Staying Healthy With Age: Nutrient Needs | Brenda Davis, RN

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The nutrients your body needs to stay healthy change as you get older.

Explore the vitamins and minerals to focus on with registered dietitian Brenda Davis as she joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

Topics Discussed

- Best sources of vital nutrients for aging

- Recommendations for overall health as a senior

- What supplements might be appropriate for seniors

- What happens when you begin eating healthier after the age of 80

- Your body’s desire to be healthy and how it gives you a chance to become healthy at any age

- Avoiding protein deficiency as a senior

- Comparing protein quality from different sources for healthy aging

- Tips for easily adding healthy protein to any meal

Davis is an influential voice on nutrient and has spoken in over 20 countries on five continents. She is also co-author of a number of influential books, including Plant-Powered Protein.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the exam room.
0:03.2	So his chances of living much longer are probably pretty slim,
0:07.3	but if he starts to make changes,
0:09.6	and this is the thing that never ceases to amaze me. It is so so fast that your body starts to
0:19.6	rebuild itself and I can remember when I was doing research in the Marshall Islands on people with some of the highest rates of diabetes in the world.
0:27.0	When we started our program, within a week people were saying, my head has been fuzzy for 10 years and all of a sudden it's clear
0:36.8	I've had pain here there and everywhere or I couldn't barely walk across the room without pain and it's gone like I can't believe
0:45.6	it's going to be a week or two from when we started so the thing that people have to
0:50.2	remember is every single cell of the human body is a product of what we put in our
0:54.4	mouth. We literally, it's our raw materials with which we build our brain cells and with which
1:01.1	we feed the microbes in our gut and we rebuild ourselves quickly
1:05.0	rebuild ourselves quickly.
1:06.7	And so as soon as you start supplying
1:09.2	what your body really needs,
1:11.6	your body wants to be healthy. Your body wants to survive. It wants to
1:17.3	build itself and to give itself the best chance of survival. And so it's just amazing what starts to happen.
1:27.0	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
1:37.0	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll.
1:40.0	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries.
1:47.0	Hi to everyone listening in Alexandria, Virginia, Evansville, Indiana, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1:56.2	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
2:01.3	This is episode 100 of season 6, number 496 overall. And on this 100th episode of the season, we have to face a fact. The fact is things change as we get
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