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#317 – Morley Robbins: Mr Magnesium on Why Copper is Everything

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Mar 29, 2025
Morley Robbins, known as Mr. Magnesium, is an expert on minerals and their health impacts. In this engaging discussion, he flips the narrative on copper, arguing it's essential for energy production and vitality. Morley highlights its role in combating oxidative stress and discusses the myth of anemia, claiming it's often a copper deficiency issue, not iron overload. He dives into how modern farming has depleted copper in our soils, urging listeners to rethink their dietary perspectives on minerals for better health.
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ANECDOTE

Mailroom Metaphor For Disease Keys

  • Morley describes his college mailroom job to illustrate how the body needs keys (minerals) for many 'mailboxes' (diseases).
  • He uses the mailroom metaphor to explain different disease presentations require different mineral keys.
ADVICE

Don't Treat Chronic Anemia With Iron First

  • Don't reflexively treat chronic anemia with iron supplements without assessing copper and ceruloplasmin activity.
  • Robbins calls standard practice of prescribing iron for chronic 'anemia' dangerous and misleading.
INSIGHT

High Ferritin Indicates Pathology

  • Rising ferritin signals organ pathology, not iron vitality.
  • Robbins cites Douglas Kell: ideal ferritin for a human being is zero as a provocative critique of current thinking.
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