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Mike Israetel

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Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And so when we have something like this and we do the appropriate work to drive the cost down, We have something that's just way more powerful than nutritional education. Even if you take nutritional education and somehow manage to propagandize and inculcate everyone into always exuding their best practices, which no one's ever succeeded with.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And so when we have something like this and we do the appropriate work to drive the cost down, We have something that's just way more powerful than nutritional education. Even if you take nutritional education and somehow manage to propagandize and inculcate everyone into always exuding their best practices, which no one's ever succeeded with.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

Here's another piece of interesting literature for you. The absolute best predictor of how teenagers eat is who they're genetically related to. There are twin and adoption studies where they have identical twins separated at birth or siblings separated at birth, adopted to different families. And so they know the genetics of their birth family. They know the genetics of their adoptive family.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

Here's another piece of interesting literature for you. The absolute best predictor of how teenagers eat is who they're genetically related to. There are twin and adoption studies where they have identical twins separated at birth or siblings separated at birth, adopted to different families. And so they know the genetics of their birth family. They know the genetics of their adoptive family.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

Here's another piece of interesting literature for you. The absolute best predictor of how teenagers eat is who they're genetically related to. There are twin and adoption studies where they have identical twins separated at birth or siblings separated at birth, adopted to different families. And so they know the genetics of their birth family. They know the genetics of their adoptive family.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And they know the genetics of the individual, which the individual, because they're adopted, genetics are no more likely to be the same as their adoptive family by chance. And it's shown that after about age 12 or 13, the variance explained in that individual teenager's eating habits

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And they know the genetics of the individual, which the individual, because they're adopted, genetics are no more likely to be the same as their adoptive family by chance. And it's shown that after about age 12 or 13, the variance explained in that individual teenager's eating habits

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And they know the genetics of the individual, which the individual, because they're adopted, genetics are no more likely to be the same as their adoptive family by chance. And it's shown that after about age 12 or 13, the variance explained in that individual teenager's eating habits

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

that can be explained by what they learned in the home growing up with their adoptive family is between zero and 10%. The best control studies show it's closer to zero. So I'm gonna say a crazy thing here. As a parent, you can 100% make sure your child is eating really, really well in the home when they're there because you have total control. And it's a good thing to do.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

that can be explained by what they learned in the home growing up with their adoptive family is between zero and 10%. The best control studies show it's closer to zero. So I'm gonna say a crazy thing here. As a parent, you can 100% make sure your child is eating really, really well in the home when they're there because you have total control. And it's a good thing to do.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

that can be explained by what they learned in the home growing up with their adoptive family is between zero and 10%. The best control studies show it's closer to zero. So I'm gonna say a crazy thing here. As a parent, you can 100% make sure your child is eating really, really well in the home when they're there because you have total control. And it's a good thing to do.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

As a school program, you can make sure that kids are getting healthy lunches. And healthy lunches are something we just don't have much of in the United States. And it's not for mysterious economic reasons. It's just for preference. Most people like pizza and burgers. That's what the school serves.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

As a school program, you can make sure that kids are getting healthy lunches. And healthy lunches are something we just don't have much of in the United States. And it's not for mysterious economic reasons. It's just for preference. Most people like pizza and burgers. That's what the school serves.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

As a school program, you can make sure that kids are getting healthy lunches. And healthy lunches are something we just don't have much of in the United States. And it's not for mysterious economic reasons. It's just for preference. Most people like pizza and burgers. That's what the school serves.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And I think because it's school and we want to keep people healthy, 100% we should be doing healthy food. In a cheap way, but an effective way. There's tons of ways to do that. But once those kids are off doing their own thing, Mostly it's their genetics that explains what kind of food preferences they'll have, and it's almost nothing else.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And I think because it's school and we want to keep people healthy, 100% we should be doing healthy food. In a cheap way, but an effective way. There's tons of ways to do that. But once those kids are off doing their own thing, Mostly it's their genetics that explains what kind of food preferences they'll have, and it's almost nothing else.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And I think because it's school and we want to keep people healthy, 100% we should be doing healthy food. In a cheap way, but an effective way. There's tons of ways to do that. But once those kids are off doing their own thing, Mostly it's their genetics that explains what kind of food preferences they'll have, and it's almost nothing else.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So once people turn into adults, all of that awesome nutritional education you got in the home and in the school seems to fall on relatively deaf ears. And then it's really like, what are you as a free adult interested in doing and how are you interested in changing your life? And at that point, the onus comes all the way back. It goes right by the schools. It goes by the parents.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So once people turn into adults, all of that awesome nutritional education you got in the home and in the school seems to fall on relatively deaf ears. And then it's really like, what are you as a free adult interested in doing and how are you interested in changing your life? And at that point, the onus comes all the way back. It goes right by the schools. It goes by the parents.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So once people turn into adults, all of that awesome nutritional education you got in the home and in the school seems to fall on relatively deaf ears. And then it's really like, what are you as a free adult interested in doing and how are you interested in changing your life? And at that point, the onus comes all the way back. It goes right by the schools. It goes by the parents.