The Wellness Mama Podcast Why Most of Us Are Mineral Deficient, How to know, and What to Do About It with Barton Scott
Jun 5, 2023
01:00:42
Episode Highlights With Barton
- Why we are all facing a lack of nutrients in our food supply and why this is a new phenomenon
- This issue is important because we are getting 50% less minerals in food but can’t easily take in 2x calories to compensate so we have to figure out what to do
- How his Mom's struggle with life threatening health issues led to his work in this area
- The body is always putting out warning signs and speaking to us in a way we might not understand
- How modern farming practices are causing a rapid depletion of minerals in our food supply and how if minerals are not present in the soil, they can’t be in the food (similar to a mother not being able to give nutrients she doesn’t have to her child in utero)
- Why blood tests aren’t necessarily accurate for minerals
- Blood tests are “you on your best behavior because we will pull from bone marrow or even organs to make sure blood is as ideal as possible
- Why abnormal results in blood tests can indicate that a person has had a deficiency for decades
- 8 out of 10 people are deficient in magnesium
- Why most women are also low on testosterone
- Minerals are the building blocks for hormones and neurotransmitters
- How absorbable minerals can help with things like making melatonin or serotonin naturally and how taking a very bioavailable one can help even if you have digestive issues or other things going on that make it hard to get them from food
- Magnesium activates over 3200 proteins and over 800 enzymatic pathways in the body
- Minerals are a “light switch” of sorts that open the circuit for the body to be able to use other things like vitamins
- How activity level impacts mineral need
- Risk factors for mineral deficiencies
- Why most people are also deficient in potassium and how potassium is connected to energy
- What sodium and lithium deficiencies cause
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