About this episode

Emily and Perry discuss the controversies surrounding red meat and its nutritional implications.

This week, Emily and Perry pull out their steak knives to cut through both the hypers, and the detractors, of red meat. Is it as bad for you as people say? Is there value to a (fiberless) carnivore diet? What makes it red, anyway? And why is nutritional science such a heap of hot, correlation-is-not-causation garbage? Plus: a peptide scandal in the running world, myths around mitochondria, and more Ebola, unfortunately. Past episodes discussed: What's the deal with peptides? What's the deal with protein? Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Emily Oster, Perry Wilson

Topics covered

• red meat
• carnivore diet
• nutritional science
• peptide scandal
• mitochondria myths
• Ebola

Keywords

• red meat
• carnivore diet
• nutritional science
• peptide scandal
• mitochondria
• Ebola

Mentioned in this episode

Products: red meat, carnivore diet, Ebola

Books & works: What's the deal with peptides?, What's the deal with protein?

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