Supplements for Weight Loss and Performance with Dr. Mike T. Nelson — What to Try and Where to Save Your Money

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Which supplements for weight loss and performance are actually worth the money? This is an area where the internet is permeated with outrageous claims and snake oil sales. Fortunately, Dr. Nelson looks at the clinical studies and provides us a summary of what some of the most popular supplements can and cannot do.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
0:15.2	To make sure you're up to date on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Roushso.com and sign up to receive weekly updates.
0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:27.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.2	any disease.
0:33.3	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now let's head to the show.
0:41.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Rousha Radio. This is Dr. Rousho. I am here with my good friend,
0:47.8	Dr. Mike T. Nelson, and today we're going to be talking about sports supplements and why I'm so excited to have Mike on is because
0:56.3	Mike and I both are critical examiners of the literature and I think with sports supplements
1:02.5	it's one area where you see so much speculation about this nutrient causes this mechanism
1:09.0	but no one takes the time to say but does that mechanism actually have an appreciable effect in body composition or speed or power?
1:17.4	There's a lot of fluff, a lot of mechanism used as marketing fluff.
1:22.2	And I know that Mike's gone through a really comprehensive review of the literature on a lot of these things to see what
1:27.9	actual kind of effect they have and if certain things are things you should think about using
1:32.9	and if so what a reasonable expectation for an outcome might be. So Mike, thanks so much for
1:40.5	coming on the show. Yeah, thank you very much for having me. I appreciate it, and this will be a very fun discussion. Absolutely. I'm really looking forward to this one,
1:48.6	because there's a lot of different things we can talk about. Oh, yeah. I mean, is there, I guess,
1:53.3	people may have remembered you from coming on maybe about a year ago now, but can you give people
1:57.7	kind of like a brief synopsis of your background and what you're currently doing? Sure. Briefly, I did a Bachelor of Arts, Natural Science, and then I did a
2:06.0	master's actually in mechanical engineering, more biomechanics-type stuff. I did a short stint in the
2:11.8	PhD program in biomedical engineering. Then switched to kinesiology or exercise physiology department and did my PhD there.
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