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Healthy Aging: Living Well at Every Stage Episode 3: Hydration and Protein: Why They Matter Most for Aging Well a Conversation w| Dr. Shaneka Baylor
What if the secret to living well into your golden years isn't found in a pill bottle but on your plate? In this enlightening episode of the Journey Out podcast, we dive deep into the science of nutrition for healthy aging with Dr. Shaneka Baylor, a clinical pharmacist who pivoted her career to focus on senior nutrition through her company, Chefs for Seniors.
Dr. Baylor brings a fascinating dual perspective to the conversation, blending pharmaceutical knowledge with nutritional expertise to address the unique dietary challenges seniors face. She reveals why protein becomes increasingly crucial as we age, sharing that we naturally lose 3-5% of muscle mass during the aging process—making what we eat more important than ever for maintaining strength and independence.
The discussion tackles practical challenges many seniors and their caregivers encounter daily. From combating decreased appetite with nutrient-dense smoothies to addressing the surprising dangers of dehydration (which can manifest as dizziness and unsteadiness), Dr. Baylor offers simple, actionable solutions. Her insights on the Mediterranean diet and Blue Zones—regions with the highest concentrations of centenarians—provide a roadmap for longevity through food choices.
Perhaps most valuable are the practical meal planning tips for both independent seniors and caregivers. Quick, nutritious options like simple soups, baked fish, and roasted vegetables can be prepared in minutes while delivering maximum nutritional benefit. Dr. Baylor distills her expertise into three powerful recommendations: fill your plate with plants first, prioritize hydration, and regularly incorporate beans, nuts, and seeds into your diet.
Whether you're a senior looking to enhance your health, a caregiver seeking better ways to nourish your loved one, or someone planning for your own healthy aging journey, this episode delivers wisdom you can implement today for a healthier tomorrow. Listen, learn, and discover how the right foods can help you thrive at any age.
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Speaker 1:Alright, so with us today we have the awesome, the amazing Dr Shanika Baylor here. Give her a round of applause.
Speaker 3:Hello.
Speaker 4:Hello family, hello, alright, ms Shan family, hello, yes, yes.
Speaker 3:All right, Ms Shanika Baylor.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Dr Shanika.
Speaker 1:Baylor, all right, get it right.
Speaker 3:Can you start by sharing a little bit with us of your background and your experience working with seniors?
Speaker 4:Seniors in nutrition, absolutely, absolutely so, oh gosh. So I have been a pharmacist for 16 years now Okay, okay, okay. And so I've been a clinical pharmacist for 16 years and so I worked mostly with seniors living with diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol issues, all of those things, and so a lot of my seniors had, because of those issues, I was like food, food is the main focal point and so I also, like a lot of people had issues with my weight and other things and I was like what else can I do?
Speaker 4:And I loved cooking and so I actually started cooking for my coworkers, lost a lot of weight myself and I was like, what else am I going to do? So I actually went back to get my master's in nutrition and then, you know, found this company called Chefs for Seniors, fell in love with it and decided to make it my new life's work and so moved into that and really got into the business of helping seniors.
Speaker 3:And how long have you been doing on Chef for Seniors? Six years, six years, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 1:So, for breakdown, more about Chef for Seniors. So you have the pharmaceutical background. Yes, then you went and got your master's to become a doctor in nutrition, and so tell us more about Chef for Seniors and what you all do there.
Speaker 4:So, with Chefs for Seniors, we actually go into our clients' homes and cook healthy food for them. So we can come in there once a week, every other week, a couple of times a week. You know whatever works best for them and you know their financial needs and you know we cook those meals based on what they need. It's 100% customizable. So you know I go in there with them, I do an in-home consultation, we talk about what their dietary needs are, what their health issues are.
Speaker 4:You know what their taste preferences are and then we work with them, you know, to create that menu. You know we have a menu because we are a national franchise, so we do have a curated menu that they can choose from. Or you know if they have recipes, if they have a dietician that they're working with, um, you know that dietician can create menus or recipes as well. And then we come in, we do the grocery shopping for them and we create those menus, put them in individual containers and literally all they will have to do is heat it up yes, awesome, that's great, okay's great, okay, so tell me this yes what are the most important nutrients that seniors should focus on?
Speaker 4:Okay. So I mean we can look at a whole gamut of things, but I really like to tell them to focus on protein. So that's going to be really important. We're going to be looking at vitamin D, we're going to be looking at calcium, and then some omega-3s and vitamin B12. So that's going to be a good place to start. Protein is probably going to be the hallmark. We think about it a lot and it comes in a lot of different ways, but that protein and then calcium, those are going to be our backbones, because that's going to help keep your strong bones with the calcium, and then because as we age, you know, we start, we lose weight, we lose weight, and so that protein is going to help us to keep that muscle mass as we're aging Right.
Speaker 1:And so and we did, we talked about that last week that as we age, we lose three to 5% of mass as we age.
Speaker 4:So you know we're getting weaker we're doing all those things, but also, as we age, I know loss of appetite is something that a lot of our seniors are dealing with and they can't really control it, Right. So how you're thinking about that, let's talk about small meals a day. So even us, you know we're busy. We were talking earlier about you know, what we have for breakfast, just coffee, and even me because you know you joke like are you still working your?
Speaker 2:15 job Because I'm a busy person.
Speaker 4:But you know, like a smoothie was my thing on the way here, so smoothies, that's also a really easy thing that can help them maintain a balanced meal, because you can put protein powder in there. They can put almond or some kind of nut butter in there, which is also full of good protein.
Speaker 4:They can put fruits in there, which has plenty of antioxidants in there, and a lot of vitamins and minerals, you know you can get your vitamin D from your calcium, your milk, your fortified milks in there, so you can almost get a complete meal from a healthy not you know and from a smoothie you put together, not from a pre-made smoothie, right.
Speaker 4:You know, so that's going to be a good thing. And then other healthy snacks, so hard-boiled eggs, you know. Get them little cans of like tuna or salmon, you know, cause then again that's protein and those are generally, you know, inexpensively packed. You know you can buy the small cans of tuna Greek yogurt and add some fruit and make sure you're getting just the yogurt. Don't get it with the added fruits or things like that. You can always sweeten it a little bit yourself with like honey or maple syrup or something like that, but do that Mixed nuts or homemade granola, add those kinds of things, so that way they're getting good supplemented snacks in there and that way they can eat a little something and then still get those nutrients something and then still get the those nutrients.
Speaker 3:So we talked about the smoothies and we talked about snacks. So what are some easy high protein meals that they can cook?
Speaker 1:You know, if they decide well, right now I'm not going to use chef for seeing, but you know, the easy thing would just be call your girl and have them come out here and fix your meal.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, so you know, that's the thing. So I always like to say get you a rotisserie chicken. So you know, because some people like to cook, but if you don't like my mom she used to cook, but she don't like to be in the kitchen like that all the time anymore. So you get a rotisserie chicken because you can eat off that, for you know vegetables in a can.
Speaker 2:There's too much sodium in that.
Speaker 4:So if you're going to get some frozen vegetables, you can microwave them, but it's really easy to just take them out the bag and then steam them on the stove, so something like that. Or, in the deli section, find the meats that are already cut up and then you can put those in the oven.
Speaker 4:So you know when you're looking for just things like that, the a lot of times in the meat section they're already going to have a lot of the meats already cut. So then, because a lot of seniors also have issues with dexterity- so you don't want to have anything, that they're having issues cutting things up or things like that.
Speaker 4:So you want to make it easy for them to just be able to put it in the oven and then, you know, heat it up so they don't have to do a lot of extras, especially if they're not trying to season or do all those things that they used to do.
Speaker 1:Right, and let's talk about fiber too, because we do know like, as we age, we're on multiple medications. Yes, Most times. Yes, that can cause constipation, and not everything is not flowing as easy as it used to. So how does fiber support senior health, and what are some?
Speaker 4:of the best sources for it. Okay, so it's all. It's going to maintain that regularity. So that is the number one thing that fiber is going to do. It also helps with digestion because it can push things down, so that's going to be important. But also it helps with heart health. So again, you know it's going to help decrease your risk of heart disease. So you know we always think about those things as we're getting older. So fiber has a whole lot of extra health and resources. But your whole grains, so your oats, so you know getting your oats in the morning. If you like oatmeal, a good thing of oatmeal. Or my grandmother used to like mato meal.
Speaker 4:So that's also still you know a good option as well. Obviously, your fruits and vegetables are going to be really good, but then nuts and beans are also going to be really good sources of fiber as well.
Speaker 3:So we're going to go into hydration.
Speaker 4:And this is because my grandmother, because I my grandmother.
Speaker 3:The past week or so she was dealing with some what's unsteady.
Speaker 1:Unsteady. So she was unsteady on her feet, she was dehydrated, really dizzy Dehydration, and so we were like, what's going on?
Speaker 3:We didn't know what was going on and we took her out of town and the altitude was a lot different. Yeah.
Speaker 4:So that can make it worse.
Speaker 3:But listen, I went through the medication. Hey, are you taking your medication?
Speaker 4:properly, or are you?
Speaker 3:doing X, y and Z to come and find out that she was dehydrated, yep. So why seniors are at a high risk of dehydration? Can you answer that question for me?
Speaker 4:So, yes, so there's a lot of things that happen. So as we get older, our bodies change how we process fluid, so we are starting to lose more fluid as we get older. So most times we lose the water, but we do know in certain instances, you know when we have our kidney failure we can retain water, or if we have heart failure. We can retain water, but most times we're losing it. So that's why you know you think about it when you also think we lose the muscle but, you also see that our skin sags.
Speaker 4:That's because we're losing that water as we age. So that's where the dehydration comes in. And then also, we talked about how we don't have the taste perception. So we also don't have that thirst perception. And even in regular adults, if you think about it so often, we don't even think about that. We're thirsty. And I always like to remind people, by the time you think you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated right, so for us if we as adults don't even realize we're dehydrated till we're thirsty think?
Speaker 2:about what that?
Speaker 1:is for an older person, right. So, and to the good thing with granny, we told her like hey, you're dehydrated, we're gonna, so we're going to drink some more water, and she was fine. But there are some seniors who just don't like water. They don't want to do it. So what are some creative solutions that we can try that can kind of boost them to drink the water and encourage them to do so? Okay?
Speaker 4:So water is always going to be your first choice. Right, right, right. But there are other options other than water. So I always like to say encourage water first and then think about other things to use. But you can use, you know, small bottles of water.
Speaker 4:So when my grandmother was living, we would always give her the little eight ounce bottles because she could manage that better, so we could you know we would sit those by her and we'd be like, okay, me, ma, come on, you know, give me that before we'd have her eat her food. So, and we would encourage that. So having them drink that small bottle before they had their food is always going to be something, using reminders or hydration schedule. So those are going to be good things, because sometimes you just forget Making it definitely with mealtime or before mealtime. Using water-based foods is going to be another way to increase hydration, and that's hydration-based food.
Speaker 3:Yes, hydration-based food, so like your cucumbers, your watermelon celery, those all.
Speaker 4:So that increases it. Broth. Those are going to be it Now I always put as an aside. As we get older, some people might be on a fluid restriction. So always remember you know, if your doctor has put you on a fluid restriction, water, broth, soup, all those are going to be included in that. So you will have to calculate all that. If they're on a fluid restriction.
Speaker 4:But, those are all things. But then also think about if there's anything that might be keeping them from drinking the water. So with Granny's experience, you know that was different, but do they have some kind of incontinence and that's why they're not drinking the water? So you want to ask them those questions too, because you know they might want the water, but are they going places and they don't want to use it on themselves, right? So make sure you're also having those questions and those conversations with them and addressing those issues. Or are they having some kind of buried mobility issue? Can they not grab the cup? Is there something you know to make sure that they can access it? That the way they need to?
Speaker 1:Right and in a longer hydration. I do know digestive health is something that's super important. So as we age, of course seniors have common like digestive issues, whether it's constipation, bloated, bloating, acid reflux and things like that. So how can digestion be improved through diet and lifestyle as we age?
Speaker 4:So fiber is going to be number one and hydration those are going to be your top two, and if those aren't helping, then you know, obviously talking to the doctor and making sure that there is no other kind of issues. But then if there is an acid reflux, looking at what they are eating, making sure there's no spices or some other kind of food that's getting caught in there and that's making the reflux happen and then removing those foods so that digestion is better right.
Speaker 3:What role do probiotics play in gut health?
Speaker 4:oh, probiotics are great because they, you know it makes that good bacteria, you know. So it makes the healthy gut. Healthy gut makes your digestion better. It can help, you know, with uh, helping you with constipation and things like that, and it makes it smoother.
Speaker 1:So we, we want to add probiotics to the, to the mix okay so and and are there any like probiotic or prebiotic foods that they can like buy from stores at all? Mostly pill-based.
Speaker 4:Oh no, no, no everything. Every food is good first you will always hear me say food is first. Food is first. So for probiotic foods you want to look at yogurt, so you can always find good yogurts that have strains of probiotics in it. Kefir you can look at sauerkraut and then even kimchi and kombucha.
Speaker 1:So those are all the ways.
Speaker 4:It's a drink, kombucha is a drink, so it's something you can drink and it's it's almost like a soda, yeah.
Speaker 3:OK. So what do you OK? Sidebar. So when you do right, when you OK, you want to cut back on sodas and all the sugar drinks right. So you got a kaboota kombucha. So what is there anything that you can get past? Maybe to taste, and it's more than likely. It's because, hey, we've been used to certain sugar, certain things for a long time and trying something new, oh, I just don't taste well for me. But what is a way to surpass that? Is it any secret? You the chef, you the doctor?
Speaker 4:Really no. So is when you're trying to get past like sweet, sweet stuff and trying to. You just have to break the habit. So I usually say, because we haven't. So now, like I, we don't buy, like we buy plain yogurt and then I sweeten it myself. So most things you know, like I add fruit. So, that's a natural sweetener. And then I, you know, and we, I stopped using most artificial sweeteners a long time ago.
Speaker 4:Like we use monk fruit or we'll use honey that's most and then we'll use maple syrup for some things, but that's generally what we use to sweeten and change the exactly. So if you want something a little sweet. But then that's what you do like you start off, you cut back with how much of the sugar or those you know the sweetener, you put in and in and you use real fruit to start sweetening things so that you can change your taste of the sugar, so kombucha.
Speaker 1:Kombucha, kombucha.
Speaker 3:And that's like a soda, right? Yeah, it's a soda, it's fermented, right, it's fermented soda.
Speaker 4:And you can actually make kombucha at home. There's recipes online yeah so it's a I mean, and even you know sauerkraut, you can make it at home, okay. And kimchi. You can make that at home too.
Speaker 3:And if you don't know how to guess what Just get Chefs?
Speaker 4:for.
Speaker 1:Seniors in here to come and help you.
Speaker 4:And then even with prebiotics. Now that's even better, because prebiotics is the food for the probiotics. But prebiotics is like, basically it's what we can't really digest, so it goes right through us. So it's good for us too, but your body just kind of it just goes through. So when we're talking about prebiotics, we're looking at garlic, onions, asparagus, bananas, you know, and whole grains. So those are things that you can be eating all the time, so those are good probiotics too.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:We love those.
Speaker 3:I know we're talking about for seniors, right, but is this good for all ages?
Speaker 4:Absolutely Great Okay.
Speaker 3:But is this?
Speaker 1:good for all ages? Absolutely Great, okay, and the reason why we're talking about nutrition as a whole anyway, is because we are looking for longevity in our lives. A lot of us, even at my age, are dealing with different what do you want to call it chronic conditions because of the way our lifestyles and what we eat and what we digest. And so, as we're talking about nutrition and lifestyle for longevity, talk to me about some diets that we can potentially get on Like. I know the Mediterranean diet right. What makes the Mediterranean diet one of the best for senior health or just all inclusive for everybody's health?
Speaker 4:So I think when they have done studies on the Mediterranean diet, it's really because of its high concentration of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, okay, it uses. Its main source of fat is olive oil, okay, and so you know olive oil is a really good healthy fat. That's, you know, been studied, and you know it doesn't use a lot of the protein that it concentrates on is like fish. So you know it's all those things. That has all the things that we pretty much talked about. You know, like it's not a lot of dairy, but the dairy that it is is healthy dairy.
Speaker 4:You know, it's looking at yogurt, you know, a little bit of eggs. You it's the it's a plant-based mostly lifestyle looking at those kind of things. So it you know it's looking at lowering that incidence of chronic diseases. So it's all of those things that we've talked about and it could be.
Speaker 3:It could be the way it's cooked spicy or not spicy.
Speaker 4:Well, it does yeah, I mean they use spices you know, but it's the mediterranean way, so they use their own spices. So you know they're going to use garlic they're going to use, you know they're going to use the onion that we talked about. They have their own set of spices. You know, in with chefs for seniors, we don't use salt really because we're working with an older population, so they're using other spices to flavor the foods and all those kind of things.
Speaker 3:So yeah, okay. So, uh, what are foods that are linked to longer life and better cognitive function?
Speaker 4:Okay, so I always like. So last year, when I was doing a lot of talks um, I focused on blue zones last year, so I don't know if y'all have ever heard of the blue zones.
Speaker 2:So okay so the blue zones is it was I don't know if y'all have ever heard of the Blue Zones.
Speaker 4:No, I haven't heard of it. I don't think so. So okay, so the Blue Zones is it was. I can't think of the name of the author right now, but he, he worked at the time for National Geographic and he looked at five regions all over the world and they focused on it, found like these five regions had high incidence of centenarians or people who were living over a hundred, and so like it was in Japan, um Costa Rica, um some a couple of places in the Mediterranean and then in Loma Linda.
Speaker 1:California, and so right. And then you said to Mediterranean. So then yes, yes, so we had that.
Speaker 4:So you know, the thing that they all had in common was, again, most of them were like plant based you know, kind of diets, you know. And then also they had other things about large areas of like they were community based. There was a lot of you know walking and other things, but the like, the plant based lifestyle, the way they ate, you know high concentrations of olive oil, you know lower meat consumption, things like that, and traces of olive oil you know lower meat consumption, things like that.
Speaker 2:So you know, when I say I didn't, want to say that there was a specific food, but it was more of a lifestyle, like focusing on the plant-based diets.
Speaker 4:You know, and making sure that we're consuming. You know more of those things. You know making sure that you're centering your plate around plants. And then you know you're adding, you know you're adding your other protein-based foods and things like that. And that don't mean necessarily you have to go vegan, exactly right because most of these places, you know some of them, because they're surrounded by water, you know, of course, they're going to be more plant-based, and then you eat what you have access to but in you know, loma linda was different because they are oh what are they?
Speaker 4:I forgot which religion they practice, so they were vegan.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:So, they were very, you know, they were the completely vegan. But most of the other places either had fish, you know, but it might have been once or twice a week you know or?
Speaker 4:maybe you know, and when they had red meat, you know it was more like maybe on Sunday, okay, you know that kind of thing. You know it was more like maybe on sunday, okay, you know that kind of thing. So it wasn't that they were completely, but in um costa rica they were kind of the difference, where it was more traditional, like they were eating more rice beans because they were more of a cattle country right, as opposed to some of the mediterranean places. So you know there was some differences, but you could still see that plants or whole grains was the center of the meal.
Speaker 1:And let's go like more from your pharmaceutical background too, like what is the importance of vitamins and supplements for aging adults.
Speaker 4:That's funny because, you know, when we were looking at some of the things, it was going to be one of my things I was going to say at the end but vitamins, supplements, they play a part, yeah, um, but I would say they're not the main thing. You know you, once you have a whole foods diet, right, then you add the supplements to that you know, so kind of boosted, exactly right. But the food is the nutrient, is the nutrient yes, you want to get as much of your nutrients from your foods first.
Speaker 3:Okay, awesome, awesome all right, uh, so a practical meal planning tips for independent seniors and caregivers. So what's that? What that practical meal look like? What's a five minute, ten minute meal for a caregiver taking care of their loved one or a senior living by?
Speaker 1:themselves. They're independent, they can do it.
Speaker 4:I mean you know you could do some soups, quick soups. You know stews, I mean you know if you can brown some. You know. Lean ground beef, you know, every now and again um, we talked about frozen vegetables buy you a bag of mixed vegetables. Right, make you, you know, buy a thing. This is the only time I will say can a can of tomatoes, the low sodium or no sodium, you know, and some uh, no salt broth, and you have yourself a uh soup okay that will, you know, literally take you 20 minutes, let it boil and you've got yourself a soup and they can eat on that, you know, for a few days.
Speaker 4:And so you know, when you're talking about your seniors or your older adults, you also know that their appetite is generally going to be smaller, so you know something like that is going to last them for some days. You know, you can also talk about. You know, maybe some grilled fish or you know, season it up a little bit, bake it in the oven you know, you know, cut up some sweet potatoes, you know same kind of thing.
Speaker 4:You can bake those or roast them in the oven. You know, you know, cut up some sweet potatoes, you know same kind of thing. You can bake those or roast them in the oven, because roasting your vegetables is going to be good for you as well. A lot of times people forget about roasting, you know, and that's also something that you can do.
Speaker 3:Well, I tell you what I'm hungry. I know I mean we only had coffee today.
Speaker 2:So, you know, I understand that so.
Speaker 1:Shanika you have talked about like some awesome things. And so I'm so glad they were able to get all of this like invaluable information from you. I would say this I want three things that I want them to take away. First thing if you had to recommend three simple dietary changes for better senior health, what would they?
Speaker 4:be. Fill your plate with plants. That's where you want to start, and by plants I mean fruits, vegetables, even whole grains. All of that.
Speaker 3:Make that the focal point so I'm, what about collard green? That's a plant right, but do you do, you want?
Speaker 1:hog mouth. Do you want? Smoke them and do the turkey turkey.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm just making sure, I like collard yes, yes, but turkey, um, okay, that was one. And and even with that, don't boil them, saute them or, you know, keep them a little crunchy. Yes, okay, yes, all of that yes, because when you boil them, you're boiling out all the good stuff okay, all right.
Speaker 3:So what about the? What about the? Uh stem?
Speaker 4:you, I mean you can cut off some of the stem yeah, but saute them yes okay, all right all right, and then, um, hydrate. So you know, like we talked about, making sure, but within whatever that restriction, you know, if there's a restriction, whatever that's supposed to be, and then making sure you're incorporating beans, nuts and seeds because, uh, the other thing I didn't mention is, um, the mind diet so that can also help with cognitive health, and um so beans, nuts and seeds is an important part of that so making sure you're getting some servings of beans and she's, she loved
Speaker 1:beans yeah, I do not.
Speaker 2:I I'm sorry, I won't eat them, but whatever, no, no, I can do that no, I'm not eating it.
Speaker 4:I can't eat it. Okay, well, making sure you're getting some servings of beans, nuts and seeds, okay, awesome.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Well, where can they find more information about you and connect with all of you on social media?
Speaker 4:Okay, so the best place to find me is going to be if you just go to chefsforseniorscom. That's our general website, but you can find me in the Arlington Grand Prairie or you can look for me in the Fort Worth or the Plano area.
Speaker 1:And all of those are me. Okay, all of those are me. And so, and if you're not, and if they're not living in those areas, there's other chefs, seniors all over the country.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:Perfect.
Speaker 3:And do they do? I know you just said it but do they? Have a direct email or something to get to you. Phone number whatever. Yes, yes, so um, you can find me at shanika, that's s-h-a-n-e-k-a. At chefs for seniorscom and then the number is 682-800-9994 perfect, perfect, listen collard greens, smoked turkey and saute.
Speaker 1:Okay, look, I'm not, we're gonna get this together. Yeah, when we finally just start decide to start eating breakfast in the morning, we'll get to the. But I thank you so much for coming on and being a part of the journey, our podcast. Thank you guys for having me. We just love you and adore you. And you guys, please, please, please, tune in with her.
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Speaker 1:Have a blessed one. Bye y'all.
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