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let’s talk about the top diseases

that

are in reality

nutritional deficiencies

is it possible that certain diseases

could really be just nutritional

deficiencies well that’s what we’re

going to talk about you know when you go

to the doctor with your disease there’s

not a lot of deep dive into vitamin or

mineral deficiencies at all

that’s kind of off the radar maybe if

you have anemia they might look at iron

or even b12 but typically they’re not

looking for nutrient deficiencies in

fact from my experience they don’t

really look at the cause for any of

these conditions it’s mainly

making sure that they correctly diagnose

you and then jump right into the

treatment but let’s take a look at a

couple things

there’s over 250 million preschool

children worldwide that have a severe

vitamin a deficiency which makes them

prone to blindness so without enough

vitamin a you can very easily develop

all sorts of diseases not just with your

eyes

but with your immune system with your

skin you can have acne dermatitis

all sorts of things now let’s talk about

vitamin e if you don’t have enough

vitamin e in your body

what suffers is the inside of the

arteries vitamin e is one of the main

antioxidants that helps prevent

lesions and

inflammation in the inside of the artery

and so a lack of e could set you up for

a whole cascade of issues we start

building up calcium deposits or

cholesterol deposits and the artery

becomes plug it all starts with the

lesion that can occur because you don’t

have enough vitamin e to protect the

inside of the arteries

also without enough vitamin e

the heart muscle itself can lose oxygen

and you can be at risk for angina which

is chest pain this is why vitamin e is

good for anything muscular and they call

vitamin e the natural nitroglycerin

because nitroglycerin is what they use

to stop

heart attacks all right vitamin d

can a lack of vitamin d cause a disease

the answer is yes

osteoporosis or osteopenia which is a

pre-osteoporosis state you can even have

osteomalacia which is softening of the

bones a lack of vitamin d can set you up

for an infection if you’re low in

vitamin d you’ll tend to have high blood

pressure unfortunately when you go to

the doctor they’re probably not going to

recommend vitamin d if you have high

blood pressure when it would be a good

idea if they did that

also in the past vitamin d was used for

tb tuberculosis because it’s a great

remedy they have found that patients

with tb are nearly always deficient in

vitamin d which sets the person up or

makes them more susceptible or

vulnerable to getting tb so it’s

intimately involved with the disease

process asthma is definitely associated

with a vitamin d deficiency

depression okay i’ve known many many

people who were depressed that then

increased their vitamin d that then

we’re now no longer depressed all right

then we get to iron

if you don’t have enough iron

your blood is not going to be able to

carry oxygen we need iron as the key

mineral to be able to

carry oxygen

in your hemoglobin and without it you’re

going to get anemic so you can have a

loss of your air you’re not going to be

able to breathe that well you’re going

to be kind of pale

tired then we have b12 you can develop

another type of anemia from lacking b12

but there are a lot of other diseases

that a lack of b12 will also create okay

what about zinc if you don’t have enough

zinc a lot of things will happen

you could develop dermatitis

inflammation of the skin you could

develop an infection because zinc is

intimately involved with the function of

your white blood cells and this is why

so many people are taking zinc and

vitamin d

when they get an infection or when

they’re run down to try to speed up the

recovery and overcome that infection

also if you’re zinc deficient you get a

condition called

hypogonadism

okay so in other words the testicle

shrinks and your testosterone goes down

also you’ll develop a loss of taste and

smell and you can even develop diarrhea

i mean in certain countries there’s a

lot of small children that die from

diarrhea because they’re zinc deficient

now if you had high blood pressure

the two

really central key nutrients involved in

that would be a lack of vitamin d

and a lack of potassium the problem is

when you test potassium in the blood

you’re not going to find a deficiency

because the majority of potassium is

inside the cell so you would have to

know that and also do an intracellular

potassium test and that would give you a

lot of good information to see if you

actually had a true potassium deficiency

but

so many people have high blood pressure

because they just don’t have enough

potassium in the diet now the partner of

potassium is magnesium right another

mineral that is mostly located inside

the cell that’s why you have to do an

intracellular

test

but if you’re low in magnesium you could

develop atrial fibrillation or some

other type of arrhythmia now there are

classical nutritional deficiencies that

most people know about scurvy with

vitamin c rickets with vitamin d

pellegra which is a severe skin disorder

with b3 and beriberi which is a

neurological disorder now of course the

thought is that we don’t have these

major problems anymore maybe in certain

countries that are very very poor but

what about

a sub clinical deficiency maybe the

person doesn’t have a major deficiency

but let’s say they have a subclinical

deficiency that they might not express

all of this characteristics of this but

just some can we actually create health

without nutrients is it possible and the

answer is

no well on the flip side if nutrients

are so involved in your health then a

lack of them are going to be involved in

the disease process this makes only

logical sense

let’s take a look at

two things the foods that are

recommended for a healthy body

versus

the foods that you really need to eat

i’m talking about the eat lancet

commission if you haven’t heard about

this group you’ll hear more about it

i’ve done a video on it it’s a group of

researchers that want to do radical

changes to your diet and it’s not just

to one country it’s to the whole planet

they want to have a planetary health

diet

by the year

2050 and they use all the buzzwords like

it’s sustainable

it’s healthy

well it’s definitely not sustainable for

a healthy body and i’m going to explain

why they want to make your diet mostly

grains 232 grams of grains every single

day

like corn and wheat and all the other

grains potato cassava

50 grams okay

vegetables 300 grams

fruits 200 grams

milk 250 grams

and this right here meat 14 grams okay

that’s what they want you to eat that

would basically be one mouthful of meat

okay talking about beef pork lamb things

like that

eggs

13 grams okay wow we’re really rationing

the meat and eggs but you can have the

fake meat

and the soy burgers no problem

okay legumes 75 grams

nuts

50 grams and of course we can’t have a

healthy diet without this right here

sugar 31 grams that’s 7.5

teaspoons now what is sustainable or

healthy

about adding sugar that’s what i have a

question about now on top of all this

what you need to know

is there’s something called phytic acid

that’s in the grains the nuts and the

legumes phytic acid is an acid in the

fiber of these foods that bind

certain minerals

especially zinc

iron

calcium magnesium potassium okay

and then we have oxalates okay oxalates

are in the beans they’re in the

vegetables they’re in the seeds and the

grains what do oxalis do they bind the

calcium

they make calcium unavailable we also

have tannins in these foods right here

also binding iron and other minerals as

well as depleting vitamin b1 and of

course the sugar you’ve seen this in my

other videos it’s going to deplete you

of b1 zinc potassium magnesium

and calcium

so the foods that they want you to eat

just don’t match what you really need to

be eating let’s take a look at these key

nutrients that are involved in disease

processes okay all right let’s start

with vitamin a where do you get vitamin

a well

you might say vegetables right there’s

tons of vitamin a kale has vitamin a

spinach is vitamin a

well

it really doesn’t have the active form

of vitamin a retinol it’s the retinol

that prevents blindness unfortunately

they change the definition of vitamin a

to include

beta-carotene okay beta-carotene

so when you see that vegetables have

tons of vitamin a they’re really talking

about beta-carotene beta-carotene has to

convert

to retinol retinol is the thing that

really is needed by the retina of your

eye

and so beta-carotene is good for other

things

but only three percent of it is

converted to retinol the active form of

vitamin a and take a while guess where

you might get retinol

from

animal products okay meats

egg yolk

things like butter spinach and carrots

might give you the precursor but it

doesn’t give you the retinol very much

of it anyway let’s take a look at what

it would take

to get 9 000

micrograms of vitamin a and i’m talking

about the retinol you can have three

ounces of liver beef liver or you can do

40 pounds of raw carrots

or 50 cups of cooked kale

or

454 cups of raw kale so you can go ahead

and pick which one you want to be able

to get your vitamin a at your next meal

all right let’s talk about iron okay

you probably hear that oh iron it’s in

spinach it’s in vegetables well that’s

the a different form that’s the non-heme

form okay there’s two different forms

one is more biologically available the

other one is not

so the one that is very biologically

available is the heme iron and that is

only in animal products as far as

non-heme iron as far as absorption you

get between one and fifteen percent okay

the heme iron you get 25 to 40 percent

and then if we look at trying to get our

iron

from this diet with all of these things

blocking iron

i’d be surprised if you had any iron in

your body at all what about b12

only in animal products okay

now what about zinc

do you get the same amount of zinc from

plant

versus animal and the answer is no

the best bio-available form of zinc is

in red meat it’s in other animal

products it’s also in seafood shellfish

and fish and remember we have the

anti-nutrients phytic acid that are

going to bind that zinc

with the whole grains

legumes and even nuts what about this

dha that’s a really important omega-3

fatty acid right well where do you get

that that’s in fatty fish okay it’s in

cod liver oil and i will say you can get

it from algae if you want to eat algae

okay but it’s going to be in this fatty

fish

now sometimes people will confuse

a version of the omega-3 called ala with

the active form of omega-3

called epa or dha so they might say that

walnuts are are loaded with omega-3

fatty acids well walnuts have the um

precursor it’s the ala

okay that has to turn into the epa which

then has to turn into the dha

so what is the conversion on that well

ala to epa is like only eight percent

and epa to dha is only zero to four

percent so if you’re trying to build up

your omega-3

and you’re going to try to do it with

walnuts

you’re probably going to get a little

bit but you’re not going to get a lot

but believe me i eat walnuts i love

walnuts but i’m not trying to get my

omega-3 fatty acids from walnuts and as

a side note when you sprout the walnuts

you can release and get rid of some of

these

anti-nutrients so that’s going to help

as well all right what about essential

amino acids or complete amino acid

profiles can you get them from grains

can you get them from beans no not

directly you’d have to combine things

and know how to do it but guess what

when you consume meat fish eggs and

organ meats you get all of the essential

amino acids and all of your

bio-available nutrients so over here you

create nutritional deficiencies and over

here you satisfy any deficiencies you

have

this is way more complete and way more

bioavailable to your body now since

we’re on the topic of foods and

nutrition i think the best next video

for you to watch

would be relating to giving you more

examples of these foods right here check

it out it’s right here