#149 - Chris Masterjohn: Achieving Ideal Nutritional Status, Dietary Recommendations & Requirements, How Omega-6s Resolve Inflammation, Vitamin Supplementation & Limits, Veganism Implications, Choline & Fatty Liver, Aspirin Benefits, And More!
The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast
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Do You Use the RDS to Measure Population Level Intakes?
Nutrition experts are concerned that they will make themselves look bad if they publish data about the populations intake of a nutrient. The guidance for using the d r i s to measure population level intakes is to say that you should use the estimated average requirement of a metric. But this is based on a preposterous premise, which is that if the intake of something varies in the population, that it is automatically varying. I mean, there's literally nothing stopping the people who need the highest intake of vitamin from meeting the lowest and the people with the lowest need for it eating the h highest. And so i believe that when you're looking at the population and you're trying to identify the nutrients of
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