The study comparing omnivorous and vegan diets in identical twins was designed to assess health in the general population.

“So, we're going to make a good vegan diet and we're making going to make a good omnivorous diet and we're going to randomize each pair of twins one at a time to one versus the other. And we don't have enough money to do this for a long time. We budget it out and you have enough for like eight weeks of doing the study. And it would be important that people catch on to the vegan part quickly, the omnivorous thing they already do. So, what about the other group? Ah, we'll deliver food for the first four weeks and then for the last four weeks we'll have them cook on their own now that they have enough ideas from having been fed for four weeks.”

“My idea is if I only have eight weeks, I need to make a big difference in these diets so that if I get a signal, I can see it in eight weeks.”

“He also did Game Changers, which was elite athletes on plant-based diets. And he wanted to do another one test out like the health of the diet, not in elite athletes, but in the general population.”