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[Biometrics] How to Use Data to Build Your Own Nutrition and Supplementation Program w/ Pratik Patel, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #733

Feb 7, 2024

Guest Pratik Patel, health and performance coach, discusses using data to build personalized nutrition and supplementation programs. The podcast covers the importance of lab testing and data collection, optimizing health through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle, managing high cholesterol, making informed decisions about nutrition vs. supplementation, understanding risk factors and navigating health information, the benefits and dosage of creatine supplementation, and the importance of omega-3.

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Utilizing comprehensive lab testing allows individuals to gain valuable insights into their health status and make informed decisions about nutrition and supplementation.

Selecting appropriate lab tests, such as assessing glucose control and hormonal balance, provides valuable data for creating targeted nutrition and supplementation protocols.

Working with professionals to accurately interpret lab results is crucial in making data-driven decisions and implementing meaningful changes to improve health.

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Using Data to Build Optimal Nutrition and Supplementation Protocols

In this podcast episode, the importance of using data and running labs to create personalized nutrition and supplementation protocols is discussed. The guest, Prateek Patel, a registered dietitian, shares his expertise in optimizing health through data-driven approaches. He emphasizes the advantages of companies that provide comprehensive lab testing, which allows individuals to take control of their own health. By analyzing biomarkers, individuals can gain valuable insights into their health status, identify deficiencies, imbalances, and potential risks, and make informed decisions about nutrition and supplementation. This data-driven approach supports individualized and personalized healthcare, enabling people to address specific health concerns and work towards optimal well-being.

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Lab Testing and Data Collection

9min

Optimizing Health through Nutrition, Supplementation, and Lifestyle

2min

Considerations and Trade-Offs in Managing High Cholesterol

3min

Making Informed Decisions: Nutrition vs. Supplementation

21min

Understanding Risk Factors and Navigating Health Information

4min

The Benefits and Dosage of Creatine Supplementation

8min

The Importance of Omega-3 and Recent Social Media Changes

4min

Pratik Patel is a health and performance coach, speaker, advisor, and consultant to sports teams, startups, and VC groups in the health, wellness, and performance realm.

Pratik brings unique perspectives gained from his time in high level elite sport (NFL) to enhance the health and performance of individuals in the real world.

Using his internal and external health approach and stress adaptation frameworks along with technology and wearables Pratik helps his clients implement effective health improvement strategies for long-term sustained success.

For the past 20 years, he has studied health, nutrition, fitness, recovery, and the interplay between these and health and performance and has had the opportunity to implement his strategies with multiple elite college teams and most recently the New York Football Giants (where they experienced the least number of games lost due to injury in their history during his tenure).

Pratik is highly regarded in the field of sports, health, and wellness and teaches his concepts to dozens of other elite college and NFL teams along with presenting to numerous Fortune 500 companies.

He is also one of the most featured coaches in the sports, health, and wellness space with features in USA Today, Outside Magazine, ESPN, and has been sought after as a guest on over 60+ podcast episodes.

Pratik is also the author of 4 scientific publications through peer reviewed journals.

Pratik is a Registered Dietitian and board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

Pratik resides in the Kansas City area with his family and two children (newborn son) and can be reached on his X/Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn social media accounts @pratikxpatel.

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