Is There An Optimal Diet? with Dr. Frank Cusimano

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On this week’s episode of the ‘Your Jeevn’ podcast, Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz is joined by Dr. Frank Cusimano, internal medicine resident at JMH/UM.
Frank has a passion for innovation, biomedical research, medical education, nutrition & microbiome research, biotechnology, and endurance sports. With a PhD in Nutrition & Metabolism, Frank highlights some of the major issues in how we view nutrition today, specifically with respect to misinformation. In this episode he shares insights from his years of experience in conducting nutrition research and as an endurance athlete himself.
In this episode we dive into:
- Misinformation with respect to nutrition
- What is a microbiome and why it is important
- Understanding probiotics
- How can we think about spice in our diet
- Is ‘Big food’ influencing our diets for the worse?
- Why nutritional studies are so difficult to conduct
- The relationship between supplements and the brain
- How to think about processed and ultra-processed food
- The factors that go into committing to a diet
- Are eggs good or bad for us?
What you’ll take out of it:
- The process we can follow to determine whether a particular food will be beneficial to our health, and the caveats we need to consider
- Dietary and lifestyle practices we can follow to live a healthier, and more fulfilling life
- A new lens to apply when analyzing the outcomes from various nutritional studies
- What we can do to improve our brain function when it comes to nutrition and lifestyle
- An understanding of the difference between organic, processed and ultra-processed food and what to avoid
- An understanding of the 10-12 barriers to implementing a healthy diet and how we can use this knowledge to empower our own journey to healthy living
- What makes behavior change so difficult?
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- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-cusimano-med/)
- Twitter (https://twitter.com/frank_cusimano)
- YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/frankcusimano/videos)

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