notes: what is the scope and relevant questions of modern nutrition research and guidelines? they ask what parts make up our food and how much of those little parts do we need? but the effects we desire are not from parts of food but foods themselves. parts interact with different parts. parts interact with different wholes. there isnt a golden singular biochemical cellular mechanism that has the power to explain meaningful health outcomes. there are metabolic observations with no identified mechanism. but we cant deny the observation because we dont understand the isolated mechanism. we can know that something exists without knowing why it exists. nutritional reserach is more than studying parts of food, nutrients, and functions of molecules. lifestyle medicine is more practical and actionable then typical medicine because typical medicine is focused on isolating little parts and molecules that can be sold and marketed
notes: what is the scope and relevant questions of modern nutrition research and guidelines? they ask what parts make up our food and how much of those little parts do we need? but the effects we desire are not from parts of food but foods themselves. parts interact with different parts. parts interact with different wholes. there isnt a golden singular biochemical cellular mechanism that has the power to explain meaningful health outcomes. there are metabolic observations with no identified mechanism. but we cant deny the observation because we dont understand the isolated mechanism. we can know that something exists without knowing why it exists. nutritional reserach is more than studying parts of food, nutrients, and functions of molecules. lifestyle medicine is more practical and actionable then typical medicine because typical medicine is focused on isolating little parts and molecules that can be sold and marketed