Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I mean, we'd have to spend hours talking about it because there's just so much nuance.

That would be a whole other episode.

Yeah, there's a lot of emotions involved in nutrition, for sure.

So micronutrients, this is an area that, as you know, I'm very passionate about.

And I think it's a good segue into some supplements that I'm interested in talking about.

But, you know, exercise does increase requirements for several micronutrients.

How do you approach that so that people are more intentional about their diet and trying to get...

Maybe talk about some of those micronutrients and then how...

Yeah, for sure.

I'm glad you mentioned the plasma levels of magnesium, which is mostly what's being measured in a standard test, I guess, you would get from like a routine physical or something like that.

Yeah, you pull it out from your bones and really...

It's kind of like this, your bones are this reservoir.

And by the time someone reaches older age, like 50% of their magnesium has been taken out of their bones.

I mean, it's incredible.

And it plays a role in osteoporosis.

A huge role.

But people aren't really focused on that as much.

Yeah.

So about if half the country isn't...

As you mentioned, it depends on the paper that you're reading and what's being defined as magnesium insufficiency.