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you know having enough energy

to be able to do things like exercise

get your work done is so vitally

important and i think most people could

always use more energy so the question

is why would someone be tired in the

first place okay and the key with this

reestablishing your energy is to

really address the real cause now this

video is about nutrient deficiencies but

there are many other causes of fatigue

one being a lack of sleep

if you’re not sleeping i don’t care how

many vitamins you take or what you eat

you’re still going to be tired and the

other core reason why people are tired

is they’re consuming the wrong fuel

they’re consuming too much glucose and

not running off their stored fat burning

fat is the most efficient source of your

energy you have way more sustained fuel

burning fat than you do

sugar running your body off sugar

glucose is going to be a roller coaster

up and down up and down you’re not going

to have that sustained

energy and then of course the majority

of people need stimulants to keep them

energetic like caffeine coffee and when

a lot of people are tired what do they

turn to they eat food for energy of

course the food that they’re eating

makes them tired so let’s dive into the

nutrient deficiencies the primary ones

that can make you tired now the first

three nutrients relate to the formation

and the production

of red blood cells now without enough of

the red blood cells or the quality of

red blood cells you can’t carry oxygen

and oxygen is needed to help you burn

fuel much like a car needs oxygen mixed

with gasoline right so you have a spark

plug and a carburetor you mix a certain

amount of oxygen and it ignites and

gives you energy

same thing in your body you need oxygen

to oxidize

the fuel so the first one is b12 now the

trace mineral that’s involved with b12

is cobalt okay so cobalt is a necessary

trace minerals so the food that you’re

eating doesn’t have

cobalt it’s going to be very low in b12

the best source of b12 is

animal products okay so this is a clue

that your body is telling you of what

type of diet is best for you so if

there’s a classification of foods that

are missing a certain nutrient maybe our

bodies weren’t designed to live off that

specific food now they might have other

nutrients but b12 is mostly in animal

products

however certain microbes can make b12 so

that’s an exception so if someone’s

deficient in b12 they’re going to be

tired they’re going to have a lot of

other problems with their nervous system

and there’s a whole list of things but

they will become anemic

so what foods are high in b12

meats

fish

eggs

things like that one of the reasons why

someone might be deficient in b12 is

that they’re not consuming animal

products or maybe they have an

autoimmune problem in their stomach

there’s a certain

um

factor it’s called an intrinsic factor

that helps you absorb b12 and if that’s

not working you’re going to become

anemic all right the second nutrient

that has a lot to do with the creation

of a red blood cell is

folate okay

folate is vitamin b9 and you need folate

for a lot of different things including

protection of your dna

but you also need it to make the red

blood cell so if you’re deficient in

folate

you will be tired there’s some

interesting reasons why people are

deficient in folate one is the tanning

booth

if you’re getting too much artificial

tanning and there’s too much uv that can

create a deficiency of folate now folate

is in a lot of foods but it’s especially

in the dark leafy greens even the

derivation of folate comes from the word

which means leaf okay as in dark leafy

green vegetables so if you’re deficient

in folate you’re going to have fatigue

lethargy and you’re going to be weak and

there’s certain types of anemia that

involve a folate deficiency okay the red

blood cells need b12

they need folate and they need you

guessed it iron okay now the best source

of iron is not from leafy greens it’s

not from spinach despite what popeye

told you the best

bioavailable source of iron is in red

meat iron is at the core of something

called hemoglobin hemoglobin is the

thing that carries oxygen in the red

blood cell okay it’s like the protein

part and it not only carries oxygen it

helps you eliminate carbon dioxide so

those two have to be in a perfect ratio

so if someone is a vegan they might have

a lot of folate but they might not have

b12

and a good source of iron all right

number four

thymine or b1 now i’ve done some really

extensive

videos on b1 in its importance for your

brain

importance in your mood it gets rid of

anxiety and that nervous tension and

also anything that has to do with

nerve inflammation neuritis it seems to

handle that very well especially if you

have peripheral neuropathy which is this

this neurological problem at the bottom

of your feet usually which occurs

because your blood triggers are not

correct but you can think about b1 as

like a spark plug

for your energy without b1 you can’t

ignite this

fuel so b1 is very very

vital in the creation of energy in your

body and if someone does a

high carb diet especially a high sugar

refined carbohydrate diet

the need for b1 goes way way way up and

they’re usually deficient so they’re

usually tired because they cannot burn

that fuel so that fuel just gets

converted to fat and cholesterol and

triglycerides b1 is in a lot of

different foods it’s in animal products

it’s in

plant products it’s in seeds it’s in

nuts it’s in

sunflower seeds it’s made by microbes as

in nutritional yeast but the reason why

most people are deficient in b1 is that

they’re consuming a lot of refined

carbohydrates and sugars and so it’s not

necessarily a lack of getting b1 from

the diet it’s eating things that are

creating the deficiency okay so we have

b12

folate iron

b1 and number five magnesium okay

magnesium is a is crucial it’s vital to

generating energy because you need

magnesium to make atp which is the

energy currency of your body and without

magnesium you can’t make atp and by the

way the majority of the population is

deficient in magnesium well where do you

get magnesium well magnesium is at the

heart of chlorophyll which is in the

leafy greens it’s in the vegetable

family so but you can also get magnesium

and a lot of other foods animal products

and plant-based products is good without

the refined foods and those foods that

turn into the wrong type of fuel very

fast as in grains so even though grains

might have a lot of b1

and magnesium and other minerals like

iron

it’s locked up with phytic acid okay but

when they refine the grain

all the nutrition is lost and so now

you’re eating this empty carbohydrate

which then creates a deficiency of these

nutrients and this is why people get

tired and number six potassium potassium

is needed in large quantities in our

body for a reason because in all of our

cells

we have

this little uh pump it’s called a sodium

potassium pump

that helps you generate energy within

your muscles

and your nervous system so if you’re

deficient in potassium you are going to

be tired you’re going to be dragging

you’re not going to have the muscle

energy you’re going to try to work out

and you just don’t have the endurance

not to mention the nervous system i’m

also talking about your brain and

nervous system too so if you do a lot of

um mental work um through the day you’ll

lose your mental and your cognitive

power

so where do we have potassium leafy

greens but it’s also in a lot of other

foods as well so as you can see we need

a combination of foods

to eat to generate energy and then we

want to avoid certain foods that make us

tired

and we want to make sure we get enough

sleep now if you haven’t been sleeping

that well

that could be fatigue so i put that

video up right here check it out

you