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Running Performance: Do I Need Creatine? Do I Need Creatine?” is a question we get asked frequently by clients, listeners and also by friends and family!! It is A VERY popular supplement in the world of sport and exercise, in fact it is one of the most popular ergogenic aids used by athletes. BUT….is it necessary? Do you need to take it? To help answer these questions we will: 1. Outline what exactly Creatine is and how it works 2. Look at the benefits and potential drawbacks from taking Creatine Supplements. Is food enough? 3. Focus on key considerations when choosing a Creatine Supplement SHOW NOTES (04:29) Outlining the definition of Creatine and its key role in the body, which is maintaining energy availability   (11:11) Moving on to highlight the therapeutic benefits of this supplement in the ageing population but also in people suffering from certain medical conditions including: Parkinson's Disease and Ischaemic Heart Disease.  (14:39) Highlighting the potential benefits of Creatine supplementation for a runner including: enhanced performance, improved post-exercise recovery, and greater training adaptations (20:18) Focusing on the potential drawbacks of Creatine supplementation for a runner including: water retention, weight gain, and a historic concern about kidney dysfunction  (26:58) Indicating the Creatine requirements from food (i.e.1-2g per day) and the creatine content of certain meats and seafood. For example: herring contains 1.5g of creatine per 100g serving and chicken contains 0.8g of creatine per 100g serving.   (30:11) FEMALE FACTORS Both men and women have shown to benefit from Creatine supplementation, however it is thought that women may not see as much gain in muscle strength or mass during training from supplementation It is thought females may have higher intramuscular creatine concentrations due to the fact that they have lower muscle mass besides men Endogenous Creatine synthesis and transport is hormonally driven therefore its bioavailability differs at different female life-stages. This is because Creatine Kinase (the enzyme required for Creatine synthesis) is influenced by oestrogen and progesterone. CK levels are increased DURING menstruation but decrease during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause etc. As a result, Creatine supplementation may be particularly important for women during menses, pregnancy, post-partum (after birth) peri/post menopause.  Creatine supplementation is thought to have positive effects on muscle quality and bone health in post menopause females when COMBINED with resistance exercise (36:22) Delving into Creatine supplements and what to consider before embarking on a protocol with a specific focus on which form of supplement to choose and where the creatine has been produced (Germany or China). Some recommended brands include: Motion Nutrition, Bonusan and Thorne Research (42:59) Finally, focusing on dosage and outlining how much Creatine is required per day for someone on a supplement protocol before mentioning ways in which creatine bioavailability may be enhanced. For example; an appropriate stomach acid pH and ingestion alongside carbohydrate and protein rich foods.   (53:26) KEY TAKEAWAYS Creatine is synthesised endogenously from the amino acids: Arginine, Glycine and Methionine. But can also be obtained from the diet in meat and fish The key role of Creatine in the body is to maintain energy availability, hence why it is seen as an effective ergogenic aid for athletes Many runners may be able to maintain Creatine levels via the diet, however for some, supplementation may be required e.g. vegetarian/vegan, older runners, high training load  If thinking about supplementing with Creatine we recommend you work with a qualified and registered NT When choosing a Creatine supplement remember to consider: the form, the brand, bioavailability, and dosage Discontinue any...

You're probably aware that probiotics can improve digestive health for humans, but did you know the same is true for a dog's digestive system? Adding probiotics to your dog's daily intake can provide many benefits overall to a dog's health, just by keeping all the microbes that naturally reside in the intestines in balance. Let's discuss exactly what probiotics are and how your dog can benefit from them.The Good StuffProbiotics are good bacteria, or microbes, that are found naturally in the large and small intestines of humans and dogs. When in balance, we have a healthy gut, feel good, and have no poop issues.The good bacteria assist with digestion, make nutrients, and boost the immune system. Probiotics and your dog's digestive system work together in multiple ways by keeping everything in balance to maintain a healthy stomach and providing benefits to a dog's health in general.Prescribed ProbioticsSeveral triggers can upset the balance of good bacteria in your dog's digestive system, and will ultimately affect your dog's health overall. Infection, allergies, stress, diet, medications, or just old age can aggravate or trigger these imbalances. In a growing understanding of the benefits of probiotics, many current dry dog foods now add probiotics. Adding probiotics to your dog's diet is one way to address any health issues your dog may be experiencing.There are quite a few probiotic supplements available, and you will want to discuss which is the best option, and the correct dosage amount for your dog with your vet. Some of the better probiotics available are:Thorne Research's Bacillus Coagulans VetJarrow's Pet DophilusVetri-Science's Vetri-ProbioticBenefits vs. NecessityThe majority of dogs don't need to take probiotics; however, your dog's health and digestive system can greatly benefit from adding probiotics [1] – the good bacteria – to their daily intake. In addition to treating diarrhea, upset tummies, and even regulating mood and behaviors, some of the benefits that all dogs can gain from taking probiotics are:Improving the overall dog digestive systemPreventing urinary tract infectionsPreventing allergiesSupport the immune systemRegulate appetiteNow we understand more about probiotics, what they are, and the overall dog health and dog digestive system benefits they can provide. Remember, always check with your vet before changing your dog's diet or adding supplements such as probiotics.Dogs Know BestCan it be conceivable that dogs eat poop for reasons other than what we may think? Consider this – a dog understands that healthy animal poop contains good bacteria that their dog digestive system needs to function correctly. It's almost instinctive for a dog to know what he needs to eat! A hard thought for us humans to swallow, but do dogs know what is best for their health?If you are not sold on the idea of your dog prescribing a health fix on their own by eating animal droppings, picking up poop in the yard will alleviate that problem. With our busy lives today, it is sometimes difficult to stay on top of the scooping poop game, and there are companies like POOP 911 that will take on the challenge for you. Having someone else scoop the poop regularly is one sure-fire way to keep your dog from eating his own or other poop in the yard.

In this episode, Scott Sensenbrenner from Enzymedica to guide us on a deep dive into the way we digest food and absorb nutrients. Scott Sensenbrenner is a natural products industry veteran with a career spanning more than 20 years. He has been the driving force behind Enzymedica as President & CEO since 2009, where he expanded the Florida-based natural digestive health brand to be in more than 30,000 retail locations worldwide. Previously, he was the Vice President of Thorne Research, a leading professional market natural medicines manufacturer servicing over 20,000 health care practitioners. Prior to Thorne, he was the Group Director of Perrigo Nutrition (PRGO – NASDAQ), the largest generic pharmaceutical, OTC and nutritional company in the United States. Scott started his career in the natural products industry with Enzymatic Therapy in the 1990s where he led their strategic planning and marketing when the firm introduced many of the leading products sold in the natural products industry including; Glucosamine, CoQ10, St. John's Wort, 7 Keto, Policosanol, Red Yeast Rice, Standardized Herbs, IP-6, KAVA, and Black Cohosh. In each of these roles, Scott designed and orchestrated business strategies and executed category-changing product introductions.  In addition to his experience in the natural products industry, Scott is well-known for his philanthropic work. He is a passionate supporter of Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC), Vitamin Angels, and is a Board Member for the Economic Development Corporation for Sarasota County. Most recently, he was elected to join the Strategic Advisory Board of the American Nutrition Association® (ANA) – a nonprofit that is the professional association for the science and practice of personalized nutrition.For more information, please visit www.enzymedica.comSupport the show (https://paypal.me/Optamiz?locale.x=en_US)

Does this science-driven wellness company have what it takes to improve your financial health in the public markets? On July 16th, Thorne HealthTech filed its S-1 document to the SEC with the intention of raising up to $100 million from the sale of shares through an initial public offering. While it's unknown at recording when the IPO date will be, the company plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol THRN. Thorne Research (as it was originally known as) was founded in July of 1984 by Al Czap with a singular dietary supplement product. As Thorne Research grew, the company developed a reputation as an industry leader in setting the standards for making nutritional supplements. In 2010, Thorne Research merged with Diversified Natural Products, and current CEO Paul Jacobson took the helm. Then six years later, the company transitioned from a direct-to-practitioner supplement company and began selling direct to consumers. In February 2021, Thorne HealthTech merged with Onegevity to create a science-driven, vertically integrated wellness platform built to deliver best-in-class, end-to-end nutritional solutions and health intelligence. The future of health will be data-driven and wellness-centric with a guiding focus on preventive care that extends the health span of each individual. Thorne HealthTech is at the intersection of those trends and this podcast episode will breakdown what makes them unique, from its omnichannel sales strategy to vertical integration and positioning within large health trends.

https://www.thorne.comhttps://effusio.comZachary Cartwright (00:00):I'm Zachary Cartwright. This is Water in Food.Aaron Denzler (00:03):As you develop the favorites or the winners, you can take those, and you can run them on the VSA and you can get a head start or an early look into what your shelf life is going to be. 45 hours running on a VSA, right up front it's faster.Zachary Cartwright (00:18):Water has been called the luck of the planet by Daniel Boorstin, and its impact and significance are evident everywhere in the foods that we eat. Every year, billions of dollars are spent by food manufacturers to move water in and out of food products. As a food scientist, I am on a mission to understand how this can be done better.Zachary Cartwright (00:36):Welcome to another episode of Water in Food. Today, I'm joined by Aaron Denzler at Thorne Research. Hey Aaron, how's it going? Thanks for joining us.Aaron Denzler (00:45):It's going great today. Thanks for having me.Zachary Cartwright (00:47):Yeah, of course. I'm excited to talk to you, and discuss water and your products, and how you've been able to start applying isotherms to your research. But to start off with, why don't you tell us a little bit about your role at Thorne and how long you've been there?Aaron Denzler (01:03):My current role at Thorne is research scientist two, specifically for the Effusio product. And I'm working with Thorne in my fifth year currently.Zachary Cartwright (01:14):And what brought you to Thorne? What is your background, and how did you end up there?Aaron Denzler (01:19):My background is in science all the way through. Graduated from Montana State University in Billings with a Bachelor of Science and Biology. And during my time there, it all kicked off with an internship program where I got into R&D and product development right out of the gate, before I graduated. And it's all been flowing in this direction ever since then. What the key thing that brought me to Thorne was my interest in the way that they operate, and the products that they provide. It fit well into my goals as an individual and as a professional.Zachary Cartwright (01:57):And how did you find Thorne? Did you find them online, or through LinkedIn, or what ultimately brought you there?Aaron Denzler (02:06):It's a fun story. The short version is, it was sheer luck, and it was a job fair sign that they had out in front of their manufacturing facility, in Sandpoint, Idaho, as I was touring through the area. I was living in Spokane at the time and I just stopped in and asked them when it was. And lo and behold, it was a few days later. I attended, and the rest is history.Zachary Cartwright (02:35):I hadn't realized that you lived so close to the METER headquarters, so I'm glad that you're familiar with this area. And what makes you excited to go to work now? What gets you out of bed every day, and what do you look forward to doing at work?Aaron Denzler (02:50):I'm proud to be a part of Thorne and what they're doing. So that makes that first step, all that easier every day. And then my deep-seated interest in science and data, and making decisions based on data, is another key to success for me. So being able to show up here on campus and be happy to be here, and then be able to work doing something that I can see as the best fit for me. The two combos. It's nice.Zachary Cartwright (03:23):And what types of products are you working on now? What products does Thorne specialize in and what makes these products different from your competitors?Aaron Denzler (03:33):Sure. Thorne manufacturers, in terms of supplements, we're very deep-seated in health technology. We're a science-driven wellness company. That's who we are. We manufacture encapsulated products, ready to mix powders. And, importantly, very, very close to my heart would be our Effusio product line, which are dissolvable beverage disks. What really separates us from our competitors is our quality and purity. We've made decisions along the road to eliminate and reduce the use of unneeded excipients and fillers. And we are genuinely interested in the outcome and wellbeing of our customers.Zachary Cartwright (04:15):And as you work through that R&D process and eliminate excipients, and really focus on your products, how is water important to that process? And how are you measuring water?Aaron Denzler (04:26):Water is a very important factor for us. As you eliminate certain excipients and fillers, the job becomes more difficult throughout the manufacturing process. It can become more difficult with shelf life. It complicates things, and that's a task that we're willing to take on. But to do that, we need to have data, we need to know, what is water doing to our product? How was it lasting inside of our packaging components? What kind of steps do we need to take during the manufacturing process to succeed? It's a big deal.Zachary Cartwright (05:04):And as you start to collect that data and look at water, how are moisture sorption isotherms a part of that process? And when did you start using isotherms in your R&D team?Aaron Denzler (05:16):Sure. Our experience with the METER group was kicked off by a recommendation from a coworker that knew of METER. And that's how that ball got rolling, is we determined that this product, or the VSA specifically, was going to be able to give us the ability to analyze how our samples would react in a controlled environment with a set temperature, when you introduce water vapor. What happens there? How does it absorb the water? What happens when it absorbs water? And that allows us to determine critical water activities. It helps us determine shelf life. We can predict shelf life as long as we complete the calculations. It can give me a glass transition point, so I can look and identify a trouble spot within our product. And I can make data-driven decisions based on the output that we're getting.Zachary Cartwright (06:13):So it sounds like you're using isotherms to do a lot more than maybe just a single water activity measurement, or a single moisture content measurement. It's giving you that entire picture. And from my understanding, you recently used isotherms to prove that a packaging material wasn't necessarily living up to its specs. And I was wondering if you could talk about that experience a little bit more?Aaron Denzler (06:39):Certainly. So this is a new product. This is from our Effusio line. This is the first time we've worked with this, and we haven't found anyone else out there who is working with it. So it was from the ground up. So every step forward there were challenges, and the challenge that you brought up was the packaging. At first, we didn't know it was the packaging. All we knew is that this product was sticking, or adhering itself, to the interior of our pouch material, which was completely unexpected. That's not supposed to happen. We went through, of course, all the checklists. We looked at formulation, we looked at process. We started drilling down and nothing was adding up. And by that I mean, the data wasn't telling us that we had a problem with any of those checkpoints.Aaron Denzler (07:31):So then I started measuring the water content of these disks that were adhering to the interior of the pouch. And I observed that we were increasing in our percent moisture in these products as the increase in sticking occurred. So that didn't make sense, because you have a spec on your packaging and boy, that's something that you got be able to hang your hat on, or lean up against, in troubled times. And after running our product on the VSA and comparing it to observation, I was able to predict that with that particular packaging component and our particular product being tested, our shelf life should be at least 10 times longer than what we were observing with the shelf life in that package.Aaron Denzler (08:24):That spurred us to send that pouch material out for vapor barrier testing. And lo and behold, it came back and it said exactly what the shelf life predictor said, which was the spec was not accurate and we had far too much vapor transfer happening. Our product was acting like a desiccant in its patching component. So the VSA knocked it out of the park. The VSA told us exactly what happened.Zachary Cartwright (08:54):So just to clarify, the packaging company was telling you that that packaging material had a specific water vapor transmission rate. And when you use that in the packaging calculations, in the moisture analysis toolkit software, it was telling you that you should hit a shelf life. But what you were seeing in actuality was that you were having that stickiness to the inside of your packaging, and it wasn't even close. And so when you went and had another third-party test that packaging material, it was different from what that packaging company had told you. And you wouldn't have understood that if you didn't do the isotherm analysis on that Vapor Sorption Analyzer, is that correct?Aaron Denzler (09:40):That's correct. It would have been... Had we had reached out to that third-party to test the barrier, it wouldn't have been driven by the data that the VSA gave us. It would've been us just looking into it, simply looking into it. And that's not something normal to just check in on a packaging specification. That's why we rely on specifications. But the data was so strong from the VSA, it made the decision to test the packaging material a no-brainer. It was instant.Zachary Cartwright (10:15):Yeah. I'd be curious to know how often this happens. How many times a packaging company might not quite live up to what it's actually saying. And at least with the isotherm, this is a way to test that. And then also a way to pinpoint the packaging water vapor transmission rate that you actually need. What other types of challenges have you been using isotherms for from the R&D side of things?Aaron Denzler (10:42):Well, what I've been using it for recently is to add valuable data to our shelf life predictions. The more data points that you have, the better your decisions are. So I've been running a lot of our encapsulated products and our ready to mix powders through there, adding that data set to our current data for shelf life calculations, which are extremely important to as we grow and have our products residing in different regions and for potentially longer durations or shorter durations. It's all about the environment and how it can impact the product in which it resides.Zachary Cartwright (11:26):Yeah, so let's go back just a little bit. I want to talk about those glass transition points and why they're important to your team. You're using the isotherm to pinpoint where the glass transition point is, but then once you have that information, what are you doing with it?Aaron Denzler (11:43):Sure. One example is that seeing a glass transition point and correlating that to analytical data, as far as the activity and label claim that we absolutely stand by, you can see a decline in activities of raw materials, ingredients, when that glass transition happens. So we can stress a product utilizing the glass transition model, and take analytical data, and we can see a shift or a change. So we know what to avoid and we know that we can believe in that glass transition point, and how it can help us say, throughout its shelf life. This is a problem area that we need to avoid otherwise our product isn't what we set out to make it be.Zachary Cartwright (12:32):How well is that a glass transition point that you're determining with the isotherm, how well does that line up with what you're seeing in the real world?Aaron Denzler (12:42):So I work so very closely with our dissolvable beverage discs. I mean, that is the department in which I reside. I see these every day, so much observation on so much data stacked up. And when I take a glass transition and I model it, and I look at the product I'm working with, I can see that glass transition in action. I can physically stress that product. And when I reach that correlating point with the glass transition, I can see a negative change in my product. And so that allows us to set a boundary and say, this is the no-go line. If we exceed this amount, this water activity, or this moisture content, we're in trouble. So we will do what we need to do to never reach that boundary.Zachary Cartwright (13:31):And what is the business value of being able to have this information early in the R&D process, before mass producing one of your products?Aaron Denzler (13:42):Well, in the world of iterating through formulas and developing what we would call up a prospective master formula, there's a whole stack of those iterations. And as you develop the favorites or the winners, you can take those, and you can run them on the VSA. And you can get a head start or an early look into what your shelf life is going to be like. And that's a money saver right there. I mean, you cannot do that without implementing accelerated conditions in an environmental chamber, and then coupling that with analytical data. That's common practice all over the world for that. This is another set of valuable data that can add to that, to make those decisions viable. Or just stacking data to make it an even more educated decision.Zachary Cartwright (14:36):Yeah, it sounds like by having the isotherm data, you have that competitive edge, because it may allow you to maybe be the first to market with new products, or reduce your R&D costs. I think that those isotherms also work somewhat as an insurance plan, because you're able to avoid any problems before they even happen. Is there anything else that you might add to that list?Aaron Denzler (15:00):To go back to the early discovery of issues, I did leave something out. And 45 hours running on a VSA is far shorter than six weeks in an accelerated environmental chamber. So we can get an early peak if something is just plain not going to work. There's no sense in having that elongated time. So right up front it's faster.Zachary Cartwright (15:25):And like you said, any traditional shelf life test, or even an accelerated test, is going to take much longer than anyone really wants to wait. And so, even though this test is still maybe a two day test, it's still the fastest way to get these types of insights. Even a traditional laboratory isotherm or an isotherm using a DVS, a dynamic vapor sorption method, those can also take a long time. And you're using that DDI, the dynamic dewpoint isotherm, that's a patented method that was produced by METER group. Maybe you can talk a little bit about that specific method, and how it's been helpful to you. And have you had the chance to look at these other types of methods and apply them to your products as well?Aaron Denzler (16:15):Right now, I am thoroughly enamored with the DDI method. That's what I'm using for everything currently. What it does for me is it gives me the isotherm model that I can easily recognize, now that I've had practice. It graphs out a curve that I can read now. And I use that model to plug it into the numerous modules that the software comes with. An example, we touched on the glass transition point. I can use that. I can use it to predict my shelf life. I can use it to predict what kind of packaging I may need to use to keep a product stable if I've set a boundary. It's been great learning about it. And the challenges that I faced thus far, I've been able to hop on calls with yourself, for example, and I've improved, or I've gained, the knowledge on interpreting the data, which has been vital. Once you learn how to read these things, you can really take off pretty quickly. It's been a pleasurable experience so far.Zachary Cartwright (17:29):Yeah. It's been fun to watch you transition from an isotherm novice to really an isotherm application specialist like myself. And what would you say has been the most rewarding part of that experience?Aaron Denzler (17:44):Oh, man. Data, data, data. I mean, it is so incredibly stressful in the R&D world, and it's really just not a thing that should happen, is having to make decisions without some data to help to drive that. Observations, they're part of science, but you've got to put that with data or else you're going to end up spinning your wheels. You might end up down a dead end. This data that the VSA has given us has been very valuable in improvement, which is something that we do here every day, is we want to improve and continue to thrive.Zachary Cartwright (18:27):And Aaron, one of the pushbacks that I see from other R&D teams when they're thinking about isotherms, sometimes I think they're a little frightened at having to learn this new method and sit down. And even though they're getting all of these new insights into their products, it does take some time to learn how to create an isotherm, and how to analyze it, and how to do the calculations that you've talked about today. What are some of the challenges that you had with isotherms and how have you been able to overcome these challenges?Aaron Denzler (19:01):The support from METER group has been there to help me through these challenges. One specifically was interpreting some of the more difficult, or some of the irregular isotherm models. And I recently had to put in a request with you yourself. I just couldn't get data that I wanted, but it's math. And so I know that it was something that I was doing, or I wasn't providing the right values to the equation. And we went ahead and we modeled the isotherm in a different way, and we set our beginning and critical water activities where they needed to be to get a more accurate output on our shelf-life calculation. And then it worked, so now it's another tool that I have that I can use solo, or just on my own, let's say. You can take the training wheels off and I don't have to check in with you on it anymore, because I know what I'm looking at and I know how to manipulate the data.Zachary Cartwright (20:10):Sure, and one thing I do want to mention here is that METER group really views this as a partnership. Any time that we sell a Vapor Sorption Analyzer and help a team start to understand isotherms, we do have to teach you how to walk before you run. But it's a rewarding experience for, I think, both sides or both companies. And so that is something that I personally enjoy doing, working with people like you and showing them, if the math isn't working or if the model doesn't make sense, then we sit down and we really look at what's going on so that in the future, you're able to do this yourself.Zachary Cartwright (20:52):From here, I just want to talk about what's new with Thorne. Are there any product launches that you want our listeners to be aware of, and where can listeners find your product?Aaron Denzler (21:01):Well, the easiest answer is, is our Effusio product line. It's in my job title, I'm very proud of this product line. I believe in it. It's a dissolvable beverage disk and we do have two currently available through Thorne.com. You can learn more at Effusio.com and the best place to order any Thorne products is Thorne.com.Zachary Cartwright (21:26):And I want to finish with this. The last time that we spoke, you were getting ready to go fishing, and I'm just curious if you had any luck when you went out.Aaron Denzler (21:34):Oh, it was a great day. Yes, it was. We had some sunshine and we had a good day on the water. It was the nearshore or inshore red drum fishing. I recommend it to anyone and everyone who enjoys fishing.Zachary Cartwright (21:50):Did you do any fishing when you were in this area close to Spokane?Aaron Denzler (21:56):Oh, absolutely. Yep. The St. Joe river is probably one of my favorite all-time fishing locations on the planet.Zachary Cartwright (22:02):Aaron, I just want to say thank you for your time today. I've really enjoyed talking to you about isotherms and learning how you're using this. And again, it's been great to watch you go from isotherm novice to really applying these almost every day that you go to work. So thanks again for being on this episode.Aaron Denzler (22:21):Thank you very much. And thank you for all your help in all of the problems you've helped me solve to this point.Zachary Cartwright (22:26):I'm Zachary Cartwright. This is Water in Food. Find this podcast on Apple iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

In Episode 101, we meet up with Joel Totoro to talk sports nutrition and supplementation. One of first questions we had was how does one choose a high quality supplement company for your health, nutrition and performance. We find out through Joel that a good deal of effort goes into selecting high quality ingredients for supplement product to make sure the customer gets the best and safest formulations for their needs. The products must be tested regularly for everything from pesticides to heavy metals to banned substances. Having researchers, medical doctors, naturopaths and registered dieticians as part of the team that all contribute to the development of high quality supplements is essential in this day and age. We discuss the use of supplements with young athletes and the key supplements that should be taken by adults to address typical deficiencies and provide a boost where possible. Other topics covered included hydration requirements to address cramping, supplementation needs when recovering from injuries, optimal protein sources, vegan options for protein, creatine use and nutritional advice for those of us that are getting older.Joel Totoro is the Director of Sports Science at Thorne Research based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Joel has previously worked as a Nutrition Solution Manager at EXOS, a Registered Sports Dietitian with the University of Michigan and the Head Sports Dietitian with the New England Patriots for eight years from 2004 to 2012. Thorne Research has been dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of people worldwide by providing innovative, high-quality, research-based nutritional supplements, health diagnostics technology platforms, and the latest in medical education. Through their products and services, their passionate, talented staff, collaboration with a variety of innovative and expert strategic partners, and an unwavering commitment to integrity, Thorne Research strives to become a leading health-care company serving people around the world.You can find out more information on Joel Totoro and Thorne via the following links:Website: https://www.thorne.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Thorne_ResearchInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jctotoro/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThorneResearchThe D&D Fitness Radio podcast is available at the following locations for downloadable audio, including: iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/d-d-fitness-radio-podcast/id1331724217iHeart Radio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/dd-fitness-radio-28797988/Spreaker.com – https://www.spreaker.com/show/d-and-d-fitness-radios-showSpotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5Py2SSPA4mntNwYRm0OpriYou can reach both Don and Derek at the following locations: Don Saladino: http://www.DonSaladino.com Twitter and Instagram - @DonSaladino YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/donsaladino Derek M. Hansen: http://www.SprintCoach.comTwitter and Instagram - @DerekMHansen YouTube - http://youtube.com/derekmhansen

Coach Hunter has almost a decade of experience working with the Army's Special Forces or Green Berets and talks to us today about how to achieve a level of strength that increases durability and performance. Check out Hunter on Instagram @theperformancesyndicate. Interested in learning how to program and progress your strength program? Want to learn how to customize your own nutrition and macros for your strength program? Check out Small Group Strength Coaching with Susan and Hunter: https://www.tacticaldietitian.com/concepts-in-developing-strength See Full unedited podcast video HERE: https://www.tacticaldietitian.com/blog/TalkingStrengthwithHunterSchurrer Join for exclusive access to live coaching sessions where you will gain access to a 4-week strength program and customizable nutrition template that you can use over and over again to maximize your strength gains. Follow me: @tactical.dietitian Thorne Research: 15% off link Generation UCAN Superstarch for prolonged energy and blood sugar regulation - 15% off code: susanlopezrd --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tacticaldietitian/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tacticaldietitian/support

Will McCamy has spent his career in the supplementation industry and is now the President of Thorne Research. We discuss the rock star life, his journey into supplements, biological age testing, concussion research, brain health, efficacy, fueling the world's most elite athletes and more.

Surgical ICU to Sports Nutrition! Joel Totoro is currently a registered dietitian and Director of Sports Science for Thorne. Previously, he was the Nutrition Solutions Manager at EXOS in Phoenix, AZ working with the Performance and Innovation Team. Prior to joining EXOS he was sports dietitian for the University of Michigan working with Football, Hockey, Men's & Women's basketball and chair of the Human Performance Committee. Totoro came to Michigan from the New England Patriot serving eight years as team dietitian, where he became the first full-time sports dietitian in professional sports. While with the Patriots, he directed all aspects of the team's nutrition needs and worked closely with the teams performance and medical staffs. Totoro also served as the assistant chief dietitian at St. Luke's Hospital in Massachusetts, specializing in trauma nutrition, from 2002 to 2004. He received his Bachelor of Science in Allied Health-Dietetics from the University of Connecticut in May 2002. He is an original member and former Board of Directors chairperson for the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association.

Angel is formerly of the 75th Ranger Regiment and is currently on his way to becoming a registered dietitian. In this episode we discuss his background, what motivated him to enter the military and apply for special operations and his evolution into his current career path. When he is not attending classes Angel runs the brand @the_og_pumpkin and holds special events for military veterans, servicemembers, and hopeful recruits. You can also find Angel on IG @angelcortes175 or on his Youtube channel Ranger Cortes where he dishes out advice on Life, Regiment, and Nutrition. Follow me: @tactical.dietitian Thorne Research: 15% off link Generation UCAN Superstarch for prolonged energy and blood sugar regulation - 15% off code: susanlopezrd See the podcast video HERE. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tacticaldietitian/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tacticaldietitian/support

Happy Tuesday! Junior is out for a few days, but we have Krystina Ray filing in! Krystina is the producer of the Ben and Skin show on The Eagle! We have a great show in store today with Shawn Wells! Bernadette and Shawn will be discussing emotional eating and nootropics, so stick around! Shawn Wells Shawn Wells is a Master of Public Health, Licensed Dietitian, Registered Dietitian, Certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He is also a Fellow of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. Shawn Wells is the world’s leading nutritional biochemist and expert on Health Optimization. He has formulated over 500 supplements and patented 10 novel ingredients. Formerly a Chief Clinical Dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience, he has counseled thousands of people on natural health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements. As a world-renowned thought-leader on mitochondrial health, he has been paid to speak on five different continents. His insights have been prominently featured in documentaries, nationally syndicated radio programs, and regularly on morning television. Shawn’s expertise can help any health-conscious high achiever to better manage stress and experience higher performance and more energy through utilizing his practical wholistic solutions. Emotional Eating Emotional Eating is when you're feeling depressed, angry, anxious, happy, and decide to eat through their emotions. Some people feel inadequate and say "screw it" and snack until they feel better. There are ways to eat through your emotions with our finishing a whole bag of pretzels, so don't worry. Your brain responds similarly to cocaine as it does sugar! Dopamine is released when we consume sugar, and we created a neuro super pathway. Reward circuitry, the cascade of neurotransmission in the brain that leads to the release of dopamine, is kicked off by any pleasurable experience. When you drink alcohol, you get led to more decadent treats and sweets, and before you know it, you've eating half a platter! You can overcome emotional eating! You must become aware, and you must be aware of your triggers. People, places, and things can all be triggers for you to eat the wrong foods! Come prepared when it comes to holiday eating. Bring the healthy dish, and have a plan for your own nutrition. Nootropics Nootropics are drugs, supplements, and other substances that may improve cognitive function, particularly executive functions, memory, creativity, or motivation, in healthy individuals. Some nootropics can be stimulants, so be sure to know which nootropic you are taking at what time to make sure to not inhibit sleep! Shawn's list of top ten nootropic ingredients include ALCAR, Alpha GPC, Rhodiola, Ashwagandha, Lion's Mane, B12, TeaCrine, Dynamine, C8 MCTs, and R-BHB. Bernadette's favorite is rhodiola! Click here to purchase Thorne Research's rhodiola product! We love Thorne! Shawn says that many products that include B12 actually have a cheap form of B12 that contains cyanide! These small doses won't kill you, but they will basically do nothing for your heath. Invest in a great B12 supplement that is already activated and great for your overall health and energy! Thank You! A big thank you to our guest, Shawn Wells! To read more about Shawn and his work, click here! Thank you to all of our One Life Radio listeners. We truly appreciate each and every one of you, so If you’d like to hear more from One Life Radio, please subscribe to our podcast. If you have any hot ideas or burning questions, email us at info@oneliferadio.com. Bernadette loves hearing from listeners. And, last but never least, thank you to our sponsors. We couldn’t do the show without you; Crazy Water, Sunwarrior, Enviromedica, VEGWORLD Magazine, Castor & Pollux, Paleo Magazine, the Well Being Journal and the ISSN. Visit our sponsor page for some great offers just for One Life Radio listeners!

Happy Tuesday! Junior is out for a few days, but we have Krystina Ray filing in! Krystina is the producer of the Ben and Skin show on The Eagle! We have a great show in store today with Shawn Wells! Bernadette and Shawn will be discussing emotional eating and nootropics, so stick around! Shawn Wells Shawn Wells is a Master of Public Health, Licensed Dietitian, Registered Dietitian, Certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He is also a Fellow of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. Shawn Wells is the world’s leading nutritional biochemist and expert on Health Optimization. He has formulated over 500 supplements and patented 10 novel ingredients. Formerly a Chief Clinical Dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience, he has counseled thousands of people on natural health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements. As a world-renowned thought-leader on mitochondrial health, he has been paid to speak on five different continents. His insights have been prominently featured in documentaries, nationally syndicated radio programs, and regularly on morning television. Shawn’s expertise can help any health-conscious high achiever to better manage stress and experience higher performance and more energy through utilizing his practical wholistic solutions. Emotional Eating Emotional Eating is when you're feeling depressed, angry, anxious, happy, and decide to eat through their emotions. Some people feel inadequate and say "screw it" and snack until they feel better. There are ways to eat through your emotions with our finishing a whole bag of pretzels, so don't worry. Your brain responds similarly to cocaine as it does sugar! Dopamine is released when we consume sugar, and we created a neuro super pathway. Reward circuitry, the cascade of neurotransmission in the brain that leads to the release of dopamine, is kicked off by any pleasurable experience. When you drink alcohol, you get led to more decadent treats and sweets, and before you know it, you've eating half a platter! You can overcome emotional eating! You must become aware, and you must be aware of your triggers. People, places, and things can all be triggers for you to eat the wrong foods! Come prepared when it comes to holiday eating. Bring the healthy dish, and have a plan for your own nutrition. Nootropics Nootropics are drugs, supplements, and other substances that may improve cognitive function, particularly executive functions, memory, creativity, or motivation, in healthy individuals. Some nootropics can be stimulants, so be sure to know which nootropic you are taking at what time to make sure to not inhibit sleep! Shawn's list of top ten nootropic ingredients include ALCAR, Alpha GPC, Rhodiola, Ashwagandha, Lion's Mane, B12, TeaCrine, Dynamine, C8 MCTs, and R-BHB. Bernadette's favorite is rhodiola! Click here to purchase Thorne Research's rhodiola product! We love Thorne! Shawn says that many products that include B12 actually have a cheap form of B12 that contains cyanide! These small doses won't kill you, but they will basically do nothing for your heath. Invest in a great B12 supplement that is already activated and great for your overall health and energy! Thank You! A big thank you to our guest, Shawn Wells! To read more about Shawn and his work, click here! Thank you to all of our One Life Radio listeners. We truly appreciate each and every one of you, so If you’d like to hear more from One Life Radio, please subscribe to our podcast. If you have any hot ideas or burning questions, email us at info@oneliferadio.com. Bernadette loves hearing from listeners. And, last but never least, thank you to our sponsors. We couldn’t do the show without you; Crazy Water, Sunwarrior, Enviromedica, VEGWORLD Magazine, Castor & Pollux, Paleo Magazine, the Well Being Journal and the ISSN. Visit our sponsor page for some great offers just for One Life Radio listeners!

Jill Lane joins us for the second time this week to continue our conversation regarding alternative health and supplement therapy. As we all have learned, sleep is so important for overall health. If you’re having trouble sleeping, try Valerian Root or Lemon Balm tea. Jill works with our partner, Thorne Research, and is an expert Read More The post Supplement Therapy, Probiotics and Parenting without Stereotypes appeared first on One Life Radio.

In this weeks episode, I sit down to discuss 3 supplements worth considering. Did you know that i'm not much of a fan of supplements? Listen here to learn why!   4:00 - Vitamin D 6:00 - Fish oil 11:45 - Protein Powder 17:00 - Thorne Research 17:40 - The 1%   Nutrition Questions? Text 214-799-2521 FREE 100+ page Nutrition eBook: Click HERE #TeamiCoachNutrition Private Facebook Community: #TeamiCoachNutrition Website: www.iCoachNutrition.com Instagram: @coachjustinmurphy Facebook: iCoach Nutrition YouTube: Justin Murphy, BS Nutrition, CPT Twitter: @JustinNutrition LinkedIn: Justin Murphy Email: justin@icoachnutrition.com        

Dana Laake and her special guest Guy Daniels will discuss understanding the gut microbiome’s role in health and disease. Guy Daniels, MS, is the Director of Medical Education at Onegevity, a subsidiary of Thorne Research. Onegevity works together with Thorne to design clinically studied supplements, including pre- and probiotics, for Thorne’s customers based on their integrated metabolic profile. Onegevity’s platform synthesizes the massive, complex, and dynamic human data derived from genomic, proteomic, blood chemistries, microbiome, saliva, and self-reported metrics to provide a comprehensive molecular portrait and personalized interventions for an individual’s health.

My guest this week is Tom Malterre, a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner whose fascination with nutrition started with his family doctor, Dr. John McDougall of the Forks Over Knives acclaim. Since then, he has attained two nutritional science degrees from Bastyr University, certification from the Institute for Functional Medicine, has co-authored three books, worked as a medical affairs member at Thorne Research and is now an educator for the Institute for Functional Medicine.  In this episode, Tom and I discuss how an elimination diet is an effective tool for a variety of children's neurological and behavioral disorders. Tom provides the audience with years of professional experience, success, and insight on the best practices for the elimination diet and tips on where and how to begin. Parents looking to try the elimination diet themselves or in their family will greatly benefit from the guidance Tom and his wife Alissa have prepared in multiple free resources online and through their various publications. To learn more click here.   Episode Highlights What Is The Elimination Diet? A simple and powerful process of removing potentially problematic foods from your diet until your symptoms subside This process is most effectively done by the use of healthy whole foods Learn more about Tom and Alissa's elimination diet approach here   But My Kid Doesn't Have Allergies  It is important to know that there are different types of immunologic reactions for every individual Your child may not have allergies but they can still have reactions and intolerances Example: Your child has loose stools or becomes moodier after having apple juice or apple sauce. They might have a reaction that does not stimulate their immune system. They could be reacting to a fructose intolerance that is in the apples Example: Gluten sensitivities - 6% of the population has a non-celiac wheat sensitivity and there are no actual tests that can be run for this An IGG panel would not be able to show this result An elimination diet can allow these types of reactions to be discovered   Sensitivity Testing  There are nuances to each test that can vary by lab, by company or brand Example: one companies labs may pick up soy and corn better than another Even when running an IGG panel it is possible to receive incomplete results   Time Between Ingestion & Symptoms  Delayed sensitivity reactions - your body may take time to have an immune or intolerance response Once an antibody is released or an imbalance has occurred it can take days, weeks and sometimes even months for things to calm or return to normal in order to have a clean slate to reintroduce foods Cutting out any one particular food or potential aggressor must be done with dedication and time Trying to remove the item for a week most likely will not be enough time   Top Offenders to Remove  The top 6 to remove: gluten, dairy, eggs, yeast, corn, and soy Ideal to remove them for about a month Truly eliminating them is tough when eating out and shopping Do your due diligence in researching items and whole foods that fit the criteria If you are able to remove all the top aggressors you will spend your time and efforts more effectively, most especially in the reintroduction phase in discovering what your body is reacting to   Reintroduction Process After removing for about a months time, your symptoms have cleared and calmed then you can reintroduce one food at a time every 3 days and wait to see if symptoms begin to reappear You then leave that offending food for a longer period, 3-6 months before addressing and adding it back in your diet   Where to learn more about Tom Malterre... Whole Life Nutrition Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Tom and Alissa's Books PubMed Article   Connect with Dr. Nicole Beurkens on... Instagram Facebook Drbeurkens.com   Need help with improving your child's behavior naturally?  My book Life Will Get Better is available for purchase, click here to learn more.  Looking for more? Check out my Blog and the Better Behavior Naturally Parent Program - a resource guide for parents who want to be more effective with improving their child's behavior.  Interested in becoming a patient? Contact us here. 

Dana Laake and her special Steven Nadell will discuss the endocannabinoid system and the new product Hemp Oil Plus. Steven Nadell, MS, CNS, is a functional medicine consultant with Thorne Research. He has been in the field of nutrition for 22 years. As a Certified Nutrition Specialist he helps doctors, nutritionists and licensed practitioners use nutrition to improve patients’ health outcomes. He also supports the implementation of OncoQOL and Hemp Oil Plus into oncology practices. These products are targeted nutraceuticals for helping to reduce side effects and improve quality of life for patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy and radiation.

Taurine is an amino acid the body uses to build proteins and enzymes. The highest concentrations of taurine in human beings are found in the eye and the heart. Animal proteins are the best foods to eat to find taurine. Taurine is classified as a "conditionally essential" amino acid, meaning the human body can make some from other amino acids. But if you need to heal and regenerate cells in your eye (or heart) you need to take in extra taurine in your food and supplements. If you are vegetarian, please take extra taurine. Hemp seed has good amounts of taurine. We discuss our recommendations for taurine supplements derived from plant sources.In this episode the topic is the product Taurine by Thorne Research. Taurine is an essential amino acid that we don’t always receive through our food or other nutrition intake. We need it but our body does not produce it naturally. Having a good strong source of it helps, once again, to make sure your body has all it needs to the job of healing and repair. It needs all the building materials otherwise it will make a very poor house. Dr. Miller explores in detail this important supplement and how to absorb it most effectively in your routine. 

Tom Nikkola - 17 years in the health and fitness industry with an impressive resume including Director of Nutrition for Life Time Fitness and Senior Consultant for Thorne Research discusses health, happiness, stress, and making positive changes in 2018 in honor of his new, FREE, e-book release "10 Commitments For Long Lasting Health and Fitness". Join us for a great discussion of several of his key points from the book and download the book for yourself HERE! https://tomnikkola.com/10commitmentsThank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, and subscribing to the show! Kick Butt. Take Names :)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.

Tom Nikkola - 17 years in the health and fitness industry with an impressive resume including Director of Nutrition for Life Time Fitness and Senior Consultant for Thorne Research discusses health, happiness, stress, and making positive changes in 2018 in honor of his new, FREE, e-book release "10 Commitments For Long Lasting Health and Fitness". Join us for a great discussion of several of his key points from the book and download the book for yourself HERE! https://tomnikkola.com/10commitmentsThank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, and subscribing to the show! Kick Butt. Take Names :)

Tom Nikkola - 17 years in the health and fitness industry with an impressive resume including Director of Nutrition for Life Time Fitness and Senior Consultant for Thorne Research discusses health, happiness, stress, and making positive changes in 2018 in honor of his new, FREE, e-book release "10 Commitments For Long Lasting Health and Fitness". Join us for a great discussion of several of his key points from the book and download the book for yourself HERE! https://tomnikkola.com/10commitmentsThank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, and subscribing to the show! Kick Butt. Take Names :)

Discussing the value of supplements for dogs as they age, from high quality companies like Thorne Research

THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW Nutrition and supplements are something we don't hear about a lot in gymnastics, unless we are looking at Jonathan Horton's Instagram or Jake Dalton's Snapchat. We wanted to know what the latest science was and what progress was being made at USA Gymnastics in terms of eduction and outreach for the national team. This week we learn about the new partnership between Thorne Research and the United States Olympic Committee. Dr. Allan Miller N.D., Executive Director of Medical Education at Thorne Research discusses all things gymnastics and nutritional science: The latest science: what coaches, athletes, parents and national team coordinators should know. How gymnasts can take advantage of this new partnership.  The WADA hack and anti-doping quality controls for supplements.  WellnessFX - it's exactly what McKayla Maroney said the national team program needed! Diagnostic testing, nutritional science, and medicine help gymnasts peak when it counts.  Gym MythBusters: Muscle soreness can be stopped.  Chocolate milk is a quality recovery drink.  Athletes get enough nutrition from diet alone.  RELATED LINKS Thorne Research for gymnastics.  NSF International supplement certification. CONTEST Win Norbert's Mini Bar & Mat Combo. Enter the contest here.  SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. RELATED EPISODES 200: Alicia Sacramone 187: McKayla Maroney 161: Women’s Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo 168: Shannon Miller, Belarusgate, NED vs GB 148: Shannon Miller Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake Episode 22: Beth Tweddle Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 31: Elise Ray Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches Episode 48: Kyla Ross 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air 77: Aly Raisman 81: Jenny Hansen 99: Princess Catherine Lyons and Coach Rochelle Douglas 101: Olivia Vivian 137: Lady Lisa Mason

Dr. Kevin Passero and his special guest Dr. Alan Miller will discuss important herbs and nutrients to aid injury and recovery. Dr. Alan Miller, ND, is a 1989 graduate of Bastyr University and a well-known clinician and educator who has lectured at medical conferences nationally and internationally. He has been a member of Thorne Research’s Medical Affairs team since 1994. As an author and researcher, Alan has published over 20 articles in the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Medicine Review. He is Chief Medical Editor of the book Alternative Medicine Review Monogrophs, Volume One and is a contributing author to the Textbook of Natural Medicine.

Evelyne Lambrecht from elevateyourenergy.com interviews Dr. Kristi Hughes, faculty at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Kristi answers: - what is functional medicine? - how is it different from integrative medicine? - why you may want to consider a functional medicine provider? - how to find a functional medicine provider? - what is the evidence for functional medicine?  - is functional medicine affordable?

Imagine you’re in the pub and you’ve just bumped into your friend Mario Roxas. Mario happens to be a naturopathic doctor and the director of research and development at Thorne, the Rolls Royce of supplement companies. Wouldn’t you want to know what supplements Mario takes? Me too, and so I couldn’t resist making that my first question. But what is it that makes Thorne Research different? Why not buy your supplements from Costco? Two reasons: research and quality. Thorne employ a team of medical and naturopathic doctor scientists that spend their time studying the scientific literature on the lookout for evidence supporting the decision to manufacturer a specific supplement. Secondly, there’s quality. Thorne cater to the sensitive customer likely to experience allergic reactions. The raw materials used to make a supplement originate from trusted sources, but Thorne validate the content of all their supplements no less than three times during the manufacturing process. Surprisingly, the FDA laws only require a supplement manufacturer to list the ingredients they added to the supplement, and there’s no guarantee that one or more of the raw ingredients used are free of potential allergens like lactose even though they’re not listed on the label. Are big supplement companies any different from big pharma? Allopathic medicine is often accused of being bought, but what makes alternative any different? Are the naturopathic doctors simply prescribing Meriva in place of Humira? I would argue no, absolutely not, and the proof is in the name supplement. As Mario points out, supplement is the perfect word. You can’t supplement your way out of a bad diet or lifestyle, and so the supplement is but one tool in the extensive chest of a good functional medicine practitioner. Three years ago I had never taken a nutritional supplement. Now I have a cupboard full of them. The reason is simple: they work. I used to take regularly chlorpheniramine for allergies. Killing off overgrowths of opportunistic pathogens and parasites with herbs like oregano and noni got me most of the way there, now I stay symptom-free by regularly supplementing with methyl-folate. The supplement didn’t just mask my symptoms; it corrected a deficiency and as a result, my red blood cells have become normal sized. Adverse events? Do you know of someone who had a serious adverse event as the result of taking a nutritional supplement free of contaminants? I don’t think this happens very often, if at all. Please let me know in the comments section below. Here’s the outline of this interview with Dr Mario Roxas, ND 0:00:42    Mario became interested in supplements whilst a resident at the National College of Natural Medicine. 0:02:12    Thorne Research are the Rolls Royce of supplements. 0:02:58    Mario takes the Basic Nutrients 2/day multivitamin. 0:03:15    Together with LipoCardia®, CoQ10, fish oil and NiaCel®. 0:03:58    Whey protein in a smoothie. 0:04:35    Interview with Bob Rountree on mitochondrial health. 0:05:15    Supplement design starts with research. 0:06:09    Thorne has a team of scientists and doctors, NDs, MDs and PhDs. 0:07:48    The product development cycle for nicotinamide riboside lasted two years. 0:08:43    Two years is a long time for a supplement. 0:09:30    When asked about supplements, what does Mario tell his friends? 0:09:37    Focus on the basics first, e.g. food. 0:10:12    Supplement is a perfect word. 0:10:41    Omega-3 fatty acids are important. 0:10:54    Also probiotics. 0:11:01    Things to help with digestion, e.g. enzymes. 0:11:25    Added fibre. 0:11:46    Chronic inflammation, curcum is helpful, e.g. Meriva-SR®. 0:13:08    What's the difference between a $60 per month Thorne multi vs. a $10 Costco multi? 0:13:45    Thorne use a capsule and there's multiple capsules. 0:14:03    The capsules easier to absorb. 0:14:23    Thorne uses no unnecessary additives, fillers or flow agents. 0:15:03    No tablets because binders. 0:15:54    There's nothing toxic about magnesium stearate, but it can interfere with absorption. 0:18:15    Flow agents and fillers may be a proxy for quality, but the type of ingredients used is probably more important. 0:18:43    The supplement manufacturer are only required to list on the label the things that they put in. 0:22:16    Thorne products are hypoallergenic. 0:23:23    The most expensive supplement is the one you don't absorb. 0:23:41    Methylcobalamin is an absorbable form of B12. 0:24:16    Originally I was iron deficient, I found out the hard way that cheap iron supplements don't work. 0:25:14    Are supplements hard on the liver? 0:25:54    By using the most bioavailable forms, the liver is unburdened of the job of conversion. 0:26:14    Some, like Meriva-SR®, are hepatoprotective (protective of the liver). 0:29:01    In the case of Meriva, the main ingredient is manufactured by a third party. 0:29:04    But even so, the raw material goes into quarantine. 0:29:27    Thorne evaluates through it's own lab to verify identity. 0:30:06    Every lot goes through at least 3 and sometimes 4 rounds of verification. 0:31:51    In house manufacturing provides a level of control. 0:32:33    If the manufacturer knows you don't have a QA department, what incentive do they have to deliver the goods? 0:32:47    Thorne calls this “trust but verify”. 0:33:19    The certificate of analysis (COA). 0:34:58    The COA shows what's in the product, and details of potential contaminants. Here’s an example for the AM part of the EXOS multivitamin. 0:36:51    The only way to make money selling supplements on Amazon is buy large quantities and then let Amazon do the fulfillment. 0:38:10    Thorne has been clamping down on Amazon sellers. 0:39:26    Thorne do keep track of adverse events. 0:39:58    This is part of FDA compliance. 0:40:17    Majority are upset stomach. 0:41:09    New IBD digestive support supplement EnteroMend®, Meriva, Boswellia, Aloe, partially hydrolyzed guar gum and glutamine 0:45:49    MCT powdered with bionic fibre. 0:47:52    Ketos OS gave me diarrhoea, KetoForce was fine (but tastes awful). 0:48:29    Creating palatability can cause problems with allergens.

So small, so abstract, it’s very hard to get your head around the idea that mitochondria are important. For me, knowing that these tiny organelles make up 10% of our total body weight (25% of the heart) helps put things into perspective. Mitochondria allow us respire with oxygen and produce vast amounts of an energy molecule called ATP. In fact, each one of us produces our body weight in ATP every day! The greater the number of healthy mitochondria, the better you feel and the faster you go. Even more incredible, recent research suggests that mitochondria come from a bacterial lineage and at some point made friends with our cells to form modern eukaryotes. My guest today is functional medicine practitioner and medical doctor, Robert Rountree. Dr. Rountree was named recipient of the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award at IFM's 2015 Annual International Conference, held in Austin, Texas. Dr. Rountree received the award for his pioneering work in the development of Functional Medicine and his role as a highly inspirational and informational member of IFM’s faculty. Dr. Rountree is the Chief Medical Officer at Thorne Research. I learned everything I know about the mitochondria through Bryan Walsh’s Metabolic Fitness Pro and the Khan Academy. As promised, here’s the picture of the mitochondrial membrane: One of the most interesting supplements Dr. Rountree talks about during our interview is NiaCell® (nicotinamide riboside). I’ve since done a lot of reading and Dr. Tommy Wood agrees the research is promising. NAD+ levels control almost everything from mitochondrial biogenesis to ability to deal with inflammation and DNA damage. NAD+ drops with inflammation damaged mitochondria. If you’ve done a urinary organic acids test and you have an accumulation of malate, isocitrate, and alpha-ketoglutarate (all need NAD+) as well as lactate (produced in order to regenerate NAD+ from NADH), and possibly quinolinate and kynurenate (both feed into NAD+ production), then you either have high NAD+ requirements or poor NAD+ turnover. In these cases nicotinamide riboside is especially worth worth considering. Here’s the outline of this interview with Dr. Rountree: [0:05] Christopher’s welcome of Robert. [0:27] Dr. Rountree’s receipt of the 2015 Linus Pauling award and background as Chief Medical officer at Thorne. [2:00] Bob’s interest in nutraceuticals and nutritional treatments and the relationship to functional medicine. [4:28] Christopher’s interest in chatting with Bob about mitochondrial issues and true health. [6:25] Why athletes and people in general should care about their mitochondrial health. [7:32] The mitochondria as the core of healthy metabolic functioning. [9:09] How the mitochondria work: a very basic overview. [12:30] What does a mitochondria look like and what are they? [16:16] Things that make the interplay between cell and mitochondria work better. [17:54] How mitochondria and free radicals impact athletes. [19:18] The importance of using true “antioxidants.” [21:52] Problems that happen with damaged mitochondria: Parkinson’s and diabetes. [25:57] Are the gains needed possible from dietary changes alone? [29:06] How large amounts of carbohydrates damage the cellular pathways in the body. [31:07] What Dr. Rountree recommends for his patients in this area. [34:30] The testing that can be used to measure mitochondrial functioning. [40:00] The use of an unfamiliar nutrient supplement: nicotinamide riboside. [46:08] Why you want more mitochondria to achieve peak performance. [48:00] The supplements Dr. Rountree uses personally and why he believes everyone needs more than food to bolster resistance to chemicals in the environment. [51:44] Dr. Bob’s research and current practice and what he’s doing that is most exciting to him. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Electron Transport Chain at the Khan Academy NiaCell® (nicotinamide riboside) PolyResveratrol-SR® N-acetylcysteine (NAC) Milk Thistle Curcumin Phytosome is in the EXOS multivitamin CoQ10 Genova Diagnostics Organix organic acids test PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Dr. Tommy Wood Linus Pauling Pathway Genomics Dr. Stephen Sinatra

Dana Laake and her special guest Steven Nadell will discuss the latest news on how antioxidants may affect cancer cells, and the role and benefit of using nicotinamide riboside. Steven Nadell, MS, CNS is a Functional Medicine Consultant with Thorne Research. He has been in the field of nutrition for 22 years. As a Certified Nutrition Specialist he helps doctors, nutritionists, and licensed practitioners use nutrition to improve patients' health outcomes. He also supports the implementation of OncoQOL into oncology practices. OncoQOL are targeted nutraceuticals for helping to reduce side effects and improve quality of life for patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy and radiation.

Dana Laake and her special guest Alan Miller, ND, will discuss new and exciting research on nutrients and botanicals. Dr. Miller is a 1989 graduate of Bastyr University and a well-known clinician and educator who has lectured at medical conferences nationally and internationally. He has been a member of Thorne Research’s Medical Affairs team since 1994. As an author and researcher, Alan has published over 20 articles in the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Medicine Review. He is Chief Medical Editor of the book Alternative Medicine Review Monogrophs, Volume One and is a contributing author to the Textbook of Natural Medicine.

A few weeks ago, I hopped in my car and drove for an hour over to Dover, Idaho, where the Thorne Research facilities are located. While there, I embarked on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of a supplements factory, getting to witness first hand how a capsule is made - from the raw ingredients analysis to the mixing and the blending to the encapsulation process and much more. My guide on that tour was Dr. Alan Miller, who is the executive director of medical education at Thorne, and a wealth of knowledge on exactly how supplements are made. In this podcast, I interview Alan about the entire supplement manufacturing process from start to finish, and you'll discover: -What a special machine that costs over a hundred thousand dollars actually does to a supplement... -Why employees at a supplements factory have to wear special moon-suits so their skin doesn't get eaten away... -Clear warning signs that your supplement may be tainted or have the wrong stuff in it... -Why some fish oil tastes horrible, and what you can do about it.. -The difference between arginine, L-carnitine and the other "ines"... -Why some probiotics don't even make it into your digestive tract at all... -What you can do about iron making you constipated... -How to absorb curcumin better... -And much more! Resources and links from this episode: - -The - - Do you have questions, comments or feedback about how a supplement is made? Leave your thoughts at !

Tom Malterre is an advanced Functional Medicine-trained Nutritionist with over 10 years of clinical experience working with nutrient deficiencies, chemical exposures, and the gut microbiome. He has degrees from Bastyr University and the Institute of Functional Medicine, is a faculty member of the Autism Research Institute, a medical affairs member of Thorne Research, and even done an entire TEDx Talk on the benefits of broccoli. Tom has co-authored two gluten-free cookbooks, including his newest book, The Elimination Diet, and has been teaching and practicing gluten-free principles since long before gluten-free was even trendy. Why you should listen –   Tom comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss why gluten and dairy are addictive like opium, the minimum length of time for elimination diets to be effective, the gut microbiome, and the benefits of raw vs cooked vegetables. Enjoy the show!

Tom Malterre is an advanced Functional Medicine-trained Nutritionist with over 10 years of clinical experience working with nutrient deficiencies, chemical exposures, and the gut microbiome. He has degrees from Bastyr University and the Institute of Functional Medicine, is a faculty member of the Autism Research Institute, a medical affairs member of Thorne Research, and even done an entire TEDx Talk on the benefits of broccoli. Tom has co-authored two gluten-free cookbooks, including his newest book, The Elimination Diet, and has been teaching and practicing gluten-free principles since long before gluten-free was even trendy. Why you should listen –   Tom comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss why gluten and dairy are addictive like opium, the minimum length of time for elimination diets to be effective, the gut microbiome, and the benefits of raw vs cooked vegetables. Enjoy the show!

Dana Laake and her special guest Alan Miller, ND, will discuss how our bodies create cellular energy from foods and how to optimize the energy-producing process. Dr. Miller is a 1989 graduate of Bastyr University and a well-known clinician and educator who has lectured at medical conferences nationally and internationally. He has been a member of Thorne Research’s Medical Affairs team since 1994. As an author and researcher, Alan has published over 20 articles in the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Medicine Review. He is Chief Medical Editor of the book Alternative Medicine Review Monogrophs, Volume One and is a contributing author to the Textbook of Natural Medicine.

Dr. Bob Rountree joins the show to to talk about the importance of your mitochondria, an often overlooked aspect of health!  Robert Rountree, MD has been providing a unique combination of traditional family medicine, nutrition, medical herbology, and mind-body therapy in Boulder, Colorado, since 1983. In addition to writing numerous book chapters and magazine articles, he is coauthor of five books on Integrative and Nutritional Medicine: The New Breastfeeding Diet Plan (McGraw-Hill, 2006), Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child, 2nd Edition (Avery Publishing, 2003), A Natural Guide to Pregnancy and Postpartum Health (Avery, 2002), Immunotics: A Revolutionary Way to Fight Infection, Beat Chronic Illness and Stay Well (Putnam, 2000), and A Parent’s Guide to Medical Emergencies (Avery, 1997). He is the medical editor for Delicious! Living and serves as a technical editor for Alternative and Complementary Therapies and Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association. A long-standing member of the adjunct faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine in Gig Harbor, WA, and a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, he has lectured widely to professional audiences as well as the general public, and frequently appears on radio shows throughout the United States and Canada. Download your free 5 DAYS TO MORE ENERGY guide from www.elevateyourenergy.com

2 years ago, I decided I was fed up with supplements. Just freakin' tired of all the tablets, capsules, pills, powders and oils. And bottles. Lots and lots of plastic bottles scattered everywhere. I distinctly remember the day I finally decided something needed to change. It was when I swung open the door of my refrigerator to dive into my daily regimen of vitamins, antioxidants, nutrients, micronutrients, fish oils... ...and I realized it was getting overwhelming. Sure, it was better living through science, but it was anything but simple. I'm sure you've experienced the same thing. You open what seems like nearly a dozen different bottles to launch into your morning supplement regimen.... ...or you pack your suitcase to travel and struggle to prioritize which bottles to shove into your limited suitcase space... ...or you spend an inordinate amount of your precious time tracking, ordering and restocking your vitamin D or your fish oil, or your greens, or your multi-vitamin or your minerals or your antioxidants or your amino acids... You get the idea. Supplement clutter, supplement confusion and utter lack of supplement simplicity. ------------------------------------ 9 Reasons You May Not Want To Throw Out All Your Supplements Now don't get me wrong. I don't think supplements are an inconvenient and unnecessary curse that should simply all be tossed out. There is certainly evidence that , but even if you're eating a “healthy” diet, studies have shown that it is nearly impossible in our modern era to get all our nutrients, vitamins and minerals only from food. For example, a : "Large portions of the population had total usual intakes below the estimated average requirement for vitamins A (35%), C (31%), D (74%), and E (67%) as well as calcium (39%) and magnesium (46%). Only 0%, 8%, and 33% of the population had total usual intakes of potassium, choline, and vitamin K above the adequate intake when food and multivitamin use was considered. The percentage of the population with total intakes greater than the tolerable upper intake level (UL) was very low for all nutrients..." "...Conclusions: In large proportions of the population, micronutrient sufficiency is currently not being achieved through food solutions for several essential vitamins and minerals. Use of age- and gender-specific multivitamin supplements may serve as a practical means to increase the micronutrient status in subpopulations of Americans while not increasing intakes above the upper intake level." So how on earth could this be? Is the planet broken or something? There's actually nine reasons for the failure of modern diets to supply our bodies with all the nutrients we need. First, modern commercial farming practices strip our precious soil of nutrients. When plants are repeatedly grown on the same land for year-after-year (a relatively new phenomenon in agriculture that beats up our land but gives us lots and lots of calories), the overused soil loses it's nutrients faster than they can be replaced.  Over time, the plants have fewer nutrients to grow, so the farmers are forced to fertilize.  Fertilizer does indeed contain enough nutrition for a plant to survive until harvesting, but not enough nutrients to support your body's nutrient needs. As discussed in the excellent book "", this results in plants that up to 75% fewer micronutrients. This problem is compounded by the fact that most plants are not harvested fresh, and the nutrients degrade as they often sit on airplanes, trucks, shelves, and counters for weeks before they arrive on your plate. Second, most , and not maximum nutrients, and because of this much of your fresh produce that us humans would have historically relied upon for nutrients are instead .  And of course, this is all passed on to the animals (including you!) that are eating the plants. For example,  found copper levels have dropped by 90% in dairy, 55% in meat, and 76% in vegetables! Third, pesticides are making this problem even worse.  Because polyphenols are produced as a defense against bugs and pathogens, . To make matters even more frustrating, even if you buy organic plants,  So unless you're going out of your way to grow your own fresh fruits and vegetables in a pristine backyard garden which contains soil that you've treated with added minerals, you are at a huge risk for malnourishment and nutrient deficiency that adversely affects your performance, fat loss, recovery, digestion, brain, sleep, and hormone balance. Fourth, it's not just nutrient-poor plants that are affecting the nutrient status of the actual animals we rely upon for food, but it's also what many of those animals are being fed - especially grains. Compared to grass-fed meat, grain-fed meat is , but unfortunately, eating high-quality, organic grass-fed (and grass-finished) meat, pastured pork and naturally raised poultry is simply not a reality for many people living in urban environments or frequently traveling. Fifth, the nutrients in your food aren't the only things that are disappearing - your liquids are being affected too. Unless you're drinking from your own well, or relying upon fancy mineralized water such as Pellegrino, Perrier and Gerolsteiner, your bottled water, filter water and tap water is also  - and if does indeed contain adequate minerals, these are typically accompanied by enormous levels of flouride and chlorine. So this means that unless you want to spend lots and lots of money on fancy water, you are stuck in a situation where you must filter your water to get rid of the dangerous stuff, then figure out other methods, such as supplementation, to get the minerals you'd normally be getting from the water. Unfortunately, milk is not much better than water. The majority of nutrients in milk are found in the fat, so while , most of us simply don't have ready access to it, especially at the typical grocery store.  In addition, pasteurization can destroy many of the nutrients in both skim and full fat milk.  , which increases your nutrient needs even more, creating a vicious cycle. So whether it's due to nutrient-poor plants, nutrient-poor animals, nutrient-poor milk, or nutrient-poor water, most diets are now so micronutrient deficient that they require on average . In other words, in our modern era, you would need to be stuffing your face all day long to actually get what your body needs, and this does not into account the fact that if you are trying to lose weight by restricting calories or if you are a physically active person like a triathlete, marathoner, Crossfitter, weightlifter, or other exercise enthusiast, then your risk of nutrient deficiency is going to be even higher!  In other words, if you are A) trying to lose weight by not stuffing your body full of excessive calories or B) an athlete  or physically active person, then you're pretty much guaranteed to be at a constantly malnourished nutrient deficit (unless you figure out a way to somehow squeeze in all those added nutrients). The older you get, the fewer nutrients you absorb, so as you age, the worse things become. And that's reasons six (weight loss), seven (exercise) and eight (age) that you may need a little help over and above what you'd get from food. So let's say you dig a well, grow your own produce, milk your own goats, eat strictly grass-fed meat and wild-caught fish, you're relatively young and you avoid excessive physical activity or calorie restriction for weight loss. Then you're safe, right? No added nutrients necessary, right? The unfortunate ninth fact is that unless you live on a pristine mountaintop in the Himalayas, you're exposed every day to airborne pollutants, xenoestrogens from plastics and BPA, environmental toxins, mold, industrial solvents, electromagnetic fields, heavy metals, fluorescent lighting, constant stress, sleep disruption and a host of other modern-day assailants upon your biology. Your body simply wasn't mean to deal with these physiological stressors - all of which vastly increase your need for nutrients to help you fight the daily battle. So for the nine reasons above - depleted soil, nutrient-poor produce, pesticides, conventional meat, subpar water and milk, weight loss, physical activity, age, and our modern post-industrial living environment, you definitely shouldn't throw out all your supplements. --------------------------------------- Is It Possible For Supplements To Be Simpler? So this was the conundrum I found myself in two years ago as I stood in front of my refrigerator door and sighed in frustration at the dizzying array of supplements and bottles. I knew that because of my extremely active lifestyle and the other reasons I just listed that I couldn't and shouldn't just throw out all my supplements. I knew that I needed to keep my precious nutrients topped off for better performance, faster recovery, optimized fat burning, clean digestion, superior mental focus, better sleep and hormone balance... ...but I also knew that I was sick and tired of having to lug around a bunch of bottles, painstakingly use a weekly pill box to keep track of my supplements like an old man tracks his medication, and constantly be headed over to Amazon or some other website to re-order something I was running low in.  And then there was that gnawing worry at the back of my mind that any of these supplements I was ingesting could be laced with something like chemicals, toxins, metals or illegal-performance enhancing drugs that could potentially damage my body, put pie in my face and get me banned from competing in a sanctioned sport like triathlon. I wanted better living through science. But I also desperately needed more simplicity. And I knew that somewhere, somehow, there must be a way to have both: the ultimate combination of science and simplicity. --------------------------------------- Seven Criteria a Multivitamin Must Have At that point, I embarked upon my quest to discover the greatest multivitamin on the face of the planet - something that could cover all my bases from a nutrient standpoint without requiring a dizzying, inconvenient and exhausting array of pills, bottles and packets. After all, that's kind of the definition of a multivitamin, right? It supposed to cover multiple needs. As a nutritionist, personal trainer, exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning coach with strict standards about what I find acceptable for myself or my clients to ingest, I also had a very distinct set of criteria that I knew a multivitamin must have - seven criteria to be precise... --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #1: Capsules, Not Tablets Before completely shoving tablets under the bus, I'll acknowledge the two benefits tablets possess. First, because tablets are pressed together so hard, more nutrients can fill the same amount of space than you can put into a capsule. Second, it’s cheaper to make tablets than capsules. There are several drawbacks, however, to using tablets. First, tablets are much harder to digest. Because tablets are packed together so tightly and need far more binders and diluents to keep them together, it takes much longer for them to break down in the digestive system. A capsule, on the other hand, breaks down within just minutes of hitting your digestive tract. This is important because of the little known fact that most of the nutrients in a multivitamin actually need to be absorbed in your stomach. When a tablet takes too long to break down in the stomach, and passes on to your intestinal tract, its content will be far less broken down and absorbed. And that means expensive pee. Tablets also need lots of extra nasty ingredients, such as binders, lubricants, coatings, disintegrants, and other excipients. These ingredients must be added to make the tablet stay together, to make the tablet shiny, and to make the tablet break apart. Tablet press machines compact the powdered nutrients together (that have already been mixed with binders and lubricants) with a tremendous amount of force. Then, to make the tablets shiny and easier to swallow, the tablets are often sprayed with coatings such as shellac (just like the shellac found on furniture but instead labeled “pharmaceutical glaze”) or coated with “vegetable protein,” (most often a protein derived from GMO corn). Yuk. I'll take a capsule, please. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #2: One Morning Dose & One Evening Dose Your body needs nutrients throughout the course of the day, not just one huge shotgun dose when you get out of bed in the morning or before you go to bed at night. So I needed to find a multivitamin designed in such a way that it delivered important nutrients for daily metabolism and activity in the morning dose, and important nutrients for recovery, rest, and sleep in the evening dose, but without a dizzying array of capsules. I'll admit that it does take slightly more discipline to take a multivitamin twice a day – once in the morning and once in the evening – but it’s a much better way to deliver the optimal nutrients at the optimal times throughout the day. After all, you'd rarely eat only breakfast or only dinner, right? I figure if I can handle at least two meals, I can handle two supplement doses - as long it's not a dozen different bottles of stuff. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #3: Low Number of Capsules One extremely inconvenient factor in most multivitamin formulas out there is the number of capsules necessary for daily use if you truly are going to be able to get all the nutrients that you need from a single formula. I think that taking three capsules in the morning and three capsules in the evening is practical and doable for me. Anything less than the six capsules per day can significantly reduce the efficacy of a multivitamin formula, but once you get over six capsules, it becomes a pain to manage, difficult to swallow, and a hassle to travel with. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #4: Vegan & Vegetarian Friendly Capsules Most capsule-based multivitamins use capsules made from bovine gelatin - that's cow. And although I do not personally eat a plant-based diet, I have many clients who are either vegan or vegetarian. So I wanted the actual capsule material to be made from the best alternative to cattle-based bovine gelatin. The ideal answer would be a capsule made of cellulose, which is a natural, vegetable-based material, and is pure plant fiber (usually from pine trees). In other words, I know it's important to many of my clients and friends that no animals be harmed in the formulation of a good multivitamin. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #5: No Magnesium Stearate or Other Nasty Fillers Magnesium stearate is probably the most common flowing agent that you will find in the “Other Ingredients” section on the Supplement Facts box on any multivitamin label. Magnesium stearate is a lubricant that is used to manufacture nutritional supplements to help powders flow through manufacturing equipment faster. It allows more tablets to be manufactured per hour and is therefore a cost-savings choice for a manufacturer. However, studies have shown that magnesium stearate can reduce the absorption rate of some nutrients. It literally wraps around nutrients and keeps them from being absorbed in the digestive tract. So although magnesium stearate is not necessarily harmful, it can vastly reduce the effectiveness of the nutritional supplements that you are taking. Instead, I'd rather see a multivitamin use something like calcium laurate, which helps powders flow through the manufacturing equipment, but is a completely naturally-occurring material that does not inhibit absorption. Calcium laurate is not as effective of a flowing agent as magnesium stearate is, so products can’t be manufactured as fast, but it can certainly get the job done without the need to use magnesium stearate. When it is necessary to fill the capsule with something in addition to a nutrient or botanical, I'd rather see a multivitamin manufacturer use magnesium citrate, a the pure element reacted with pure citric acid; cellulose, a pure plant fiber, magnesium citrate-laurate, a pure element reacted with citric acid and lauric acid (a small fat molecule that does not inhibit absorption), silica, a pure element found in sand, and the amino acid leucine. Any of these fillers are completely natural and allow you to take a multivitamin without worrying about unnatural or harmful ingredients you might be ingesting. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #6: No GMO's For  personal health and longevity reasons, and for consideration of the earth's environment, I avoid like the plague any product that contains Genetically Modified Organisms (known as GMOs). Unfortunately, most multivitamins contain GMO-laden ingredients - as well as corn, gluten, and some of the other nasty fillers mentioned earlier. This requires that any multivitamin I would ever use would need to closely analyzed by the manufacturer and guaranteed to be absolutely certain that none of ingredients are derived from GMO sources nor that they utilize GMOs in their production. --------------------------------------- My Multivitamin Criteria #7: Certified to Have No Banned Ingredients As I mentioned, it's very important to me that any supplement I take is not only CGMP certified (manufactured in a certified good manufacturing practices facility to ensure purity), but is also free of any ingredients that would get me banned from competing in triathlons, or taint my body with unnatural steroids or hormones. For years, I've been under the impression that something called an "NSF For Sport" certification was the strictest, third-party verification standard by which to judge whether a supplement contains these potentially illegal or banned ingredients. Turns out, I was wrong.   There's something even more strict than NSF. And that is Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the pharmaceutical regulatory agency of Australia. Considered the toughest regulatory agency in the world, the TGA inspection and certification is conducted at a pharmaceutical level standard. Yes, that means the supplements certified by the TGA are verified to be as pure as an actual pharmaceutical drug. For me to hold a multivitamin to as strict a standard as a TGA certification would be tough. Only a handful of U.S. companies are able to achieve the status of holding a TGA certification and there is really only one dietary supplement company in the U.S. that ever has completed all three strict levels of a TGA certification, since the certification requires not only a review of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) every two years, but also on-site inspection of every aspect of a multivitamin's quality control, laboratory procedures, pharmaceutical good manufacturing practices, and standard operating procedures. But that's not all. I'd also prefer for a multivitamin to be certified by Informed Choice. Informed Choice requires five samples from three different production runs of product to be tested, which would further guarantee, because of extremely rigid raw material and finished product testing and production procedures, absolutely no ingredient banned by any amateur or professional organization. In other words, I want rock-solid, bulletproof confidence that I can hand any multivitamin that I endorse or personally use to the best athlete on the face of the planet with zero reservations about whether or not the multivitamin is pure or might get them banned. --------------------------------------- Notoriously Neglected Ingredients That A Multivitamin Must Have I also know that there are notoriously neglected ingredients in most multivitamin complexes that make them barely scratch the surface of your true nutrient needs, especially if you're a hard charging athlete, exercise enthusiast, an aging person, a busy professional living a CEO-esque lifestyle, or anyone else with advanced nutrient needs. Take Vitamin D, for example. The 200-400IU of Vitamin D found in most popular multivitamins is basically enough to keep a child from getting rickets. This is not even close enough to support optimal hormonal balance and physical or mental performance. Problem is, the multivitamins that actually do indeed have the 2000+IU per day of Vitamin D that I like to see do not include optimal amounts of Vitamin A or Vitamin K to allow for ideal absorption and utilization of Vitamin D, or reduced risk of Vitamin D toxicity. Or take Vitamin K - a crucial fat soluble vitamin usually found in complete zero amounts in a multivitamin. The body actually needs nearly 400mcg per day of Vitamin K to support bone health, calcium and magnesium balance, and vitamin D absorption, among a host of other metabolic and immune-boosting functions. Yet strangely enough, it's not included at all in most multivitamins. So what else is neglected in most multivitamins that I searched for on my quest to find the greatest multivitamin on the face of the planet? 1. Vitamin B6, B12 and B2 In The Correct Form The bioactive form of Vitamin B6 is Pyridoxal 5’-Phosphate. But the most common form found in most multivitamins is Pyridoxine HCl, which is not the active form of Vitamin B6. So the Pyridoxal 5’-Phosphate is a must-have in my opinion. The most common form of Vitamin B12 used in nutritional supplements and processed foods is cyanocobalamin. Cyanocobalamin, however, is absorbed at a much lower rate than methylcobalamin, which is the form of vitamin B12 that a multivitamin should actually have. Riboflavin 5’-Phosphate is the bioactive form of vitamin B2, but unfortunately Riboflavin HCl is the form commonly used in multivitamins, and that form needs to be converted in an extra step in the liver to the active form. Why do most multivitamins cut corners on these forms of Vitamin B? They're either uninformed, or going for the cheap alternative. 2. Folate In The Correct Form  Folic acid is the most common form of folate used in nutritional supplements and fortified foods. However, a significant percentage of the population has trouble converting folic acid to folate, which is the natural form found in foods and in the body. A good multivitamin should use a form of folate called  l-5-methyltetrahydrofolate to ensure folate is absorbed. It does cost considerably more than folic acid, but again, I only want a multivitamin with ingredients that work - not that just look pretty on a label and then give me expensive pee. 3. Minerals That Are Actually Absorbable Minerals by themselves are poorly absorbed, but when bound to an amino acid (also called a "mineral chelate") they are absorbed much better. Technically the most absorbable form of a mineral is the bisglycinate chelate form, and to avoid the minerals in a multivitamin simply creating expensive pee, I would specifically like to see calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, manganese, chromium, and molybdenum minerals in a chelated form. 4. Curcumin That Is Actually Absorbable Curcumin is one of my favorite supplements, and has received a lot of attention recently as a potent natural anti-inflammatory nutrient that can control brain and muscle inflammation, positively affect muscle health, joint structure and function, and antioxidant activity in the gut, liver, and heart. But the trouble with most curcumin ingredients is that they are extremely poorly absorbed. However, there is one form of curcumin called the phytosome form which was developed by the researchers in Milan, Italy, and has been shown to be absorbed 29 times better than a standard curcumin extract. This is the only form of curcumin that I'd like to see in a multivitamin. 5. Green Tea Extract That Is Actually Absorbable Green tea is another powerful antioxidant that has been shown to have a mild effect on raising metabolic rate and improving fat oxidation. But like standard curcumin extracts, standard green tea extracts are not well absorbed either. But the same researchers who discovered the curcumin phyotosome have also developed green tea phytosome, which provides a much better absorbed form of green tea extract, and would also ideally be in a multivitamin. 6. Adaptogens Stress-fighting adaptogens are another notoriously missing component of most multivitamins, but in our hectic era are a must-have for sleep, de-stressing and hormone balance. One of the most potent adaptogenic compounds that I discovered in my multivitamin research to both lower cortisol levels and raise testosterone levels is called "Relora", and is a blend of magnolia officinalis and phellodendron amurense. If added to a multivitamin, it could also help curb cravings and stress-related eating, and help calm the mind and support rest and relaxation prior to bedtime. As a high intensity guy, this addition would be a very important to me as a necessary multivitamin ingredient. Remember - this all comes down to simplicity. This means that if you or I can't get our hands on a capsule-based, pure and safe, minimalist and simple multivitamin that provides everything I just described above... ...then it means we are instead forced to buy 6, 8, 10 or 12 different supplements to supply our daily nutrient needs and fill in all the "holes" the multivitamin isn't giving. --------------------------------------- Where A Tiny Town In North Idaho Fits In So that's what I've been doing over the past two years. I have been taking a deep, deep dive into educating myself on the wide world of nutrients, supplements, ingredients, fillers, formulations, encapsulation technology and every aspect that goes into creating a multivitamin. And I have literally been pulling my hair out and hitting dead-end after dead-end as I have been trying to hunt down something that meets my strict quality criteria for a multivitamin. Of course, I have also found it incredibly frustrating when my clients, or readers, or podcast listeners or me have to simply keep on taking a crazy number of supplements or buying an unbelievable number of bottles and spending inordinate amounts of money when it's so straightforward to see what a multivitamin that meets all our daily nutrients needs should really have (and not have!) in it. I've even gone so far as to consider simply hunting down the raw ingredients and formulating my own multivitamin. But frankly, I'm an author, an athlete and a teacher - and don't fancy myself as a supplement manufacturer. I just don't have a desire to get into that business.  I simply want a multivitamin that I can, with a clear conscience, recommend to you and also take myself. Is that asking too much? And then it happened. During one of the dozens and dozens of phone calls I made and countless hours attempting to hunt down the perfect multivitamin formulation, a raw ingredient manufacturer informed me of the existence of a new multivitamin formulation created by a company called "Thorne Research", in Dover, Idaho. That's right - just 60 miles from the front door of my house, in the tiny town of Dover, Idaho, are the Thorne Research facilities (pictured below). After months and months of searching, it turns out the solution could possibly be right in my own backyard. For over 30 years, Thorne Research has set the standard for exceptional formulations, quality and purity in the dietary supplement industry - and is considered the most respected nutritional supplements brand in the healthcare practitioner space. That's right - this is is the stuff physicians use with their patients. I'd actually heard of Thorne before, but always knew it was just for the fancy doctors and clinicians so I couldn't really access it or use it. So until recently, none of the coveted Thorne Research products were available for me or any other personal trainer to actually recommend to our clients, readers or listeners. Instead, these high-quality, private formulations were only available for physicians or dietitians to use with their patients, and only for certified health care providers to use with their clients. But then, in January 2014, Thorne Research created a new branch called "". ThorneFX was specifically designed to address the growing demand of fitness experts like me who are seeking a solution for our clients, but don't have the privileged access to the fancy formulations that normally only a doctor or clinician would be able to prescribe or order. --------------------------------------- The Greatest Multivitamin On The Face Of The Planet So I thought it was pretty interesting (and exciting) that I now had access to some of the highest quality formulations on the face of the planet, produced in a facility just an hour's drive from my house. But it turned out there was even more good news. I also discovered that when Thorne Research created the ThorneFX branch, they had not just created a multivitamin formulation but they had specifically left no stone unturned to launch the most powerful, absorbable multivitamin on the face of the planet. This was a multivitamin that possibly met all of my strict criteria, but that previously had never been available to the general population unless their doctor or dietitian knew about it. It's called the , and I immediately got my hands on it. Upon closer inspection and using it for 30 days, I instantly knew that this is not your typical multivitamin. Formulated with superior forms of vitamins and minerals,  is actually two unique formulations - an AM formula is designed to support daytime energy, and a PM formula designed to support better rest and recovery in the evening. Some of the key differentiators in  include: -Vitamins K1 and K2 (most use only K1 or no K2 at all).  -Natural folate (5-MTHF) instead of folic acid.  -Methylcobalamin instead of cyancobalamin.  -Chelated minerals to ensure optimal absorption. -Higher dose of magnesium and calcium than typically found in a multivitamin. -Curcumin Phytosome (curcumin complexed with phosphatidylcholine for superior bioavailability) -Green Tea Phytosome (green tea complexed with phosphatidylcholine for superior bioavailability) -Relora, a blend of adaptogenic plant extracts to aid in relaxation, curb late-night cravings, and balance cortisol, testosterone and DHEA levels.  The  (pictured below) literally satisfies every criteria I require in a multivitamin: all the notoriously neglected ingredients, a TGA and Informed Choice certification, no GMO's, no nasty fillers and ingredients, a capsule instead of a tablet...everything. I couldn't believe when I first found out about the new formulation. Three easy capsules in the morning, three in the evening. Boom. Simple science. My quest was over. Mission accomplished. See for yourself - below are the label and full ingredients. Morning dose - three capsules contain: Vitamin A (3,000 IU as Beta Carotene and 2,000 IU as Palmitate) 5,000 IU Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid) 250 mg Vitamin D (as Vitamin D3) 2,000 IU Vitamin E (as d-Alpha Tocopheryl Acid Succinate) 20 IU Vitamin K (100 mcg as Vitamin K1 and 100 mcg as Vitamin K2) 200 mcg Thiamin (as Thiamin HCl) 50 mg Riboflavin (as Riboflavin 5’-Phosphate Sodium)  12 mg Niacin (as Niacinamide)  60 mg Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxal 5’-Phosphate)  20 mg Folate (as L-5-Methyltetrahydrofolate from L-5-Methyltetrahydrofolic Acid, Glucosamine Salt)*  600 mcg Vitamin B12 (as Methylcobalamin)  600 mcg Biotin  500 mcg Pantothenic Acid (as Calcium Pantothenate)  45 mg Calcium (as Calcium Bisglycinate Chelate)  38 mg Iodine (as Potassium Iodide)  75 mcg Magnesium (as Magnesium Bisglycinate Chelate)  63 mg Zinc (as Zinc Bisglycinate Chelate)  10 mg Selenium (as L-Selenomethionine)  100 mcg Copper (as Copper (II) Bisglycinate Chelate)  750 mcg Manganese  (as Manganese (II) Bisglycinate Chelate)  1.5 mg Chromium  (as Chromium Nicotinate Glycinate Chelate) 200 mcg Molybdenum  (as Molybdenum (II) Glycinate Chelate)  50 mcg Curcumin Phytosome** (Curcuma longa extract  (root) / Phosphatidylcholine complex)  200 mg Green Tea Phytosome** (Camellia sinensis  extract (leaf) decaffeinated / Phosphatidylcholine complex)  75 mg Choline Citrate  50 mg d-Gamma Tocopherol (from Mixed Tocopherols)  24 mg Boron (as Bororganic™ Glycine)  1 mg Lutein (from Aztec Marigold extract (flower) (Tagetes erecta))  300 mcg Evening dose, three capsules contain: Vitamin A (600 IU as Beta Carotene and 400 IU as Palmitate)  1,000 IU Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid)  150 mg Vitamin D (as Vitamin D3)  500 IU Vitamin E (as d-Alpha Tocopheryl Acid Succinate)  20 IU Vitamin K (100 mcg as Vitamin K1 and 100 mcg as Vitamin K2)  200 mcg Folate (as L-5-Methyltetrahydrofolate from L-5-Methyltetrahydrofolic Acid, Glucosamine Salt)*  400 mcg Biotin  500 mcg Calcium (as Calcium Bisglycinate Chelate)  50 mg Iodine (as Potassium Iodide)  75 mcg Magnesium (as Magnesium Bisglycinate Chelate)  107 mg Zinc (as Zinc Bisglycinate Chelate)  20 mg Selenium (as L-Selenomethionine)  100 mcg Copper (as Copper (II) Bisglycinate Chelate)  750 mcg Manganese  (as Manganese (II) Bisglycinate Chelate)  1.5 mg Chromium  (as Chromium Nicotinate Glycinate Chelate) 200 mcg Molybdenum (as Molybdenum (II) Glycinate Chelate)  50 mcg Proprietary Blend**  200 mg Magnolia officinalis (bark) extract   Phellodendron amurense (bark) extract   Choline Citrate  100 mg d-Gamma Tocopherol (from Mixed Tocopherols)  24 mg Boron (as Bororganic™ Glycine)  2 mg Lutein (from Aztec Marigold extract (flower) (Tagetes erecta)) 600 mcg The science is obviously there - every nutrient your body needs. But the simplicity is so amazingly refreshing - especially when I pack to travel and literally have one morning bottle and one evening bottle to toss into my suitcase - and of course, a heck of a lot of extra space in my refrigerator. Better yet, if you need some icing on the cake - such as anything extra added in like some , , , a , a , a ,  - , with the same huge, unparalleled quality that I've never been able to find before. It's like a one-stop shop for everything I have ever looked for or wanted in a nutrition supplements line. --------------------------------------- Summary So that's it: pure and simple. I have never before been able to recommend a complete multivitamin that satisfies all my criteria. And I have always had a refrigerator full of a bunch of bottles. But now the problem is solved. And yes, this means that the ThorneFX  is now my recommended, go-to source for the ultimate combination of science and simplicity. Furthermore, the  is now something I back, endorse, vouch for and am now using in my own personal daily routine with great success. And the best thing yet?  An entire month of the  is just 34 bucks. You heard me right: 34 dollars. So rather than forking over hundred of dollars for bottle after bottle of fancy supplements, powders, tablets, pills, and oils, you get one multivitamin that hits all your needs for a mere fraction of the price. Go ahead - spend that extra money you were blowing on 10 different supplements on a fancy steak dinner or chock it away for your kid's college or your next car. Of course, if you're familiar with me, my podcast, or articles I've written in the past, then you may be wondering... ...what about the other supplements I've previously recommended? What about ? What about ? What about my ? The good news is that all of these are still available and still consist of specific ingredients that I may use with certain clients or recommend in certain situations when the need arises. After all, everything I have recommended in the past is all excellent, extremely high-quality stuff, and if you're happy with what you're currently using...then that's fine! But for science, simplicity, peace of mind, and some extra room in my refrigerator and my suitcase, I am moving in the direction of shifting nearly my entire personal supplement protocol to  - and specifically what I have discovered to be the greatest multivitamin on the face of the planet: the . , feel free to ask me about how to use or implement  into your current protocol, and leave any questions about any substitutions or replacements for other supplements you're currently taking. I promise to personally respond and walk you through everything. Enjoy the new simplicity in your life!

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