194. The First NBA Nutritionist Shares Secrets of Top Performers & The Top 5 Supplements Everyone Needs - Douglas D. Grant

Douglas D. Grant is a world-renowned nutritionist and professional trainer. He was the first nutritionist ever hired by an NBA team as a full-time staff member. Douglas has spent most of his career researching and formulating programs and products that health professionals, professional athletes, and the public use to reach optimal health and performance.

Douglas is the founder of Optimal Health Systems (OHS), where he focuses on using data to make his decisions so that he can give specific and targeted supplementation to his clients based on lab results. Most supplement companies promote synthetic vitamins and ingredients that have "drug-like" side effects. The OHS formulas are whole food-based, utilizing whole food vitamins, patented chelated (organic) minerals, pure plant enzymes and stabilized probiotics.

Timeline
4:00 - How Douglas became the first sports nutritionist in the NBA
7:30 - Why the liver is so important to overall vitality and health
10:30 - What obstacles the top performers face in the world
14:00 - How do you instill consistency in top performers?
16:40 - What makes Optimal Health Systems does differently?
21:40 - Use F.I.T.N.E.S.S. acronym for optimal health
24:12 - Customized supplementation for each individual
26:15 - Do we need supplements?
32:17 - Top 5 supplements everybody needs
36:56 - What we’ve learned since the pandemic for better health?