“Personalized Nutrition,” with dietary recommendations based on DNA and other types of testing, is getting a lot of media attention, but are these customized recommendations helpful, or a lot of hype?

Join Stanford professor and nutrition scientist, Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., to learn more about the personalized nutrition trend—and whether the explosion of companies promising to help you find your optimal DNA- or microbiome-based diet are really onto something. Relaying his trials and tribulations in investigating optimal nutrition with an engaging blend of science and humor, Dr. Gardner explores whether we should ultimately, and more optimally, simply be choosing to eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Christopher Gardner, Ph.D. is the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Research Professor at Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Gardner is passionate about two central questions that keep him up at night and get him to jump out of bed most mornings. The first is: What can people eat and drink (or avoid/limit) to optimize their health? The second is: What forces and factors can successfully motivate people to improve their food and beverage choice behaviors? To address this second question, Dr. Gardner has collaborated with scholars and researchers from across all seven of Stanford’s undergraduate and graduate schools as well as the Culinary Institute of America, with an emphasis on elevating the unapologetic deliciousness of food.

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