The Alarming Signs Your Body Needs Trace Minerals

 

Introduction: Trace mineral deficiency

there are some really important signs or

indications that our body is desperately

demanding trace minerals so let's talk

about trace minerals what is a trace

What is a trace mineral?

mineral it's a mineral that is needed in

Trace Amounts or tiny tiny amounts many

times below even one milligram

in the microgram level so an example of

a trace mineral would be like zinc

iodine selenium copper manganese versus

other minerals that are needed in larger

amounts like potassium calcium magnesium

Why do we need trace minerals?

so what is so significant about these

trace minerals why do we need them in

such tiny amounts if at all well trace

minerals are essential to enzymes

enzymes are proteins that basically do

the work of the body you might think of

enzymes just for digestion but enzymes

are involved in all of your biochemistry

in making cells in repairing DNA and

proofreading DNA in making hormones in

converting hormones into the active form

in turning glucose into fat there are

thousands and thousands and thousands of

biochemical Pathways involving these

enzymes and it's an incredibly complex

and one thing we know know for sure

about these enzymes is there's a lot we

don't know but we do know these minerals

including trace minerals and regular

minerals and vitamins are the cofactors

that these enzyme or biochemical

Pathways depend on and without them our

biochemistry does not work so let's just

take for example zinc

zinc is involved with over 300 different

enzymes having functions ranging from

the breakdown of alcohol to the

production of testosterone

to building immune Weaponry to kill off

pathogens also involved in detoxifying

chemicals and even making

neurotransmitters that greatly affect

your mood and there's actually over 2

billion people on this planet that are

deficient in zinc primarily because of

another compound called phytic acid that

is in grains like cyrils and crackers

and Breads and things like that that

basically prevent the absorption of zinc

and other minerals and if someone

doesn't consume

meat red meat or animal products it's

very difficult to get the right form of

Zinc that is bioavailable so zinc is

really high in red meat and organ meats

and definitely shellfish seafood and

then we have iron iron is the number one

deficiency in the entire world more

people have an iron deficiency than any

other deficiency well iron is needed in

over six and a half percent of all

enzymes in every cell in our body iron

is also needed to detoxify hydrogen

peroxide your cells make hydrogen

peroxide to actually kill off pathogens

and so if there's too much of that built

up it can cause damage to our own cells

iron is needed for certain proteins that

carry oxygen through the blood and

without iron you can't carry oxygen

through your blood you become anemic

iron is also needed to make collagen and

a lot of your body is collagen the skin

the nails the hair the joints the

tendons the ligaments and there's even

collagen in your bones and the trace

mineral iron is mainly in like red meat

organ Meats it's also in shellfish but

the iron and spinach is a different type

of iron which is not nearly as

bioavailable as from red meat then we

get this other Trace mineral called

selenium this is a really important one

as well and selenium does a lot it helps

you convert the inactive thyroid hormone

to the active form so the enzyme

involved with that is dependent on

selenium so you might be making enough

thyroid hormone because you have enough

iodine but if you're deficient in

selenium you can't convert from the

inactive to the active form and even the

master antioxidant called glutathione is

dependent on selenium glutathione is

necessary to protect against all the

free radical damage and all the

oxidative things and pollution and

chemicals that in our body glutathione

is there to balance that or curb that or

buffer those effects and then we have

iodine right if a mother is deficient in

iodine when she has a baby that baby

will be deficient and that will severely

affect the brain to the point where they

can even have a lowered intelligence and

a lowered IQ so iodine is really

important not just in helping make

thyroid hormones but brain development

it's also involved in enzymes that help

protect you against excess amounts of

estrogen and if you deficient iodine you

can end up with fibrocystic breast with

cyst on the ovaries and so you get

iodine from shellfish

seaweed like sea kelp

and egg yolks now a big problem with the

trace minerals is that they're not

available in the soils nowadays because

a lot of times when we grow crops

we don't put that iodine back in the

soils we put three minerals in there

like phosphorus nitrogen and potassium

but Farmers don't normally put the trace

minerals back in the soil now the soils

probably do have trace minerals in them

but they're locked up in rocks and

things that are difficult for that plant

to get to you see it's really the

microbial life in the soil that's

responsible for mobilizing these

minerals to make these minerals

available to the plant and so when we

till the land the soil we destroy the

soil with glyphosate and pesticides and

chemicals now we're dependent on adding

fertilizers and other things to keep

that plant growing now if we take a look

at this entire food chain you have this

human body where you have these cells

that are at certain levels of Health

your cells are really a biochemical

photograph

of what's going on in the soil that's

really where your health comes from

because if you don't have the microbes

okay they're destroyed to mobilize the

minerals then the the roots of the

plants can't get nutrients and then the

plant suffers it's not going to be

healthy and the animals that eat the

plant or the grass then become deficient

and of course anytime we eat the plants

and the animals that are missing

nutrients we become deficient and trace

minerals are a really key part of this

whole chain especially not just giving

us the trace mineral but allowing all

this biochemistry to occur that if we

were deficient we wouldn't have enough

enzyme to detoxify hydrogen peroxide we

wouldn't have enough glutathione to

protect us against oxidative stress we

wouldn't have the ability to convert T4

to T3 we wouldn't have the enzymes to

break down alcohol or even make

testosterone so I hope now you're

becoming more aware how vital the trace

minerals are for your health so let me

Signs of a trace mineral deficiency

just briefly talk about what are some

common signs to know your deficient in

trace minerals well zinc you're going to

lose your hair you're going to have

these little white spots on your nails

you're going to have low testosterone

and you may even have diarrhea Now with

an iron deficiency you're going to have

anemic symptoms like you're going to

feel kind of withered tired weak you're

going to be on the cold side you're

going to have the brittle nails and the

hair loss and then we have selenium you

can have infertility with a selenium

deficiency you definitely can have

fatigue but you can also experience hair

loss and then with an iodine deficiency

you might notice swelling in the lower

part of your neck because the thyroid is

enlarging to a certain degree but

typically these trace minerals are not

just involved with making strong nails

or making strong hair they're involved

with all of your biochemistry and many

times you might not have an obvious

symptom right away but it can definitely

contribute to all sorts of chronic

diseases down the road and even putting

you at risk for cancer there's a very

fascinating book and this book which I

had to get it even though it was 250

dollars unfortunately talks about the

link between human and animal health

and mineral balance of the soil

fascinating data on the biochemistry

that happens below the soil above the

soil in grasses and then showing the

link between a deficiency and a trace

mineral and how that ends up in the

grass and how that affects the animal as

far as their health and then how it

affects the human health see way back in

the day people bought food from local

farmers where they can actually have a

lot of transparency with their soils

nowadays we don't know where our food is

grown maybe it's grown on hydroponic

maybe it's grown in some soil that has

to be fed fertilizers because the soil

is so poor we don't know now on top of

that we have most of our children that

are living on Ultra processed food not

processed food but Ultra processed foods

and this is why of course they have to

fortify the food with certain synthetic

vitamins only a few I tell you one thing

when you're replying the food you pull

out more than just a few vitamins I mean

just think about institutional food the

food that they feed children in school

nursing homes assisted living and even

prisons so this food is extremely low in

nutrients in fact in one study I think

they did this in a nursing home over 50

percent of the people eating these Foods

were deficient in zinc over fifty

percent of the men eating this food were

deficient in zinc and almost 50 percent

of the women were deficient in selenium

simply because they're not focusing on

the quality you know you go to the

grocery store and you look at this salad

or they the vegetables or the Tomato it

looks good but it doesn't have a lot of

flavor and the flavor chemicals are in

alignment with how nutrient dense that

food is so I really think we're

literally starving with consuming a lot

of calories because the calories are

empty but we're starving of nutrients

and ice minerals is at the top of the

list I think the most important time to

make sure we have all the nutrients is

if someone is pregnant or an infant but

on the flip side as we get older we also

need those nutrients but unfortunately a

lot of these insisted living homes don't

focus on that as far as trace minerals

Foods rich in trace minerals

go and other nutrients Seafood is at the

top of the list organ meats eggs seaweed

or sea kelp and a high quality sea salt

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