Ben Greenfield LifeHow To Test Your Nutritional Status & How To Know Which Supplements To Take: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet
Dr. Chris Masterjohn is a former podcast guest from the episode “Why Sugar Isn’t As Dangerous As You Might Think, How Your Genetics Affect Your Sleep, Liver Toxicity & More With Dr. Chris Masterjohn.” and "What Happens If You Take Too Much Creatine, A Notorious Deficiency On High-Protein Diets, How To Become A Nutrition Ninja & More With Chris Masterjohn."
He earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences in 2012 from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2012 to 2014, and served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College from 2014 to 2016. He now works independently in health and nutrition research, education, and consulting. Chris has authored or co-authored ten peer-reviewed publications.
Chris just put the finishing touches on his Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet e-book, which distills all of the practical information from the confusing nutrition supplement industry and packs everything you need to know about testing and customizing your supplement regimen all into one, single document. So you never need an appointment with Dr. Google. You never need to rummage through long articles, podcast transcripts, or endless lists of links. The Cheat Sheet is published as a PDF, Kindle book, and iBook. This allows you to use your favorite devices and apps to read it in your favorite way. It means you can read it on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. It is threaded with links throughout. This makes finding exactly what you need always just one click away.
All of the lab testing required for comprehensive nutritional screening is reduced to a single page, with hyperlinks making ordering any of the tests just one click away. In just five pages, Chris provides full instructions for lab testing, blood pressure, and dietary analysis, as well as an algorithm for quick decisions on what to do next for each marker that may be off.
Over 70 pages list the signs and symptoms associated with all the possible nutrient imbalances, the potential causes of nutrient imbalances, and an action plan for correcting each imbalance. To top it off, it ends with an index of the signs and symptoms of nutrient deficiencies and imbalances.
The index has 178 entries, and each entry links directly to the sections of the text where those signs and symptoms are discussed. This makes it incredibly easy to browse through the index for the things that seem most interesting or relevant to you and find exactly what you’re looking for without having to read the whole guide.
During my discussion with Chris about how to test your nutritional status, you'll discover:
-Why you need to care about supplements, even if you're eating a good diet... 9:45 -Whether nutritional testing is too expensive to justify... 22:00 -Three different ways to know if you have nutritional deficiencies... 33:00 -Whether someone should really do this on their own vs. asking their doctor what’s best...44:00 -How you can test for fat soluble vitamins, and why someone would be low in fat soluble vitamins...50:00 -How you can test for oxidative stress and what antioxidants are people commonly deficient in...59:00 -Why Chris says "I do not recommend high-fat ketogenic diets unless there is a demonstrated medical purpose for this diet or trial and error has proven it useful to increase well being or resolve health problems that have not been resolvable through other means"...1:07:30 -What Chris' diet looks like, and why he doesn't consume casein protein...1:11:00 -And much more!Resources from this episode:
-Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet (BEN5 saves $5).
-The Genova Ion Panel + 40 amino acids comprehensive test Chris and Ben discuss
-The Weston A. Price Conference
-The Ancestral Health Symposium
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