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Ep 50: Dr. Peter Attia on Ultra-Endurance, Drinking Jet Fuel, Human Foie Gras, and More

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The Manhattan Project for Nutrition

Peter ate: There are two main impediments to doing exceptional work in nutrition science. The first is that there's a lot of money out there, but not enough funding for specific studies. And secondly, and perhaps more importantly, there really isn't an appetite to ask questions directly counter to the conventional point of view. So we've felt that there are alternative hypotheses about the role of diet and disease that do need to be asked. They could be wrong. But they deserve a shot. We're champions of them.

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