Personalized Nutrition Plans: The Importance of Understanding Macros and Micros with Caroline O’Connor, RD

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Caroline O’Connor is a Registered Dietitian and Personal Trainer who helps clients develop habits to support a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. In today's episode with Caroline O’Connor, you’ll hear us take a deep dive on: 1. Macronutrients: comprising proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, macronutrients are fundamental food groups essential for creating balanced meals, not just for bodybuilders or fitness enthusiasts, but often misunderstood or overlooked in healthy eating discussions. 2. Balanced eating: It’s all about comfortably navigating the gray area between strict rules and indulgence, such as opting for a combination of favored carbs and vegetables for a satisfying, balanced plate, rather than strictly adhering to low-carb or low-fat options, which should be viewed as tools for balance rather than a lifestyle. 3. Micronutrients: Micronutrients, comprising minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, etc., indicate the non-caloric benefits food provides to our bodies, beyond energy and satiety. 4. The importance of personalized nutrition plans. There is no one-size-fits-all diet. When making dietary changes and recommendations, it is so important to fill in all the blanks on a person’s lifestyle, health conditions, measurements, and their existing diet before even considering what needs changing. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

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0:00.0	Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast. So with macronutrients, it's your, you know, if you have a food and you break it down into your protein, your carbs, or your fat, that's your macro. So macro kind of like large picture, right? And if you shrink in and you think micronutrient, smaller picture, it's what is that food made up of in terms of minerals, vitamin content, antioxidants.
0:23.7	So what type of benefit does that food provide you other than just energy, right?
0:29.6	Like satiety, calories.
0:32.2	It's beyond that.
0:34.1	And so a lot of times individuals aren't even thinking about that part yet because we haven't
0:39.2	developed the understanding of what is this food providing for me in terms of my weight loss goal
0:44.2	or my get more energy goal and feel good throughout the day. Hello, hello. I'm your host,
0:50.5	Dr. Carrie Jones. And today I'm talking all about your macros with my good friend and
0:55.6	colleague, Caroline O'Connor. Caroline is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, functional health
1:00.9	coach, and certified personal trainer. She graduated from Miami University, Ohio with her Bachelor
1:06.5	of Science in both exercise science and dietetics. She then went on to complete her dietetic internship with a sports nutrition and entrepreneurship
1:15.3	concentration.
1:16.6	She's a dietitian and advanced coach at Nutrition Dynamic, one of the top health coaching
1:21.0	companies in the United States, and serves as Director of Education at Metabolic Mentor
1:25.6	University.
1:26.9	Caroline was recently on TV explaining
1:29.2	macronutrients and her plate method, so of course I had to have her on the show. Many people
1:34.5	assumed the idea of macronutrients or macros are only for those in sports or bodybuilding.
1:41.1	But she's here to show us knowing your macros is important for absolutely everybody.
1:46.0	Before we get started though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast,
1:51.0	and that of course are supplements. There is a lot of confusion around supplements, and of course, you only want to take the best quality that uses top-tier certified manufacturers,
2:02.6	and most importantly, do third-party independent testing to make sure what's on the label is in the capsule.
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