A study comparing omnivorous and vegan diets in identical twins was funded by a producer who had previously worked on documentaries about animal welfare and plant-based diets.

“So the story starts with this is all funded by a producer who comes to see us in 2021 and ask Justin Sonnenberg the microbiome expert that you've had on your show and I if we would consider doing a study uh the parameters being it had to be identical twins and one arm of the study has to be vegan. His name is Luis Sei Hoyos. He got an Academy Award a decade ago for The Cove, which was a a documentary about dolphin slaughter in Japan, mercuryladen dolphins who were being fed to school children. He also did Game Changers, which was elite athletes on plant-based diets.”