake of saturated fats
And the best way to do that would be to decrease our intake of butter and whole fat milk.
We did it.
We stopped drinking those whole fat dairy products.
At the time, the concern was not just high risk of cardiovascular disease, but we also had 15% of the population had obesity.
Three million people had type two diabetes.
The recommendations were meant to take the edge off of this.
Today, 43% of people with obesity