I know this discussion is from a while ago, but it got me thinking a lot about the animal studies I use (or don’t use) when writing papers, making dietary recommendations, etc. Here is an article I was skimming this morning about the lack of translatability from rodents to humans when it comes to diets for T2…

I only recently got paid sick days, thanks to Philly’s new law! http://articles.philly.com/2015-05-14/new…

Yes, applying for grants seems like the WORST. Part of me wants to just be a nutritionist advisor/implementor for other researchers, so they can do the hard work of getting funding and I can just help figure out how to get people to eat 20 apples/day or whatever weird thing they want to test. I’ve found that a lot of…

What is your current field of research? (I am *almost* done with school to be a nutritionist, but I LOVED my research design class and am considering eventually doing to PhD/research route in nutrition and the gut biome.)

I am so excited about the future of computer modeling, etc. (I was reading a study the other day that studied the gut using a “continuous model” that I honestly don’t understand but seemed quite cool for looking at microbiome interventions.

There are a couple of options—your SIL could still be fucking up her gut, etc. with the cross contamination but just not enough to cause symptoms. Or, she has a gut biome/immune system robust enough to handle tiny attacks, just not enough to handle large amounts.

I would consider fillers (hyaluronic acid) if I were rich. I’d have to be like really rich though, because there are a lot of shoes and purses and yoga retreats that would be higher on the list of priorities.

I would love to see a comparison (graph?) between the level of crazy in this year’s candidates versus previous years, including way back when before TV and twitter.

I think your point that women can “remember when they were in to it” is very important. I can’t exactly relate to these 6% of women because my lack of libido is caused by a medication, but I know that sex has been awesome, so I would like it to be awesome now. It’s like if something is wrong with tastebuds but you…

Nutrition is my field, and although I definitely would love to see an end to factory farming, humanity’s track record when it comes to to replacing existing foods with synthetic has been pretty spotty. Fortification can be life-saving, but we used to think that all we needed to replace an orange was vitamin C. My…

hey, thanks for knowing some science things. Can you speak to whether the nutritional profile of lab grown meat is/could be nutritionally different from what we’re eating today? (I am thinking specifically about how the fatty acid profiles can differ depending on the diet of the animal, but also wondering about the…