🎙 Celebrating 100 Episodes of Science, Sanity, and a Little Sarcasm
This is it — our 100th episode of FORK U.
Over the last hundred episodes, we’ve gone from goat-gland hucksters to the microbiome, from Kellogg’s enemas to cholesterol chemistry, and from Blue Zones to bird flu.
Today, we look back — not just to celebrate the great scientists who shaped modern medicine, but to expose the modern influencers who sell that same science back to you in a bottle.
Welcome to The FORK U Hall of Fame and Shame.
🧠 The Hall of Fame
🩺 Dr. Ancel Keys — The Misunderstood Scientist
Dr. Ancel Keys didn’t make guesses — he made measurements.
He and his team built one of the most detailed long-term studies in the history of medicine.
They went village by village across seven countries.
They collected what people ate, sent food samples back to labs, recorded EKGs, drew blood, and reviewed medical charts — not for a few months, but for decades.
That’s what science looks like: patient, precise, persistent.
Critics like Gary Taubes claim Keys “left out countries.”
That’s false — and it only proves they never read his work.
Keys studied cohorts of men within small villages, followed them carefully over the years to learn how diet and disease connected.
Without today’s molecular tools, he still discovered the pattern that modern science later confirmed:
ApoB — the protein attached to LDL cholesterol — is transported into the arterial wall, starting the process of atherosclerosis.
Keys didn’t chase fame. He chased truth.
His data became the foundation of preventive cardiology.
If you want to honor him, drizzle olive oil instead of conspiracy.
And a personal note — my thanks to Dr. Harry Blackburn, who worked with Keys and has kindly shared insights from those pioneering days.
💉 Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best — The Children Who Woke Up
In 1922, Banting and Best discovered insulin.
Before that, children with diabetes slipped into comas and died.
After the first injections, they woke up.
Their parents fed them well, but diet alone couldn’t save them.
Good science did.
It was one of medicine’s greatest moments — and still saves lives every day.
🧬 Dr. Kanehiro Takaki — The First Vitamin
Before anyone even knew the word vitamin, Japanese surgeon Dr. Kanehiro Takaki saw sailors dying from beriberi.
Using early ideas of epidemiology, he realized the problem wasn’t infection but nutrition.
He changed their diet — adding barley and vegetables — and the disease vanished.
Takaki brought Japan into modern medicine.
Even Dr. Charles Mayo admired him.
Had he lived longer, he would likely have shared a Nobel Prize.
🧫 Dr. Leonard Hayflick — The Original Longevity Doctor
In 1961, Dr. Leonard Hayflick discovered something remarkable:
Human cells divide about fifty times, then stop — the Hayflick Limit.
He proved aging isn’t mystical. It’s biological.
Every division shortens a cell’s life clock until it retires.
His research wasn’t about nutrition, but it changed everything about how we understand aging and regeneration.
He was the first true longevity doctor — without supplements, slogans, or selfies.
❤️ The DASH and Portfolio Diet Teams
The DASH Diet — Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension — came from a dream team of researchers.
- Dr. Lawrence Appel at Johns Hopkins led the NIH...
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