Metabolic Health Experimentation with Nick Norwitz
Savage Perspective Podcast · Robert Sikes
October 14, 20241h 18m
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Show Notes
Have you considered eating Oreo cookies to lower your cholesterol numbers? Nick Norwitz did just that, with success, along with many other metabolic experiments. Nick is an academic, a researcher, and a scientist at heart. It was a lot of fun to do a metabolic deep dive with him and I know you'll also enjoy this episode.
What we discussed:
- Nick's background and personal journey with illness and nutrition (2:15)
- His personal experience with the ketogenic diet and his frustration with the criticism (4:13)
- Challenges and misconceptions in nutrition science (7:22)
- The powerful role of personal stories in the nutritional space (11:12)
- Nick's research on lean mass hyper responders (23;24)
- The impact of ketogenic diets on lipid markers (34:08)
- The role of functional data in health decisions (45:12)
- The satiety per calorie model controversy (55:00)
- Nick's egg experiment and social media strategy (1:12:55)
- Future experiments and research interests (1:16:41)
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