Dr Tim Crowe

Wonderful.

Thank you very much for having me on the show.

I've been really looking forward to speaking to both yourself and Kate.

So thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you for that kind introduction.

you know give us the 101 on tim crow um well thank you very much for that for that introduction and i class myself as a card-carrying academic nerd i've spent my whole pretty much my whole career in universities either studying or doing research and teaching and nutrition has been my main area and i'm incredibly you know evidence-based so i don't get out of bed in the morning unless there's a randomized controlled trial that says it's it's safe to do so and that's my focus

But with nutrition, unlike many areas of science where we have the science and with a few exceptions, we generally accept that the experts know their stuff.

Maybe vaccines are one exception.

Everybody seems to be an expert these days on it.

But in nutrition, it's a bit different because everybody eats and everybody has different food preferences and everybody responds to food differently.

And nutrition is quite seductive that it's

It has this illusion that all you need for good health is, you know, cut out gluten, eat clean, eat organic, and there's great health, and that's what you need to do.

But as with any discipline, once you start delving into it, there is a lot more to it, and there's a lot more complexity and nuances.

And even with my career in nutrition, I don't know everything.

And I'm also humbled by the fact that research is always changing.

Recommendations do change based upon research.

But even the research we have is not always the best quality.

So I try and look at what are the consensus views?

What does most of the research, what direction does it point into?