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there are at least four mineral

deficiencies that can significantly

affect your iq

that’s the topic for today generally

speaking it’s your intelligence it’s

your ability to solve problems it’s your

ability to learn and understand certain

things there’s a memory or a recall

component to it

and some people say well you know what

your intelligence is really finite and

either you’re born with it or you’re not

that’s absolutely not true okay you can

have training you can do

self-improvement you can do a lot of

things and even what your mother ate

while she’s pregnant has a factor on

your intelligence and your future

ability to solve

problems as you’re going to find out but

there are other factors too like with

learning

it could be that you’re in school and no

one ever taught you

how to study or learn and i’m being very

sarcastic because they don’t teach kids

how to study or learn you’re just

expected to know that so you go in there

and you sort of memorize you re-read you

rewrite things over and over and

hopefully somehow you pass the test and

you get through it but today i want to

really focus in on the

nutrient part of your intelligence so

probably one of the most influential

trace minerals which you don’t need a

lot of it but you need a little bit of

it and if you don’t have that little bit

you’re going to be in big trouble

because if you’re deficient in iodine as

a child your iq can go down

significantly like 13 points okay now

even if you’re deficient iodine is adult

there are certain studies that show that

it can decrease by 15 points and that’s

pretty significant but the crucial time

to get iodine is when the woman is

pregnant with that baby as well as when

they’re breastfeeding

vitally important and so iodine is

involved in

the

creation of your brain and of certain

parts of the brain like the hippocampus

which is involved with learning

memory being able to navigate yourself

through different things

so primarily we have the hippocampus and

then the frontal lobe involved in

problem solving but of course

how much

of these parts of the brain are involved

with problem solving in iq i mean it’s

pretty remarkable some people have had

huge

amounts of trauma and damage to their

brains i mean destruction of a good

portion of the brain and they still seem

to maintain their cognitive function and

their iq

so i just wanted to point that out

because we really don’t know how much

brain we really need apparently we have

a lot of extra now the second mineral

that is the most important is zinc

zinc is involved in

hundreds of different enzyme reactions

okay it’s definitely involved with the

hippocampus it’s involved with making

neurotransmitters and if you’re low on

zinc your iq is going down but this zinc

correlates with copper they both work

together so you need this zinc to copper

ratio and when you have children who

have autism for example there’s nearly

always extremely low zinc and copper

levels but there’s a huge correlation

between

high iq

and good zinc to copper ratios copper is

also very low in alzheimer’s patients

also it’s super concentrated in a

structure in your brain stem called the

locus aurelius which has everything to

do with your sleeping and then we have

magnesium magnesium is needed for making

atp

it’s needed for energy in the brain and

if you don’t have enough magnesium there

is a huge correlation between a lower iq

and so if we look at this right here we

have

you know seafood shellfish okay and

magnesium

salad vegetables leafy greens but you

can also get it in nuts and other foods

as well

but seafood shellfish very important to

get the top three i wanted to add a few

more vitamin d deficiency is also

correlated with learning disabilities

lower iq and cognitive function so

here’s another one that’s very very

important especially

if you are pregnant now iron also

correlates with the lower iq probably

because it’s involved with anemia and

red blood cells and carry oxygen to your

brain

now there’s a couple other things i

really need to cover related to

this cognitive function

and that has to do with this thing

called sugar sugar actually makes you

stupid it definitely correlates with a

lower iq

now that being said i do want to make a

very important point just because

someone has a high iq just because

someone is

so-called intelligent doesn’t mean

that they are sane okay they could be

very intelligent but be

completely insane

and when i talk about insane i’m talking

about destructive right but when we’re

talking about sugar we’re talking about

blood sugar we’re talking about even

diabetes so if your a1c is like above

seven

your recall is goes down okay your

ability to recall memories is

significantly affected

diabetics on average have a lower iq by

7.84

points

when someone is a diabetic and they have

higher sugar in their blood

that shrinks the hippocampus so we have

less hippocampus to work with which

means less capacity for memory less

capacity for learning and that is

intimately connected with iq

now if we take a look at the brain

that has insulin resistance okay it’s

brain insulin resistance which is

always the case for someone that has

high sugar like a diabetic

there is a lot of destruction going on

in the neurons okay

and so when you feed the brain cells the

neurons too much sugar you end up

destroying those synapses and thank

goodness there’s an alternative fuel to

bypass that whole thing and get the

energy that the neurons need so you can

have more intelligence and that

alternative fuel is ketones

now

what’s interesting about ketones is that

your brain

is the organ that does not have to adapt

to

ketones like other parts of the body in

other words there’s not a period of

three days where you have to

adapt or convert over to ketones it can

use ketones immediately if it’s in the

blood

there’s not a lot of

if any stored sugar in the brain the

brain does not store glycogen why

because there’s no space

because when you’re storing glycogen you

have to store a lot of water and there’s

just no space so the brain is dependent

for its energy from the blood okay

and then that usually comes from your

liver primarily so if your liver is

damaged that can affect the brain but if

the brain has a choice between ketones

or glucose it will always pick ketones

as a primary fuel

and that way even if there’s damage to

the brain

the brain cells can get energy so in

other words your brain is very

vulnerable to what diet you are on and

really what determines if there’s

ketones in your blood or not

is really two things

glucose and your insulin levels so when

a person starts to go on the ketogenic

diet and they start lowering their

glucose

they notice also their insulin levels

lower they may still have problems and

they may not notice the significant

benefits of ketosis for quite some time

primarily because there’s

this background

basic level of insulin in their blood at

all times

and if someone is obese they usually

have like three times the insulin levels

and this really has nothing to do with

their diet it’s just that their baseline

insulin is just a lot higher than

someone that doesn’t have a weight

problem so if you are watching and

you’re overweight

just realize the more you lose weight

the more the insulin levels decrease the

more the benefits and it could take some

time so what are the takeaways from this

video

shellfish

seafood

big salads

and cut the sugar out and go on a low

carb diet now there’s a lot more to talk

about the brain if you haven’t seen this

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