Ep.96: Supplement Confusion with Joel Totoro
Are your dietary supplements contaminated? Are they safe and efficacious? Confusion abounds in the supplement world, so you’ll want to listen to this episode to get in the know! Joel Totoro, Registered Dietitian and Director of Sports Science at Thorne, joins us to chat all about dietary supplements. We cover manufacturing processes, certification and 3rd party testing, and the use of supplements across different ages, genders, and athletic levels.
We also discuss:
How Joel got into sport dietetics and his current role at Thorne
Regulation of dietary supplements
Third party testing and NSF Certified for Sport
The use of supplements in youth athletes
The rise of gender-specific supplements
Drug testing and cautions in elite and professional level athletes
Supplements that Joel takes
“You have to be the CEO of your own health.” -Joel Totoro
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More about our guest:
Joel Totoro is a Registered Dietitian and Director of Sports Science at Thorne. He oversees human performance integration with Thorne's sports partners and serves as a liaison to the medical affairs, research and design teams. He worked on the Performance and Innovation Team at EXOS following a stop as the sports dietitian for University of Michigan. Totoro also served 8 years as team dietitian for the New England Patriots becoming the first full-time sports dietitian in professional sports. Totoro also served as the assistant chief dietitian at St. Luke’s Hospital, specializing in trauma nutrition. He holds a B.S. in Allied Health-Dietetics from the University of Connecticut and is an original member and former BoD chairperson for the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association.
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