Dr Natalie Crawford

And I quickly realized if we're looking at health span, if we're looking at body composition, there may not be a lot of room for fasting for these patients, you know, or for my girlfriends, you know.

And it is really difficult for my patients to reach their nutrition goals.

So never at the expense of meeting your basic nutrition goals and your calorie needs.

And it is really, really hard to do while fasting.

So you may get a short-term benefit with weight loss, but there really doesn't—

Dr. Sims can get into the nitty gritty.

Well, there's adaptive stress and then there's stress to the point of you're hurting yourself.

And if you are pregnant...

and go through times of severe stress, illness, injury, your body will eject what is in the womb through a miscarriage or early pregnancy loss or preterm labor because it is always going to try to protect you first.

But you have a liver.

I think it's marketing.

I think they're falling prey to marketing.

And that's a big wellness trend.

Could you give me the menopause supplement stack, if there is such a... Okay, so in general, we're not going to cure menopause with supplements.

Let me just take straight up, okay?

Most women are going to be deficient in fiber, and most women are going to be deficient in vitamin D. And vitamin D is...

is hugely important in multiple enzymatic processes in our body and is really hard to get enough through our nutrition, even eating stacks of salmon a day, which is really high in vitamin D. So about 80% of my patients are not only just low in vitamin D, they're deficient.

So that is one that we can supplement safely up to about 4,000 IUs, international units, is how vitamin D is measured a day without worries of becoming toxic or having too much vitamin D, which is possible.

And

So usually I'm having creatine.