A newly released series on Netflix is creating a buzz around the world for its content, titled “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment”. This series started streaming on New Year’s Day on Netflix. It has been a couple of days since You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment was released on Netflix but the series has attained so much attention and captivated the audience due to its content. The series emphasizes the impacts of a plant-based lifestyle on health and nutrition. Also, the series tells the benefits of a vegan diet, which includes good s3x, long life, and a healthy heart. Go through the article till the end if you are scrambling to the web regarding You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. Continue reading this article and take a look below.
You Are What You Eat Twin Experiment
Identical twins recorded the effects of a vegan diet and meat-eating diet for several months, shown in You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, a new Netflix documentary based on the research. The series shows the impact of a vegan diet on health and nutrition. The previous vegan documentary Netflix series also changed the way people think about plant-based diets. It has been four years since the previous vegan documentary was released on Netflix.
After four years, director Louie Psihoyos came up with another vegan documentary to leave a similar impact on people to look at plant-based diets. The newly vegan documentary is titled “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment” streaming on Netflix in time for Veganuary. To note, this documentary is based on the study of Stanford comprised of 22 pairs of identical twins where one was put on a meat-eating diet and the other on a plant-based diet, published in November. Continue reading this article and scroll down the page.
The Stanford study targeted to control the genetic differences and influence of different diets on lifestyle reflecting the existing research about the impact of a plant-based diet on cardiovascular health-heart disease which is one of the leading reasons for deaths in the United States. Speaking of the stars featured in the Netflix documentary, features vegan cheese queen Miyoko Schinner, founder of Impossible Foods Pat Brown, Chef Daniel Humm who starred in three-Michelin (of Eleven Madison Park fame), Cory Booker (US senator), Tracye McWQuirter who is a public health nutritionist, author of Clean Disruption Tony Seba, founder of alt-meat company Prime Roots Kimberlie Le, and co-founder of Wicked Kitchen Chad Sarno. Swipe down the page and read more details.
Netflix Twins Diet Documentary
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment has four episodes on Netflix. All four episodes of the documentary underscore the Stanford study which shows the struggles and successes of the twins and concerns about the dietary guidelines, shiting to vegan diet cooking, and the result of the study. Let’s discuss the result of the Stanford study around which You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment documentary revolves. Swipe down.
The study focused on food plant-based diets and meat-eating diets comprised of fish, chicken, eggs, dairy, cheese, and other animal-derived eating substances, involving the participants being drawn blood from at three points and weighed. Speaking the most amount of change was seen in the first month with those on a complete plant-based diet showing lower levels of LDL cholesterol, body weight, and insulin. All these factors are associated with better cardiovascular health than those eating meat. Take a look below for more details.
At the start of the Stanford study, the average baseline LDL cholesterol level was 118.5 mg/dL for participants based on meat diets and 110.7 mg/dL for those based on vegan diets. By the end, the latter dropped to 95.5 and the former to 116.1 with the optimal LDL cholesterol level below 100. In addition, the plant-based diet-following participants exhibited a drop of 20 percent in fasting insulin, while the unversed with higher insulin levels carried a risk of developing diabetes, and lost weight with an average of 1.9kg than the participants who were based on meat diets.
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment delves deep into health and nutrition, focusing deeply on factors like the inaccuracy of BMI versus using metrics like microbial, body composition, gut bacteria composition, telomeres loss which reduces aging, sexual factors not unlike what The Game Changers highlighted, and visceral fat which accumulates around your organs. Michael Greger who is a nutritionist and plant-based advocate said, “What we put in our mouths is more important than anything else. We’re as sure that processed meat causes cancer as we are that cigarette smoke causes cancer and plutonium causes cancer.” The documentary’s biggest pull was Humm who transformed his New York City eatery into a vegan diet. Stay tuned to this website for more details and further updates.