323: Vitamins And Minerals 101
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What can we do to ensure we're getting the most essential vitamins and minerals in our diet each day? Chris Masterjohn has a PhD in nutritional sciences and, today, he helps us get clarity on how to go about it.
Right off the bat, he recommends turning to food first. He highlights the benefits of liver (especially for women) and the importance of DHA and arachidonic acid for gut health, to resolve skin issues and improve neurological function, in addition to avoiding off omega-3 and omega-6 deficiencies.
He also offers his own personal recipe for a perfect whole-food "multi-vitamin." In short, he equips us with a better idea of what our bodies need and how to provide for them.
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| 0:00.0 | And the food first approach basically means that supplements are called supplements for |
| 0:04.9 | reason. |
| 0:05.9 | It's because they supplement a good diet, not replace a good diet. |
| 0:08.6 | And I think there are numerous reasons why you should try to get all the nutrients that |
| 0:13.4 | you need from food before you add anything else to your diet. |
| 0:18.0 | And then there are also numerous reasons why it would be better to use superfood supplements |
| 0:22.8 | than isolated vitamins and minerals. |
| 0:25.8 | But I'm not ideological about it and I do think that there is a place for supplementing |
| 0:30.5 | isolated vitamins and minerals. |
| 0:32.1 | I think it just is a very much a case by case basis. |
| 0:35.3 | But there's no reason to think that the average person can't meet the average person's |
| 0:39.4 | requirement for all the vitamins and minerals from food. |
| 0:48.5 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:53.8 | in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:56.4 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 1:01.1 | health. |
| 1:02.1 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:10.1 | Which are the most essential nutrients for good health? |
| 1:13.4 | Which foods and supplements should we make sure to include in our diet so that we can |
| 1:17.5 | live our best lives? |
| 1:19.1 | This is episode 323 and our guest today is Chris Master John. |
| 1:23.8 | Chris earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012. |
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