Eating to Age Well: Nutrient Needs | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Do your nutritional requirements change as you get older? Perhaps you need more of one vitamin and less of another. More carbs or fewer carbs? And what about fat and calories?
Discover the optimal diet for healthy aging as Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Also covered:
- Loss of appetite as we grow older
- Maximizing nutrients at any age
- High cholesterol after menopause
- How much iron is too much iron?
- Are you getting too much calcium?
- Plus more nutrition fun!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Does your diet need to change in order to meet nutrient requirements as you get older? |
| 0:07.3 | That is a great question. |
| 0:08.3 | There are some nutrients where we're kind of short, frankly, even before we're older and |
| 0:14.0 | they can often get worse when we're older. |
| 0:15.9 | And some of them are pretty obvious. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries and |
| 0:33.7 | healthy cities coast to coast. |
| 0:36.1 | Gautt belchum, Atlanta, Georgia, Tucson, Arizona. |
| 0:41.0 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:45.0 | This is episode 35 of season 5, number 334 overall. |
| 0:51.9 | Eating to age well. |
| 0:53.7 | That is the topic to sure today. |
| 0:56.3 | The question is this. |
| 0:58.0 | Does your diet need to change to have a little bit more of this vitamin and maybe a little |
| 1:02.9 | bit less of that one? |
| 1:04.7 | And what about fat? |
| 1:06.4 | And which nutrients are most important for your health as the years roll by? |
| 1:11.7 | We are going to find out today as we talk optimal aging on the Exam Room Live with the author |
| 1:17.1 | of your body imbalance, Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 1:20.3 | And the doctor's mailbag wide open stuffed with your questions today as well. |
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