24: Top 6 Supplements You Should Take for Optimal Health

The Primal Shift

Supplements are meant to supplement a healthy lifestyle, not act as a bandaid to mitigate poor lifestyle choices. While choosing whole foods sources to get certain nutrients is ideal instead of supplements, sometimes we can’t make the best choices due to our modern world or environment.

In this episode, I share 6 supplements that I take daily for optimal health, the benefits of these supplements, my go-to brands, and how much I take daily.

In this episode, I discuss:

01:30 - The critical role of sodium in our health, debunking of the misconception that excessive sodium leads to cardiovascular diseases

09:23 - The different types of magnesium salts and their specific advantages

13:18 - Creatine for muscle mass and brain health

15:15 - ION Gut Support, a unique supplement that is sourced from ancient soil and contains bacterial metabolites that can help with gut health and immunity.

20:09 - How bovine colostrum dramatically improves gut health, boosts immune support, and also improves exercise performance

23:30 - The nutritional benefits of beef organs and the importance of maintaining natural ratios when consuming organ supplements

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Salt (Sodium)

• Sodium is just one of the minerals important for optimal electrolyte balance. That’s why we like LMNT: https://michaelkummer.com/go/lmnt

• Redmond and Oryx are the salt brands we use. Salts that are unprocessed and contain trace minerals: https://michaelkummer.com/go/realsalt

• Urinary sodium and potassium excretion and risk of cardiovascular events: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22110105/

Magnesium

• Different types of magnesium salts:

• Citrate → constipation

• Sulfate → relaxation

• Threonate → cognition

• Taurate → heart health

• Chloride → digestion

• Malate → muscles

• Glycinate → sleep

• CALM from Natural Vitality (magnesium carbonate): https://amzn.to/49OysWx

• Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers (mix of different types of magnesium. Code MK10 for 10% off): https://michaelkummer.com/go/bioptimizersmagnesium

Creatine

• Found in meat. Carnivores may not need it (1lb of beef has 1-2 grams of creatine), but it won’t hurt.

• We use Creatine Monohydrate from Bulk Supplements: https://amzn.to/47rkOal

ION Gut Support

• ION’s humic extract is US-sourced from ancient soil (roughly 60 million years old!) and contains a blend of bacterial metabolites (fulvate) as well as less than 1% of a variety of trace minerals and amino acids.

• We use it while traveling and during the colder seasons of the year. They also have a nasal spray.

• ION* Gut Support: https://michaelkummer.com/go/restore

• Also available for pets

Bovine colostrum

• Colostrum is the first milk that mammals produce when giving birth. Full of micronutrients, including: lactoferrin, growth factors, immunoglobulins, lysozyme

• Immune support: reduced the incidence of complications and hospital admissions (related to the flu) by 300%: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17456621/

• Additional resources:

• https://michaelkummer.com/health/bovine-colostrum-benefits/

• Top 4 Reasons You Should Supplement with Colostrum (Based on Science): https://youtu.be/HcdguwrV8aE

• Product we use: Equip Core Colostrum during the colder time of the year. Code MK15 for 15% off at https://michaelkummer.com/go/equipcorecolostrum

Freeze-dried beef organs

• My wife and I founded MK Supplements in 2021 to provide a convenient source of regeneratively raised and 100% grass-fed beef organs for the entire family.

• My regimen: Full serving of Beef Organs, half a serving of Bone & Marrow and half a serving of Heart & Spleen. Wife does the same. The kids (10 and 8) get Half a serving of each.

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