The Salience Podcast
Salience is the state, quality or signal that stands out. It's the difference that makes the difference. Each fortnight in The Salience Podcast, we uncover patterns of sensemaking, thinking and acting from the frontiers of human performance, science and art to provide new and improved ways of acting in complex and uncertain times.
The Salience Podcast
Season 4 Episode 11 Dr Jessica Turton
In this episode of The Salience Podcast, we dive into the complex world of nutrition—where even the basics of what we should eat are hotly debated. From carnivore to vegan, low-fat to keto, the conflicting advice can be overwhelming, often driven by ideology or profit rather than science. The result? Declining health, rising chronic disease, and a society that still prefers quick fixes—like pills—over the simple (but not easy) work of eating real food.
Our guest today is Dr. Jessica Turton. Jessica is a nutrition scientist and clinician with a PhD from the University of Sydney, where she researched low-carb diets for diabetes management. Now the Director of Ellipse Health, she helps people cut through the noise to address the root causes of their health struggles—whether it is metabolic disease, gut issues, or disordered eating.
In this conversation, we explore flexible eating, eating for blood sugar control as well as a simple framework for choosing foods that actually nourish you. We also tackle bigger questions: Should governments prioritize personalized nutrition over one-size-fits-all guidelines? How can we teach kids to eat intuitively? And why is modern medicine so bad at addressing the foundations of health?
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