Watch: What's the Disconnect?

If we know there is a link between nutrition and disease, why is there so much confusion about what optimal nutrition is and how it connects to improving our health outcomes? In this video, Dr. Samara Sterling provides her perspective as a nutrition scientist and explains how conventional medicine perpetuates a disconnect between food and health by focusing on treating symptoms rather than root causes of diseases.

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