FIR Episode 7: Treat your nutrition as currency?

In episode 7, we explore a concept very close to the heart—nutrition as currency. In this episode, Philip introduces the analogy he’s used with his patients for over a decade now.

Definitely a popular concept from Philip’s speaking engagements too!

Nearly once a day, I hear a familiar request. “I want to know if I’m getting what I need from my diet.”

This Free and Inspired radio episode introduces the philosophy of nutrition as currency. 

Hopefully, it allows you to see one of the clinical pillars, nutrition as therapy, in a way that can help you get what you need from your diet. A new understanding to eliminate the worry of whether you are doing the right thing for your health and the health of those that rely on you.

“For some patients, this is worth the price of admission alone when we go through this. I’m grateful to be sharing it here for you.” 

Most of the citizens in the developed world are not earning enough to pay their bills. Generally, relying on debt to stay afloat, living paycheck to paycheck or both. The causes for this are widespread and very real. A more substantial reality check is consistently choosing short-term survival at the expense of critical long-term transactions and the implications.

Most people are not starving. Still, they aren’t getting anywhere near enough dietarily to pay all the metabolic and physiological bills for their body, sometimes daily.

This deficit in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients (non-nutritive ingredients beneficial to the body) highlights an analogous situation where we can’t pay our credit card bills or our body’s bills. 

Philip introduces the work of Professor Bruce Ames and his micronutrient triage theory which aligns with nutrition as currency.

The theory that gives a research-based bedrock to the idea that the body is in a constant state of resource allocation, much like many in a financial sense.

Treating your diet and the nutrients that pay for your body’s transactions like currency might have short-term effects that transcend your expectations!

Enjoy!