Love Your Gut Ep. 10 Optimize your minerals for optimal digestion with Leah Brueggemann
Jun 14, 2022
Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner, specializes in helping women achieve hormonal balance. In this engaging discussion, she dives into the crucial roles of minerals for gut health and their direct and indirect impacts on digestion. Leah highlights the importance of potassium and magnesium in stress management, and why mineral balance is vital. She suggests food-first strategies for mineral intake and warns against random supplement use. Lastly, Leah shares practical steps to optimize gut health with mindful eating and high-quality salts.
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Personal Recovery Sparked Her Mineral Focus
- Leah found her health transformed after addressing stress and minerals, resolving fibroadenomas and digestion issues.
- A hair mineral analysis revealed how minerals were 'magicians' in her recovery and now guides her practice.
Minerals Are Foundational To Digestion
- Minerals act as 'spark plugs' for digestion, energy, nerve and muscle function.
- Low minerals (like sodium, cobalt) reduce stomach acid and impair nutrient absorption.
Stress Depletes Potassium—A Vicious Cycle
- Stress depletes potassium and creates a vicious cycle that worsens digestion.
- Potassium and magnesium need each other and other cofactors (like B vitamins) to be absorbed and used.