Full Transcript Chromium Research and Blood Sugar Benefits 0:00 There was a landmark study that was published all the way back in 1997. Okay. 0:05 So we're talking like close to 30 years ago in the journal called diabetes. 0:11 It was conducted in China with type two diabetic patients and it compared 200 micrograms per day against 1000 micro grams per. 0:19 Five times as much the result. 0:22 at the thousand microgram dose were significantly better compared to the 200 micro gram in these categories. 0:29 Fasting blood glucose, two hour glucose tolerance, insulin levels and A1C levels. 0:37 The long term blood sugar marker that is the one that kind of the gold standard marker for diabetes. 0:43 every single one of those categories, the thousand micrograms, were significantly better even though the two hundred micro gram group showed modest results. 0:53 The thousand-microgram group show excellent results that study essentially established that if you want chromium to move the needle Metabolically, 1:01 you really need to be working in a range of at least 500 to 1000 micrograms per day. 1:06 And personally, based on the other studies that have been done and based my own experience with real people using this stuff, 1:13 1000 to 1500 micro grams is where I always come out as an optimal dose of chromium. 1:19 Welcome to Vitality Radio, the podcast that helps you make sense of natural supplements and thrive without pharma drugs. 1:27 I'm Jared St. 1:27 Clair. 1:28 I grew up in a health food store and spent over 40 years now figuring out what works and what doesn't, so that you can make confident, 1:36 informed decisions about nutrition, supplements and your health. 1:42 Here's a question for you. 1:44 What if the nutrient most associated with blood sugar and metabolism has been dosed wrong for decades? 1:51 Not a little wrong, but like significantly wrong. 1:54 Say 5 to 15 times less than what is actually needed. 2:01 Chromium has been in the supplement world for a long time. 2:04 In fact, I've been In the Supplement World for A long Time. 2:06 And I remember when chromium was the biggest supplement in The supplement World. 2:12 It was huge in late 80s. 2:14 it was originally patented, the first form called chromia picolinate in early 80's. 2:21 and then eventually became one of the best selling supplements in really the history of The industry, but especially back in 80 and 90s, 2:28 it Was absolutely massive. 2:31 and is still sold a lot today. 2:33 But most of the doses that you'll find on store shelves are based on research that was very early when they didn't really know what the upper limits were 2:44 as far as safety goes. 2:45 And the results were very compelling even at those lower doses. 2:51 Things have changed since then as the research and not so much as for as dosing. 2:56 I want to see if I can help you get to the bottom of all that so you can understand it. 3:00 better. 3:01 Today I plan to educate you on what I consider to be one of the most important of what i call the mighty minerals. 3:10 That's what this series is called and it's the reason I'm starting with chromium is because this is one that is almost universal. 3:18 It's certainly not a supplement that everybody needs a significant dose of but I think everybody should be taking it on a daily basis which is why it is 3:27 represented in my Ultimate Vitality Multi and that's how it fits into my Vital 5, but I'm going to talk about why you might want more than what's in a
Why Chromium Matters for Metabolism 3:36 multivitamin and who this applies to. 3:38 And one of the things that I love about Chromium is it is super, super effective and it's very, very inexpensive, which is one the best things about this supplement. 3:50 So, before we get into it, I want to say something that applies the entire Mighty Minerals series. 3:56 And it's worth repeating, at least as we're starting out. 3:58 Chromium actually does have what's called a reference intake or an RDA. 4:03 It's one of the few minerals in this series that is going to that actually is gonna have one because you're gonna see a lot of minerals. 4:09 In the series, that the FDA has essentially just said, yeah, we don't know if you should take it or not or how much. 4:14 But here's the thing. 4:16 Having a number on paper doesn't mean the number reflects what your body needs to thrive. 4:20 There's a massive difference between the amount required to avoid deficiency and the about that actually supports optimal function. 4:28 Modern nutrition science is increasingly recognizing that the gap is real here, even if the government guidelines haven't always caught up. 4:38 The adequate intake for chromium was set based on estimated average consumption, not on clinical outcomes. 4:46 That's really, really important. 4:48 not what actually moves the needle in real people when it comes to their blood sugar, because that's where chromium shines, 4:55 is bloodsugar, insulin sensitivity, all these things that we hear about that make us metabolically unhealthy. 5:01 So today, we're not going to talk about minimums. 5:04 We're going talk to about optimum. 5:06 Why does chromium matter? 5:08 Chromium is what's called an essential trace mineral, meaning your body requires it, but cannot manufacture it on its own. 5:15 You have to get it from food or from supplements. 5:18 And while it's technically present in a lot of foods, the amount in foods is pretty small. 5:23 Bioavailability varies considerably and modern food processing and soil depletion have made it harder than ever to consistently get meaningful amounts 5:33 from diet alone. 5:34 I know that drums been beat a lot, but it just simply is modern life. 5:39 Here's why this matters right now. 5:41 We're living in the middle of a metabolic health crisis, blood sugar, dysregulation, insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, type two diabetes. 5:49 These aren't fringe health issues. 5:51 they affect the majority of American adults and many American children in some form. 5:58 And chromium sits right at the center of that conversation because one of its primary jobs in the human body is to help insulin do its job. 6:06 When chromia is adequate, insulin works more efficiently. 6:09 when it's low and a significant portion of the population is running low, the body has to produce more insulin to get the same result. 6:18 That's the beginning of a very long, very slow decline in metabolic health. 6:23 And most people never connect it to something as simple as a trace mineral that they've been under dosing or ignoring entirely. 6:32 So what does chromium actually do in the body? 6:35 Physiologically, it's fascinating. 6:38 It makes everything else in this episode make a lot more sense. 6:42 So let me break it down for you. 6:44 Chromium's most important role is its involvement in what researchers call the glucose tolerance factor or GTF. 6:52 In fact, you'll often see on supplement labels, G-T-F-chromium. 6:56 It's a biologically active complex that forms in your body and acts as a kind of co-factor for insulin. 7:02 Think of insulin as key that's supposed to unlock your cells and allow glucose to enter. 7:09 GTF chromium is like the mechanism that makes the lock work properly. 7:14 Without enough chromia to support GTTF activity, insulin is less effective. 7:19 Your cells become less responsive to it, and blood sugar management suffers. 7:24 You can think of it, you've heard me talk a lot about vitamin K2 and how K-2 kind of unlocks the ability for calcium to get into the bones and the teeth. 7:32 So not the same mechanism, but a very similar idea with chromium when it comes to insulin. 7:38 Beyond blood-sugar, chromia though also plays a role in lipid metabolism. 7:43 Researchers have linked adequate chromiam status to healthier triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels. 7:49 It's involved in protein metabolism as well, which is part of why you'll sometimes see it in formulas targeting body composition. 7:58 There's also emerging evidence around chromium's role in the brain, specifically in serotonin activity and appetite regulation. 8:05 which may explain why some people notice improvements in carbohydrate cravings when they start using chromium at meaningful doses. 8:12 And I can't tell you how many times over the years that's exactly what happens. 8:16 People say when I started taking enough chromiam, and we'll talk about what enough is here in just a second, I started noticing a difference in sugar cravings 8:25 and also my blood sugar started balancing out. 8:28 So chromium has always been something that is necessary to the human body to optimize insulin utilization. 8:38 Like that hasn't changed. 8:39 What has changed is we have blunted our insulin cell receptors by excess sugar, excess carbohydrates, and we've also reduced the ability for the body to 8:52 utilize the insulin that we're making by getting less chromium because of soil depletion and food refining practices. 8:59 So it's a pretty significant double-edged sword there. 9:02 And something worth understanding is that chromium doesn't work in isolation. 9:07 It's like every other nutrient in the body is synergistic with other nutrients, particularly the B vitamins and especially niacin, 9:14 which as you'll hear in a few minutes, plays a very direct role in how the best forms of chromia actually work.
Who Benefits and Chromium Deficiency Signs 9:20 So, chromium deficiency is one of those things that's hard to pin down clinically because there's no reliable standard blood test that accurately reflects 9:29 tissue-level chromian status. 9:31 That makes it very easy to overlook and you're almost never going to have a physician say, hey, you should probably consider chromia based on your blood work. 9:38 The most recognizable patterns though that you can look for are blood sugar instability, you know, the kind that shows up as energy crashes after meals, 9:47 strong carbohydrate and sugar cravings, difficulty losing weight despite eating reasonably well, and that mid-afternoon slump that sends people reaching 9:55 for coffee or something sweet. 9:57 These are classic signs that insulin sensitivity may be compromised and chromium is one of the first places a functional nutritionist should look when 10:07 it comes to sensitivity issues. 10:09 Several factors accelerate chromia depletion. 10:12 High sugar and refined carbohydrate diets are a big one. 10:15 Every time your blood sugar spikes, your body excretes more chromiam and your depleted level that you probably already are dealing with becomes even more depleting. 10:25 So people who arguably need the most chromium are often the very people whose diets are pulling it out of them the fastest. 10:32 Stress is another factor. 10:34 Physical and emotional stress both increase chromium loss over through the urine. 10:39 Exercise increases demand as well, which is why athletes are often functionally low as. 10:44 Well, and as we age both absorption and retention of chromia tend to decline. 10:48 So this is an interesting combination. 10:51 Basically, the most athletic among us are probably deficient in Chromium. 10:55 And perhaps the least healthy, the ones with the most metabolic dysfunction are also significantly low in chromium. 11:03 So it's kind of both ends of the spectrum. 11:06 And it, you know, we talk about magnesium and stress. 11:09 Well, chromia and stresses as well, same kind thing. 11:13 Certain medications also are worth noting when it comes to chromium because corticosteroids and some antacids, particularly PPIs that I'm constantly telling 11:22 you are so not good for us interfere with chromia absorption and it can also increase excretion over time. 11:31 So basically clinical deficiency is a lot bigger deal than we probably think. 11:35 And it makes sense because again, remember people who are metabolically unhealthy, which is high percentage of Americans. 11:43 I think the estimates now are that it's something like 60% of us are considered metabolically unhealthy and having some level of insulin issues. 11:52 And then the most athletic and physically fit among us, are also probably depleted. 11:58 So it is most of is basically what I'm getting to. 12:01 Now, chromium is found in a wide variety of foods, broccoli, green beans, grape juice, whole grains, beef, and certain spices like black pepper are among 12:10 the best dietary sources. 12:11 Broccoli is actually one of the highest chromian foods that you can eat, which is just one more reason it shows up on, you know, 12:18 so many nutritionists kind of top hit list along with the fact that it is a cruciferous vegetable that helps to detoxify estrogen and things like that. 12:26 The challenge is that even a well constructed diet typically provides between like 20 and 50 micrograms of chromium per day. 12:34 And a standard chromiam supplement and the RDA for chromia is 200 micro grams per days. 12:40 You're already like four to 10 times less potent than we need from our diets. 12:45 So that's the gap. 12:46 But that's the gap based on the RDA, not the GAP based the optimal, and we'll talk about the Optimal here in just a minute. 12:53 And then, of course, as I said, there's soil depletion, so maybe it's even lower than that. 12:58 So then who might actually benefit the most from chromium? 13:02 And we will talk how to utilize it. 13:04 The most obvious group is anyone navigating blood sugar challenges. 13:07 Pre-diabetes, you know, A1C levels in the fives, type 2 diabetes, a1c levels and the high fives and sixes, and beyond, or anybody with insulin resistance, 13:17 stubborn weight that they're having a hard time getting off, anybody that has any kind of sugar cravings on a consistent basis, 13:25 carbohydrate craving is on consistent bases, chromium should absolutely be part of the conversation there. 13:31 The other people would be, again, anybody that is an athlete. 13:35 Active people have higher chromium needs due to the combination of physical stress and sweat loss. 13:41 And if you're training consistently and not supplementing with chromia, then there's a good chance you are actually running low. 13:46 Then anybody who's looking to optimize body composition levels. 13:50 If you feel like your BMI, your fat percentage versus lean mass needs help, than chromiam is something to consider. 13:59 for sure. 14:00 I'd also like to flag women going through perimenopause and menopaus, because the metabolic shifts that happen during that transition, 14:06 increasing insulin resistance, changes in body composition, you know, that extra 5, 10, 15 pounds that so many women complain about, 14:14 and blood sugar volatility, That all creates a context where chromium becomes more relevant. 14:20 i see this pattern a lot and chromia is often a meaningful piece of that puzzle. 14:25 And then the other group would be women experiencing PCOS because insulin resistance, of course, is tied in very deeply. 14:31 And I'm working on an episode where we're going to talk about PCOS in a lot more detail here very soon. 14:37 Now, the forms of chromium, I call this the picolinate problem because the marketing on chromi and picolinate is so strong that most people will actually 14:49 not just say chromion, they'll actually say Chromium piculinate when they talk that that is what chromium is. 14:58 You know, from your education you've received here and other places about magnesium, that there are many forms. 15:03 Magnesium citrate, magnesium glycinate, bisglycineate, threonate and so on. 15:08 The same can be said about chromia, lots of options out there. 15:11 But chromiocolinate had the best marketing budget, really is where it boils down to. 15:16 And I want to spend some time really explaining what I consider to be some misinformation in this space. 15:23 People have been led to believe that chromium picolinate is the be all end all of chromiam. 15:26 And, I'm about to tell you why I disagree with that. 15:29 You walk into most any supplement store, including mine, and you will find chromia picolinate on the shelf. 15:34 It's everywhere. 15:35 It's in grocery stores, I think they sell it at Costco, it's all over the place. 15:40 And we do sell at Vitality Nutrition. 15:42 There are some people who absolutely want chromium picolinate, and chromia picolinates delivers results, so I don't have a problem with it necessarily. 15:49 I just think there's better options. 15:52 For a long time, it has been considered the gold standard by most people, and I just simply don't think that's true. 16:00 For the last probably 20 years, I've been telling people a different story. 16:04 But let's talk about the history of it. 16:06 Back in the 80s and 90s, as I said, when chromium was massive, you know, we think about like berberine right now or ashwagandha, 16:13 how huge those things are. 16:14 Let's just take magnesium. 16:15 Magnesium, the number one selling mineral now. 16:18 Well, there was a time when chromium outsold magnesium. 16:20 That's how big of a deal chromia was in the 80s and 90s. 16:25 And there's a guy named Gary Evans, who was researcher who held patents on it and funded a significant portion of the early research on the picolinate 16:33 form specifically. 16:35 So piccolinate became like the Kleenex of, you know, tissue paper, right? 16:40 So here's the issue. 16:42 Picolinic acid is what chromium was bound to and that was smart because they were taking chromion, which is very poorly absorbed on its own, 16:51 chelating it with an acid to help the body to absorb it. 16:55 Nothing wrong with that and I'm so grateful that that happened because that's when we learned how effective chromian supplementation could be. 17:03 So it does work to help absorb the product, but the same property that helps with the absorption of chromium actually raises some questions. 17:13 Several cell studies have suggested that chromian picolinate may generate oxidative byproducts at higher doses.
Chromium Forms: Picolinate vs Polynicotinate 17:20 Some research has also indicated that picolinates competes with iron for absorption. 17:25 We don't want that. 17:25 we want to let iron absorb. 17:27 That's a tough one for us to absorb anyway. 17:29 None of this means chromium picolinate is dangerous at normal supplemental doses, but it does mean that the best form narrative was built more on marketing 17:37 than on rigorous comparative science. 17:40 And I call that The Picolonate Problem. 17:43 Now let's talk about the form that I believe is superior and the forum that i use in my Ultimate Vitality Multi and my most recent formula, 17:51 the GLP-1 Metabolic Optimizer. 17:55 This is what's called a niacin-bound chromium. 17:58 It's actually chromia in the mineral bound to a vitamin. 18:02 That's a different way of doing it. 18:04 Not typical, but in this case it works. 18:10 And so the chromium polynicotinate is my very favorite form of chromum. 18:15 It's just chromia bound to nicotinic acid, otherwise known as niacin, vitamin B3, and that's what is represented in the supplements that I add chromiam to. 18:25 And here's why this matters. 18:27 Remember we talked about glucose tolerance factor or GTF? 18:30 That's the biologically active chromian complex that your body actually uses. 18:35 GTF chromium naturally contains niacin as part of its structure. 18:41 Chromium polynicotinate is chromion bound to niocin, which makes it structurally the closest thing that we have in supplement form to what the body actually 18:50 is trying to create and use. 18:53 And that's not just a talking point. 18:56 That's real clinical researched benefit that unfortunately is overshadowed by the massive amount of money that was poured out by this researcher Evans 19:07 and the brand nutrition 21 that is still pushing the narrative that chromium colonate is the very best. 19:14 And why are they pushing that narrative? 19:15 Well, because they have a patent on it and they make money when they market it. 19:21 Simple as that again. 19:24 Chromium picolinate is fine. 19:26 I don't hate chromium, I sell it, it's in supplements that we have here at Vitality. 19:31 It's just not the best one, as simple as that. 19:34 Niacin itself is a nutrient that supports insulin sensitivity and healthy lipid metabolism. 19:39 So you're not just getting better absorbed chromiam, you are getting a form that arrives in a biologically familiar package with a cofactor that support 19:48 the same metabolic pathways that chromi is already working on. 19:51 That's the synergy that I talk about a lot when it comes to nutrients. 19:55 And in this case, bonding that vitamin to that mineral makes the most sense of anything that i've seen. 20:01 There is a patented version of this called chromate. 20:05 and chromates research is super solid, a comparable absorption to picolinate in most studies without the concerns about picolinic acid byproducts. 20:15 So for meaningful long-term results, I actually like the more physiologically similar form of chromium. 20:24 And you know what is really cool about this? 20:26 And it's one of the things that I'm always paying attention to. 20:28 If you listen to me on vitality radio is that because there is not this massive marketing engine behind it. 20:36 Chromium polynicotinate is significantly less expensive while in my opinion, also being the better form. 20:43 So let's talk about the 200 microgram problem. 20:47 This is something that I feel super strongly about. 20:51 Almost every chromium supplement you'll find on a store shelf in health food stores and grocery stores alike is 200 micrograms per pill. 21:00 And it says on the back of the bottle to take one per day. 21:02 That number comes from an adequate intake level established decades ago, meaning RDA, and if you study supplements at all, 21:12 listen to the show at, all you know, the RTA is not designed to make you optimally healthy, it's designed, to keep you from deficiency disease. 21:19 So 200 micrograms is simply not enough. 21:22 It never has been enough, yet it is effective. 21:26 200 micrograms, is an effective dose at helping with this insulin sensitivity thing, at helping with blood sugar and all the things associated with it, 21:36 but it's not the most effective dose. 21:39 It's kind of the bottom of effective range, and I want to talk about the optimal range. 21:44 There was a landmark study that was published all the way back in 1997. Okay. 21:49 So we're talking like close to 30 years ago in the journal called diabetes. 21:56 It was conducted in China with type two diabetic patients and it compared 200 micrograms per day against 1000 micro grams per. 22:04 Five times as much the result. 22:07 at the thousand microgram dose were significantly better compared to the 200 micro gram in these categories. 22:14 Fasting blood glucose, two hour glucose tolerance, insulin levels and A1C levels. 22:21 The long term blood sugar marker that is the one that kind of the gold standard marker for diabetes. 22:28 every single one of those categories, the thousand micrograms, were significantly better even though the two hundred micro gram group showed modest results, 22:38 a thousand-microgram group, showed excellent results. 22:41 That study essentially established that if you want chromium to move the needle Metabolically, you really need to be working in a range of at least 500 22:49 to 1000 micrograms per day. 22:51 And personally, based on the other studies that have been done and based my own experience with real people using this stuff, 22:58 1000 to 1500 micro grams is where I always come out as an optimal dose of chromium. 23:05 functional nutritional practitioners have in many cases moved in that direction. 23:10 But even those doctors are often behind the eight ball on this and only recommending 200 micrograms or maybe they'll recommend 200, micro grams, 23:18 two or three times a day to get you to 400, 600. And I just simply don't think it's enough. 23:23 1000 to 1500 to me is really the gold standard dose. 23:28 Let's talk about safety, because that's always been the big question. 23:31 When I have people come in saying, hey, you know, my doc said to take 200 micrograms of chromium, or I was reading this article and it said, 23:37 to 200 milligrams of Chromium. 23:38 And then I'm talking to them about, let's take a 500 micro gram chromiam two or three times a day. 23:44 People are like, whoa, but you, know is it toxic? 23:46 So let us talk that. 23:47 There is no established tolerable upper intake level for chromium in the United States, meaning no ceiling has actually been set by any regulatory body 23:57 because toxicity from dietary or supplenal chromia is considered extremely unlikely. 24:02 The body excretes what it doesn't use and accumulation isn't a significant concern in doses used in practice, even at those higher doses. 24:11 That said, there are a few things worth knowing. 24:13 If you're on medications for blood sugar, like metformin, insulin, that type of thing, chromium can enhance their effects.
Optimal Dosing, Safety, and Product Recommendations 24:20 So you want your prescribing physician to be aware that you are on it. 24:22 And that's not a reason to avoid it, it's just good communication to make sure you aren't dropping bloodsugar too low. 24:28 Optimally, you will be able to use less things, less of the pharmaceuticals because of chromia. 24:34 Now, if you want to use chromium in a meaningful way, then you can use just straight chromia in the polynicotinate form at 500 micrograms, 24:43 two to three times a day. 24:44 That's one way that you could do it. 24:46 It's a very economical supplement. 24:48 I think that's going to cost you like six or seven bucks a month if using three a a. 24:52 So again, very economically. 24:54 Love this product for that reason. 24:56 Everything about that. 24:57 just tracks with what I'm trying to accomplish here at Vitality Radio, helping you with really effective things that hopefully in most cases, 25:06 you know, don't break the bank. 25:08 I am certainly happy to bring you products that are expensive if they work, but it's so exciting when there's something that works really, 25:14 really well that doesn't cost you much money at all. 25:18 So that's one way you can do it is a straight chromium. 25:20 My favorite option actually, I like a couple of good options, the one that I recommend the most is by Natural Factors. 25:26 It's a 500 microgram GTF chromium, which I want to clear this up too. 25:31 If it says Gtf chromia on the bottle, then it is almost always chromian bound to niacin. 25:38 Sometimes it'll actually say nicotinate or polynicotinate or it will say Gf Chromium chelate. 25:43 It's basically the same thing. 25:45 Okay. 25:45 So if you just want use chromiam, that's one way that you can do it. 25:49 So recently we introduced our GLP-1 Metabolic Optimizer formula. 25:54 This is one that I've been working on for almost two years. 25:57 It's been out for about a month now. 25:59 As I'm recording this, it's out almost three weeks. 26:03 And this formula is the fastest launch we've ever had of a formula, people have really gotten excited about this product. 26:10 We've already started getting some really, really good feedback that i want to share here at the end of this episode. 26:14 I'll get into that in just a second. 26:16 But there's a thousand micrograms of the polynicotinate formula in three capsules per day. 26:23 And if you're worried about getting too much, which again, not very easy to get too many chromium, but there are 250 micro grams in the Ultimate Vitality Multi. 26:33 I know that a lot of you listening are already using the multivitamin and so that's why I shot for a 1000 micro gram in GLP-1 Metabolic Optimizer instead 26:42 of 1500 micro So you're getting 1250 micrograms between the different sources. 26:47 Other people are also getting chromium from other sources sometimes as well, plus what's in your diet. 26:51 So I figured that's a pretty good dose and a dose that I'm very comfortable with as an effective dose. 27:00 And again, we do use that nicotinate form, a polynicotinate form which is optimal in my book as far as all of the studies that have been done and what 27:10 I've seen. 27:11 Now, as for results, I have had good results with just chromium for years. 27:16 Lots of people just taking chromia and getting good result, but it's never like the magic bullet. 27:21 It's not the thing that takes you from diabetic to pre-diabetic or anything like that. 27:25 it's very, very supportive. 27:27 It's absolutely something that you should be considering if not doing, if you're dealing with any kind of metabolic issues, 27:34 excess weight, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, higher A1C levels, fasting glucose, any of those types of things that we already talked about. 27:43 Chromium is awesome. 27:45 Chrumium isn't expensive. 27:46 It's just kind of a no-brainer. 27:48 What drives me crazy about formulations on the market with chromium, is that almost all of them are formulating with too little. 27:55 Most of him are putting still 200 micrograms in there. 27:58 And there's no good reason for it. 28:00 Like there are a lot of brands. 28:02 that are putting in too little vitamin K2, for instance, into their formulas, because vitamin k2 is expensive. 28:08 It bumps the price of the formula. 28:10 That makes it harder for you to afford and therefore less likely for them to sell as many bottles as they'd like. 28:16 Chromium is not like that. 28:18 it's just kind of goes in the form. 28:19 Well, it doesn't take a lot of space and it does take. 28:22 Lot of money. 28:23 So it just companies that either not educating themselves well enough at the formulation level, or they're counting on you not understanding this information, 28:35 recognizing or having listened to podcasts like this, knowing that you actually need more of it. 28:40 I don't know what's going on. 28:41 They may be also just a little nervous about busting the RDA, which you should never be nervous. 28:46 The RTA is almost always kind of a joke when it comes to potencies. 28:51 All right. 28:51 So anyway, there's a thousand micrograms in the GLP-1 formula. 28:54 Let me tell you my personal results and I'm gonna tell ya a few little testimonials we've received because I am pretty excited about it. 28:59 So I've down nine and a half pounds after 16 days on the GLP- 1 formula and what I will tell is my sugar cravings are dramatically reduced. 29:13 And it's not just the chromium because i've used chromia a lot over the years and it hasn't had that level of effect. 29:21 Chromia has been beneficial in the past for me, for sure, poor blood sugar. 29:25 And I've had a lot of benefits with other clients of mine. 29:28 But as I said, on its own, it's not really the needle mover, at least that I needed. 29:33 So I like it as more part of a synergistic approach. 29:38 My overall appetite is significantly reduced. 29:41 And like I said, nine and a half pounds, pretty impressive and 2% body fat, according to my body, fat scale has dropped. 29:47 So things are looking really, really good. 29:49 Now people are asked, well, how are you eating? 29:51 Well, I'm eating high protein. 29:53 I mean, lower in sugar, or lower carbs. 29:55 But why am I doing that? 29:58 Obviously I am looking to burn fat. 30:01 That's why, but how am doing it is probably the better question because I've told you, I'm confessed on this show, sugar has been my nemesis for, 30:09 you know, as long as I can remember, my mother and my father, both sugar fiends and they donated whatever that genetic thing is to me.
Personal Results and Listener Testimonials 30:20 And I love you mom and dad, but no, thanks on that one. 30:23 Right. 30:24 So I have had no significant cravings for any of that stuff. 30:29 It's been amazing. 30:30 so I had two gentlemen now come in. 30:33 One was a little younger than me, probably about 10 years younger to me. 30:36 And one was around my same age. 30:38 So, you know, forties, fifties. 30:40 Both have told me the exact same thing, almost verbatim. 30:43 It was kind of wild. 30:45 I'm not emptying my plate anymore. 30:53 And then I'm done. 30:53 I don't need more. 30:54 And I feel satisfied. 30:56 and I am not having the cravings that I used to have. 30:59 So those are some testimonials there. 31:03 A woman that's a regular of ours at Vitality Nutrition who also was talking to me the other day who told me that she's finding appetite and blood sugar 31:14 are way more stable. 31:15 She's not the massive craving. 31:18 We're hearing it all. 31:19 pretty much the same stuff from different people in different situations, and it's super, super exciting. 31:26 So in closing, chromium might not be the flashiest mineral on the shelf, you know, it doesn't have the level of awareness that something like magnesium does. 31:36 It doesn�t nearly get the press that things like Magnesium do, at least not anymore. 31:41 Um, but my gosh, it belongs in the conversation because metabolically, this is one unhealthy country and the Western world is really struggling in this 31:51 department and chromium makes a ton of sense. 31:54 So your body depends on it. 31:55 The research supports a higher dose than maybe you ever thought you should take. 31:59 And the form that you choose absolutely matters. 32:03 And that's why I do this show, and I hope this has been helpful. 32:06 Give us a call. 32:07 801-292-6662. 32:08 If you have questions, visit us at one of our locations. 32:11 I can't believe we have two now. 32:12 One in Bountiful. 32:13 The mothership's been around for almost 49 years. 32:17 And our brand new one in South Ogden, where the phone number up there, I guess I should share as well. 32:22 811-479-9474, if you want to visit this up their. 32:28 Still known as Healthy Me up there, but we will be changing the signs and everything to Vitality Nutrition very soon. 32:34 For now, look for the big health food sign and you can visit us online vitalitynutrition.com. 32:39 We'll have all these products linked in the show description. 32:41 And remember, if you do decide you want to use the GLP-1 Metabolic Optimizer, I'm... 32:46 requesting that you give it three months because that's where most of the studies really, really shined.
Closing Thoughts and Show Wrap-Up 32:52 Although many of us, including myself, are getting benefits very, very quickly right out of their gate. 32:57 If you do get three month, three bottles, you throw those in your car, and you get $10 off each bottle saving you 30 bucks altogether. 33:03 Thank you so much for listening to me. 33:04 My name's Jared St. 33:05 Clair. 33:06 and I'll be back with you on the next episode of Vitality Radio. 33:10 Thanks for listening to the Vitaly Radio podcast. 33:13 If this episode helped you, follow the show, share it with someone and explore trusted education and resources at vitalitynutrition.com. 33:23 See you next time. 33:25 Hello, everyone. 33:26 I hope you enjoyed this week's episode of Vitality Radio. 33:30 Just a reminder that this podcast is for educational purposes only. 33:35 This podcast has not been evaluated by the FDA. 33:55 Thank you.
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