Reductionist approaches to nutrition often fail to replicate the effects seen with whole foods due to the interplay of multiple nutrients.

“so again i have a lot of trouble with the reductionist perspective and nutrition and i think that what we clearly see over and over is that whole animal foods that is animal meat and organs especially liver heart kidney spleen pancreas the important organs that are found in nose tail eating these support human health and they always have and if we try and be reductionist we don't always find the same effects because there are these multiple factors at play nutritionally in these foods that are all working in concert”

“so reductionism within nutrition I think is quite dangerous and we see it repeatedly fail that's something that I will say is a theme throughout my experience if we become too reductionist and we try and tweak too hard with tons of vitamins or synthetic substances the human body doesn't tend to react well to that because we're missing levels of complexity that we can't even appreciate as humans that are found in Whole Foods”

“reductionism in nutrition, reductionism in biology, it's dangerous. It's like we just it's such a balance like you said it's not we're not just trying to take a million antioxidants”