Five Minute Answers: Iron Supplements, Prunes, Body Fat Testing, & More
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Your questions are back this week.
We're discussing essential insights on iron supplementation, the potential benefits of prunes for bone density, and the nuances of body fat testing.
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The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
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📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.Full Disclaimer
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we aim to simplify the science of nutrition, health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you very much for tuning into the show. Hello, E.C. How are you? Hey, good. Good to see you. We're going to do one of our QuickBites. |
| 0:23.7 | I don't remember the last time I did QuickBites. very much for tuning into the show. Hello, EC. How are you? Hey, good. Good to see you. We're going to do |
| 0:22.5 | one of our Quickbytes. I don't remember the last time I did Quickbytes, but this is, this is, I think, our 25th iteration of Quickbytes. So Quickbytes is when we take listener questions and you do your best to answer them around five minutes each. So these are also often great questions that perhaps don't warrant a full episode, |
| 0:37.8 | but again, great questions nonetheless. So we've got five this time around. We've got questions |
| 0:42.8 | about should we take iron supplements if we're struggling with low levels and how can diet help |
| 0:47.4 | that? Can eating prunes actually preserve bone density? What's the best way to test body fat? |
| 0:52.8 | And is it even worth doing it? Are plant proteins |
| 0:55.6 | really less effective than animal proteins? And what does the science say about that? And then is the |
| 1:00.5 | hype around C-15 fatty acids justified? And also I'm going to add a question, what the heck are |
| 1:05.9 | C-15 fatty acids. We'll cover that. We will cover that. So real quick before we jump in, what's the best way if folks do have questions to get a |
| 1:15.6 | question to you into a future quick bites episode? |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | Optimize me, nutrition.com slash email is how you get on my email list. |
| 1:23.6 | And if you click reply to any email I send out, I have a really intricate sorting process |
| 1:28.7 | that hopefully gets you in the queue in the right order. |
| 1:32.0 | Awesome. |
| 1:32.5 | And we will say a lot of times we build complete episodes around questions. |
| 1:36.6 | And so even if your specific question doesn't get into a quick bite, a lot of times, |
| 1:40.0 | EC will, again, it's in the system. |
| 1:42.5 | It's in the system. |
| 1:43.8 | Okay. |
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