Business Innovators Radio - Surfing the Sea of Supplementation

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

Step in any store toting nutrition and you’ll likely see shelves stocked floor to ceiling with potential supplements. From Acai to Zinc, the sheer quantity can be truly overwhelming. But what do you really need? And what really matters when choosing your supplements?On this episode, Dr. Dan and Angela dive into the sea of supplementation including picking the right strategies, analyzing quality considerations, supplementation cycles, and the importance of diet foundations first. They review research on ancestral diets, absorption challenges with poor quality supplements, and impacts across brain health, energy, immunity, muscles, joints and more. If you are considering a new supplement plan or wondering if your current routine isn’t serving you as well as it should, get ready to take some notes!To learn more about this and other hot health topics, follow us on social media and subscribe to our WTH podcast. If you have a specific health question or would like to find out if we can help you with a personal health challenge, check out our office page or contact us at 412-369-0400/ [e-mail] always, our mission is to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy for a Lifetime!What the Health?!https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/what-the-health/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/surfing-the-sea-of-supplementation

Welcome to What the Health, where anything health is fair game as we tackle the trends and bust the myths about health and wellness. Here are your hosts, Dr. Dan and Angela Toro. And welcome to another episode of What the Health. I am. Dr. Dan here with my co-host. Angela, welcome back, everybody. Before we get started, you guys know the drill at this point, our little disclaimer. We're here for informational purposes only, in no way offering individualized medical advice. Always talk to your trusted health care provider before making changes to your lifestyle. So with that being said, I think today's, I think this is a big one, especially this time of year.

We're surfing the sea of supplementation. Yeah, everyone, you know, asking about what they can do to, you know, better their health, new year's resolutions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, what can I do? Yeah, I'm sick, I'm tired, I'm overweight. Yeah, how do I? What's the magic pill? Yeah, oh my God. What's the next magic bowl?

Oh gosh. And, you know, we're just in unnated with all of the advertisements for all the clickbait is what I call it. But, you know, take this and lose 30 pounds. And, you know, take, oh, here, this is all you need to do is take this one thing and or buy this supplement. Take this drink. Do this. It's just, it is. It's very, it's very tempting. But it can be very, very overwhelming and very expensive if you're constantly caught up in whatever, the newest, you know, I don't want to say. fad, but new as fad or newest biohack, newest, you know, oh, this is, this is the next big thing for weight loss or energy or boost your brain. Yeah, build muscle, boost your brain. Yeah, like all the, all those buzzwords that you, that you often see associated with, with supplementation. So how, you know, where, where do we even start when we're trying to think about, you know, do we need to be taking supplements, which ones, how much, you know, where just, you know, if somebody's just out there completely lost or

or maybe they have that entire cabinet full. And it's like, do I really need all of this? You know, where should we really start when it comes to that? Well, and I think that's the most important, you know, to start with the foundation of what we, what is our philosophy on supplementation? And it is just that it's in the word, supplement. That's what is a supplement. Supplement is in addition to a good, healthy quality diet.

Yeah, like all, like all those supplemental readings you were supposed to do. It's cool. It's like, wait, something not required? Oh, supplemental. Yeah, then that's where half the test questions come from. It's like, oh, shoot. But yes, this is always, always, always in addition to a good, you know, healthy, well-rounded diet. And I know we have talked, we have over-inundated people with our talks about and discussions about what to eat and when to eat.

But yeah, today we just really want to focus on, you know, supplements. and, you know, when is a good time, maybe what would, what should you be taking, could you be taking, and maybe some reasoning behind it. You know, I am not, I am not the practitioner. I really, I cycle personally, I cycle my supplementation, you know, meaning that, you know, I will go a couple weeks and be really, really good with it. and then I will go, you know, a couple weeks and, you know, not be taking it depending on, you know, my routine, depending on what it is. And I think just like with foods, when you cycle different foods through the season, it's good to give your body a break and it helps it adapt better. You know, I find that it just works better for me personally, you know, and again, a lot of the supplements that we recommend that you take, if you look at fat soluble vitamins, if you look at essential fatty acids, a lot of those are. stored in your system because they're fat soluble, whereas more of the water-soluble vitamins are not. So, you know, I'll just ask you straight up, Angela.

Is there anything that you take every day and you absolutely will take it the rest of your life? You already know the answer to that. I'm so bad. I am the one that has the cabinet full of supplements that I occasionally remember to take. But occasionally remember, yeah. So I would say the big ones that I try to be good about are the EFAs, which are the essential fatty acids. So a lot of people think of fish oil is how it's kind of mainstream marketed. But what's really nice about ours, which is why I like ours and I continue with it,

is because I actually notice a difference when I'm off it for too long. It actually has the blend, again, of the different types of fatty acids, so not just from the fish oil, but the different sources. When I found that very interesting, and the reason I brought that to our office, you know, fish oil is strictly omega-3. And again, you know, if you get a fish oil... Which is good. It's good. Yeah, absolutely.

You know, essential fatty acids. Omega-3s are so important. And there's mounds of research on the amount of omega-3s in our ancestral diets versus, you know, our current modern-day diet. And it's been significantly reduced. So, you know, so many scientists were like, well, we need to get that ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 up because a lot of people, you know, because a lot of the processed fats, you know, the seed oils, you know, from processed foods and french fries and all, you know, fried foods. That's all omega-6 oil. But, again, it's, that's processed and it's, you know, it's fried oil. So we're over-innidated with the omega-6s and then we don't get enough omega-3.

So the whole idea of fish oil was to help with that ratio and up the omega-3. The challenge is omega-3s, omega-6s and omega-9s are still required. They are also an essential fatty acid. And you should be getting them from a good quality source. So taking a blended supplement allows you to get omega-3-6 and 9 and just get it into your system. In the right ratio. Yeah, in the right ratio. But the one thing, and the reason I went to the blended supplement a while back was because, you know, I was actually talking to, you know, one of the researchers at a convention that I went to, and they were talking about different tissues in the body use omega-3, 6, and 9 in different ratios.

Yeah. So by just over-intinating your body with a bunch of omega-3s, you might be missing out on some of the 6s and 9s, especially. coming from a good quality product to make sure that those tissues are getting the right ratio. So, yeah, we just say here, here's the, here's the blend. Yeah. It's a good quality plant-based supplement for the sixes and the nines and also has the fish oil in it as well for the omega-3s. And so you're getting all of the essential fatty acids, you know, that should be in our diet and, you know, again, how we were genetically created to have a lot of those oils in our system. And those are the building blocks.

of, you know, of really every cell in the body. Yeah. Every cell in the body, you know, has a phospholipid bilayer. Every cell in the body has that. If you're, you know, if you remember back to biology or, you know, you're in the science, you know, you're very, very familiar with the phospholipid bilayer. But when it says lipid, that means fat. Those fats are made from omega-3-6 and 9.

So if you don't have those building blocks, then you literally will start to get fault You can have faulty membranes in some of the cells and you can have a lot of damage new healthy cells You know don't turn over in a good healthy ratio when they're dividing So omega three six and nine It's just so important and you know and think about it like the lubrication to your engine You know you don't put oil in your engine for 30,000 miles You're gonna learn very quickly how important that oil is So it's same idea with your body it's like it's used in

in, you know, so many different biochemical pathways that if you just make sure that it's in your system. Now, I'm not saying you can't get it in foods because you absolutely can. You know, what are some of the foods that we can get our. Yeah, and that's probably why I cycle with the supplement. So the good fatty fishes, your salmon, um, walnuts, your fatty nuts, you know, things like that. If you're, if you're eating that in enough quality, it's actually not that difficult to get enough. It's just the type of foods that we don't tend to get, eat a lot of in, in, in, this country. So yeah, I mean, if you're eating, if you're eating the fatty fish is a couple

times a week, if you're eating, you know, a handful of those, you know, walnuts, almonds. Brazilian nuts. Brazilian nuts is probably one of the best. You know, if you're eating that daily, you're probably getting close to what you need. But again, it's just that the number of people that are actually doing that and on a regular basis is that's where you really want to make sure that you're getting that supplementation if you're not getting enough of it in your diet. But yeah, those healthy fats absolutely are. And the reason it's called essential is because they are essential to the body, but the body

does not synthesize them. So you have to get them from your diet or from that supplementation. Yeah. Anytime you hear the word essential in nutrition, it means that you must ingest it because your body does not make it. So, yeah, so essential fatty acid is literally the acids. Yeah. The fats that your body needs to make a lot of the different foods.

biochemical reactions so yeah so that's that is one that we recommend a lot um especially people having you know joint pain uh you know just again overall means it's good for heart health it's good for the entire brain yeah your brain yeah your brain literally 70% fat yeah your heart runs on fat yeah your heart runs on like you don't realize that but um you're yeah those those really important organs that we that we need to function really need that that healthy fat so if you're not getting it from your diet, which as we talked about, the standard American diet, the sad diet that people tend to follow is way too much of the processed, unhealthy fats and not enough of the good balance between the three, six, and nine. So that's where, again, a good supplement

can certainly come into play. So yeah, that's one I definitely keep on hand. I'd say the other one. And real quick, just going back to the cycle, because it's a fatty based supplement, and your body will store some of it, that's one where I might take it for a couple days, but that I'll take a handful, you know, and I'll just, you know, if a serving size, you know, if we recommend three daily and I miss a couple days in a row, I might take six one day, you know,

and I'll just pop them in my hand and, you know, throw them back. So, again, that's something that's just cycling it through and having it there. Oh, I forgot a couple days. Well, no big deal, just, you know, toss it in your system. Get it back in, yeah. Your body knows what to do with it. Exactly, exactly.

But then, yeah, I'd say the other one, especially this time of year, is the vitamin D, which is absolutely so important and so difficult to get naturally if you live in a lovely gray city like we do. Pittsburgh, I think is, I know it used to be. I believe it's number two to Seattle as far as least number of sunny days in a year. So vitamin D again, your body has the ability to naturally synthesize, but it needs the sun. It requires that sunshine, the right amount of it, direct contact to the skin, and it needs

to be the right season. So, like, you know, this time of year, even if we see the sun, it's not close enough and you're not going to get enough of that, enough of the UV rays to actually create that synthesis process. Yeah, not quite enough of that, yeah, just because of the angle of the sun in relationship to where we are in the earth. So if you live, yeah, if you live somewhere closer to the equator that you're seeing the sun year round, yes, you would, you know, be, you know, be fun you're you know you likely would not need a supplement unless you have something going some reason your body's not doing it naturally but yeah here i'd say you know the majority of people in Pittsburgh are probably walking around low in vitamin D if not deficient and um and that's you know

it's concerning because again that one vitamin D plays a huge role in yeah the number of connections and low vitamin D and autoimmune disorders um you know immunity in general yeah general you know you know, cancer, energy. Yeah, it's just, it is, it's classified as a vitamin, but it really, there's a lot of researchers that push that it actually are starting to call it more of a hormone because of its interaction in so many different biochemical processes in the body. Yeah. So that, yeah, so that is one, that is what I do try to do daily, which the one we have in the office

makes it easy because it's that, like the little, like a little dab on your finger. It's not even a full pill. Yeah, yeah. And the other important thing, too, is making sure that it is D3, which is the natural version that your body would synthesize in the sun. Again, science is famous for creating or trying to reproduce nature. And so we have synthetic vitamin D2, which is, you know, a lot of times when you see people prescribed, like the 50,000 units and you just take one pill a week, a lot of times those are. are, those are synthetic. Yeah, the D-2.

And I've actually, I had, I've had patients come in and then having, like, excruciating muscle pain. And, you know, they couldn't figure out why. And sure enough, I linked it back to them starting a vitamin D supplement regimen from their medical doctor. And sure enough, it was D2. And it just, you know, just sat in their muscle and just was causing excruciating muscle pain. So as soon as you get them off of that and onto a good quality D3, makes such a difference. And then the other thing that you have to add that our office has also transitioned to

is making sure the absorption of D3 is important. So you have to have K, vitamin K2, which goes along with that. And a lot of the good quality supplement brands now, they offer D3 with the K2 just to make sure that your body is getting enough of that. I think, again, in part is if you're okay, a lot of times comes in green leafy vegetables. And so if you already have a poor quality diet and you just don't have a good microbiome going on, you know, maybe some breakdown of like the mucus lining, you're just not going to get the same absorption rate in your small intestine for some of these good healthy nutrients. So, you know, just making sure that they're there in the supplement can just optimize.

that as you hopefully make the transition and decision to clean that diet up. Yeah. And that brings up such a key point when it comes to supplementation in general, which is quality is always going to be the key thing to look for. So supplements are not regulated in the same way that prescription drugs are. And now again, that's not necessarily like there's pros and cons to that. It's because again, there's things. and prescription drugs that are, you know, also concerning.

But the thing with supplements is because they're not regulated, unless they are third party tested, a sort of, you know, like the one's the brand that we carry in the office. So basically a third party is taking them and testing them and saying that, yes, what is on the label is, in fact, what is in the supplement. If you go to, you know, your local drugstore and pick up, yeah, and pick up a supplement off the shelf,

if it is not third party certified, there is absolutely zero guarantee that what is on the label is what you're actually getting. You don't know there could be additional stuff in it. There could be stuff missing. There could again not be the right version because there are so many different versions of who I was saying. Yeah, synthetic versus natural. Yeah. There's different combinations of things where it makes it more effective or less effective, more easily absorbed or less easily absorbed. So all of these things are really important because if you're taking a supplement that's not put together in the right way with the good quality ingredients that are going to be absorbed, you're essentially just... I was also just flush it down with. Literally, yeah.

And actually, I know there were there've been studies done with the one-a-day multivitamins. Now, this was, I can't save currently, you know, but I remember back in college when, you know, when I was learning about supplements and they said they actually took, they actually like took in the gene of people. people's stomachs after taking a one-a-day vitamin and could see it in full form through the entire digestive tract. It was never actually broken down. I've seen x-rays of people in their colon. It's just sitting. What is that? Yeah, you can track it through because it just never actually gets broken down and absorbs. Well, that goes to the whole what the whole question of what is in the supplement. And a lot of times, again, comes down to cost. right and you get what you pay for yeah and when you're you know buying that vitamin and you know

thousand capsules or tablets off your big box store and um you know you look at it a lot of times the binders and fillers in there it's a very high heat process they're going to put you know whatever you know supplement synthetic product in there so that they can put it on a label but then they pack it full with so many binders and fillers to maintain a shelf life um you know that's one of the frustrations that we deal with is like you know some of our supplements they have a quick shelf life and if they don't sell it's like well shoot now we just now we're going to take it off of there because it's more like food yeah it's much closer to food grade quality um you know compared to some of those big box stores you know some of those vitamins will you know we'll be sitting

next to the twinkies after the nuclear holocaids we'll always have twinkies in one a day because they're packed so full with binders and fillers and that's just what you said it's like in the body that even your stomach acid, especially a lot of people have weak stomach acid as it is, and so they can't even begin to break down the vitamin. So, you know, they're not lying about what the ingredients are in there, but it's packed so tightly. Your body's never seen any of that. And again, it's such a cheap quality, you know, process to, you know, get as many in. And that's also why if you look at the serving size, you know, they pack that serving size fully. You know, you'll see, you know, 5,000 percent, 10,000 percent of your day. Yeah, because you're not even close to it.

absorbing that. And so, you know, so that's where, again, you get what you pay for, quality over quantity. Yeah. And again, a good quality supplement doesn't have to be, you know, because again, you could be out there spending a lot of money on, again, on some of those fad ones that we were talking about and that still aren't good qualities. So, you know, pray, yeah, you really want to just make sure that you're doing the research, making sure that things are certified in some way. you'll see on the labels, you know, that they're, you know, third party certified. And you just want to make sure that. And the best way that, you know, to do it is to work with, again, you know,

chiropractors or a natural doctor who has a, work with a health practitioner who has them on their shelf that they know and they've done the research and they've talked with the company. And so, you can't even get our supplement. You can't buy it on Amazon or something else. Yeah, yeah. You have to be a licensed health care. provider because then they, you know, they check your license and they make sure that they're giving the product to someone who, again, at least has somewhat of an idea of what they're doing and what they're giving. And a lot of the, you know, a lot of the good companies are. So, I mean, I don't

think I would even buy a supplement off the shelf anymore if it didn't come from a healthcare practitioner that I knew and trusted. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you really just, yeah, that's, that's the biggest thing is that is the quality. And then, you know, and then again, making sure, as we were saying, you know, it's a supplement. So making sure that you're not just taking everything because you, you know, oh, I heard this is good for this and this is good for this. And, you know, like, again, we carry a handful of supplements in the office, but, you know, we're not personally taking all of them. We wouldn't, we wouldn't tell anybody that you should be taking all of them. You want to, you know, I'm very honest with people when they're like, oh, I'm already taking this and this. Should I add this? And it's like, no, that's kind of all the same. Because we have things that have like different combinations of stuff.

Yeah, exactly. So it's like, well, if you're already taken, you know, our multi has pretty much everything in it. So, you know, if you're taking that, you might not need to add some of these other things in as much. And the other thing that we talk about with our multi, because even if you look at the serving size of our multi, it's six capsules. And again, going back to the argument of, you know, some of the poor quality products, they pack it in really tightly in a tablet form. And you're never going to absorb it. Ours are capsules where the capsule is designed to break down very quickly. and now you have that powder that dissipates, you know, into your digestive tract and is now much more easily absorbed.

But you have to take six of them versus one big tablet. So some people are like, whoa, you know, that's a lot. But again, because it's more like food, you know. Yeah. But again, even though the serving size is six, a lot of times I'll tell people, take three a day, you know, and just get that in your system. And if that is in conjunction with a healthy diet, yeah. You know, well-balanced, well-rounded diet, you're going to get your fill of, you know, of your vitamins, you know, what would they call it? Minimum daily requirement. You know, I forget all the terms now on the, you know, the percentages.

But, yeah, at the end of the day, making sure that, you know, you're getting enough, you're getting the right quality. Yeah. And honestly, it's like, you know, it's not magic where it's, you know, you're going to take. one serving and you're going to notice something, but what I tell people is if you're taking something that you truly need, you should notice some kind of change. So, you know, like I said, if I don't take the fatty acids for a while and the diet's not what it should be, I will start to notice that things feel achy. I'm not recovering from my workhouses. Yeah, the fatigue. You know, same with the, you know, vitamin D and the energy levels or the B vitamins, the energy

level is huge. That's the one I just discovered recently where I was like, oh wow, I'm like, I have so much more energy. I'm not happy in every day because I don't eat a lot of red meat. So I realized I probably wasn't getting sufficient B vitamins. Yeah, especially with your level of activity and how much you're burning through those and your workouts. So it was like that was one of those. I was like, oh, hey, what do you know? But you should be magnesium. That's another one I take. That's a daily for me. And that's one where it's again. If I don't, I don't, you know, I do the Epsom salt bass almost daily, probably at least every other day. But if I don't, I'm definitely taking the supplement.

And sometimes I still do the supplement on top of it just because, again, with my... How many milligrams you take a day? I do, because I do the Epsons salt so regularly, I do 200 if I took a bath, 300 if I didn't. Yeah, and that is, I, I'll be honest, I have not really delved into the reaffed into the research much on magnesium. But again, I've heard some of the buzzwords and some other trusted health professionals of people that I go to from my information talk about how magnesium is probably one of the most underconsumed, you know, nutrients in our diet and just how we are almost all, kind of like how vitamin D was, you know, how we are almost all deficient in it.

And again, magnesium, it's important. The magnesium, and, you know, it's important. And, you know, different, you know, this goes for all supplements, but calcium, you know, if you look, calcium can be bound to a couple different molecules. Yeah. And those different molecules have different absorption rates in different bodies. But a lot of times, and this goes back to the quality, right, if you look at like calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate is chalk. Yeah. And a lot of times when you look at a calcium supplement off the, you know, off the shelf, look at it. Look at tongues. I was just about to say, to to chum, tom, tum, you know.

The edible chaw. Yeah, it's like, it's literally chalk in your system. But the absorption rate on that type of calcium is so low. That's why if you take a calcium supplement, you'll see how significantly high percentage the recommended dosage is, you know, so they want you to take, you know, 5,000, 10,000 percent of it. The same thing with magnesium. A lot of times magnesium is bound to a number of different ones. And there's like three big ones.

I'm going to forget what they're off top of my head. Glycinate is magnesium glycinate is one of them. But there's, yeah, like three major, you know, compounds that magnesium can be bound with. And again, different absorption rate. So a good quality magnesium supplement will tend to have, you know, three or four of the different, you know, molecules that magnesium is bound with. So that, again, depending on the person, you know, you know, and then, you know, you know, uh, molecules. said you're going to get that um you know you're going to get the absorption rate that you're looking for but um i have really really moved to you know if someone has any sort of muscle tension

you know headache energy uh challenge um you know just overall joint pain like good quality magnesium supplement 400 milligrams a day um i had a gentleman who i was working with this past week it was like yeah um you know he was getting really really bad headaches again under a lot of stress and his started a new nonprofit organization under a lot of stress financially because of that and just having excruciating, you know, back of the head headaches and going down into his neck, really, really restricted in his neck. You know, again, getting some changes on his thermal scans that we use in the office, but it was like, you know, just not quite the expectation because he was young, you know, he was in his early

40s. I would expect, usually I expect a certain amount of, you know, change and reduction in a pain level, you know, after a certain number of visits. And, you know, he just didn't quite seem to be getting there. And I'm like, you know what? Take magnesium. Try magnesium. He started it on Friday by Monday when he came back in. His headache was like almost completely gone. And that was after, again, you know, nine or 10 out of 10 pain headaches for, you know, almost three months. So, you know, that kind of stuff, it's like, you know, magnesium. And again, part of it is we've been so over-innundated with calcium for so long.

Oh, take calcium, take calcium, take calcium. But calcium and magnesium work in exchange in the body. And if you over-intidate the body with calcium, a lot of times it'll supersede the magnesium. And so, yeah, really, I don't even recommend calcium supplements anymore. I just don't think, you know, if you're getting good leafy green vegetables and you don't need calcium from milk. Yeah.

You know, if you're getting some good leafy green vegetables in there and you're doing a good job with, and even if you eat any meat too, you know, because calcium is in, you know, muscle, animal muscle tissue. So if you're getting red meat, you know, you're eating chicken, you're getting calcium levels, you know, pretty sufficiently in your diet. So I don't even recommend calcium anymore, but I will move more to magnesium, unless, of course, someone has, you know, severe, you know, they're heading towards osteopenia or perosus. Yeah, that's a different. But again, as we always talk about, you know, it's almost more important that they're up moving around, I was saying, yeah, there's resistance to their body, you know, to maintain that,

uh, that balance there. So anyway, I just went on a lot for magnesium. No, but again, it is. It's, it's that important and especially anyone who is active, um, for sure. But yeah, like we said, so many people that, you know, getting muscle cramps at night or, you know, just those, those unexplained aches and pains and a lot of those can be, uh, can be easily taking care of with these supplements and that's and that's I think that's really how we like to focus it too because you know again we could easily say tell everybody oh just take this multi-bibibibate but again being able to pinpoint and then again somebody like that you know if they were you know if we started them on 20 supplements you would know what yeah so it's like okay you started this one immediately feel

better well clearly that's having an impact so then you can get to the point that you're just you know you have it in that maintenance that maintenance cycle and if you find something that works stick with it and make sure that you're making that part of your part of your routine. And again, not necessarily doing too much, letting the body naturally do what it can, get what you can from the diet, you know, your diet, your lifestyle, all of that. But then again, supplementing what you truly need because it's either too difficult to get from the diet or just, you know, again, this are overly processed, convenience-based food. food is really detrimental and that's, you know, we talk about that a lot. So just, yeah,

making sure that you're doing what you can to help give your body what it truly needs. Again, the essential, the essential nutrients making sure that it's not going too long without those so that it's able to function. Again, if you're having unexplained fatigue, brain fog, achiness, digestive issues, you know, just kind of all that unexplained stuff, sometimes it really just comes back down to the, you know, to the diet and to those basic nutrients. And are you getting, you know, we have more access to food than any, any country. Yeah, anytime in our history. Yeah, anytime in our history.

And yet we are probably sickest, like, sickest, surprisingly malnourished. And it's just, yeah, it's not. Overfed undernourished. Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, making sure that you're really giving your body that those basic, it's, we always say it's simple but it's not easy you know it's like look at our ancestors what they lived on it was very basic and um you know you can argue which ancestral type diet is best but again the basis of

all of that is it was real food it was if it was meat it was real meat if it was you know plants it was real plants yeah that's a great point because that you know i still in fact i just had a patient yesterday recommend this one documentary that she started watching on Netflix and and you know it was a limited docket series and so I did I started watching it but I could immediately already tell just in the first episode of like how they're starting to push a little bit one way or another and it's like you know the problem comes down to quality right you know if you look at like the Inuit population you know northern Canada and you know Alaska region like 70% of their calories came from blubber off of whales and yet they you know had a

population that lived very very healthfully they didn't have you know they didn't have levels of cancer heart disease diabetes so it's like you can't sit here and again that was their argument like oh animal fats and saturated fats and I'm like 70% of their diet was saturated fat and they don't have a history of heart disease or cancer or all this other BS so it's like you know that's that's where We've talked about this on other podcasts and I'll get off my soapbox. But, you know, when there's an agenda involved in a documentary or trying to push a certain diet, like, you know, you. Or a certain supplement. Or a certain supplement.

You have to watch and you have to know who's funding it, where, you know, and what are they trying to get to? There are populations in the world who have survived very, very healthfully off of almost as strictly carnivore or, you know, meat, blubber, fat diet. There are other populations in the world that Strictly plant-based. Plant-based vegan diet, like almost no animal meat other than maybe a little fish. So there is such a wide variety and there are ways to get it in everything.

And there's even, you know, there's even ways to actually get certain blood testing to know what you'll be sensitive to. We'll talk about that on a whole other podcasts. But really at the end of the day, I don't think it's necessarily one specific, perfect diet for any one person. It's about each of us, you know, we're such a melting pot anymore of different

ancestries, right? And I think that's why we're, you know, struggling so much in this country. I mean, it's because, again, we have access to all of this garbage, actually, that's designed to be delicious and addicting and make you want to keep eating it, even though it's literally killing you. And, you know, whenever, yeah, you see people that are like, oh, I can't believe that, you know, anybody still smokes in this day and age. you know how bad it is for you.

It's like, I can't believe anybody eats McDonald's. Yeah. Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. I mean, it's like,

you could say that about literally anything that's chemically, you know, processed and made. It is designed to be addicting and you might not even realize how addicted you are to this.

You find MSG and any processed food and that literally is a chemical that changes to brain chemistry. Oh my God. Yeah, lights up the brain. So,

but the point is, yeah, it's like, but then we talk about, you know, we like, we like to look at all these different cultures, but the difference with those cultures is that they, they, that's generations of generations of generations of, of eating that way and being raised that way. And then we're here. We are such a relatively new, new country. And we have blended from so many different. Yeah, we're so blended that I think, again,

it's like, our bodies sort of are like, what the heck? What the heck should I be doing? Because, you know, you go talk to your one friend and they're like, oh, yeah, I feel great. And you try that. you're like, I feel like crap when I eat that way. And so you go to your other friend and they feel great doing something completely different. And it's, it really, I mean, yeah, I say all the time it's, you know, it's listening to your body. And if you can, you know, and again, if you can partner with a health professional, you're going to do certain testing to see what your blood chemistry shows, to see what some other test show on whether or not what you're doing is helping or harming you, you know, that's important.

Yeah. The fact that this idea that we're just going to have one, you know, just go to see one, you know, medical doctor as your primary health professional on your team. It's just like it's sad, but they don't know anything about, you know, diet. And, you know, they don't even take it. I think they might take a class if anything, you know, they get a couple hours throughout their entire medical training. So it's like, you know, making sure that you're pairing with a professional that is going to, you know, figure out if you're harming or hurting yourself. But anyway, so just to review. sidebar there supplements so the main ones we talked about that you know we kind of are pretty

you know routine about is the omega the blended omega essential fatty acid supplement that would cover omega three six and nine the vitamin d coupled with k2 especially if you're north of the mason vixen you know if you're in the you know the northern half of the united states definitely would I want to consider that in the, you know, late fall through winter, early spring. And then the magnesium, you know, as getting that in on a daily, on a daily basis. But those are kind of like the three big ones. Just to final, is there anything that you cycle for anything specifically? Like if you notice you're feeling under the weather or, you know, training wise, anything that you would do on just like a, you know, hey, this is showing up. I'm feeling this. So I'm going to take

this supplement. I mean, definitely like, I'll say like, like, the, some of the superfood blends. So like we have like the organify, the vitamin, their immunity one that has the vitamin C

and zinc and vitamin D in it. I'll take if I'm feeling something coming on or their greens, pretty much anything that's like a boost of antioxidants. I do more.

I used to do them regularly. And then again, I found I just, I seem to do better. You do better. Cycling. Yeah, where that's a little bit more

of like an as needed, as needed, basis. But yeah, with the with the training I, like I said, the, the magnesium in EFA's, I noticed the biggest kind of biggest difference. But no, I haven't, I've, again, I've tried a lot. I've tried a lot of stuff over the years that's supposed to, supposed to help. But I swear by my absence all baths. That's been the best thing. You know, I do a ton of other stuff for recovery. But yeah, I think again, just trying to. also eat a very good, healthy diet most of the time.

Yes. 80%. I would even argue 90%. I'm pretty, I eat pretty clean. Because I notice that he more, again, like when I eat out, I feel like crap. That's just not worth it. So, yeah, I think, yeah, again, with the supplements, it's, it really is. I will say that I'm the absolute worst. I will.

I try to be regimented. And then, you know, again, the cycling seems to, seems to just work best with my, with my lifestyle and mindset. Again, it's about adaptation, right? You know, you're taking it as a, you know, as a loading dose. And then, again, you go a couple days or a couple weeks without it. Yeah. It's like, you know, your body, your body knows what to do. It's incredibly adaptable.

I mean, that's why, you know, we're able to eat this processed food and still live into our, you know, 60s, you know, very unhealthfully. But the fact that we're able to eat this processed food and still live into our 60s. The fact that we can eat some of this processed food that's essentially poison and the body can still maintain a level of life for six or seven decades. I mean, the life expectancy was low 70s right now, depending on male or female. The fact that we can do that, I think, just shows you the incredible adaptability of the body. And we don't have to eat that absolute pristine diet. but the more we can eat the idealistic, you know, diet, you know, the more healthy you're going to be for a longer, you know, many more decades.

Yeah, so diet, yeah, food first, real food, whole food first, supplement what you, yeah, and quality, quality is key. Very good. Well, if you have any questions, as always, we have a ton of information on our website, Toro, T-U-R-O-Familychiropractic.com. and if any of this resonated with you, if you have more questions, feel free to reach out to us directly,

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