Dr. Chris Masterjohn on Understanding Key Nutrients: Biotin, Sodium, Potassium, and Omega-3s

Episode Highlights With Chris

• What biotin is and why it is important in the body
• Important things to understand about supplemental biotin and what to look for
• High dose biotin supplementation- why people are doing this and what is considered a high dose
• Pros and cons of biotin supplementation
• The biotin candida connection
• Big problems connected to biotin deficiency
• How to actually get enough biotin from food and when supplements are a good idea
• Ways to figure out how much biotin you actually need: serum biotin testing and functional marker testing
• What you need to know about sodium
• A tip for diarrhea: salted rice
• Sodium and glucose keep water in the blood and why this is important
• How potassium comes into play here as well
• Dopamine synthesis is dependent on sodium
• When supplementing with salt is helpful
• Only 6% of your average salt intake comes from what was added at the table, and almost all of it comes from processed foods
• The real deal on if exercise and sauna use increase sodium need
• If you eat a whole food diet you might need more salt
• Food sources of potassium and how to get enough (hint: you aren’t getting enough from bananas)
• The real deal on Omega-3s and Omega-6s
• More reasons to incorporate liver, egg yolks and fatty fish into your diet

Resources We Mention

• Chris Masterjohn - website
• Chris Masterjohn - Instagram
• LMNT

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