Hello and welcome to a meathead hippie podcast. I am your host, Emily Sharm, sitting in my van

with little griff looking up at me, looking for food. I am so happy you're here. I'm really excited

about this podcast. I want to get really nerdy and just clarify all the things and questions and

confusion around vitamin D, especially when it

comes to wintertime and exposure to the sun, but also vitamin K and the importance of having

a vitamin K with your vitamin D and calcium supplementation. This is a huge one. I have had this big instinct

in my body for a very long time. We get into it in the podcast. This is with Dr. James Monroe.

He is just so wonderful. You know, when you just interview someone and you're just like,

dang, this is such a good combo. So he's an integrative naturopathic doctor. He focuses

on functional medicine, holistic health, all about education, not medical advice. So just really

a beautiful conversation about these supplements, why high quality supplements do cost a little

bit more. With Empirica, my supplement brand, myempirica.com, you can always use

the code Meathead Hippie for 15% off. I made a huge pivot, a huge change where we first were

just taking back plastic bottles like the vitamin C bottles and the Vital B bottles and we were repurposing

them but there's no thing there's nothing to repurpose those bottles with the only bottles that

you can really repurpose are the tubs so I made the decision last year to stop all of these supplements

that weren't the tubs so So now we have these boxes,

these daily packs, these wonderful kind of grab and go recycled box, just a very more in

alignment with my values as like not producing more things in the world because we have enough.

And if you do get the tubs, the magnesium, which of course is so fantastic, or my BCAAs or even

the protein, you can ship back those bottles, those tubs and get recycled credit.

So it's just a fun way to really pull together this all in one. Yes, we're a

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