Are You Nutrient Deficient? The Hidden Factors of Accelerated Aging | Rhonda Patrick - ENCORE

Hi there, it's Dr. Mark Hyman. I just want to start by saying how grateful I am that you're here. Every week you choose to spend a little of your time with me, and that means more than you know. As we wind down for the holiday season, we're going to be taking a short break, but we didn't want to leave you without something great to listen to.

So today we're revisiting our most popular episodes of 2025. My conversation with Dr. Rhonda Patrick, who's a leading expert in nutritional science and aging, and in this episode we break down why nearly 70% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D and what that means for longevity. We look at the overlooked role of magnesium in metabolism, blood sugar, and brain function, and why our current food system leaves so many of us malnourished, even when we think we're eating a, quote, healthy diet. We also explore the best ways to assess and correct micronutrient imbalances so you can support optimal health from the inside out.

So Rana, so great to have you on the Dr. Hyman show. Welcome. And I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I think, you know, you're one of the few scientists out there in the public sphere who's actually communicating science and data in ways that have a lot of integrity and that adhere to kind of some common sense principles that, you know, a lot of things out in the logosphere or the

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