Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

If you gave me an unlimited budget, I could do so much with it to answer the question that you just asked me.

And unfortunately, there's not enough money going into the understanding of how food can be medicine.

But that being said, there's these specific studies that give us some insight.

So here's a few.

Number one, the biggest nutrition study was called PREDIMED, funded by the Spanish government

And they had 7,500 people in three specific dietary approaches, 2,500 people each.

And they were either doing a low-fat diet or they were doing a high-fat Mediterranean diet, including added nuts, or they did a high-fat Mediterranean diet, which included extra virgin olive oil.

Lots of extra virgin olive oil, four tablespoons per day.

And in this study, it was quite fascinating because they were looking at cardiovascular outcomes as their main outcomes.

the high-fat diets were consistently better.

It was better for their heart health.

It was better for many other measures, including inflammation.

They measured inflammation in the study.

And the people who had the best anti-inflammatory outcomes were doing the high-fat diet.

And it's important...

to understand that when we say a low-fat diet, we're not talking about low-fat junk food.

They were recommended to consume the same amount of fruits and vegetables.

And the extra virgin olive oil group did amazing, better than the nut group in the vast majority of factors, which was very surprising to me.

And I've since come across new research where they had people consuming extra virgin olive oil on a daily basis for eight weeks and it increased the diversity in their microbiome.

Why is that?