Marc Bates, a leading metabolic health coach, has announced the release of a comprehensive YouTube video examining how 19th-century religious beliefs fundamentally shaped what is today considered "evidence-based" nutrition science.

The video explores groundbreaking research by Belinda Fettke, revealing that modern dietary guidelines trace back to Ellen G. White's 1863 religious visions and the Seventh-day Adventist Church's theological doctrine rather than peer-reviewed scientific research.

"The foundation of modern dietary guidelines was not scientific but theological, shaped by a 19th-century belief system about morality, purity, and spiritual control," Bates explains in the video. "This revelation reframes much of what is sold as 'settled science' in nutrition as ideologically driven policy masquerading as empirical truth."

The research demonstrates how John Harvey Kellogg, raised under Adventist ideology, invented cereal-based diets to suppress sexual urges and embedded plant-based nutrition into institutional medical education. By 1917, Kellogg-trained dietitians helped found the American Dietetic Association, promoting the "Garden of Eden diet" despite lacking scientific support.

Bates connects this theological foundation to today's metabolic health crisis, where 75% of healthcare expenditures link to metabolic dysfunction. The video highlights five critical biological mechanisms ignored because they contradict religiously-rooted dietary guidelines, including insulin's role as the metabolic switch and the importance of nutrient-dense animal foods.

The educational content invites viewers to examine how religious doctrine merged with food industry interests, driving worldwide low-meat, high-grain guidelines while demonizing animal fats and proteins.

The video is now available on Bates' YouTube channel, supporting his mission to provide evidence-based metabolic health education that transcends cultural biases.