Reductionist thinking in nutritional medicine is detrimental; focus on studies using real foods and do not fear carbohydrates like fructose and glucose found in honey or fruit, as they are accompanied by micronutrients that support optimal function and nitric oxide synthesis.

“the takeaway here is that reductionist thinking will kill us in nutritional medicine we have to think we have to look for studies where they actually use real food don't fear fructose from fruit don't eat it at the exclusion of the most nutrient-dense foods meat and organs whether they're fresh or desiccated but so many people feel better when they include some carbohydrates and simple carbohydrates like fructose glucose or sucrose found in honey or fruit are not going to kill you they're just not because they occur with all of these little micronutrients that allow our bodies to function optimally that lead to optimal levels of nitric oxide synthesis which leads to improved endothelial function”

“we have to be careful that indeed in you know nutritional reductionism has a place to to sort of try to understand certain mechanisms but yeah when we start to think that oh overfeeding of fructose induces fatty liver disease and then start to extrapolate that to say like oh we shouldn't need an apple or a half a tablespoon of honey then yeah we're i think we're missing the missing the point there”