The Alarming Signs Your Body Needs Trace Minerals

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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 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 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 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