#417: Austin Baraki, MD – What Do Nutrient Blood Tests Actually Tell Us?: Understanding Biomarkers
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Austin Baraki joins Danny and Alan to critically evaluate the assumption that blood levels of a nutrient directly tell us about overall nutritional status. With many people getting blood tests done outside of clinical settings, there is significant risk of misinterpretation of what these measures mean. In this episode we discuss measures of calcium, sodium, vitamin D and others as examples of where misinterpretation and misunderstanding can happen.
Show notes can be found at sigmanutrition.com/episode417/
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, and here we are. Welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am Daddy Lennon. I'm, of course, here alongside Alan Flannington. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello, Alan. |
| 0:24.0 | How are you? |
| 0:25.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm looking forward to some, I guess we could call it myth busting in many ways on today's topic. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:36.8 | We've been joined by a very special guest, a returning |
| 0:39.9 | guest to the podcast, Dr. Austin Baraki, medical doctor, strength coach, powerlifter, liver |
| 0:48.1 | king fanatic, we can say. We're going to follow up actually on some things that we discussed on that previous |
| 0:55.1 | episode with Dr. Bracki, as well as some areas that we've been touching on in previous episodes |
| 1:01.0 | of this podcast, notably if you've listened to our recent discussions on sodium and health, |
| 1:06.2 | as well as our bone health episode, there will be things that are relevant to that. But I think |
| 1:10.3 | we'll expand on and get into a bit more detail. But before we get to that, welcome to the podcast, |
| 1:16.1 | Dr. Austin Baraki. Hey, thanks for having me. Glad to be back hanging out with you guys. |
| 1:20.8 | We have a lot to get through, but I guess as a nice way into this topic, we have been discussing recently the topic we're going to get |
| 1:29.8 | into today, but it kind of came to mind off the back of the bone health discussion that |
| 1:35.3 | Alan and I had relatively recently. And you were talking to us about a particular point that |
| 1:41.5 | kind of triggered off a series of thoughts that I think we're going to expand on here. |
| 1:45.3 | Can you maybe just elaborate on that for people and kind of what was the thought process |
| 1:49.9 | and the particular bone you have to pick with a certain idea? |
| 1:54.4 | No pun. |
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