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Episode 140

Exposing the Truth Behind EAT-Lancet’s Diet Report & MisInfluencer Campaign

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About the host

Bret Scher, MD

Bret Scher, MD

Medical Director, Metabolic Mind and Baszucki Group

Bret Scher, MD

Medical Director, Metabolic Mind and Baszucki Group

Bret is the host of the Metabolic Mind YouTube channel and podcast. He is a board-certified cardiologist, lipidologist, and leading expert in therapeutic uses of metabolic therapies, including ketogenic diets. Prior to joining Baszucki Group, Bret was the medical director at DietDoctor.com, an online platform promoting improving metabolic health through low-carb nutrition, where he was a content creator and medical reviewer. Earlier in his career, he worked as a cardiologist in San Diego. Bret has spent most of his 20-year career as a preventive cardiologist, helping people improve their metabolic health and preventing heart disease using low-carb nutrition and lifestyle interventions. His deep passion for educating the public about the benefits of metabolic therapies grew from his experience with the prevailing medical teaching, which frequently misrepresents nutrition science and undervalues metabolic health. Bret received an MD from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a BS in Biology from Stanford University. He grew up in San Diego and began competing in triathlons at an early age, which helped fuel his love of health and fitness. He continues to enjoy spending time outdoors mountain biking, swimming, hiking, and playing baseball with his two boys.
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About the guest

Georgia Ede, MD

Georgia Ede, MD

Psychiatrist

Georgia Ede, MD

Psychiatrist

Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. She has used ketogenic diets to help her patients for over two decades. She created the first CME course training physicians in the use of ketogenic therapy as mental illness treatment. She educates the public about nutrition science, metabolism, and mental health through her international speaking engagements, website, and her first book: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind.
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Key Highlights

  • Georgia frames EAT-Lancet as a global food-system campaign that prioritizes a Planetary Health Diet over a healthy-human diet, with a core recommendation to minimize or eliminate animal foods for nearly everyone over age two and replace nutrients with grains, legumes, nuts, supplements, and fortified foods.
  • Bret and Georgia argue the report treats ruminant animals as inherently environmentally harmful while glossing over nuance and the environmental impacts of industrial plant agriculture, and they propose a different order of operations: define an optimal diet for human and brain health first, then build sustainable ways to produce it.
  • Georgia critiques the report’s evidence base as largely nutrition epidemiology that generates associations rather than tested causal conclusions, saying animal foods are repeatedly acknowledged as nutrient-dense while simultaneously labeled dangerous based on observational links.
  • They highlight the report’s own admissions that key nutrients can fall short on the Planetary Health Diet, especially vitamin B12, calcium, iron, and iodine, and that meeting needs often requires supplementation or fortified foods, with heightened risk for vulnerable groups such as women, children, older adults, and people with limited dietary diversity.
  • The conversation shifts to the “mis-influencer” labeling, with Georgia saying the report attacks critics’ motives and credibility rather than directly rebutting specific arguments, and she objects to insinuations of industry ties while pointing to publicly visible connections between EAT-Lancet’s ecosystem and large food and agriculture interests.

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