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Dhru Purohit Show

The Top Signs Your Nutrient Deficient and What to Do About It with Chris Kresser

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and InsideTracker. In an ideal world where soils are rich and the air and water are pure, we would be able to get the vitamins and nutrients we need to optimally support and sustain a disease-free life through diet alone. However, that’s just not practical for most of us in our toxic, modern world. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Chris Kresser to talk about the increasing issue of nutritional deficiencies, how we got here, and how to add back in what the modern world squeezed out.  Chris Kresser is the co-founder of the California Center for Functional Medicine, the founder of Kresser Institute, the host of the top-ranked health podcast Revolution Health Radio, the creator of ChrisKresser.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine.  He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health and has trained over 2,000 clinicians and health coaches with his unique approach. He has recently launched Adapt Naturals, a supplement line designed to add back into your diet what the modern world has crowded out and help people perform and feel their best.   In this episode we dive into:   -The top three nutrient deficiencies  -Signs of nutrient deficiencies -Nutrients people can get too much of -Optimal vitamin D levels  -Nutrients people should people be careful supplementing with  -The importance of vitamin K2 and choline  -Understanding calcium and vitamin A deficiencies -Why phytonutrients are so important -Chris’s new supplement line, Adapt Naturals    Listen to the full episode here.   For more on Chris Kresser, follow him on Instagram @chriskresser, Facebook @chriskresslac, Twitter @chriskresser, YouTube @chriskresser, and through his website, chriskresser.com. Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to https://www.cozyearth.com and use code DHRU. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Drew Prod here with another mini episode for you where we take some of our most popular episodes

0:06.3

We trim them down to something digestible and feature the best segments today

0:11.4

We have my dear friend Chris Cresser on the podcast today talking about the top three nutritional deficiencies

0:19.5

Chris Cresser is an incredible functional medicine practitioner and

0:23.1

Acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine doctor who knows a ton about how to fix nutrient deficiencies

0:32.6

He knows a ton because he was previously the owner and proprietor of the California Center of Functional Medicine and him and his team

0:39.8

I've worked with thousands of patients

0:41.3

He also runs the adapt framework where he trains

0:44.9

Functional medicine doctors my brother-in-law actually went through his training too

0:48.0

So he's gonna bring you the latest and greatest on nutritional deficiencies

0:51.1

So in addition to the top three nutrient deficiencies

0:54.1

Chris Cresser also talks about the key signs that your nutrient deficient

0:58.2

He also covers nutrients that people can get too much of good nutrients that people can get too much of

1:04.5

Nutrients people should be careful

1:06.5

Supplementing with a few of them that you've heard over the years might be good for you

1:10.9

But maybe they might not be and lastly he goes into why phytonutrients are so important and how to get more of them in your diet

1:19.7

It's a fantastic many episode some of the gems from our previous full episode with Chris Cresser. I hope you enjoy it

1:27.5

What are the top three reasons that even people who eat pretty healthy

1:32.8

Would end up having a nutrient deficiency?

1:36.7

A lot of people think I'm eating super healthy. How could I be someone that is likely to have a nutrient deficiency?

1:42.8

So you're gonna give us three reasons why yeah, it's a great question

1:45.5

And it's something that actually surprised me as I learned about this over time. So the first is a change in soil quality

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