Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Your favorite influencers are getting rich by spreading misinformation.
Viva Longevity finds great scientists who are too busy doing science to be social media stars, and we help them tell their stories.
VIDEOS:
Andrew Huberman is Lying to You
youtu.be/0thkoCYhJnc
Follow the Money: Peter Attia
youtu.be/rWY4vvvVNUo
Nina Teicholz - 'Why Nutrition Advice is So Wrong'
youtu.be/tMGYZvaatSQ
Causal Inference Seminar: Peter Tennant
youtu.be/SbrX3YEMj_0
Peter Attia's Longevity Book Outlive: The BEST or WORST longevity book?
youtu.be/VWeg3l3RBIM
BOOKS:
Modern Epidemiology Fourth Edition by Tim Lash
amazon.com/Modern-Epidemiology-Kenneth-Rothman/dp/1451193289
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
amazon.com/The-Book-of-Why-audiobook/dp/B07CYJ4G2L/ref=sr_1_1
Nutritional Epidemiology 3rd Edition by Walter Willett
amazon.com/Nutritional-Epidemiology-Monographs-Biostatistics/dp/0199754039/ref=sr_1_1
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci
amazon.com/Epidemiology-A-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B096HD4Y8M/ref=sr_1_1
Mendelian Randomization: Methods for Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants
amazon.com/Mendelian-Randomization-Inference-Interdisciplinary-Statistics-ebook/dp/B0933LJKRR/ref=sr_1_1
PAPERS:
Epidemiology Faces Its Limits: The search for subtle links between diet, lifestyle, or environmental factors and disease is an unending source of fear—but often yields little certainty, by Gary Taubes
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7618077
Epidemiology beyond its limits by Tim Lash
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3328
Dietary protein intake in midlife in relation to healthy aging – results from the prospective Nurses’ Health Study cohort
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)66282-3/fulltext
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
The challenges of control groups, placebos and blinding in clinical trials of dietary interventions
cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/challenges-of-control-groups-placebos-and-blinding-in-clinical-trials-of-dietary-interventions/CD0D06FBF583C0E1DE908002A4133335
Review: Evolution of evidence on PFOA and health following the assessments of the C8 Science Panel
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320808
Perfluorooctanoic acid and chronic kidney disease: Longitudinal analysis of a Mid-Ohio Valley community
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935115301468?via%3Dihub
DIETARY GUIDELINES SPREADSHEET
Open for comments:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7aImvY9nLckZzhXyCBKXeD9-0ap-4ipFI7eHfwEaW8/edit?usp=sharing
0:00 Modern epidemiology
2:27 Environmental vs nutritional epidemiology
9:04 The power of big data
11:36 Gary Taubes' Science article
16:16 Dr. Tobias on Nina Teicholz
18:08 Correlation is not causation?
21:42 Hierarchy of evidence
26:23 Got a big effect size? Trans fats.
29:43 The right way to infer cause
32:54 How to spot misinformation
33:57 Food frequency questionnaires
37:26 The food pyramid
38:52 Rich influencers
Your favorite influencers are getting rich by spreading misinformation.
Viva Longevity finds great scientists who are too busy doing science to be social media stars, and we help them tell their stories.
VIDEOS:
Andrew Huberman is Lying to You
youtu.be/0thkoCYhJnc
Follow the Money: Peter Attia
youtu.be/rWY4vvvVNUo
Nina Teicholz - 'Why Nutrition Advice is So Wrong'
youtu.be/tMGYZvaatSQ
Causal Inference Seminar: Peter Tennant
youtu.be/SbrX3YEMj_0
Peter Attia's Longevity Book Outlive: The BEST or WORST longevity book?
youtu.be/VWeg3l3RBIM
BOOKS:
Modern Epidemiology Fourth Edition by Tim Lash
amazon.com/Modern-Epidemiology-Kenneth-Rothman/dp/1451193289
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
amazon.com/The-Book-of-Why-audiobook/dp/B07CYJ4G2L/ref=sr_1_1
Nutritional Epidemiology 3rd Edition by Walter Willett
amazon.com/Nutritional-Epidemiology-Monographs-Biostatistics/dp/0199754039/ref=sr_1_1
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci
amazon.com/Epidemiology-A-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B096HD4Y8M/ref=sr_1_1
Mendelian Randomization: Methods for Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants
amazon.com/Mendelian-Randomization-Inference-Interdisciplinary-Statistics-ebook/dp/B0933LJKRR/ref=sr_1_1
PAPERS:
Epidemiology Faces Its Limits: The search for subtle links between diet, lifestyle, or environmental factors and disease is an unending source of fear—but often yields little certainty, by Gary Taubes
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7618077
Epidemiology beyond its limits by Tim Lash
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3328
Dietary protein intake in midlife in relation to healthy aging – results from the prospective Nurses’ Health Study cohort
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)66282-3/fulltext
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
The challenges of control groups, placebos and blinding in clinical trials of dietary interventions
cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/challenges-of-control-groups-placebos-and-blinding-in-clinical-trials-of-dietary-interventions/CD0D06FBF583C0E1DE908002A4133335
Review: Evolution of evidence on PFOA and health following the assessments of the C8 Science Panel
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320808
Perfluorooctanoic acid and chronic kidney disease: Longitudinal analysis of a Mid-Ohio Valley community
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935115301468?via%3Dihub
DIETARY GUIDELINES SPREADSHEET
Open for comments:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7aImvY9nLckZzhXyCBKXeD9-0ap-4ipFI7eHfwEaW8/edit?usp=sharing
0:00 Modern epidemiology
2:27 Environmental vs nutritional epidemiology
9:04 The power of big data
11:36 Gary Taubes' Science article
16:16 Dr. Tobias on Nina Teicholz
18:08 Correlation is not causation?
21:42 Hierarchy of evidence
26:23 Got a big effect size? Trans fats.
29:43 The right way to infer cause
32:54 How to spot misinformation
33:57 Food frequency questionnaires
37:26 The food pyramid
38:52 Rich influencers
