10 Alarming Signs Your Body Needs Minerals & Electrolytes

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about 10 important signs that you need minerals  

and electrolytes but first of all what are  minerals people talk so much about it but we have  

to understand what they are and what they're doing  in the body so first of all they are an element  

or a chemical compound meaning they're made from  a single atom in the periodic table of elements  

or it's a combination of different chemical  atoms secondly they're usually in a crystalline  

structure so they form crystals spontaneously  and third they were formed by geological events  

so in the formation of the planet basically in  the in the crust of the earth that's where you  

find minerals that what the crust of the earth is  made up of and there's over 5500 different kinds  

of minerals but we're mostly interested in the  ones that somehow make it make themselves into  

the human body or into plants that we can consume  because those are the ones that are essential to  

human health in the process of making their way  into the ecosystem into all different aspects of  

the ecosystem they're basically either in animals  plants or mineral everything that we talk about is  

basically an animal plant or mineral so so when  I say that humans are part of the ecosystem that  

we are animals a lot of people get offended and  say oh I'm not an animal at all well then you'd  

better take a close look and determine if you  are not an animal then you have to be a plant  

or a mineral because you're pretty much one  of the three so Metals is a form of mineral  

basically all metals except Mercury because it's  a liquid are are minerals but not all minerals  

are metals so a lot of the ones that we're going  to talk about electrolytes especially are going  

to be Metals we're also going to distinguish  between electrolytes and trace minerals which  

both of which are minerals but they are slightly  different in function so first of all electrolytes  

the four main ones are sodium potassium magnesium  and calcium and and then there is also chloride  

phosphate and bicarbonate so there are others as  well like citrate for example but these are the  

main ones that we measure on blood test these  are the main ones that we have in very large  

quantities and the first four are all metals  and when they form a compound with something  

they become positively charged they let go of an  electron so now you have a positive ion and this  

is important because now they can participate  in processes that conduct electricity such as  

virtually all the signaling in the body and  these are things that we need in relatively  

large quantities we need hundreds or thousands  of milligrams of these every day which is often  

times hundreds or thousand times more than the  trace minerals that we're going to talk about  

now stuff at the bottom here the chloride  phosphate and bicarbonate these are sort of  

the opposite of the metals up top here so these  form negative ions they try to gain an electron  

so the stuff on the top combines with the stuff  on the bottom so sodium and chloride for example  

which of course is table salt but you could also  have potassium chloride or you could have sodium  

bicarbonate and so on so that's just just the  way that they are attracted that's the way we  

consume them and that's also very often how they  go together in the body so usually when you get  

sodium you also get chloride and when the body  gets rid of sodium for the most part it's going  

to get rid of some chloride as well and just how  important electrolytes are we might get an idea if  

we understand that they're involved in everything  that has to do with fluid balance and signaling  

in the body so fluid balance that's the kidneys  filtering out 200 liters of water every day and  

with that water follows all these electrolytes  all these minerals up top and at the bottom and  

then the body filters it out but it reabsorbs  often times anywhere from 80 to 99 and a half%  

of these and so it keeps some it gets rid of some  and that's how it regulates fluid and that alone  

takes 10% of your total basil metabolic rate  and then of course signaling which is the brain  

and nervous system that's sodium and potassium  flowing across membranes and when the charges  

cross membranes that creates signals which is  how the body communicates with the different  

parts and that's usually 20% or more of all your  calories so already here we are accounting for  

about a third of all your calorie expenditure at  the basil metabolic rate so I would say that's  

pretty darn important that nothing really happens  without these electrolytes participating and then  

we have the trace minerals which just like the  name says Trace we need them in very small amounts  

but they're equally important they're kind of  catalysts that participate in enzymatic reactions  

so anytime that the body puts something together  or takes something apart we need enzymes to do  

that and all of these different minerals these  trace minerals I'm not going to name them all  

we're going to talk about a few they participate  as co-actors to these enzymes so the enzymes are  

kind of tools that put things together and these  are accessories to the tools now I do want to  

mention a few which is calcium if you notice  calcium was also on the list of electrolytes  

which participates in signaling and fluid balance  through its charge but it is also a co-actor in  

enzymatic reactions it's kind of a the one that  mostly has a double function there and then I  

want to talk about copper and iron because while  they are essential meaning you need them to live  

necessary for life they can also become toxic  and these are the two that are the most commonly  

toxic and copper it's there's a genetic disease  which called Wilson's disease it's fortunately  

pretty rare it's one in 30,000 where you don't  process you don't get rid of copper properly so  

these people build up toxic levels and then you  absolutely do not want to take a multivitamin  

or a supplement of some sort that provides more  copper and iron is much more common that's one in  

300 so about a 100 times more common that you have  a genetic variant of hemochromatosis which is iron  

overload now that's strictly the genetic version  where you have the full-blown genetic version but  

if you just read the blood work and you look at  how many people accumulate too much iron they  

have an iron overload I find that it is probably  somewhere around 1 in five or maybe as many as  

1 in three that have too much iron especially  if they're male and especially if they're post  

menopause they're not losing blood through their  period so if you have too much copper or iron you  

certainly don't want to supplement so make sure  if you take a vitamin or some supplement that has  

that that you really need it and the other one I  want to mention is manganese and z think manganese  

is essential for biosynthesis so when we make  different body parts different tissues manganese  

are absolutely necessary and it is also necessary  for carbohydrate and sugar metabolism so a lot of  

people watching this are going to be interested in  metabolic health and type 2 diabetes and so forth  

and manganese is necessary to produce insulin but  also to regulate blood sugar it's involved in the  

production of energy from carbohydrate and zinc  deserves its own special mention because it's  

basically involved in everything almost every time  that you see one of the others mentioned then zinc  

is going to tag along and be mentioned together  with it because it participates in hundreds and  

hundreds of different reactions and the first  symptom to be aware of is dizzy and Li headedness  

and now that we understand the mechanisms a  little bit and what electrolytes and trace  

minerals are we can talk about this so if you get  dizzy especially while you're standing up quickly  

then it could be it's not the only reason but  it could be that you have lost some sodium and  

because sodium follows water if you lose sodium  you lose water which means your blood volume is  

lower and and if you have hypotension your blood  pressure could be too low and you don't have  

enough fluid volume enough blood volume to Pump  It Up To The Head and then when you stand up you  

could get dizzy or Li headed the other reason that  you might have this sensation is if your adrenals  

are exhausted if your adrenals don't kick in fast  enough then that's the other reason that the blood  

wouldn't get up to the head and this happens  more than people realize with dehydration that  

you also lose sodium and we have heard Forever  on every food label we heard how evil salt is  

but despite that there's actually probably more  people who are low in sodium that are deficient  

in sodium than those who have too much so when we  talk about evil white crystals I think they have  

definitely overemphasized the warnings for salt  and they haven't emphasized enough the warnings  

for sugar symptom number two are heart arrhythmia  which means that you either have a pounding fast  

racing heart or you notice that the heart skips  a beat it's just irregular and minerals are super  

important especially potassium and magnesium  in regulating the heart rhythm and producing  

that muscle contraction so electrical signaling  in the heart especially depends on potassium  

and magnesium and when it comes to potassium  that's something that they monitor very closely  

in diabetics and in heart patients and kidney  patients because very high or very low levels  

could not just disturb the Rhythm but it could  actually stop the heartbeat altogether you could  

go into cardiac arrest from having a very high or  very low level now for fortunately that doesn't  

happen to the average guy it's not enough that  you supplement with potassium you also have to  

have a kidney problem where you can't filter  those things properly number three is muscle  

cramps and this is probably something everyone  has experienced sometime and a lot of athletes  

will know that after a hard workout where you  lost a lot of fluids and electrolytes then you  

get more muscle cramps and there could be multiple  minerals involved multiple electrolytes but it's  

primarily due to magnesium and calcium if you lose  those because both of those are co-actors for the  

enzymes that make muscles contract but also that  make muscles relax so if you lose these then the  

muscle might contract and then not let go and  that's what a muscle cramp is and that explanation  

also covers number four which is headaches because  headaches are usually especially the vascular ones  

are due do to tight muscles and blood vessels  have muscles in them so when you regulate blood  

flow there is vaso-constriction there's muscles in  the blood vessel Contracting causing constriction  

and relaxing causing dilation so if you have  imbalances or losses of magnesium and calcium  

that's also going to affect the blood vessels  and the blood flow so especially migraines but  

there are other types of headaches as well number  five is numbness and tingling and here we have  

the three big ones calcium sodium and potassium  because these are the main ones that we use for  

muscle contraction but also for nerve signals so  as you have numbness and tickling what that means  

is the signal transmission from your peripheral  nerve so if your foot is talking to your brain it  

needs to travel along a nerve path and if we don't  have the proper electrolytes then that signal  

could get distorted along the way and you have  these sensations of numbness and tingling symptom  

number six is mood swings and irritability and I  know that's just something so rare So obscure I'm  

sure you don't know anyone who has an issue with  that right well that could be due to magnesium and  

you may have heard that magnesium is a calming  mineral and that's true to degree it's not the  

only reason but it can help and what it does is  it helps stabilize the voltage across neuronal  

membrane so every nerve cell has a membrane and  across the that membrane on the inside to outside  

there's a voltage and if that voltage is unstable  then the brain cells can get unstable and kind of  

jittery magnesium helps stabilize and calm that  down so it doesn't fire so much when it's not  

supposed to and magnesium is also critical for  the function of neurotransmitters so our feeling  

molecules like serotonin for example they couldn't  function and fit The receptors and release and so  

forth without magnesium so I was going to do 10 of  these signs and symptoms but there were a couple  

of more that I just had to include so you're  going to get two bonuses at the end make sure  

you stay tuned for that but I bet a lot of people  are wondering how do we know who really needs more  

am I one of those people so you could take some  minerals just as insurance but here are some facts  

for you that more than 90% of people are deficient  in one or usually many electrolytes and minerals  

and one reason is soil depletion due to mass  farming and synthetic fertilizer so how does  

that work when you plant a crop these plants are  going to absorb minerals out of the soil and bind  

it into the plant and there's over 50 different  minerals that a typical plant will absorb and  

bind and then you harvest the crop and you ship it  away to some remote location like we do today and  

now those minerals are never coming back to that  soil so the next crop is not going to be able to  

absorb and fix as much minerals so then what they  do with synthetic fertilizers is they take out 50  

minerals and they put back three so every crop you  put enough in to get a bloated tasteless vegetable  

like a tomato but it looks like a tomato however  it doesn't have the nutrients that Tomatoes  

used to have and this goes for a lot of different  produce and this goes for both the trace minerals  

and the electrolytes that we can eat the best  food available and it's still not maybe as good  

as it used to be and some of the most deficient  electrolytes are ionizable calcium so a lot of  

people will eat calcium but they'll eat the wrong  form they'll eat calcium carbonate and what we  

need is something that can be quickly converted  into a liquid usable ionized form meaning it has  

a plus sign on it so calcium lactate is the best  form of dietary supplemental calcium because this  

is only one step away from the calcium bicarbonate  that the body uses not calcium carbonate calcium  

carbonate is chalk and unfortunately it's the  most common form in different supplements but  

it's very difficult for the body to turn that into  ionizable so when you get a supplement make sure  

that it is an absorbable usable form like calcium  lactate another one that I find on probably more  

than half of the people we run this on every  blood work we do and I would say more than half  

the people are significantly low on magnesium and  one we mentioned also before that has become very  

popular lately because of its immune function  but it participates in almost everything is  

zinc so because people are missing these and what  happened was people brought in different powders  

and supplements to my clinic and I muscle tested  and unfortunately most of them were junk they  

just did not pass muscle testing so I developed  one for those of you who are interested in kind  

of supplementing and having something safe I  created something called UL light and we'll  

put some information down below uh where you  could find a way to get that and it's really  

like a three-in One supplement so you get a lot  for your money it has this some sodium chloride  

uh some pink salt it doesn't have enough and the  reason is that most people get salt from their  

diet so it's not intended to have all the salt  you need but it pretty much intended to have all  

the other minerals and trace minerals that you  need in addition to food of course so potassium  

citrate magnesium citrate and calcium lactate  which again is the usable form and then you  

also get the other 72 trace minerals so the first  supplement part is like the electrolytes and then  

the second part are the trace minerals and then  the last part is I added in a couple of bonuses  

on that which is zinc L carnosine which has been  shown to be more bioavailable like three to four  

times more bioavailable than regular dietary zinc  and it is critical in gut healing so if you have  

digestive issues or autoimmune diseases then zinc  L carnosine could make a difference and manganese  

bis glycinate again manganese is important for  insulin synthesis but also for carbohydrate  

metabolism turning that into energy so it's really  like three in one that you're not going to find  

with another electrolyte product again we'll put  some information down below for you number seven  

is digestive issues and constipation so here  magnesium and calcium they are co-actors for  

digestive enzymes so for you to break down food  but also magnesium calcium and potassium are  

required for muscle contraction so when you move  through when you move food through the digestive  

tract there's something called peristalsis which  is muscle contractions that are kind of pushing  

the food along and that can't happen without those  three elements number eight is is poor immunity so  

with the recent coid epidemic we've seen a lot of  talk about immunity and almost every discussion  

zinc shows up but people don't realize is how  important calcium is we only talk about calcium  

in terms of bone and teeth but calcium is one of  the most critical elements in the body so white  

blood cells when you get an infection then the  white blood cells need energy to multiply to to  

grow and make replicas and calcium the ionizable  form of calcium is what activates that process  

of energy so that we allow the white blood cells  to multiply and one reason for fever I've looked  

for validation of this I haven't found it but  one reason for fever is that it can pull more  

ionizable calcium from the bone and in doing that  The Fever activates the white blood cells it's not  

that The Fever will reduce the replication of  bacteria it's that it will increase the white  

blood cells for your defenses and like I said I  haven't found validation but if you want to try  

this especially in kids next time your kids  have a fever give them some calcium lactate  

and watch how the fever will typically drop just  as effectively as if you gave them an aspirin or  

some other medication and then like we said  zinc shows up everywhere zinc and selenium  

are both co-actors for enzymes that regulate  immunity number nine is slow wound healing so  

this could have to do with diabetes high blood  sugar and neuropathy which is very common but  

it could also be a deficiency in zinc and copper  see zinc shows up again because they're required  

for collagen synthesis so collagen is a material  you find in connective tissue including skin of  

course so zinc and copper are critical for that  sign number 10 is dry flaky skin and this could  

be zinc but also want to throw in essential  fatty acids which of course is not a mineral  

but it's one of the most common reasons for dry  and flaky skin and both zinc is a co-enzyme for  

cell regeneration but the essential fatty acids  they actually make up the cell membranes when  

you make new cells and if everything is working  properly with making these membranes then they  

also act as a moisture barrier and if you don't  have enough of these healthy cells or if you  

don't have the right type of fatty acids that  can affect that moisture barrier so your skin  

dries out so now we're getting to the bonuses  here and the first one is General fatigue and  

don't jump to conclusions to say oh my God I have  General fatigue I must be short on minerals again  

there's hundreds of different things and that's  why we need to understand these mechanisms so we  

can put two and two together and narrow down the  possibilities so one thing that can cause that is  

anemia anemia means that you have not enough red  blood cells not enough hemoglobin in the red blood  

cells that carry oxygen if you can't carry oxygen  you can't make energy and you would have General  

fatigue but of course there are other things that  could cause that now anemia could be most commonly  

that you're low in iron because iron is part of  hemoglobin that carries oxygen but it's not the  

only thing some people have tons of iron and still  don't make enough hemoglobin so what you want to  

look at on your blood work that most people don't  realize is you need to look at the number of red  

blood cells you need to look at the MCV which is  the size of the red blood cells and if either of  

those are low then you're probably low on iron if  your hemoglobin is low your chances are you're low  

on iron but the best marker for your reserves is  ferritin it's hardly ever measured and you want  

to measure total iron binding capacity That's  A protein that goes looking for iron so if your  

body is super hungry for iron you're going to  have tons of TIBC so if ferritin is low and  

TIBC is high now you know that you need some iron  but most people Unfortunately they just get their  

blood work and they look at serum iron which  is pretty much a useless marker because that's  

less than 1% of the iron in your body it really  tells you nothing because it fluctuates a lot and  

it could be high or low regardless of what these  others are doing so I talk a lot more about this  

in my blood work course for those of you who want  to really understand the big picture and really  

take charge of what's going on so you could also  be anemic because you don't mature your red blood  

cells properly so you could have enough iron but  you may not have enough B vitamins so especially  

folic acid but also B12 are critical for that  maturation of red blood cells so if you don't have  

enough B12 and folate then they don't know when  to shut off their growth cycle and they end up  

too big if the blood blood if the red blood cell  is small it's usually iron deficiency because the  

body doesn't have enough good stuff to put into  the red blood cell and then it gets super tiny but  

also to make these blood cells you also need zinc  and copper see how often zinc comes back there and  

you don't want to jump to conclusions you want to  understand that whole picture so you don't take  

iron if you don't need it but you take the stuff  that you actually need in general fatigue like we  

said could have lots of causes so some more are  dehydration and lack of normal proper signaling  

and now we're talking about virtually any of the  electrolytes that we've talked about before like  

sodium potassium magnesium calcium zinc they're  all involved in dehydration and signaling bonus  

number two if you're deficient in electrolytes  and trace minerals you could have trouble with  

blood sugar regulation so one of those minerals  is chromium and it is important because it assists  

the insulin at The Binding of insulin at the  Target cell so when the insulin locks onto a  

cell to open up that gate it also needs chromium  involved in that process so chromium can help  

with insulin sensitivity and if you already have  enough chromium then taking more is not going to  

do anything but if you're deficient then it could  be very very significant and like we mentioned  

before manganese is also critical very undervalued  Trace mineral it is required for biosynthesis for  

any formation of con connective tissue but it  also is involved the biosynthesis of insulin so  

not just all kinds of tissues but insulin itself  depends on manganese and furthermore it can also  

contribute indirectly to insulin sensitivity  because it's a co-actor for enzymes that convert  

carbohydrates into energy so if you're short on  magnesium you can't really convert them properly  

and then you become even more insulin resistant  if you enjoyed this video you're going to love  

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