Ryan Faff says, "In your previous AMA recommended abstain from high phytate foods, such as nuts for
three hours before and one hour after zinc rich meal, I found this recommendation very helpful.
I know nutrient absorption is a complicated topic, but can you provide any additional best practices
for best nutrient absorption. That's such a broad question that I would really suggest
referencing the vitamins and minerals on 101 course, because
there's just so many nutrients and so many potential interactions.
But in terms of the ones that really stand out to me as really
important interactions, I'm going to say that oxalates and calcium,
phytate and zinc, phytate and iron,
plants and iron. So zinc and iron are really like meat is the ally of zinc and iron absorption
and plants are the enemy of zinc and iron absorption. And for zinc it's much more
specifically about phytate, for iron it's much more broadly about plants inhibit iron absorption.
I'm not worried about calcium inhibiting the absorption of anything else at nutritional
doses. If you're getting three or 400 milligrams of calcium in a meal, I'm not worried about it.
But if you are mega dosing calcium and I just wouldn't megadose calcium period,
across the board umbrella recommendation. But if you are a megadose in calcium,
I think you could inhibit the absorption of a lot of other positively charged minerals.
In the fat soluble vitamins, that is the ally of fat soluble vitamin absorption.
Large meals and fat soluble vitamins. Large meals are the ally of fat soluble vitamin absorption.
Fat absorption from poor fat digestion, is the enemy of not only
the absorption of fat soluble nutrients, but also the absorption positively charged minerals.
There might a few of them missing, but those are the ones that really stand out to me
as big nutrient absorption issues. But for the most part, I wouldn't micromanage
these. I just feel like if you're aiming as in the COVID protocol, for example or as important zinc
status, to really get your zinc status up that's when you really start thinking about phytate.
If you have osteopenia, you should really think about oxalyl or apart from oxalate issues,
oxalate crystals and stuff, kidney stones, joint problems, potentially other things that people are
talking about as hypothesis. But from the perspective of nutrient absorption, I'm not too
worried about the calcium oxalate issue if you've adjusted your calcium intake for bioavailability.
But if I had osteopenia, I'd be thinking a lot more about Oxalate. Be more strict about it.
Similarly, if my iron status and my zinc status are fine, I'm not really thinking
about the interaction of zinc and iron. But if I can't get my zinc status up, I can't get my
iron status up they're deficient, I'm going to start thinking about those as the primary
in terms of problems with the absorption, because I know I have an issue with absorption. Because
I'm eating the zinc, I'm eating the irons, the levels aren't going up. So I think you
attune to this to like how imminent of a need is it for you to get that level up?
Is it the COVID protocol you want get zinc as high as you can, if you're in a high risk situation,
if there's imminent need and you have a problem to fix, I wouldn't micromanaging these things, but
if it is an eminent view where there is a problem to fix, that's when I start thinking a lot about
them. But certainly there are more details in the vitamins and minerals 101 course, and what I have
gone through right here. These are just the main ones. Okay. Thank you Ryan, for your question.