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You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

★ 6.1 6K votes 2024–2024 1 seasons · 4 episodes Ended Netflix
DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Food & cookingCooking and food culture at the center.This show: 8/10Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 8/10
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"Nutrition science turned into a breezy family experiment"

This four-part documentary follows pairs of identical twins as each duo splits up to eat different diets, one vegan and one omnivore, over eight weeks, while researchers track the health effects. It's a science-communication show wrapped in a reality-lite format: blood panels and biomarkers mixed with family banter and grocery-store montages. The pace is brisk and the tone earnest rather than sensational, though it leans hard into advocating one dietary conclusion. It works best as a conversation-starter about nutrition science rather than a rigorous, neutral study, and it moves quickly enough not to overstay its welcome.

Watch it for

the twin gimmick, which makes abstract nutrition science feel personal and easy to follow.

Maybe skip if

you want a rigorously neutral scientific study rather than an advocacy-leaning wellness documentary.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Limited Series2024
6.779043h 18m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.16.8
22244 min
2Episode #1.26.7
20045 min
3Episode #1.36.7
17949 min
4Episode #1.46.7
18960 min

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Michael Greger Self
Tony Seba Self

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