I just sat down with Dr. Peter Rogers for a conversation I’ve been thinking about ever since. It’s not really about what to eat. It’s about something underneath that — why we can’t seem to agree on what to eat in the first place. Why two well-credentialed experts can look at the same evidence and come to opposite conclusions. And why the doctors who arguably figured a lot of this out decades ago somehow never made it into the medical textbooks. Peter calls it the hidden history of nutrition. It’s also the title of his new book — almost 500 pages of it. Whether you agree with all of his conclusions or not, the question he raises is hard to shake: have we overlooked something important? A few things we get into:
- The early pioneers — Pritikin, Kempner, Esselstyn, McDougall — and why most people have never heard of them
- How nutrition splintered into warring camps, and what each side gets right (and wrong)
- Why curing disease through diet has historically been a fast way to get ignored by mainstream medicine
- And where the modern story of nutrition science actually begins
Dr Rogers” new book: https://a.co/d/01EWU0hD
