“That Can’t Be True” is a new weekly podcast hosted by Chelsea Clinton about issues that impact our health.

Chelsea Clinton wants to talk about beef tallow.

More broadly, Clinton, the 45-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wants to know what doctors, dieticians, parenting experts and other advocates are saying about hot-button health topics − like beef tallow − and help people sort through the noise and misinformation.

This mission forms the backbone of "That Can't Be True," Clinton's new weekly podcast about public health. New episodes drop each Thursday and dig into the truth about viral health advice and how to make the best decisions for your family.

The former first daughter is a longtime public health champion, serving as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where she raises awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy and health equity. She holds a master's in public health from Columbia University as well as a master's and doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.

After a career in the public and private sectors, the mom of three now aims to leverage her experience in research and advocacy to debunk wellness myths.

"We're awash now, inundated, on social media and other parts of our lives with so much information about what we should be doing, what we shouldn't be doing," Clinton tells USA TODAY. "It's hard for any of us to parse through what's real and what's not."

She spoke to us about what Americans need to know to live healthier, the Make American Healthy Again movement and if she has political aspirations.

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Question: Your podcast helps listeners "fact check your news feed" when it comes to health and wellness. What is something Americans can do to boost their public health literacy, especially online?

Chelsea Clinton: I do think it's important to encourage all of us to go to where we already have trust — our doctors. I also think one of the important habits for all of us when consuming information is to ask: "Who is this person?" "What are their credentials?" and "Why might they be telling me this?"

I would hope in this moment we all could have the same healthy questioning of message and messenger for anyone in the public health arena.

Your podcast addresses hot-button health debates such as raw milk, beef tallow, autism and seed oils. How do you feel these topics illustrate our moment in public health right now?

I grew up listening to my parents use this framework of "We have to pay attention to both the headlines and the trendlines." It is really important to have space to talk about and address what's in the headlines, whether it's seed oils or Tylenol, and also address the trendlines, if we can use that to mean what the corpus of data really says about other areas where we're not spending enough time.

One of the points of conversation I was so thankful to have with (economist, professor and author Emily Oster) was about the importance of sleep. We don't pay attention to sleep in the headlines. It's not the sexiest topic. And yet we have so much evidence that the quantity and quality sleep is really important for kids. It's important to respond to the headlines, to support experts, and also to not be so confused by the headlines we're not giving space and attention to what else we know to be really important to our health and wellbeing.

In your episode featuring Dr. Jessica Knurick you discussed how a lot of scientists and experts are asking a lot of the same questions as the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, but arriving at different answers. How can we start to reach more alignment?

I believe parents overwhelmingly want what is best for our kids. Moms want to make the right choices to ensure our kids are as healthy as possible. It is important to have good faith in these conversations and always be engaging from a point of what we do know the science tells us and what we don't yet know from the science.

I think in this moment where so much of our federal safety architecture is under pressure and under threat of defunding regulations that help protect and increase the quality of the air we breath and the water we drink, it's important (regulation and monitoring of food safety) also be a part of this conversation. When we're having conversations with people in the MAHA movement focused on nutrition, yes, that it is evidence and science based, and also that we don't forget the food safety element, too, which often isn't part of the conversation but should be.

I'm thankful there's increasing focus on the quality and nutritional density of school lunches. That's something Mrs. Obama focused on, something we spend a lot of time at the Clinton Foundation focused on.

We always should be, when there's common ground, finding it, claiming it and building on it.

We can't have these conversations in silos. If we're going to have a conversation about nutrition it has to be encompassing of food safety. If we're going to have a conversation about school lunches, it has to be encompassing of how we're going to help school districts pay for those lunches.

What's one piece of advice to Americans who may disagree with someone else's views on health?

There are many reasons why people might be skeptical. Listening to people's questions and concerns is important. Ask if they can afford the same in return. Always engage from a place of humility and confidence — confidence in what we really do know and humility around what we don't know. There are so many things we still don't know about individual health and wellbeing. But we do know quite a bit about public health. It is really important that we not disconnect from our family and friends and find healthy ways to connect.

Some feedback to the podcast has criticized your background — you have a master’s in public health and a doctorate in international relations. What shapes the voice you bring to the public health space and why should Americans listen to that perspective?

I would never say anyone has to do anything. I only say that to my children. People should listen, read, watch whatever voices feel important to how they want to be informed about the world. Listening to a diversity of voices and in a healthy way − questioning what are those voices are saying to you − is all a healthy dynamic.

I first got interested in public health when I was 11 years old and watched Magic Johnson disclose his HIV status. Listening to newscasters talk about how courageous that was of him, I remember as a little girl wondering: "Why does that require courage?" That got me really interested in stigma with HIV and AIDS, epidemics and diseases. I've been thinking about public health and what effects public health and what motivates people in public health discourse, research and policy for more than 30 years. I've spent a lot of time thinking and wrestling with these questions. I'm clearly deeply passionate about ensuring all of us have access to high quality information to make the right choices. I really hope that comes through in the podcast and people follow up with the guests I'm lucky enough to talk to. I'm really proud to be part of the conversation.

Do you see your thought leadership on public health translating into a political campaign?

Certainly as an advocate. I'm very worried about recent firings at the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) from January onward. The chaos is unhealthy. Losing the people who are true public servants for public health is unhealthy and unhelpful. I have no plans to run for political office, but I believe we're citizens every day not just on election day and public health shouldn't be political in our country. Protecting us from real public health threats shouldn't be political. At the moment (health is) political, and it will be until we can get to the place there's broad agreement that this is in our public interest regardless of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent or have never voted. This is about keeping us healthy and safe.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Chelsea Clinton's public health podcast talks MAHA, moms and raw milk

Reporting by Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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