56. Matt Gallant: Achieving Super Health - How to Extract Maximum Food Nutrients by Supercharging Your Digestion

How do you define a healthy person? Is eating quality food enough to stave off sickness? What’s the best way to absorb the nutrients from the food we consume?  “If you’re deficient in one thing, that will make certain systems break down…and that’s how disease happens.” - Matt In this week’s episode of HYDRATE, I chat with ‘Mad Marketing Scientist’ and Life Optimizer Matt Gallant about nutrient optimization and why consuming good food is NOT enough to keep us healthy. While eating organic, fresh, mineral-rich food is the way to go, our bodies don’t automatically absorb the nutrients from them – we need digestive enzymes to do that. Enzymes ensure that carbs convert into glucose, proteins into amino acids, fats into essential fatty acids. But here’s the catch: normal food can’t do all that, and thus the need for supplements. Here, Matt and I dive into the Nutrification process, fat emulsification, and the transformative role of digestive enzyme supplements, probiotics, magnesium, and more! Ultimately, we talk about how biological optimization takes us to a higher level of vitality we’ll never have with food alone. A walking encyclopedia on the digestive system, Matt Gallant is a Practical Spirituality Student, Author, Serial Entrepreneur, and the CEO of BiOptimizers who has spent decades working with topnotch scientists to produce world-class health and nutrition supplements.   In this episode, we discuss... 3:10 Rethinking the mainstream definition of health and nutrition 3:55 The impact of gut health and good digestion on our everyday life 5:10 The three phases of Nutrification and the importance of amino acids and proteolytic enzymes 14:58 Signs and symptoms that the body isn’t emulsifying fats properly 19:10 How enzymes catalyze Assimilation 25:05 Why loading up on magnesium stimulates brain function 27:45 The secret to becoming “super” healthy and reaching 100+ years old 30:30 Different forms of magnesium and how to maximize its absorption 33:17 Calcification and Aging: Why too much calcium and not enough magnesium is bad for you 38:40 Hacks on absorbing any fat-soluble vitamins better 45:35 What you need to know about probiotics and weight loss   Connect with Matt on Instagram: @mattgallant Or visit their website: bioptimizers.com