#103: My Recent Bloodwork Results & Hormone Optimization Strategies
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
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🗓️ 5 July 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Team Renegade Coach and future physician, Jack Penner, joins me to discuss the results of my recent blood work, and solutions to common nutrient and hormone deficiencies.
We discuss...
0:30: An overview of today's show and why I wanted to finally get blood work done
1:41: How to identify Vitamin D deficiency and why it's best to supplement with a Vitamin D/K2 combo
8:38: The most common nutrient deficiency that you must address
14:11: How to properly supplement with magnesium
16:31: Common causes of magnesium deficiency
16:54: The downsides of drastically decreasing your red meat consumption
20:57: Anti-oxidant effects of carbohydrates and other unknown benefits of carb consumption
24:48: All about adrenal hormones and what "adrenal fatigue" really means
32:27: The optimal plan to reduce stress and restore proper adrenal function
34:02: How to improve your sleep
36:21: My history of thyroid problems and what fixed it
39:35: My current diet, supplementation, and training regimen
47:16: Why I have decided to increase my protein intake
49:00: Announcing the GenX Mass Movement
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Renegade Radio. |
| 0:18.6 | I am your host Jay Ferrujia here with my good friend, renegade member the future Dr Jack |
| 0:24.8 | Penner thanks for being part of the show today my friend of course my man |
| 0:28.9 | thanks for having me on I'm excited to be here yes so what we're going to get |
| 0:32.0 | into today |
| 0:33.8 | is the results of my blood work |
| 0:38.2 | and what I've been doing. |
| 0:40.4 | As I've mentioned in the past I have gone |
| 0:43.0 | I've always had a bit of a John Wayne thing about going to the doctor, |
| 0:46.0 | don't like going to the doctor, rarely go, |
| 0:49.0 | and you know kind of just put a band-aid on it |
| 0:52.0 | or like Chris Rock used to say rub some |
| 0:54.3 | robot-tussing on it and keep going but I finally finally did it been way too long |
| 1:00.8 | I'm 41 now about to turn 42 shortly so I should have had |
| 1:04.4 | blood work long ago I definitely haven't had it since I moved out here five years |
| 1:07.8 | ago to LA so I finally got in with Dr. Lorry Mustow who is fantastic. I thank my friend pro wrestler John Morrison |
| 1:15.8 | for the reference. Just awesome, awesome person, full spectrum, everything I needed, really works with a ton of pro athletes and celebrities and what not |
| 1:25.7 | So I was lucky enough to get in there and get some blood work done and try to fix some issues that I've been dealing with for a long time and see what I can do to get in my best shape ever at 42. |
| 1:39.0 | So, Jack, you wanted to start, so basically I was I was we'll go through some of the things I was deficient in I was deficient in I was deficient in vitamin D first and foremost |
| 1:51.8 | which surprised me a little bit because I used to take vitamin D regularly, but I stopped taking it and the weather out here hasn't been that great |
| 1:58.8 | So we covered this a little bit in the past, but you know my recovery wasn't that great and one of the |
| 2:05.7 | deficiency whether the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency is achy bones and as |
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