A surge of new companies are promising to help you find your personalized, optimal diet – if you will provide them with your blood/poop/spit/DNA and $$. Is it worth it, or should we just focus on: Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants? Nutrition scientist Christopher Gardner will address the possibilities and challenges of personalized nutrition with an engaging blend of humor and evidenced-based science.

Christopher Gardner, the Rehnborg Farquhar Chair of Medicine and director of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Professor Gardner’s research is focused on investigating the potential health benefits of various dietary components or food patterns, which have been explored in the context of randomized controlled trials. His long-term vision in this area is to help create a world-class Stanford Food Systems Initiative and build on the idea that Stanford is uniquely positioned geographically, culturally, and academically, to address national and global crises in the areas of obesity and diabetes that are directly related to our broken food systems.

This talk was recorded at Stanford Reunion 2021.