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today we’re going to talk about

trace minerals what is a trace mineral

well trace minerals are part of the

periodic table which has all the

elements that make up the physical

universe so all the matter that makes up

things whether it’s the soil the plants

human bodies animals everything is made

from elements and you have these things

called trace elements which are

minerals needed in very very trace or

small amounts very tiny amounts another

term for that would be micro

minerals versus macro minerals which you

need

in larger amounts like usually above 100

milligrams so trace minerals are needed

in tiny amounts definitely below 100

milligrams but sometimes even in the

microgram amounts so they’re very very

tiny the macro minerals make up about i

don’t know three to four percent of your

entire body and the micro minerals make

up only like point zero two percent now

just because we need trace minerals in

very very tiny amounts doesn’t mean that

they’re not extremely important they are

if a plant if an animal if a human is

missing just one trace mineral and they

have all the other trace minerals there

could be huge side effects so we’re only

as strong as our weakest link now i want

to give you another definition of the

word organic typically when people think

of organic they think of without

pesticides but there’s another

definition of the word organic and that

has to do with a plant-based mineral so

you have inorganic minerals in the soil

like elements like whether it’s iron

magnesium

potassium and these basically come from

rocks in the soil so certain

microorganisms like fungus

release acids that then dissolve rocks

then then allow these tiny minerals to

be absorbed by the plant’s roots so we

have this nice exchange between

minerals and carbs and proteins so the

plant’s roots then pull up this mineral

and convert it from an inorganic mineral

to an organic mineral so now the

plant-based mineral is in a certain form

that’s very easy to manipulate

and then when you consume minerals from

plants they’re very easy for your body

to digest and assimilate versus eating a

teaspoon of dirt okay these are

inorganic elements that are not easily

absorbed by our body so we need them in

a form

that

is easy to break down and utilize when

people think about trace minerals they

think

nails

skin

hair right

but they don’t realize that

trace minerals go way way beyond that we

have the big function of

acting as a co-enzyme or a co-helper

element so trace minerals help make

enzymes okay and there are thousands and

thousands of different types of enzymes

that our body needs

for various things

that have nothing to do with digestion

that may have something to do with

growing hair they might have something

to do with pumping certain fluids to the

body or part of your immune system

killing off pathogens

i mean the list goes on and on and on

and so to make these proteins you need

certain trace minerals you also need

trace minerals many times to make

vitamins

like let’s take b12

b12 needs cobalt okay as the trace

mineral

and without cobalt in the soil you can’t

make b12 and you become anemic so we

need the complete package of trace

minerals without anything missing let me

first explain some of the macro minerals

first okay just so you can differentiate

the two like potassium for example we

need massive amounts of potassium that

would be a macro mineral calcium sodium

chloride magnesium phosphorus

sulfur those are all minerals we need in

large amounts okay now the micro

minerals would be like iron

zinc iodine selenium copper chromium

boron malignant try to say that five

times so that would be a short list of

trace minerals there’s many others but i

wanted to kind of talk about the common

ones now when someone is deficient in a

trace mineral it is hard to

differentiate

what trace mineral is causing that

deficiency because just one trace

mineral could be involved with hundreds

of different

enzymes like zinc for example and so if

your body has a small amount of zinc it

might use it in the most important

functions but not in a lot of the other

functions that you might not have any

connection that that’s associated with

because how do you feel that your dna is

not being properly manufactured or how

do you always feel that all the

neurotransmitters aren’t in the perfect

balance it’s difficult so it’s just

another reason why you just need to eat

healthy to include all these trace

minerals

let’s first talk about iron okay

you need iron in very small amounts like

between 8 and 15 milligrams per day as a

requirement

especially women that menstruate they

need more because they’re losing iron on

a regular basis but

over 2 billion people on this planet are

deficient in iron that’s incredible

that’s a lot of people but iron is

involved in oxygen transport it’s also

involved in the storage of oxygen in

your muscles

it’s involved in producing energy making

dna

supporting the immune system making

myelin that the stuff that surrounds the

nervous system

also in making neurotransmitters okay

that’s what iron does iron is very

plentiful especially in the form that

you need in red meat organ meats

shellfish okay seafood

nuts seeds

and chocolate iron also is absorbed

easier in the presence of vitamin c

so if you’re gonna

have a steak in a salad for example you

have this red meat which has a great

source of iron and your salad has a good

source of vitamin c that would be a

perfect

meal to help maximize the absorption of

iron now if someone’s anemic

some of the best supplements that you

could take would be like a maybe a

grass-fed bovine

iron supplement

a grass-fed bovine liver okay

extract because liver is a really good

source of iron or you could do a

grass-fed uh bovine spleen extract okay

that’s another really good

supplement for iron versus some of the

supplements that you find which i won’t

mention any brand names but they have

the form of iron in an element you know

much like you would you would find in

the soil not a good type of iron that

you want to take because

the side effects you’ll find that your

digestive system will be hurting so i

would never recommend taking this iron

supplement unless it’s like either a

food base or it’s something like liver

or spleen extract things like that now

tannins and tea and even coffee can

block the absorption of iron but the the

big reason why

so many people are deficient in iron is

because of phytates or phytic acid and

that’s in grains because of such a large

population on this planet consumes

grains

and so-called healthy grains that phytic

acid blocks the absorption of iron

making people very anemic now there’s

other causes of deficiency too let’s say

for example people have an infection

with a parasite and they have

bleeding and things like that that can

be a problem with iron but the big thing

is the phytic acid because they’re

eating grains

so some of the symptoms of an iron

deficiency would be

anemic that you’re going to be tired

kind of washed out

lethargic

hair loss you’re going to feel colder

you can have this condition called pica

which you’re craving dirt

or chalk something like that or even

clay

or low libido other than that you’d be

totally fine

all right let’s go move on to zinc

as far as how much zinc you need between

8 and 13 milligrams very small amounts

31

of the world’s population

is deficient in zinc

according to certain uh reports now

that’s a lot of people now

can you guess why they’re deficient in

zinc if you’ve guessed exposure to

phytic acid you are correct

it’s the grains

grains are loaded with phytic acid which

then blocks certain minerals iron

zinc

calcium things like that now right now

i’m living on a farm and we have animals

we have chickens

pigs with sheep we have goat and i’m

feeding them some non-gmo grain what i

do is i soak those grains

for three days it gets rid of all the

phytic acid and these animals thrive

they do great so there’s no phytic acid

so they get this maximum absorption of

trace minerals

including zinc and iron and calcium

not to mention the enhanced

b vitamin profile as well so but for

humans i don’t recommend consuming

grains all right zinc

probably the most

important trace mineral

ever because it’s involved in hundreds

and hundreds of different enzymes it’s

involved in making dna

involved in making amino acids

it’s very very important for your immune

system

making t cells uh bone health producing

sperm wound healing

uh

helping in the regulation of

inflammation especially in your lungs

if you’re deficient in zinc you can get

an ulcer you can have a loss of taste

loss of smell loss of appetite it can

affect your mood where you’re very

irritable it can also increase your

susceptibility of getting certain

viruses okay

of the lung it can really crash your

libido and the type of zinc that you

want um the the type that’s easily

absorbed is in red meat

this is why vegans are usually deficient

it’s an organ meats

shellfish so we come back to the

shellfish shellfish has

pretty much all the trace minerals

because it’s from the ocean right all

right and then pumpkin seeds do have a

good amount of zinc

as a side note when you consume zinc

with protein

you’re going to get more absorption all

right let’s move to iodine next iodine

very important you need about 120 to 220

micrograms okay not milligrams

micrograms

and this is another trace mineral that a

lot of people are deficient like 1.9

billion

people on this planet are deficient in

iodine and in 36.4 percent of that group

is children okay so if a child is

deficient in iodine uh they’ll have a

diminished uh intelligence they have a

lower cognitive uh function their growth

is stunted so it’s very very important

for both pregnant women and small

children to get enough iodine okay

now if you’re consuming food from the

ocean you’re going to be good to go like

seaweed shellfish

sea salt things like that now eggs have

iodine as well beef liver has good

amount of iodine but if you don’t have

iodine your thyroid can’t work so you

can’t make thyroid hormones when you

talk about the thyroid hormone like t4

or t3 you’re talking about the the

number of iodine molecules in that

hormone okay t4 is the inactive version

t3 is the active version

and so you need iodine to make these

hormones and if you don’t have enough

iodine your metabolism is slow you get a

lot of pregnancy complications okay

still birth you might get miscarriages

things like that

iodine also regulates

an excess amount of estrogen so if you

have too much estrogen in the body

you take enough iodine you can help

regulate that

a really good indication for the need of

iodine would be fibrocystic breast

ovarian cyst

iodine will help get rid of both of

those conditions also if you’re cold on

the cold side

um you need more iodine usually all

right let’s move to selenium selenium is

another trace mineral needed in small

amounts like 40 to 70 micrograms

over a billion people are deficient in

selenium and so selenium is needed in

certain proteins like the selenium

protein enzyme

which helps to detoxify mercury also

selenium is involved in dna synthesis

and decreasing inflammation because it’s

involved in antioxidants okay selenium

is also needed for reproduction it’s

needed in the conversion from t4 to t3

without selenium you can’t convert the

thyroid hormones so even though you have

enough hormone there it can’t be

activated selenium is a really powerful

antioxidant for your liver okay

and how do you get selenium seafood

shellfish organ meats

seems like those three types of foods

are at the top of the list for trace

minerals

also brazil nuts one brazil nut a day

will give you enough selenium uh beef

has selenium eggs

and of course beef liver is loaded with

selenium which is an organ meat which

i’ve already mentioned okay myalgia

that’s muscle pain in the lower part of

your body is an indication that you need

selenium cardiomyopathy that’s a heart

problem

you need selenium for that it’s an

antioxidant

if you’re lethargic sometimes you’re

deficient in selenium and if you have

these white nail beds that means you

need

selenium all right let’s talk about

chromium you need between 15 and 45

micrograms not milligrams of chromium

every single day chromium enhances

insulin and it’s involved as a cofactor

in the production of insulin so it’s

really important in blood sugars and

when you’re on a high carb diet the need

for

chromium goes way up because

high amounts of sugar deplete you of

chromium you’re going to find chromium

and vegetables beef ham egg yolks fish

yeast

keep coming back to that

if you’re deficient in chromium you have

a greater tendency to have insulin

resistance a slower metabolism

polycystic ovarian syndrome why because

insulin is involved in polycystic

ovarian syndrome peripheral neuropathies

why because peripheral neuropathies are

involved with blood sugar issues also

chromium helps to

keep cholesterol out of the arteries

okay so if you don’t have enough

chromium

cholesterol can tends to stay in the

arteries

why because insulin is involved again

and insulin and chromium tend to work

together let’s talk about copper copper

is needed in small amounts as well like

900 micrograms that’s under one

milligram okay

now copper works with iron to make red

blood cells copper also works with zinc

as a part of your immune system and many

other functions now copper deficiency is

very very rare unless you’re in a

hospital after getting surgery when it’s

very very common so apparently we need

copper in the healing process

copper is needed for connective tissue

it’s needed for your blood vessels

because it’s needed for collagen um

production

white blood cells need copper

and copper acts as a dimmer switch

within your neurons and so they help to

modify the overactivity of nerve signals

and if you’re deficient in copper you’re

going to be

fatigued you’re going to be weak you’re

going to be frequently sick

you’re going to have

poor memory you’re going to have poor

vision you’re going to be on the cold

side

and you can get copper in many different

things beef liver shellfish cashews

mushrooms

chocolate

and avocados

so now that you know a little bit about

trace minerals if you haven’t seen my

video on electrolytes that’s the next

one to watch check it out it’s right

here

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