#928 Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Supplements and What You Need to Know

Show Topic: Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Supplements and What You Need to Know

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: None

 

Segment 1:

We are often asked about supplements so we thought we’d do a whole show devoted to vitamins, minerals, and other supplements.

• Difference between a vitamin and a mineral:

Vitamins - any of a group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.

Minerals- a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence

• Fat-soluble vs water-soluble

Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the fatty tissues of the body and the liver. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble. These are easier to store than water-soluble vitamins, and they can stay in the body as reserves for days, and sometimes months. Absorbed through the intestinal tract with the help of fats, or lipids.

Water-soluble vitamins do not stay in the body for long. The body cannot store them. Excreted through the urine. Water-soluble vitamins need to be replaced more often than fat-soluble ones.

Vitamin C and all the B vitamins are water soluble.

• Why doesn’t our food contain enough vitamins and minerals?
• Not all vitamins are created equal

Store-brand vs pharmaceutical grade

Pharmaceutical Grade products must exceed 99% purity (natural sources) and contain no binders, fillers, excipients, dyes, or unknown substances. Fewer than 3% of the products on the market are pharmaceutical grade.

 

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New research from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that older blood vessels can be repaired in 6 to 8 weeks with antioxidants specifically targeting mitochondria. The study shows that it can take anywhere from 15 to 20 years of aging off, making the blood vessels appear and function like much younger vessels. The study was published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension and once again shows that pharmaceutical-grade supplements could be key in preventing heart disease. In the study, participants took MitoQ, a form of Coenzyme Q that has been modified to cling to the inside of mitochondria inside cells.

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Coming up, a simple blood test that may change your life.

 

Segment 2:

Today we’re talking about supplements and what you need to know. Coming up, a blood test that may change your life.

ANDERSON - Immortal minute – 2 min.

• Discuss Micronutrient testing

Coming up, a look at what the doctors take for themselves.

 

Segment 3:

• Supplements we take
• What’s on the horizon – new supplements

Open discussion

 

Segment 4:

Medical Mania Trivia – Trivia @ 1:40 Jamie blog Fly By the Seat of Our Pants. About family with 4 kids flying around the world last minute. —great blog!

1. Our brain contains hundreds, millions, or billions of brain cells (estimated 86 billion brain cells)
2. Multitasking makes your brain work better or worse? (Worse - decreases in attention span, learning, performance, and short-term memory)
3. Which generation is more forgetful? Millennials or Baby Boomers (Millennials – perhaps from all this multitasking)
4. What is our current attention span, seconds, minutes, or an hour (It has gotten worse! In 2000, the average attention span was 12 seconds. Now it’s 8 seconds. That’s shorter than the 9-second attention span of the average goldfish.)
5. High cholesterol increases or decreases the risk for Alzheimers? (Decreases! Low cholesterol actually increases the risk for dementia according to new studies.)

Open discussion

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LAST WEEKS RIDDLE WAS: What has to be broken before it can used? -  An egg

This week’s riddle:

1. Jimmy's mother had three children. The first was called April, the second was called May. What was the name of the third?

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