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112: Understanding Blood Work, Nutrition Myths, and Fertility with Dr. Kyle Gillett
The Nick Bare Podcast
Electrolytes, Taste Preferences, and Thyroid Health
This chapter delves into personal accounts of electrolyte consumption during exercise, highlighting a memorable marathon moment with salted potatoes. It also examines taste preferences in electrolyte products and the significance of iodine for thyroid health in product development.
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Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
are peanut butter and you squeeze it out and eat it. Yeah, I remember my first marathon ever. I was like mile marker 16, 17. I was sucking at that point. People were handing food on the course. There bacon there's people handing out alcohol pickle juice all these things and i just grabbed something from someone i just needed i knew i needed some sort of fuel in my body and it was a potato they were cold potatoes covered in salt and it was like the saltiest thing i've ever had it was it almost burned my mouth it was so much salt wow but you just sharing that takes me back to that that one moment i remember just being scarred by the the salty potato at mile marker 16 at the allston marathon in 2018 yeah
Speaker 1
what. What do you think about the various companies, including yours, that make electrolyte-rich things or just packets of electrolytes or jars of electrolytes? Why do some people like them so much more salty, and then some people like to taste almost no salt at all? Because there's a couple different groups of people.
Speaker 2
For me personally, and the way that we formulate our products, I want you to taste some of the salt. One, it's like this mental acknowledgement that the things that I'm consuming are salty and they're replenishing what I'm losing.
Speaker 1
So
Speaker 2
I want that loop of I'm looking for something with electrolytes to replenish and rehydrate. I want to know that I'm drinking something salty. I think some people just don't like that experience. They want to drink something that, I think a good example, people ask us sometimes to create products that are unflavored. And the reality is if I create a whey protein powder, but we don't add any flavor or any sweetener to it, there's still going to be a flavor. People assume that when we don't add flavor or sweetness, it's just going to taste like water. Yeah. That's not the case. So for me, the same way with an electrolyte powder is, one, I want people to know that when they're drinking it, there is significant sodium content in that product to replenish and improve the performance. And you don't actually mistake it for am i drinking crystal light or am i drinking an actual performance beverage but i think some people just don't want that or care about that positive feedback loop yeah
Speaker 1
yeah that's a good way to approach it i think i've i've been interested how common slightly low iodine levels are. And I think partly because it's skewed to people of generally higher, not even socioeconomic status, but higher health care. They care about their health more. They're conscious. And then they just avoid any sort of iodized salt. That's not the perfect form of nascent iodine. But then they also don't consume sources of iodine from the sea. So I'm interested to see how many more companies start incorporating iodine as an ingredient. And if nothing else, a multivitamin.
Speaker 2
What are the symptoms of deficiency of iodine?
Speaker 1
Generally thyroid dysregulation. Iodine is used to make thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormone has either like two or three iodines that are made. And as your body activates thyroid hormone, it cleaves off one of those iodines with a deiodinase enzyme. So they can actually be somewhat similar to mercury toxicity because mercury interferes with enzymes that are cofactored with selenium. And one of the main ones is an enzyme that your thyroid uses to make more thyroid hormone. So if you have slightly low iodine, slightly low selenium, which is what people classically think of Brazil nuts for, and then slightly higher mercury status, you likely are going to develop some degree of thyroid issue.
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