We are dealing with this epidemic of nutrient deficiency and as much in my heart of hearts as I would like to be able to solve that 100% with food. I just no longer think that's possible.

Welcome to the Drupal Ad Podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.

This week's guest is my dear friend Chris Cresser. Chris Cresser is a New York Times best-selling author and one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the field of functional medicine and ancestral health.

On today's episode, Chris is here talking to us about the top nutrient deficiencies that many of us out there have and how we can go about correcting them using the power of food and supplementation.

Now a little bit more about Chris. Chris and his organization, the Cresser Institute, have trained over 2,000 clinicians and health coaches from over 50 countries in his unique approach and methodology.

A couple years ago, Chris was named one of the 100 most influential people in health and fitness by greatest.com and his work has been featured in everything from Time Magazine, the Atlantic, NPR, Fox and Friends and many other national media outlets.

Speaking of media, Chris also has his own top podcast. It's called the Revolution Health Radio and has been providing quality health information that's evidence-based for many years now.

Most recently, Chris has launched his newest company called Adapt Naturals, a supplement line designed to add back in what the modern world has squeezed out and help people perform and feel their best.

Stay tuned for a fantastic episode of Chris Cresser on some of the top nutrients we're missing in our diet and what we can do to correct this.

Chris, welcome back to the podcast. It's a pleasure to have you here in the new studio. I want to jump right in and provide our audience with a little bit of value.

You and I were chatting a little bit and you shared something really fascinating to me. So I'm going to use that as a form of our first question.

What are the top three reasons that even people who eat pretty healthy would end up having a nutrient deficiency?

A lot of people think I'm eating super healthy. How could I be someone that is likely to have a nutrient deficiency? So you're going to give us three reasons why.

Yeah, this is a great question. It's something that actually surprised me as I learned about this over time.

So the first is a change in soil quality. So it's not that nutrients aren't in the soil anymore. It's that we've disrupted the microbiome of the soil.

So in a very similar way that we've messed up our own guts, industrial agriculture, pesticides, fertilizers, and chemicals that we put into the soil have changed the biome of the soil.

In such a way that the plants can no longer extract the same level of nutrients from the soil that they used to be able to. So one of the examples I saw on a paper I read is that today we'd have to eat eight oranges to get the same level of nutrition that our grandparents got from just eating one orange.

Wow.

So this is across the board, both vitamins and minerals. And we see we've seen declines ranging from 20 to 60% or higher over the past 100 years alone. So that's a profound change just in recent times.

So the second issue is the increase in toxins in the food supply. So we have heavy metals, lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, et cetera. And then we have things like glyphosate, bisphenol, A, chemicals that are now ubiquitous in the environment and that have gotten into the soil in the food supply.

So what happens there is these chemicals often bind to nutrients, primarily minerals, but also in some cases vitamins. So then we either don't absorb them at all or we absorb those nutrients with a toxin on board. And we don't get the same benefit and can even be harmed by that.

So toxins can block the absorption of key nutrients.

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