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EPISODE · Oct 15, 2025 · 42 MIN

Looking Into The Food Future With Mike Lee

from Watch What You Eat · host Carolyn O'Neil

Host Carolyn O’Neill and food futurist Mike Lee explore the promise and limits of precision nutrition, the romanticization of the “natural” past, and analyze the simplistic rules of food virality, noting media rewards absolutism over science’s nuanced “it depends.” Lee also traces his path from a Detroit restaurant family to Chobani and to his current work at The FutureMarket, and discusses his use of speculative fiction to analyze the future in Mise and The Tomorrow Today podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Carolyn O’Neill and food futurist Mike Lee explore the promise and limits of precision nutrition, the romanticization of the “natural” past, and analyze the simplistic rules of food virality, noting media rewards absolutism over science’s nuanced “it depends.” Lee also traces his path from a Detroit restaurant family to Chobani and to his current work at The FutureMarket, and discusses his use of speculative fiction to analyze the future in Mise and The Tomorrow Today podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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