Medical Medium Podcast

Nutritional yeast has always been heralded as a highly nutritious food source, but is it really? Or has nutritional yeast only just gotten good for us because the word ‘nutritional’ was placed in front of the yeast and we are being fooled? These days nutritional yeast is thrown on almost everything that is in the healthy snack food arena to give fun foods an extra tasty kick. Many people who love their “Nooch” never want to let it go and they believe nutritional yeast is highly nutritious and they are giving their body something it really needs to stay healthy. For many, this gives them permission to be generous as to how much nutritional yeast they consume, and leads to lots of “Nooch” in and on everything they eat: hummus, mac and cheese, oat meal, rice, dips, dressings, chips, cookies, cakes, salads, soups, sauces, and pretty much sprinkled on everything. Sounds so good and innocent, doesn’t it? But what is it that we don’t know about this fortified tasty yeast? What is it we should know? Surprisingly, the