09 - Emily Oster: The Data-Driven Parent

01/31/20 • 68 min

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Emily Oster, Professor of Economics at Brown University and bestselling author, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her most recent book, "Cribsheet, A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool", her best known method for parenting, and her thoughts on the nature of evidence in the internet age, behavior change and weight loss.

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Dr. Sek Kathiresan, CEO of Verve Therapeutics, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his experiments to map the areas of our genome that are associated with different levels of blood cholesterol, the genetic basis underlying risk of heart attack, and his decision to step away from his roles as Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute, and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, to put all of his efforts into Verve.

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10 - David Ludwig: The Carbohydrate Crisis

Dr. David Ludwig, co-director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his groundbreaking research on the role of sugar and carbohydrates in metabolic disease, the obesity epidemic, his perspective on nutritional research methods, and best practices for a healthy diet.