THE SCIENCE OF HEALTHY EATING:

Topol said he was so interested in how the gut microbiome—the ecosystem of microorganisms that live in the human digestive system—impacts health that he signed up for a study with the Weizmann Institute of Science to spend a week measuring his own body’s response to food. What he found shocked him: Oatmeal was spiking his glucose to potentially dangerous levels, but bratwurst was rated as an A-plus food for him.

But note that after this, he’s still a science-denier. “‘Is it gonna change my whole nutritional plan? No,’ said Topol, who, as a cardiologist, indicated a reticence to eat a bunch of sausage.”