Dr. Andy Galpin

Thank you for saying that rather than, so I didn't have to say it.

That's one kind way to put it, but my goodness, people.

That's a great way to put it.

There's a lot of emotions involved.

So micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals.

If you're doing your job with nutrition, those things are mostly taken care of.

If you're eating the variety of the foods, the type of foods that we've been talking about, the big basic stuff, you're in a really good spot.

Now, do we need to go on top of those things and supplement particular vitamins, minerals, nutrients?

Context dependent here.

Magnesium is the one that jumps off, of course, as the one where...

If our food quality sources were, I don't want to say how they used to be or what we would like them to be, and we had adequate amounts of those in our food, then we would literally just not have to worry about supplements at all.

But that's not always the case.

So because of that, you can look and you'll see all kinds of numbers about things like magnesium deficiencies, whether that's clinical deficient, subclinical, or just suboptimal.

I don't know, some, some papers, 40% of people, some people, 60%, like those numbers can get really, really high.

When you look at athletes because of caloric expenditure and because of sweat and because of how much tissue breakdown that's happening through many, like then the needs are even higher with them.

So I would say magnesium is a supplement.

comes in probably 90% of the people we work with.

It's really, really, really common for us to add magnesium as a supplement.

We try to add higher magnesium bioavailable foods more.

That is our starting place, but we're probably going to add supplements on top of that in addition because it's just hard to get there.