So my next guest here
is the most liked doctor on Instagram
with over 2.6 million followers.
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This is Doctor Mike!
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Thank you, Thank you.
I'm a family medicine doctor.
I work out of Overlook Medical Center in Summit New Jersey.
And what I do is not only treat people when they're sick
but keep 'em healthy and stay healthy and happy.
That's the plan.
Yes.
But the number one thing that you're asked about
isn't diet necessarily,
it's what?
It's vitamins!
Right.
And the shortcut to getting all the nutrients from food
in a pill.
Let's do a little Vitamin 101. Okay.
You have vitamins which are little nutrients
that are found in food that help your body function,
grow,
grow older healthy and happy.
But then you also have vitamin supplements,
which is a nutrient that's found in a lot of these foods,
put into a pill or a powder or whatever mixture you can,
concoction you can buy online.
Right? Right
But, There's two specific types of vitamins
and it's important to talk about those two types.
Water-Soluble vitamins and Fat-soluble vitamins.
Okay
So here on the right side,
we have all water-soluble vitamins.
And those are,
get ready for this,
this is gonna be a mouthful.
B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, and Vitamin C.
The tricky thing about these vitamins is that
these vitamins are water soluble like they're called
and they can be excreted,
gotten rid of outside of your body,
through your urine.
Then we have the fat soluble vitamins
which is a shorter list,
D, E, K, A.
Medical school, Deka
Deka, look at that.
Did you go to medical school?
For sure not.
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But you know the answer
because food can be your medicine.
That's something we should keep in mind
through this segment.
So fat-soluble vitamins,
why they're a little trickier
is that they can build up in your fat stores,
meaning that there could be toxicity if you have too much.
And a lot of these vitamins Wow!
are the ones that people are overdoing it on.
And great examples of way to get them naturally,
some of these foods.
You have almonds.
You have delicious beef right there!
Yeah, lean,
all sorts of lean protein.
You have chicken,
salmon salmon
Just, you, look how much fun this is
not only to cook but to eat.
Why would you go to a pill to try and get all of this?
Let's make a little transfer here.
Here we have our little make-shift pharmacy
and three vitamins that people like to talk about
and make some claims about.
So, multivitamins.
There's two schools of thought on multivitamins.
If you're not getting enough nutrition from a diet
because you're always in a rush and not eating them,
then take a multivitamin and maybe it'll help
with some of your deficits.
Because there's very little harm that we found
in taking multivitamins.
So it's not gonna hurt you.
It's not gonna hurt you.
Then there's another school of thought
saying that because vitamins aren't regulated so well,
FDA does not check the safety and efficacy of vitamins.
Seriously?
Very serious.
Wow!
And because you can have a very healthy lifestyle
by eating a lot of these foods
and it's much better to get it from foods than vitamins.
And it might be just,
and they're very expensive by the way.
Very expensive.
So this isn't cheap.
It might not be the greatest investment
if you're on a limited budget.
You might better spend your money on the actual food.
Yes, exactly.
So look then we have,
we're moving on.
Two vitamins that have been causing a stir
in the conversation the medical community.
Getting B12 injections,
getting extra vitamin D.
I know literally a dozen people that do that.
Yeah, so
What does it do?
Anything?
What really bothers me as a doctor.
Our job is to first do no harm
and then to treat illness, right?
By recommending these and saying all these miraculous cures
that these vitamins have,
is outrageous.
Because the research just isn't there.
The doctor that you go see,
will help you make the decision
whether or not,
do you need vitamin D?
Do you need B12?
Because there are a small population of people
that are deficient in some of these.
Are deficient,
but you would see that through a blood test right?
You would see it through a blood test.
You would have symptoms.
And really what the take-home point here is.
Is, you have these vitamins right?
They exist in your foods here.
You have cheese.
You have eggs.
This is great sources of vitamin B12.
Then you have all of these things.
Look at that delicious steak.
Look at the delicious salmon.
All of these are great sources of vitamin D.
Why would you go to a pill,
when you can get the sources here?
Because I think people feel they're getting more
or that more is better.
Great!
More is not better here.
The excess your body will pass.
Will pass, but remember the D vitamin
is a fat-soluble vitamin,
so it can build up and cause a toxicity.
So you wanna be smart.
If you think you're deficient.
If you think there's something wrong with you.
Go talk to your doctor.
Have that conversation.
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Because there are certain populations that need vitamins.
Thank you Doctor Mike!
Oh thank you so much.
Grab a healthy snack we'll be right back.
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