The Risks of Low Vitamin A & How to Increase Your Levels | Ep 182

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you have skin issues, immune issues, autoimmunity, allergies, asthma, food sensitivities, or get sick often - you’ll want to listen in, because Vitamin A is crucial for all of these things! In today’s episode Erin explains the Beta Carotene/Vitamin A connection and differences, and why a vegetarian or vegan diet may not give everyone the Vitamin A their body needs. To break down the importance of Vitamin A, Erin dives into the conditions often associated with low Vitamin A, the benefits of having healthy Vitamin A levels, and what you can do to increase your Vitamin A if you have secured the data that you’re low (hint - the first step is to find the reason why!) In this episode: -The Nutrition Scoring System episode & Erin’s concerns with the villainization of meat [5:09] -The difference between Vitamin A / Beta Carotene & why you might not be able to get Vitamin -A from vegetables [10:51] -Why should we care about low Vitamin A? How it affects skin, immunity, inflammation & more [16:40] -How to test your Vitamin A status [20:08] -Reasons your Vitamin A might be low & One way you can support your nutrition [23:52] -Supplementation for Vitamin A [26:55] FOR OUR FULL LIST OF LINKS + RESOURCES, HEAD TO: https://www.erinholthealth.com/funktional-nutrition-podcast/2021/11/19/episode-182-the-risks-of-low-vitamin-a-amp-how-to-increase-your-levels

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm a functional
0:07.4	medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in over a decade of clinical experience. I work with
0:13.3	women all over the world through my online programs, and I'm also the founder of the Functional
0:18.9	Nutrition Academy, a 12-month practitioner mentorship where I help other nutrition pros level up
0:25.3	with functional medicine methodologies.
0:27.9	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model
0:31.6	that are both systematically failing so many of us.
0:35.3	Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what the show's all about.
0:40.4	Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never be
0:45.7	used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear today,
0:50.9	I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review in iTunes, share with a friend,
0:55.4	and keep coming back for more. Thanks for joining me. Now let's dive deep.
1:02.2	Hello, my beautiful babies, friends old and new and everybody in between. Hey, if this is your
1:07.4	first time tuning into the show, welcome. Super stoked to have you here.
1:11.8	Today we're going to talk about vitamin A. If you have skin issues, immune issues, autoimmunity,
1:18.7	if you've got allergies, asthma, food sensitivities, if you get sick often, you're going to
1:23.0	want to listen in because vitamin A is crucial for all those things I just mentioned.
1:29.5	And since we're talking about nutrition in today's show, and I've been getting a lot of questions about the next
1:33.8	round of the CCP, the carb compatibility project, I figured I would announce it here. First,
1:39.1	the next carb compatibility project starts officially on January 10th. The cart will open. So we'll open
1:47.0	enrollment on Monday, December 27th. And then we'll officially do the hard start on Monday,
1:54.1	January 10th. It's a four-week program. And it's organized in a way to be sure that you're
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