EPI 196: Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD - Making Food Choices Based On NUTRIENT DENSITY. Learn How To Eat (Not How To Diet)

May 08, 2025 2 min read

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Show notes:

(0:00) Intro

(0:45) Dr. Sarah Ballantyne’s background and health journey

(6:37) What does “nutrient density” actually mean?

(8:58) Why current food scoring systems fall short

(13:09) The hardest nutrients to get & why they matter

(18:54) Breaking diet culture rules

(27:09) What a typical day of eating looks like for Sarah

(32:58) Weight loss tips using the Nutrivore philosophy

(39:52) Lifestyle habits for sustainable change

(47:500 Where to learn more about Nutrivore and Dr. Sarah Ballantyne

(49:39) Outro



Who is Dr. Sarah Ballantyne?


Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD, is the founder of Nutrivore and New York Times best-selling author of Nutrivore: The Radical New Science for Getting the Nutrients You Need from the Food You Eat. She creates educational resources to help people improve their diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidence-based scientific research. Dr. Sarah began her career as a science communicator and health educator when she launched her original website in 2011. Since then, Dr. Sarah has continued to follow the science, diving deep into immune health, metabolic health, gut microbiome health, nutritional sciences, and the compelling evidence for health at any size, while also observing the harm of healthism, diet culture, dogmatic misinformation, and predatory marketing. With Nutrivore, Dr. Sarah has created a positive and inclusive approach to dietary guidance based on science and devoid of dogma, using nutrient density and sufficiency as its basic principles: Nourishment, not judgment.



Connect with Dr. Ballantyne:

Website: https://nutrivore.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/drsarahballantyne

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePaleoMom

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@drsarahballantyne


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