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Understanding Mineral Supplements: Why Your Body Might Need Them... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: is a revealing Wholeness podcast entitled do I need a
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  Speaker 1: mineral supplement? Or are minerals? How about why do I
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  Speaker 1: need minerals? Or should I be taking minerals? Any of
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  Speaker 1: those titles. If they kind of hitch you go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. I get questions every day,
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  Speaker 1: what should I do? Doctor? What should I take? Should
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  Speaker 1: I be taking this? And I really rather enjoy clients
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  Speaker 1: who are very interested in their health and they'll come
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  Speaker 1: in and they're on like ten fifteen supplements and they're
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  Speaker 1: just not sure what to do, but they know they
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  Speaker 1: need to do something. And while that is wonderful, and
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  Speaker 1: having been there myself, it's really nice to have somebody
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  Speaker 1: come alongside and say, hey, let's clear up some of
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  Speaker 1: this staff that you have, let's simplify, and let's be
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  Speaker 1: targeted in what we really want to accomplish, and in
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  Speaker 1: past podcasts we've had the conversation of what is best,
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  Speaker 1: what should I be doing? Where should my attention be
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  Speaker 1: focused when it comes to helping my overall nutritional picture.
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  Speaker 1: What can I easily do? What's the least amount of
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  Speaker 1: supplements I can take? I mean, these are all helpful things.
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  Speaker 1: And having come from that idea that more is better,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily always the case, especially nutrition, because there are
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  Speaker 1: things going on in the body that we want to support,
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  Speaker 1: but you can overdo it, and so we also fall
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  Speaker 1: back on the body's ability to say, hey, you've got
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  Speaker 1: way too much of this here, so I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to not absorb it. I'm going to push it along,
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  Speaker 1: move along. Nothing to see here kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: And while that is true, it can be over taxing
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  Speaker 1: to liver and kidneys and things of that nature, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of excess nutrients that we've ingested thinking
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a good thing. So while I would say
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  Speaker 1: error on caution, if you're one of those people like
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  Speaker 1: me who's to take fifteen to twenty thirty supplements and
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  Speaker 1: have you know a handful of pills that you weren't
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  Speaker 1: really sure about you just knew you should be doing something,
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  Speaker 1: then this may be a bit more of a helpful
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  Speaker 1: podcast for you to try to tone that down. And again,
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  Speaker 1: kudos to you if you're taking lots of supplements, because
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  Speaker 1: that means that you're what we call a nine on
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  Speaker 1: the scale of one to ten on how important nutrition
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  Speaker 1: is to your your overall diet. Now, what does it
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  Speaker 1: take to become a ten? Just for those of you
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  Speaker 1: out there. A ten is looking to specifically target a
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  Speaker 1: system or a group of sub symptoms that they know
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  Speaker 1: that are all related, and so they now have a
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  Speaker 1: very organized program that they're on. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing this supplement through a bottle or two. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing this one for long term. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing these three for just short term, and
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  Speaker 1: this one isn't as needed. And so to have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of level of understanding, it does take a bit
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  Speaker 1: of work. But that's why you employ somebody like me
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  Speaker 1: who just loves going through and reading the nitty gritty
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  Speaker 1: of the mechanisms of everything that's working in the body
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  Speaker 1: and just have a passion for Hey, all these symptoms together,
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  Speaker 1: this is what it means to me, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what it sounds like it's doing. But where the rubber
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  Speaker 1: meets the road is we're going to apply this particular
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  Speaker 1: nutrient and see how you do. And while I have
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  Speaker 1: a very high percentage rate of success, I still have
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  Speaker 1: those things that we would consider a failure. So again,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where when somebody comes in
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  Speaker 1: and they say, well, it's probably not important, but I've
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  Speaker 1: been noticing this. I'm all hears it probably is really
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  Speaker 1: important to the big picture of what's going on within
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  Speaker 1: the body that we do look at everything that you're experiencing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: well you know it kind of burns a little bit
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  Speaker 1: when IP. It's not often, but it just kind of happens.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, that is important even if it's just infrequent
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  Speaker 1: and you feel like you have good energy and your
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  Speaker 1: kidneys are fine and your blood pressure is fine. But
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while you have this, So what
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  Speaker 1: are you taking these These are things that we hear
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  Speaker 1: as we fine tune, things that we kind of all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, it's like somebody says something
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  Speaker 1: and you whip your head around and you're like all
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  Speaker 1: ears about what would you just say? And so with
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  Speaker 1: that there's a decent place to begin for most people.
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  Speaker 1: And by the title of this particular podcast, you've already
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  Speaker 1: guessed what that is. It's a mineral thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: what do minerals do. Minerals are cofactors. What are cofactors?
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  Speaker 1: Cofactors are the spark plugs of enzymatic reactions into making proteins,
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  Speaker 1: into to healing, into correction of systems, into making things
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  Speaker 1: work like hormones work, neurotransmitters, all kinds of things that
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  Speaker 1: we do in the human body use mineral cofactors. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you take a supplement, let's say it's a
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  Speaker 1: synthetic B vitamin like cyanocobalamine B twelve. That is, for
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  Speaker 1: those of you out there that are not sure, cyanocobolamine
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  Speaker 1: is the synthetic form and it doesn't really have the
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  Speaker 1: necessary cobalt and other factors to really do its job,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's not well utilized by the body, and
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  Speaker 1: the body doesn't hold onto the B twelve. But in
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  Speaker 1: a natural substance or natural environment where we get it
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  Speaker 1: from a food source, all of those phytonutrients are there
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  Speaker 1: to hold that B twelve in place and now actually
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  Speaker 1: have something that works and the body can use effectively.
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  Speaker 1: So minerals do a lot of things. So how would
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  Speaker 1: I know if I need minerals? Well, minerals help neutralize
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  Speaker 1: acidity and alkalinity where they're in excess in the body.
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  Speaker 1: And while that might not mean much to you, if
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  Speaker 1: we become over acid, it tends to generate cancer type situations.
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  Speaker 1: If we tend to be over alkalin, we tend to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot more of the allergic type of situations
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  Speaker 1: going on. Now, what would help to fix both of
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  Speaker 1: those situations minerals? Now, I could just say calcium, because
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  Speaker 1: as you've probably been around listening to my podcast a lot.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't, you'll hear me talk about calcium quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit. Since calcium is between forty eight and a
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  Speaker 1: half and fifty percent of all the minerals in the
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  Speaker 1: human body, it's probably an important mineral, and you'd be right.
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  Speaker 1: And so the other minerals, the magnesium, the sodium, the potassium,
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  Speaker 1: all those with calcium are considered the big four that
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  Speaker 1: make up the majority of things. And then we go
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  Speaker 1: into the lesser one like iron, copper, zinc, cad or chromium, phosphorus,
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  Speaker 1: all of these others that are important minerals and then
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  Speaker 1: we go into the trace minerals, the boron's, the nickel,
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  Speaker 1: the lithium, these other trace minerals that we hear this
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  Speaker 1: idea about, but we're just not sure what should I do.
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  Speaker 1: And so when looking for a mineral supplement, we tend
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  Speaker 1: to go after something that is food based. And we
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  Speaker 1: talk about food based. Would I be wrong in telling
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  Speaker 1: somebody to do some black strap molasses. No, because in
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  Speaker 1: order to process sugar sugar cane, if we remove all
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  Speaker 1: the white granulated sugar from it, we get molasses. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's molasses? It's mostly calcium, magnesium, potassium, B vitamins, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of protein but not much, and it's all
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  Speaker 1: these trace mineral factors. And we think, well, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the taste of molasses. Yeah, me neither, but
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  Speaker 1: it's super good for us and it's an excellent mineral component.
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  Speaker 1: And some people are like, well, I do kelp and alfalfa, great,
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  Speaker 1: that would be even better or at least a comparable.
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  Speaker 1: And so anytime that we're doing these high density nutrient
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  Speaker 1: dense foods like alfalfa, kelp, rappelsider, vinegar, honey, molasses, we're
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  Speaker 1: getting these mineral cofactors in our body that we so
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  Speaker 1: desperately need. So here's the laundry list of things that
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  Speaker 1: might indicate that you need minerals. Inflammation. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: anybody who has inflammation, do you, No, nobody has inflammation. Tension. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've got some restless leg syndrome going on. Hmmm, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you might need some minerals. Muscle soreness. Gosh, every time
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  Speaker 1: I go do yard work, even for like fifteen twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I notice it for the next couple of days. You,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, are in need of some minerals. Stiffness. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know very many people over fifty that don't experience stiffness,
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  Speaker 1: and now we're finding younger and younger people getting stiff
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  Speaker 1: Loss of flexibility. Who's more flexible, five year old or
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  Speaker 1: fifty year old. I've asked that question so many times
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of burned into my memory. Loss of sleep quality.
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  Speaker 1: I sleep, but I am not rested. Ah, you're not
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  Speaker 1: repairing from yesterday's activities. So you're still fatigued in your body,
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  Speaker 1: saying I need you to rest, but you wake up
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  Speaker 1: and drink some coffee and do it again. And so you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, are probably need of some minerals, inability to
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  Speaker 1: relax again, that restless leg syndrome, and of course the
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  Speaker 1: next one musculo skeletal symptoms, all go right in there. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I need to go to my chiropractor all the time. You,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, may need some minerals now while I am
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  Speaker 1: a chiropractor and rather enjoy that you do come in
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  Speaker 1: weekly or twice a week. Let's fix why you're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: That would be wiser. Next soreness after exercise or lactic
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  Speaker 1: acid build up. Lactic acid is a wonderful thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it converts itself rather quickly to other things in the
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  Speaker 1: body because it is so acidic. And so when we
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  Speaker 1: run energy cycles in terms of burning sugar in the body,
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  Speaker 1: So if you've been around chemistry a little bit, or
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  Speaker 1: if you have not at all a quick bird's eye view,
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  Speaker 1: we burn sugar, which is a six carbon molecule in
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  Speaker 1: a circle and kind of looks like a ring. And
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  Speaker 1: as we break it apart and liberate one carbon at
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  Speaker 1: a time off of those chains, we basically make our
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  Speaker 1: energy of the cell called adnison triphosphate or ATP as
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  Speaker 1: we like to abbreviate it. Because nobody likes to say
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  Speaker 1: adison tryphosphate over and over and over. But ATP is
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  Speaker 1: the energy currency of the cell. So if we need
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  Speaker 1: to do something like make a protein, make a hormone,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to use ATP to generate the heat
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  Speaker 1: in order to create those chemicals that we so desperately need,
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  Speaker 1: either in that cell or other cells. If we're a
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  Speaker 1: cell that produces hormones, and so any kind of energy
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  Speaker 1: that is needed, we're going to burn up sugar and
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  Speaker 1: make ATP or rather restore ATP. The whole process is
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  Speaker 1: when we liberate a phosphorus, it creates lots of heat.
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  Speaker 1: So now we go from adnison triphosphate to adnison dye phosphate.
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  Speaker 1: We've lost that phosphorus, but now we need to hook
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  Speaker 1: it back on in a very simple way so that
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  Speaker 1: we don't lose this energy. It's not a zero sum game.
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  Speaker 1: And so we have this whole cycle of reattaching a
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  Speaker 1: phosphorus back to a DP to make a TP, and
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  Speaker 1: in doing that we burn up sugar to do that.
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  Speaker 1: One sugar molecule makes between thirty six and thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: ATP molecules. So in the process of creating ATP, or
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  Speaker 1: rather restoring ATP. We then breathe out six molecules of
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  Speaker 1: carbon dioxide. That is why we're breathing it out. Plants
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  Speaker 1: take that carbon dioxide then re put it back together
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  Speaker 1: and make sugar, and we eat the plants or eat
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  Speaker 1: the animal that eat the plant. And so it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a beautiful little cycle that we get to be
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  Speaker 1: witness of as we're living and doing things and as
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  Speaker 1: the body does it. But in order to make that
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  Speaker 1: energy in the body and burn up that sugar, we
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  Speaker 1: need all of those minerals that were present with that
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  Speaker 1: sugar cane. God was not stupid when he designed sugar.
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  Speaker 1: He did it right. Hey, you're gonna need all these
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  Speaker 1: minerals and vitamins to do it. And so thus sugar
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  Speaker 1: is naturally brown because it has molasses in it. But
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  Speaker 1: companies didn't want all the brown. They just want it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just give me the white granulated sugar, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what people want, And thus we are in the
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  Speaker 1: state that we're in. So these trace minerals do all that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing that minerals do is to concentrate water.
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  Speaker 1: They actually pull water into the system so that we
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  Speaker 1: can do things with it, whether it's maintain our body temperature,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's detoxification, whether it's helping the kidneys run. Water
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely important. And here's a little caveat for some
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  Speaker 1: of you, I who listened this far. How much water?
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  Speaker 1: I get to question all the time, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: people say, hey, half your weight in ounces. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: suppose that's a ballpark figure. And again it goes up
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  Speaker 1: up and down with heat, with if it's summertime, if
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  Speaker 1: you're working out, if you're burning fat, it's always going
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  Speaker 1: to change. But a good rule, or at least if
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  Speaker 1: you're an adult, to try to get to sixty four
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  Speaker 1: ounces of water a day, it is not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 1: But as you have more minerals, you'll start to realize,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm thirsty or I am not thirsty.
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  Speaker 1: I am one who I don't drink a lot of water.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that I don't drink water. I do. I
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  Speaker 1: don't make it a point to drink water. I know
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  Speaker 1: that the mineral content in my body is quite good,
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  Speaker 1: and so I reuse water quite well. I hold on
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  Speaker 1: to it like I should. And so with that, you
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  Speaker 1: may find as you start doing more and more minerals,
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  Speaker 1: that my demand for water is going down, So somebody
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  Speaker 1: out there who's demand for water is very high, we
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  Speaker 1: might think about, hey, you're probably mineral division and you
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  Speaker 1: probably need to do something about it. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: that is helpful for those of you that are kind
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  Speaker 1: of wondering supplement wise, what should I be doing? Is
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  Speaker 1: there something I should be focusing on? I believe minerals
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  Speaker 1: are always a good place to begin. And what I
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  Speaker 1: love about finding minerals in nature, like blackstrap molasses or
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  Speaker 1: kelp or alfalfa, is that wherever you find those minerals
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  Speaker 1: in nature, you'll often find lots of B vitamins, lots
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  Speaker 1: of vitamin C, lots of vitamin E, all naturally. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's kind of the point if you're going after minerals,
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  Speaker 1: that you probably should find these other things too. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're taking a multi vitamin and you see there's
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  Speaker 1: a smattering of minerals but you don't read any food
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  Speaker 1: in the ingredients, I would really not bother at all.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope that helps. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy,
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  Speaker 1: and remember, there really is way more right with you
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  Speaker 1: than there is wrong with you.