WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.860 Trace mineral deficiency appears metabolically as prediabetes, cognitively related to learning 00:05.860 --> 00:12.300 disabilities, attention disorders, emotionally, by panic attacks, anxiety, depression, and 00:12.300 --> 00:16.160 structurally, noisy joints, arthritis, bone spurs, aneurysms. 00:16.520 --> 00:22.280 This is the True Health Report, where critical appraisal fuels true freedom. 00:22.900 --> 00:30.770 Hello, everyone. 00:31.410 --> 00:38.210 Today, I'm going to introduce, really, the topic of minerals and health, and this is an 00:38.210 --> 00:41.250 area that I have talked about intermittently before. 00:41.450 --> 00:48.250 Many of you know that I do sell a mineral supplement, and I want to give you some perspective 00:48.250 --> 00:53.630 about this issue and how important it is, and, of course, this goes with this month's 00:53.630 --> 00:58.330 book, Dead Doctors Don't Lie, which I'm going to discuss a little bit. 00:59.080 --> 01:01.090 Read some excerpts from. 01:01.850 --> 01:08.290 Now, Dr. Wallach is not the first person that I heard about mineral deficiency from, but 01:08.290 --> 01:14.490 he certainly has a lot of extensive information, and while I don't agree with all of his conclusions 01:14.490 --> 01:20.670 about health and disease, I think we can learn quite a lot from his perspective. 01:20.950 --> 01:28.970 I thought I would start off talking a little bit about that, and it relates to the causes 01:28.970 --> 01:35.390 of disease, because I think Dr. Wallach and I agree on some basic principles that certainly 01:35.390 --> 01:41.330 exposure to toxic substances like pharmaceuticals, for example, and processed food, as well 01:41.330 --> 01:45.070 as environmental pollutants, contribute to a lot of disease. 01:45.070 --> 01:51.190 Obviously, trauma can end your life early, and malnutrition being the other cause. 01:51.470 --> 01:55.390 So we're going to focus on malnutrition, of course, in today's topic. 01:55.810 --> 02:03.530 And what Dr. Wallach says, or what his main thesis is, if we die young, it's probably 02:03.530 --> 02:06.630 because of poisoning or because of trauma. 02:06.890 --> 02:13.170 But if we die at the normal expected age in the current era, that we're actually 02:13.170 --> 02:14.650 dying of malnutrition. 02:15.030 --> 02:22.130 And this relates to the human potential of longevity, which is often quoted to be potentially 02:22.130 --> 02:25.070 between 120 and 150 years. 02:25.250 --> 02:30.870 But there are examples of people living into their 150s and 60s. 02:31.290 --> 02:36.330 So what we have here is, if you look at the highlighted portion, there's an article 02:36.330 --> 02:42.810 in this issue, and this is from January of 1973, a scientist visits some of the world's 02:42.810 --> 02:48.210 oldest people, search for the oldest people every day as a gift when you're over 100. 02:48.630 --> 02:53.610 And this article talks about people from different cultures and different geographic 02:53.610 --> 03:00.110 locations that live well beyond 100, 130s, 140s, and beyond. 03:00.730 --> 03:06.630 And what Dr. Wallach's contention is, is that this is our actual potential in terms 03:06.630 --> 03:08.190 of our lifespan. 03:08.190 --> 03:13.430 And of course, this may play out to other animals like our pets, lifespans as well. 03:13.730 --> 03:18.990 And that the reason we don't live that long is because of nutrient deficiencies. 03:19.310 --> 03:23.990 Now, he does talk about different types of nutrients, including various vitamins. 03:24.250 --> 03:28.210 And we do know about some of these have even entered into the mainstream. 03:28.550 --> 03:33.450 However, from Dr. Wallach's perspective, that we should just use supplements to 03:33.450 --> 03:34.550 turn this problem around. 03:34.650 --> 03:37.750 And I'll explain why I don't fully agree with that. 03:37.750 --> 03:45.150 But let's focus in a little bit on just minerals and let me address the question 03:45.150 --> 03:49.050 of why there are no minerals in us to begin with. 03:49.130 --> 03:50.850 Why do we have deficiencies? 03:51.210 --> 03:54.590 So I'm going to break minerals into two groups. 03:55.150 --> 03:55.230 Okay. 03:55.310 --> 03:58.850 And this is what you'll also see in the scientific and health literature, 03:58.850 --> 04:00.470 although I may use different names. 04:00.470 --> 04:05.030 So I talk about macro minerals and micro minerals, or you could call 04:05.030 --> 04:06.510 the micro nutrients. 04:06.510 --> 04:10.610 And minerals, what they are is they are metallic substances. 04:10.930 --> 04:14.950 So there are other things that we may need in our body element wise, like, 04:15.090 --> 04:19.850 for example, sulfur or boron that are not metals, right? 04:19.970 --> 04:21.150 Those are metalloids. 04:21.390 --> 04:24.370 So I'm not going to be specifically discussing them. 04:24.510 --> 04:28.330 We're really talking about just metallic elements here. 04:28.610 --> 04:32.470 So the macro minerals are ones that you need in very large quantities 04:32.470 --> 04:37.770 in your body, like sodium, magnesium, phosphorus, and a few others. 04:38.250 --> 04:43.030 And then those are well studied and talked about in the medical and research 04:43.030 --> 04:43.510 literature. 04:43.830 --> 04:49.030 And these are things that routine blood chemistry or urine chemistry labs 04:49.030 --> 04:55.910 will assess the level of sodium chloride, sometimes iron, which probably 04:55.910 --> 05:01.410 is kind of halfway between being a macro and a micro nutrient and several others. 05:01.410 --> 05:06.610 But what the medical profession and current state of science in general 05:06.610 --> 05:11.970 with respect to nutrition is unaware of is with respect to the micro nutrients. 05:12.330 --> 05:14.930 And these are things that we need in much smaller amounts. 05:15.110 --> 05:18.670 In fact, there's even some discussion that some of them may be micro, 05:18.770 --> 05:21.850 micro nutrients that we even need in smaller amounts. 05:22.110 --> 05:25.310 And often these are referred to as trace minerals as well, 05:25.390 --> 05:27.610 that we only need trace amounts of them. 05:27.730 --> 05:30.470 And I'm going to, of course, discuss more detail about why we 05:30.470 --> 05:31.170 need them, etc. 05:31.530 --> 05:34.170 But why are we talking about deficiencies? 05:34.370 --> 05:39.250 Why don't we just simply get them from food the way nature intended? 05:39.810 --> 05:45.550 And the reason is because of the agricultural revolution and how modern 05:45.550 --> 05:50.130 food industry grows and distributes the food. 05:50.370 --> 05:55.410 So let's talk about plants, for example, because we know that plants 05:55.410 --> 05:58.190 are said to have a lot of minerals in them. 05:58.190 --> 06:03.710 And of course, plants need minerals to grow and have optimal health as well. 06:04.130 --> 06:09.030 And they can extract the minerals from the soil through a variety of complex 06:09.030 --> 06:12.390 mechanisms, but they're very good at taking them up. 06:12.550 --> 06:16.870 Just like in our body, when we eat food, our body is very, very good 06:16.870 --> 06:19.230 at extracting the iron out of the food. 06:19.230 --> 06:22.830 Even if there are only small amounts, the body is very efficient. 06:23.110 --> 06:26.910 So plants and extracting minerals out of the soil are very similar. 06:26.910 --> 06:30.490 But what we find in modern agriculture is a couple of factors. 06:30.890 --> 06:35.910 And this is really, I think, largely related to switching over to NPK-type 06:35.910 --> 06:40.190 fertilizers, where they focus just on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium 06:40.190 --> 06:43.230 as the mineral-rich content of the soil. 06:43.430 --> 06:47.750 And what they find is that they can grow crops with that mineral-poor 06:47.750 --> 06:52.330 fertilizer mixture and can get a larger size and yield, 06:52.570 --> 06:55.970 although the plants themselves are not optimally healthy, which is why 06:55.970 --> 06:57.650 they have to use a lot of chemicals. 06:58.010 --> 07:00.890 And if you look at my lecture, Terrain Theory in Your Backyard, 07:01.030 --> 07:03.050 you can learn more about that. 07:03.510 --> 07:08.350 So plants that would normally get all of these trace minerals from the soil 07:08.350 --> 07:12.970 can still grow in soil depleted of these minerals by using these 07:12.970 --> 07:16.950 modern petroleum-based fertilizers with certain minerals. 07:17.430 --> 07:22.670 Now, what happened before agriculture in nature is that all these 07:22.670 --> 07:24.370 minerals would be in the soil. 07:24.370 --> 07:27.730 The plants that grow in that area would extract them and they would 07:27.730 --> 07:28.910 become part of the plant. 07:29.070 --> 07:32.390 And whatever happened to the plant, if it grew to its full potential 07:32.390 --> 07:35.810 and then died and was reduced back to the soil, those minerals 07:35.810 --> 07:37.710 would then be recycled into the soil. 07:37.830 --> 07:42.310 If an animal ate that plant, that animal lived in the local area. 07:42.910 --> 07:47.130 And so when the animal died and when it excreted waste, 07:47.370 --> 07:49.330 those minerals then went back into the soil. 07:49.470 --> 07:52.370 So there was this regenerative cycle where all these variety 07:52.370 --> 07:55.010 of minerals stayed in the food chain. 07:55.390 --> 07:59.030 And this, of course, was true for humans, too, if they were hunter-gatherers 07:59.030 --> 08:02.350 or if they raised their own food like independent agriculture 08:02.350 --> 08:06.610 before it was done on a larger mass scale, then the same thing 08:06.610 --> 08:10.610 that all those minerals would end up recycled back into the soil 08:10.610 --> 08:11.910 and into their food supply. 08:12.110 --> 08:15.590 But what we did with the modern food production and distribution 08:15.590 --> 08:20.050 system is that we grow food in one place and then we move it 08:20.050 --> 08:23.970 to a totally different geographical location where the minerals 08:23.970 --> 08:27.690 that are in that food now don't return back to that local soil. 08:28.070 --> 08:32.870 And in just, I believe, about two seasons of farming this way 08:32.870 --> 08:35.710 and then taking all the food to a different location, 08:35.910 --> 08:38.230 you end up depleting those minerals from the soil. 08:38.370 --> 08:41.410 And because of the modern agricultural practices, 08:41.450 --> 08:44.790 they don't replete those minerals back in the soil. 08:44.910 --> 08:48.930 They just provide the minerals that they can minimally 08:48.930 --> 08:51.850 use to grow the plants and produce another crop. 08:52.090 --> 08:56.450 But this unfortunately makes the food supply deficient in minerals 08:56.450 --> 08:58.910 because they're not in the soil anymore. 08:59.210 --> 09:02.710 They can't go into those crops, and so they're not in the food. 09:03.030 --> 09:06.010 Now, also with the modern sewage systems and such, 09:06.370 --> 09:09.730 even when we eat these minerals when they were still in the food, 09:09.850 --> 09:12.550 we're not putting them back into the soil to be incorporated 09:12.550 --> 09:16.250 in future crops like through using human ore, for example, 09:16.250 --> 09:19.470 or making compost from human waste products. 09:19.710 --> 09:21.930 Instead, they're going into a sewage treatment system 09:21.930 --> 09:24.050 where they could be completely removed 09:24.050 --> 09:26.590 from the surrounding environment, 09:26.770 --> 09:28.830 and perhaps they're present in some of the compost 09:28.830 --> 09:30.570 that come out of those facilities. 09:30.970 --> 09:34.130 But those composts also have lots of toxic chemicals 09:34.130 --> 09:37.470 that have been removed from the sewage and wastewater treatment. 09:37.730 --> 09:39.610 So this is not really a good way 09:39.610 --> 09:42.010 of getting the minerals back in the soil. 09:42.270 --> 09:45.210 And now, interestingly, with respect to this, 09:45.210 --> 09:48.930 because I mostly talked about foods that are grown like plants, 09:49.450 --> 09:53.170 Dr. Wallach himself originally went to agricultural school 09:53.170 --> 09:56.470 and then went to veterinary school and was a veterinarian. 09:56.810 --> 10:02.010 And early on, he realized that when it came to animal husbandry 10:02.010 --> 10:05.830 and raising animals for food, that it's a financial risk, 10:05.930 --> 10:07.970 right, if the animals become sick. 10:08.230 --> 10:10.530 So you want to do everything you can to prevent that 10:10.530 --> 10:13.650 because that is your investment and you'll lose money, 10:13.650 --> 10:15.230 you'll go out of business, et cetera. 10:15.590 --> 10:19.270 So what they do is, is they add minerals to the feed. 10:19.590 --> 10:23.410 And they've done this in a way such that it's specific. 10:23.650 --> 10:25.850 For example, certain mineral deficiencies 10:25.850 --> 10:29.150 may cause congenital abnormalities with the offspring. 10:29.510 --> 10:34.090 So they give certain specific minerals to the animals 10:34.090 --> 10:36.110 that are going to have offspring. 10:36.590 --> 10:40.150 And they do this in a way, right, 10:40.330 --> 10:42.470 that the animals can be as healthy as possible. 10:42.470 --> 10:44.330 And when he observed this, he was like, 10:44.410 --> 10:46.110 why aren't we doing this in humans? 10:46.390 --> 10:50.210 Why aren't human doctors even aware of these issues 10:50.210 --> 10:53.950 and the relationship between minerals and disease? 10:54.330 --> 10:57.830 Now, it occurred to me with respect 10:57.830 --> 11:00.770 to the current carnivore movement 11:00.770 --> 11:02.630 and the amazing health outcomes 11:02.630 --> 11:04.890 that many people are having on the carnivore diet 11:04.890 --> 11:09.430 because finding out that food producers of animal, 11:10.350 --> 11:13.990 agricultural products give these extra nutrients 11:13.990 --> 11:17.110 in their feed to the animals, right? 11:17.290 --> 11:20.110 So the meat is going to contain a lot more 11:20.110 --> 11:22.530 of these minerals than the plants. 11:23.010 --> 11:25.990 And one of the main reasons for many people's 11:25.990 --> 11:29.470 improving health could be related to now getting 11:29.470 --> 11:33.710 more of the minerals from a meat-based diet. 11:34.110 --> 11:35.630 So I think this is quite interesting. 11:35.870 --> 11:38.350 Now, Dr. Wallach, because there is a lot of debate 11:38.350 --> 11:42.030 on which of these trace minerals are essential 11:42.030 --> 11:43.710 versus not being essential. 11:43.850 --> 11:45.210 And there is no consensus. 11:45.470 --> 11:47.470 There's no definitive science whatsoever 11:47.470 --> 11:48.830 to answer this question. 11:49.010 --> 11:50.490 But according to Dr. Wallach, 11:50.550 --> 11:53.670 he says there are 60 essential minerals. 11:53.990 --> 11:57.650 And he also says that there are 900 diseases 11:58.190 --> 12:01.930 that are known to be related to nutrient deficiencies. 12:01.990 --> 12:03.970 And we're going to discuss a few of those. 12:04.230 --> 12:07.850 And those deficiencies include not just trace minerals, 12:07.850 --> 12:11.690 but also macro minerals and vitamins as well. 12:12.150 --> 12:13.710 And of course, many of them are related 12:13.710 --> 12:14.990 to fat soluble vitamins. 12:15.490 --> 12:19.210 If you have been following my natural healing teaching 12:19.210 --> 12:21.770 for a while, you'll know that I often talk 12:21.770 --> 12:23.970 about nutritional deficiencies, 12:24.150 --> 12:25.910 even in people like us who live 12:25.910 --> 12:28.530 in developing countries in fat, right? 12:28.670 --> 12:30.750 As specifically cholesterol, I would say, 12:31.190 --> 12:34.130 but cholesterol represents saturated fat. 12:34.130 --> 12:38.990 And also the fat soluble vitamins related to that, 12:39.170 --> 12:42.050 A, D, E, and K, K1 and K2, 12:42.130 --> 12:44.910 important especially for developing children. 12:45.270 --> 12:48.170 And collagen as being the other major deficiency. 12:48.590 --> 12:49.910 And this is of course true. 12:50.230 --> 12:53.070 But there's a little bit more to the story with collagen 12:53.070 --> 12:55.850 that I'm going to get to in a few minutes. 12:56.110 --> 12:58.430 But I wanted to go and just read 12:58.430 --> 13:02.090 a couple of brief excerpts from Dr. Wallach's book 13:02.090 --> 13:05.730 so that you can get a better idea of the scope of this issue 13:05.730 --> 13:07.910 and what perspective I'm coming from. 13:08.250 --> 13:11.090 So here he talks about what he learned at veterinary school, 13:11.250 --> 13:12.430 which I just summarized. 13:12.690 --> 13:15.210 The most important lesson from veterinary school 13:15.210 --> 13:16.270 was learned early on. 13:16.530 --> 13:18.910 The reason that we put the vitamins, minerals 13:18.910 --> 13:21.550 and trace minerals into animal feeds 13:21.550 --> 13:24.190 was because we don't have health insurance policies 13:24.190 --> 13:24.810 for livestock. 13:25.230 --> 13:27.770 If we used a human type healthcare system for them, 13:27.890 --> 13:29.550 it would be sticker shock for you 13:29.550 --> 13:30.650 when you went to the store 13:30.650 --> 13:32.310 to buy meat, dairy, poultry and eggs. 13:32.590 --> 13:36.190 Hamburger would cost you $275 per pound. 13:36.510 --> 13:39.650 Boneless skinless chicken breasts would be $450 a pound 13:39.650 --> 13:42.790 and a dozen eggs would be $50 just to pay for the healthcare. 13:43.150 --> 13:45.430 We learned that by significantly reducing 13:45.430 --> 13:48.690 or totally eliminating healthcare costs for animals, 13:49.050 --> 13:51.890 we could keep the price of animal products low enough 13:51.890 --> 13:54.650 for the average American to afford them. 13:54.870 --> 13:57.690 So that is of course quite revealing 13:57.690 --> 14:02.210 and we know that the healthcare costs in our nation 14:02.210 --> 14:04.870 are the biggest part of the GDP. 14:05.350 --> 14:08.610 So he's not kidding when he mentions those prices 14:08.610 --> 14:10.510 and of course they'd be even higher now. 14:10.710 --> 14:14.930 The next excerpt talks specifically about a mineral 14:14.930 --> 14:16.770 and I think this is interesting to note. 14:17.050 --> 14:21.230 The mineral selenium was universally thought to be toxic 14:21.230 --> 14:25.830 until 1957 when it was found to be an essential nutrient 14:25.830 --> 14:28.150 in trace amounts in laboratory animals and livestock. 14:28.510 --> 14:29.390 So that's quite interesting 14:29.390 --> 14:32.210 that it was said to be purely toxic 14:32.210 --> 14:34.910 and then all of a sudden it's required for health, 14:35.070 --> 14:36.290 the complete opposite. 14:36.710 --> 14:38.290 I want you to be a little bit open 14:38.290 --> 14:41.030 that this could also be true of other metals 14:41.030 --> 14:43.770 that we might currently think of as toxic, 14:43.790 --> 14:46.650 that they may actually be essential as well 14:46.650 --> 14:48.290 and there are many ways to explain this 14:48.290 --> 14:50.250 that I'll expand upon, but let me continue. 14:50.490 --> 14:53.510 Selenium deficiency causes infertility, miscarriages, 14:53.510 --> 14:55.930 cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, 14:56.270 --> 14:58.470 sudden death infant syndrome in animals, 14:58.750 --> 15:01.730 liver cirrhosis, stiff lamb disease, white muscle disease, 15:02.030 --> 15:04.630 muscular dystrophy, anemias, encephalo, 15:04.890 --> 15:07.230 Malaysia, which is softening of the brain, 15:07.610 --> 15:11.050 cardiomyopathy, heart disease, and mulberry heart disease. 15:11.350 --> 15:13.990 In each case, selenium supplementation 15:13.990 --> 15:16.130 prevented the disease and in many cases 15:16.130 --> 15:18.390 reversed or cured existing diseases 15:18.390 --> 15:21.590 which were all significant causes of animal losses 15:21.590 --> 15:23.570 to the livestock industry. 15:23.810 --> 15:26.010 So you could see when there's a financial incentive 15:26.010 --> 15:28.490 to solve these health problems, 15:28.690 --> 15:31.650 we can actually find a solution 15:31.650 --> 15:33.430 and one that is inexpensive. 15:34.230 --> 15:36.770 Now, Dr. Wallach goes on to talk about 15:36.770 --> 15:40.610 how we clinically manifest these deficiencies 15:40.610 --> 15:43.570 and he breaks it down into three phases 15:43.570 --> 15:45.630 and I'm gonna read you a little bit 15:45.630 --> 15:47.670 about two of these phases. 15:47.830 --> 15:50.530 The first phase is the compensation phase 15:50.530 --> 15:53.370 where the body changes its physiology 15:53.370 --> 15:56.790 to adapt to a deficiency of the mineral 15:56.790 --> 16:00.230 by reducing its physiologic function 16:00.230 --> 16:02.930 but maintaining health, okay? 16:03.490 --> 16:05.710 This eventually exhausts itself 16:05.710 --> 16:08.770 and then you go into the decompensated phase 16:08.770 --> 16:12.170 where some of the functions related to that nutrient 16:12.170 --> 16:15.430 start to break down and it's like a transition 16:15.430 --> 16:19.190 into overt disease state and then the clinical phase. 16:19.190 --> 16:20.150 So let me read. 16:20.470 --> 16:23.350 The decompensated phase of trace element deficiency 16:23.350 --> 16:26.550 follows with the appearance of symptoms or defects. 16:27.030 --> 16:29.130 The body can no longer make up for the shortages. 16:29.530 --> 16:31.950 Trace mineral deficiency appears metabolically 16:31.950 --> 16:34.830 as prediabetes, cognitively related 16:34.830 --> 16:37.630 to learning disabilities, attention disorders, 16:38.030 --> 16:40.970 emotionally, by panic attacks, anxiety, depression 16:40.970 --> 16:43.590 and personality instability essentially. 16:44.230 --> 16:47.230 Developmentally with dyslexia, cleft palate, 16:47.230 --> 16:50.490 down syndrome and structurally noisy joints, 16:50.610 --> 16:52.610 arthritis, bone spurs, aneurysms. 16:52.850 --> 16:56.410 A noticeable lack of stamina and longevity result. 16:56.790 --> 16:58.970 The clinical phase, which is the third phase 16:58.970 --> 17:01.310 and final phase of trace mineral deficiencies 17:01.310 --> 17:04.170 is characterized by the onset of full blown disease, 17:04.490 --> 17:05.830 states and even death. 17:06.230 --> 17:09.250 Cardiomyopathy, diabetes, cancer, liver cirrhosis. 17:09.650 --> 17:11.250 Most trace mineral deficiencies 17:11.250 --> 17:12.810 in the clinical phase though 17:12.810 --> 17:16.150 are never diagnosed as such by the orthodox physician. 17:16.150 --> 17:18.770 The cure however is often simply a matter 17:18.770 --> 17:21.050 of replacing the missing trace element. 17:21.290 --> 17:23.990 Positive clinical responses using this method 17:23.990 --> 17:28.150 can occur in as little as 48 hours to 30 days. 17:28.430 --> 17:30.810 Only those very few people whose deficiencies 17:30.810 --> 17:33.830 have caused permanent biochemical, chromosomal 17:33.830 --> 17:37.730 or gross physical damage will not return to normal health. 17:38.170 --> 17:41.730 And this is a really significant finding 17:41.730 --> 17:45.890 and I think that Dr. Wallach told a fascinating story 17:45.890 --> 17:47.210 in a different part of the book 17:47.210 --> 17:49.170 that I just want to describe 17:49.170 --> 17:51.030 to help you better understand 17:51.030 --> 17:54.530 how the medical establishment wants to remain 17:54.530 --> 17:57.490 willfully ignorant of these issues. 17:58.170 --> 18:00.090 And this was I believe at Johns Hopkins 18:00.090 --> 18:02.610 when Dr. Wallach was young in his career 18:02.610 --> 18:04.370 and he was doing research 18:04.370 --> 18:07.310 and he also by the way was a pathologist. 18:07.490 --> 18:11.030 So he could look at specimens from autopsies and such 18:11.030 --> 18:14.210 and make very accurate diagnoses 18:14.210 --> 18:18.250 with respect to how valid those diagnoses actually are. 18:18.410 --> 18:20.190 He actually questioned that himself. 18:20.890 --> 18:24.810 And one of the areas he was looking at was cystic fibrosis 18:24.810 --> 18:28.050 which is of course said to be a genetic disease. 18:28.230 --> 18:32.130 However, the actual evidence that it's a genetic disease 18:32.130 --> 18:34.630 is extremely, extremely weak. 18:34.990 --> 18:39.090 And he as a result didn't really consider this 18:39.090 --> 18:42.550 and he was traveling around doing research 18:42.550 --> 18:43.470 in different areas. 18:43.710 --> 18:47.050 He did series of autopsies in nations 18:47.050 --> 18:50.290 where they don't fit at all the genetic profile 18:50.290 --> 18:52.170 of getting cystic fibrosis 18:52.170 --> 18:54.810 which is said to occur essentially in white people 18:54.810 --> 18:58.510 and he found pathology of cystic fibrosis. 18:58.830 --> 19:02.030 So he eventually determined that it was related 19:02.570 --> 19:05.890 to a mineral deficiency as I mentioned of selenium. 19:06.570 --> 19:10.470 And he was able to use laboratory animals 19:10.730 --> 19:12.690 to deplete them of selenium 19:13.310 --> 19:15.490 and they developed cystic fibrosis. 19:15.590 --> 19:18.890 Now this is extremely valuable in research 19:18.890 --> 19:21.490 to have an animal model of the disease. 19:22.270 --> 19:27.090 And he submitted specimens to the pathology department 19:27.470 --> 19:31.490 and they agreed that the animals had cystic fibrosis. 19:32.130 --> 19:35.910 Now at first everyone on the research team 19:35.910 --> 19:39.350 was very excited because having an animal model 19:39.350 --> 19:41.470 was a super important thing 19:41.470 --> 19:43.970 so they could test different clinical interventions. 19:44.290 --> 19:47.090 Of course, when they found out from Dr. Wallach 19:47.090 --> 19:48.890 how the model was developed 19:48.890 --> 19:51.090 and how it could be reversed simply by 19:51.090 --> 19:53.370 providing a selenium supplement 19:53.370 --> 19:55.670 they fired him the next day. 19:56.210 --> 20:00.150 Okay, because this would invalidate all of their research 20:00.150 --> 20:01.170 and their grant funding 20:01.790 --> 20:03.950 and there would now be a solution 20:03.950 --> 20:05.290 and they might be a hero 20:05.290 --> 20:07.370 but they wouldn't be able to make any money 20:07.370 --> 20:08.670 selling selenium. 20:08.670 --> 20:11.930 So this is why many of these things 20:11.930 --> 20:13.190 are really hidden from us 20:13.190 --> 20:15.530 and we can't trust getting our information 20:15.920 --> 20:18.810 from the mainstream medical system. 20:19.310 --> 20:24.490 Okay, so I wanna talk now about the science of this 20:24.490 --> 20:26.950 because it's widely recognized 20:26.950 --> 20:30.290 and I'm not sure how long this has been the case 20:30.290 --> 20:34.150 but at present that metals are very important 20:34.150 --> 20:37.930 for the function of proteins in the body. 20:37.930 --> 20:40.950 Okay, so this is from a paper 20:40.950 --> 20:45.910 on what the field is called metalloproteomics 20:45.910 --> 20:50.050 and this is the study of metalloproteins 20:50.050 --> 20:53.930 and the breadth and scope of them in biological organisms 20:53.930 --> 20:57.750 and this is essentially why we need these minerals 20:57.750 --> 21:00.690 that many of the proteins in our body 21:00.690 --> 21:03.730 require a metal cofactor 21:03.730 --> 21:07.270 to make them work in their biological function 21:07.270 --> 21:08.650 especially enzymes. 21:09.110 --> 21:10.990 Now, many of these we or some of these 21:10.990 --> 21:12.690 at least we already know of, right? 21:12.930 --> 21:15.090 As I've mentioned before like hemoglobin 21:15.090 --> 21:17.750 which is said to be the oxygen binding protein 21:17.750 --> 21:20.550 in the blood that it requires iron. 21:20.710 --> 21:23.590 We also know that even in plants 21:23.590 --> 21:27.310 this is true because chlorophyll has magnesium 21:27.710 --> 21:29.290 in it as a metal cofactor. 21:29.550 --> 21:31.710 So it turns out that there is an unknown 21:31.710 --> 21:35.190 but large amount of proteins in our body 21:35.190 --> 21:39.210 that require some type of metal cofactor 21:39.210 --> 21:40.570 to function properly 21:40.570 --> 21:42.830 and so that's what really the field 21:42.830 --> 21:44.990 of metalloproteomics is about 21:44.990 --> 21:47.350 but here I'm gonna read the highlighted portion 21:47.350 --> 21:48.110 from this paper. 21:48.430 --> 21:50.570 Despite the intense amount of research 21:50.570 --> 21:52.750 into cellular mechanisms, 21:53.050 --> 21:56.010 metalloenzymes have largely been overlooked 21:56.010 --> 21:58.510 yet the metalloproteome 21:58.510 --> 22:03.450 which is the entirety of all metalloproteins in the body 22:03.450 --> 22:07.370 dictates much of the reactivity within a cell. 22:07.550 --> 22:10.610 So what he's saying here is that you can find thousands, 22:10.890 --> 22:13.570 tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of studies 22:13.570 --> 22:15.650 looking at cellular mechanisms 22:15.650 --> 22:18.450 with respect to molecular biology, right? 22:18.870 --> 22:22.510 Enzymes, chemical pathways, et cetera, et cetera. 22:22.750 --> 22:24.750 However, almost none of them consider 22:24.750 --> 22:28.470 that many of these proteins can't work 22:28.470 --> 22:32.270 without having the appropriate metal cofactor. 22:32.270 --> 22:35.770 And it goes on to say that it is estimated 22:35.770 --> 22:39.510 that around one-third of all proteins in the human body 22:39.510 --> 22:42.030 require a metal cofactor for functionality. 22:42.450 --> 22:46.110 Now this one-third number is pretty much pulled out of the air 22:46.110 --> 22:49.790 because they could quantify this with further research. 22:50.010 --> 22:51.830 So this is a wild estimate 22:51.830 --> 22:56.030 but it acknowledges that it is hugely significant 22:56.030 --> 23:00.090 because one-third is a huge fraction of our total proteins. 23:00.090 --> 23:02.250 It goes on to say metals have the ability 23:02.250 --> 23:04.250 to interact with multiple proteins, 23:04.530 --> 23:06.390 all with varying functions located 23:06.390 --> 23:08.090 in every cell of the human body. 23:08.270 --> 23:11.070 So there is the ability for one single metal 23:11.070 --> 23:13.750 to actually have multiple roles 23:13.750 --> 23:17.150 and iron would be a great example of that. 23:17.270 --> 23:21.530 Now I wanna talk about one particular metalloprotein 23:21.530 --> 23:25.210 to show you about the complexity of this issue 23:25.210 --> 23:28.810 because we're talking about maybe 60, maybe more, 23:28.810 --> 23:31.710 maybe a little bit less trace minerals that are required 23:31.710 --> 23:35.990 but we can't just take each individual mineral 23:35.990 --> 23:37.870 and look at it in isolation 23:37.870 --> 23:39.850 because it interacts with many things. 23:40.010 --> 23:44.570 Even if there is one metal and one protein or enzyme, 23:44.910 --> 23:47.190 that is usually part of a pathway 23:47.190 --> 23:49.570 of several different chemical reactions 23:49.570 --> 23:53.670 that are all required for the function to take place. 23:53.790 --> 23:56.310 And I'll give you an example of that in a moment. 23:56.530 --> 23:58.690 But our first example that I'm gonna describe here 23:58.690 --> 24:01.030 is superoxide dismutase. 24:01.150 --> 24:04.090 Now this is a enzyme that I've mentioned before 24:04.090 --> 24:06.850 and specifically that it requires manganese, 24:06.970 --> 24:09.230 which is not even mentioned in this description 24:09.230 --> 24:12.130 because it requires other minerals as well. 24:12.270 --> 24:15.690 Now superoxide dismutase is important in our bodies 24:15.690 --> 24:20.630 because it can scavenge superoxide free radicals 24:20.630 --> 24:23.530 which are big mediators of toxicity 24:23.530 --> 24:27.210 and tissue damage from various toxins in our body. 24:27.210 --> 24:29.350 Things like, for example, seed oils 24:29.350 --> 24:31.410 that undergo lipid peroxidation 24:31.410 --> 24:35.370 forming these oxygen, reactive oxygen species, 24:35.690 --> 24:38.150 they can be scavenged and rendered harmless 24:38.150 --> 24:39.990 by superoxide dismutase. 24:40.250 --> 24:44.230 And superoxide dismutase requires copper, okay? 24:44.490 --> 24:49.230 So we might think that if we just give copper 24:49.230 --> 24:51.190 that we would be okay 24:51.190 --> 24:54.330 in terms of our superoxide dismutase functioning. 24:54.330 --> 24:58.330 However, it's been found that superoxide dismutase 24:58.330 --> 25:00.150 can actually do the opposite effect. 25:00.350 --> 25:02.910 It can make more superoxides, right? 25:03.050 --> 25:05.270 Which would definitely not be good for our health. 25:05.510 --> 25:07.890 And this happens when there's not enough zinc. 25:08.210 --> 25:10.610 So we can't look at copper in isolation 25:10.610 --> 25:12.890 without also looking at zinc 25:12.890 --> 25:16.010 because if we have enough copper but not enough zinc, 25:16.050 --> 25:18.390 we're gonna actually have health problems 25:18.390 --> 25:21.010 and because of not only the loss of function 25:21.010 --> 25:22.670 of superoxide dismutase, 25:22.670 --> 25:25.950 but that it's gonna actually start working against us. 25:26.110 --> 25:27.090 And there may be a reason 25:27.090 --> 25:29.530 that this actually benefits us in such a way. 25:29.810 --> 25:33.110 But remember that we are adapted or designed 25:33.110 --> 25:34.430 however you wanna look at it 25:34.430 --> 25:37.330 to have these minerals as part of our makeup 25:37.330 --> 25:39.990 for this functioning, all right? 25:40.110 --> 25:41.410 Now on the next paper, 25:41.770 --> 25:45.230 now this paper is actually a metalomics paper. 25:45.430 --> 25:48.290 Now, metalomics is a related field 25:48.290 --> 25:51.090 that just looks at the metals in the body 25:51.090 --> 25:54.430 without taking into account what proteins 25:54.430 --> 25:56.290 that the metals interact with. 25:56.510 --> 25:59.170 This is a field that has some criticism. 25:59.410 --> 26:00.870 They say, well, it doesn't make sense 26:00.870 --> 26:02.950 to try to study the metals in isolation 26:02.950 --> 26:05.130 but I do think it's a good starting point 26:05.130 --> 26:07.530 because it can possibly just identify 26:07.530 --> 26:09.470 what minerals are actually in our body 26:09.470 --> 26:13.510 and then other researchers can look at those things 26:13.510 --> 26:14.910 individually and in combination 26:14.910 --> 26:19.110 to see what type of function they're associating with. 26:19.110 --> 26:20.730 So let me just read a couple 26:20.730 --> 26:22.170 of the highlighted portions here 26:22.170 --> 26:24.230 so you can get an idea of some of the metals 26:24.230 --> 26:26.130 and minerals that we're actually talking about 26:26.130 --> 26:27.750 besides copper and zinc. 26:28.110 --> 26:29.610 And also historically, right, 26:29.710 --> 26:31.270 there's been a lot of confusion 26:31.270 --> 26:33.510 about these minerals over time 26:33.510 --> 26:35.410 and we probably still don't really know 26:35.410 --> 26:37.830 which exactly are the right minerals. 26:38.170 --> 26:40.210 So it says, while functions of chromium 26:40.210 --> 26:42.170 and selenium in animals and humans 26:42.170 --> 26:44.410 were discussed since the 1950s, 26:44.410 --> 26:47.470 there have been no discussion of other trace elements 26:47.470 --> 26:50.450 until 1970s such as vanadium, 26:50.970 --> 26:53.770 now fluorine and silicon are actually not metals. 26:54.150 --> 26:56.330 Fluorine is a halogen, silicon is a metalloid 26:56.330 --> 26:57.390 but they're listing them here. 26:57.810 --> 27:01.050 But nickel, arsenic is also a metalloid and tin. 27:01.410 --> 27:02.570 Now it's interesting they say 27:02.570 --> 27:05.650 that arsenic actually may be important in our health 27:05.650 --> 27:07.530 whereas we think of it as a poison 27:07.530 --> 27:09.450 and I'm gonna get to the differences 27:09.770 --> 27:11.330 a little bit later here. 27:12.130 --> 27:14.910 And then, so at that point, 27:14.910 --> 27:18.130 there was a textbook that said there were 15 27:18.130 --> 27:19.670 essential trace elements. 27:19.910 --> 27:21.950 So you see that number is only a fourth 27:21.950 --> 27:23.330 of Dr. Wallach's number 27:23.330 --> 27:26.470 but there's so much uncertainty around this, right? 27:26.830 --> 27:30.090 And here now we've included more metals 27:30.090 --> 27:34.650 to add molybdenum, manganese, cobalt 27:34.650 --> 27:35.950 and then copper and zinc 27:35.950 --> 27:39.110 which I guess weren't known about earlier, okay? 27:39.690 --> 27:42.170 And then of course, selenium iron 27:42.170 --> 27:45.150 and they talk about iodine as well 27:45.150 --> 27:48.490 which is also not a metal but an essential nutrient. 27:48.870 --> 27:50.350 So molybdenum was added 27:50.350 --> 27:54.750 and because in 1953 they found that it was a constituent 27:54.750 --> 27:57.590 of an enzyme called xanthine oxidase. 27:57.870 --> 28:00.510 So you can see that this research has been slow 28:00.510 --> 28:05.030 to develop and really there is a lack of full knowledge 28:05.030 --> 28:08.230 and agreement on these issues. 28:08.230 --> 28:12.210 So we're gonna look at another specific example here 28:12.210 --> 28:16.270 and this kind of highlights in part the ignorance 28:16.270 --> 28:18.150 about the importance of these metals 28:18.150 --> 28:21.530 because if you wanna think about collagen, right? 28:21.610 --> 28:23.750 Which is something I talked about a lot 28:23.750 --> 28:25.990 that there's a lot of health issues related 28:25.990 --> 28:30.330 to collagen deficiency, for example, aneurysms, right? 28:30.610 --> 28:32.730 Arthritis and many other conditions. 28:32.750 --> 28:35.870 So if you wanna learn about how do I give my body 28:35.870 --> 28:37.310 what it needs to make collagen? 28:37.310 --> 28:39.770 You look at collagen synthesis. 28:39.890 --> 28:41.690 So if you put this search term in, 28:41.750 --> 28:43.630 you're gonna find tons of articles 28:43.630 --> 28:45.290 from various health sources 28:45.290 --> 28:47.370 and if you go to the images section, 28:47.510 --> 28:49.710 you're gonna find tons of images that look like this. 28:49.850 --> 28:53.270 Now, even if you put in your search term 28:53.270 --> 28:55.470 something like the role of minerals 28:55.470 --> 28:57.870 or the role of metals in collagen synthesis 28:57.870 --> 29:00.190 or even if you take a specific metal 29:00.190 --> 29:02.570 like put copper and collagen synthesis 29:02.570 --> 29:05.290 and look up the articles and images, 29:05.290 --> 29:08.250 you're gonna find that they're essentially the same, 29:08.370 --> 29:09.470 that you're gonna get a lot of images 29:09.470 --> 29:11.130 like the slide that I'm showing you. 29:11.250 --> 29:14.330 Now, this slide outlines the steps, right? 29:14.610 --> 29:16.130 Of collagen synthesis 29:16.130 --> 29:19.890 and it does mention some of the needed raw materials. 29:20.150 --> 29:22.050 Those two gold circles on the top 29:22.050 --> 29:23.870 represent two amino acids 29:23.870 --> 29:25.570 that if you don't have enough of 29:25.570 --> 29:27.490 you can't make enough collagen in your body, 29:27.690 --> 29:28.930 proline and glycine. 29:29.150 --> 29:32.950 And certainly if you eat collagenous foods, right? 29:32.950 --> 29:35.870 Like bone broth, which I often talk about 29:35.870 --> 29:37.850 you're getting those amino acids 29:37.850 --> 29:40.190 because that you're eating collagen, right? 29:40.310 --> 29:42.410 And collagen is made largely of those 29:42.410 --> 29:43.350 so you're getting those. 29:43.690 --> 29:45.630 But notice that it doesn't mention 29:45.630 --> 29:47.810 any other nutritional factors here. 29:48.030 --> 29:51.370 Yet, there are other factors required 29:51.370 --> 29:54.750 and I did eventually find this paper 29:54.750 --> 29:58.150 which talks about copper being used 29:58.150 --> 30:00.410 in the synthesis of collagen 30:00.410 --> 30:02.330 and elastin or related protein. 30:02.330 --> 30:03.750 Now, if we go back to that slide 30:03.750 --> 30:06.670 you'll see there's this enzyme at the second step, 30:06.930 --> 30:08.890 lysyl oxidase, right? 30:08.970 --> 30:12.090 Which oxidizes the amino acid residue lysine 30:12.090 --> 30:13.170 and it's required 30:13.170 --> 30:17.050 and that's the enzyme that requires copper. 30:17.430 --> 30:21.850 So Dr. Wallach approaches this from the point of view 30:21.850 --> 30:24.010 that these health issues 30:24.010 --> 30:25.830 like aneurysms and arthritis 30:25.830 --> 30:27.970 are actually due to copper deficiency 30:27.970 --> 30:31.930 but he recommends that you go to the dumpster 30:31.930 --> 30:35.290 behind KFC and get the buckets of chicken bones 30:35.290 --> 30:39.350 and that you bake them and grind up the bone meal 30:39.350 --> 30:41.310 into capsules to correct the problem. 30:42.030 --> 30:44.930 And right, which says that you're basically eating collagen. 30:45.210 --> 30:47.630 Now that collagen is gonna have copper in it 30:47.630 --> 30:50.230 because the ranchers that raise chickens 30:50.230 --> 30:53.070 know that if they don't supplement them with copper 30:53.070 --> 30:57.430 that they are basically gonna have all of those problems 30:57.430 --> 31:00.070 with their health and they won't make good meat, right? 31:00.070 --> 31:03.350 So this is an example where when you take 31:03.350 --> 31:05.650 the natural food source, right? 31:05.690 --> 31:08.770 Essentially the same material that your body is made of 31:08.770 --> 31:11.890 if the source that you get it from is healthy, right? 31:12.090 --> 31:13.470 Raised in a natural way especially 31:13.470 --> 31:15.970 or in the case of animal husbandry 31:15.970 --> 31:19.490 if it's fortified with these essential minerals for its health 31:19.490 --> 31:21.130 then when you eat that 31:21.130 --> 31:23.750 you're obviously getting all the constituents, right? 31:23.870 --> 31:25.190 Including the copper. 31:25.410 --> 31:29.350 So we can see that this is gonna be largely ignored 31:29.350 --> 31:33.890 or not mentioned but when you take that collagen supplement 31:33.890 --> 31:36.590 you're also getting the copper. 31:37.110 --> 31:39.990 And that may be depending on the rest of your diet 31:39.990 --> 31:42.710 the main thing that you're deficient in. 31:42.910 --> 31:46.530 All right, so I wanted to just give one more example 31:46.530 --> 31:52.170 and this study essentially looks at male hormone problems, 31:52.790 --> 31:52.990 right? 31:53.070 --> 31:55.390 Like people with low testosterone 31:55.670 --> 31:57.950 and it looks at a couple of different ways 31:57.950 --> 32:01.270 of describing testosterone that are all abbreviated 32:01.270 --> 32:03.230 to help you understand this highlighted portion. 32:03.690 --> 32:05.370 So TT is total testosterone, 32:06.090 --> 32:08.350 FT is free testosterone, 32:08.970 --> 32:12.050 SHBG is sex hormone binding globulin 32:12.050 --> 32:14.530 which actually binds the testosterone 32:14.530 --> 32:16.970 so the free testosterone is lower 32:16.970 --> 32:21.350 and FAI which is the free androgen index 32:21.350 --> 32:23.530 and that's calculated from the levels 32:23.530 --> 32:26.390 of the hormones taken from the blood. 32:26.390 --> 32:30.030 Now in this study they looked at a variety of minerals 32:30.030 --> 32:33.470 and what they found is positive correlations 32:33.470 --> 32:36.410 between some of these hormone levels 32:36.410 --> 32:37.630 and some of the minerals. 32:38.270 --> 32:40.790 And so we find that several minerals, 32:41.130 --> 32:47.270 magnesium, iron, molybdenum, tungsten, zinc and calcium 32:47.270 --> 32:50.150 all have positive correlations 32:50.150 --> 32:53.350 with things related to having adequate testosterone. 32:53.630 --> 32:56.570 So in other words, deficiencies of those minerals 32:56.990 --> 33:00.330 can be related to having low testosterone 33:00.870 --> 33:04.590 or a problem with your androgenic output. 33:04.830 --> 33:06.930 So for example here we see zinc 33:06.930 --> 33:08.890 which is one that's talked about a lot 33:08.890 --> 33:11.390 because zinc deficiency is very common 33:11.390 --> 33:14.650 whereas magnesium and iron deficiency much less so 33:14.650 --> 33:17.230 even though I know a lot of natural healing people 33:17.230 --> 33:20.410 talk about magnesium and of course it is important 33:20.410 --> 33:24.110 but we have the free androgen index 33:24.850 --> 33:26.670 is positively correlated with zinc. 33:26.870 --> 33:28.050 So if you have adequate zinc 33:28.050 --> 33:30.730 then you have adequate free androgens. 33:30.990 --> 33:33.310 Okay so this tells you the importance 33:33.310 --> 33:37.870 that in this system to have proper endocrine functioning 33:37.870 --> 33:40.270 of the sex hormones we need multiple 33:40.270 --> 33:41.510 of these different minerals. 33:41.670 --> 33:43.150 It's not just as simple as 33:43.150 --> 33:45.330 well we take a zinc supplement we're good 33:45.330 --> 33:48.690 that may help but we also gonna need enough molybdenum. 33:48.690 --> 33:50.530 So are you getting enough of that? 33:50.930 --> 33:51.770 What about tungsten? 33:52.130 --> 33:53.750 All right tungsten is one that probably 33:54.580 --> 33:57.210 there'd be some people that wouldn't even consider it 33:57.210 --> 33:58.450 a trace mineral. 33:58.950 --> 34:01.910 So let me just mention a few other things 34:01.910 --> 34:02.970 about the science. 34:03.310 --> 34:07.270 One is that of course if you look at the food labels 34:07.760 --> 34:09.190 right the package labeling 34:09.190 --> 34:11.550 you might see that there might report 34:11.550 --> 34:13.610 some minerals on there occasionally 34:13.610 --> 34:14.690 although not always. 34:14.990 --> 34:17.590 However when it does list minerals 34:17.790 --> 34:19.710 there are always macrominerals. 34:19.810 --> 34:21.670 There'd be things like magnesium, calcium 34:21.670 --> 34:25.770 and iron, corusodium is often listed sometimes chloride 34:25.770 --> 34:28.970 but you're never gonna see printed on there 34:28.970 --> 34:33.850 molybdenum levels, manganese levels, copper, et cetera. 34:34.150 --> 34:37.530 And this is because these establishments 34:37.530 --> 34:39.690 that are supposed to guide us on nutrition 34:39.690 --> 34:42.330 are once again willfully ignorant 34:42.330 --> 34:46.950 of the importance of these substances for our functioning. 34:46.950 --> 34:50.970 So I wanna talk about a couple of controversial aspects 34:50.970 --> 34:52.970 to this and then I will tell you 34:52.970 --> 34:54.990 what I think is a good solution. 34:55.190 --> 34:57.670 One is related to heavy metals. 34:58.130 --> 34:59.910 And I'm talking about things here 34:59.910 --> 35:04.170 like cadmium, chromium, lead, arsenic, mercury. 35:04.770 --> 35:07.890 Now when it comes to these substances 35:08.540 --> 35:13.390 there are different forms that these minerals can be in. 35:13.820 --> 35:17.730 As metals we know that there are ionic metals 35:18.200 --> 35:19.650 and then there are neutral metals. 35:20.110 --> 35:22.270 So that's one way and there are also different 35:22.270 --> 35:24.390 oxidation states of the metals 35:24.390 --> 35:26.610 and often they have very different physical 35:26.610 --> 35:29.650 and chemical properties in different oxidation states 35:29.650 --> 35:32.190 like for example, one that we're familiar with 35:32.190 --> 35:34.550 would be steel or iron, okay. 35:34.690 --> 35:36.830 If we ever work with a wrought iron 35:36.830 --> 35:39.830 who had something made of that or steel 35:39.830 --> 35:43.070 like cars for example this often happens with cars 35:43.070 --> 35:45.710 that especially if you live in a winter climate 35:45.710 --> 35:48.050 and there's a lot of salt exposure on the roads 35:48.050 --> 35:52.030 or a lot of moisture and drying that the iron oxidizes 35:52.030 --> 35:54.310 and when it oxidizes it becomes rust 35:54.310 --> 35:56.970 and rust doesn't have the same strength 35:56.970 --> 36:00.050 as the iron or steel that you started with 36:00.050 --> 36:03.010 and then you get holes in the bottom of your car. 36:03.450 --> 36:08.650 So we know that rust and the wrought iron or steel 36:08.650 --> 36:10.150 they're the same exact element 36:10.150 --> 36:11.990 but they're in a different oxidation state 36:11.990 --> 36:13.990 and as such they have very different properties. 36:14.490 --> 36:17.310 So there are different forms of these things 36:17.310 --> 36:20.010 then there are also salts of the metals. 36:20.390 --> 36:23.490 Metals often form salts in their ionic state, right. 36:23.630 --> 36:25.790 So we know about sodium chloride 36:25.790 --> 36:27.710 or potassium chloride being salts 36:27.710 --> 36:32.270 but you can also have lead chloride or mercury sulfate 36:32.270 --> 36:35.250 and these salts may also have different properties 36:35.250 --> 36:37.710 biologically and physically and chemically. 36:37.710 --> 36:40.290 So take something like aluminum 36:40.870 --> 36:44.870 which we know in some forms like an aluminum hydroxide 36:44.870 --> 36:47.830 which is the adjuvant used in vaccines 36:48.270 --> 36:49.710 we know that that's toxic. 36:49.850 --> 36:50.990 It's well studied, right. 36:51.070 --> 36:54.050 It's actually added to it on purpose to be toxic 36:54.050 --> 36:57.670 to induce a reaction of the body to produce antibodies 36:57.670 --> 36:59.870 to try and neutralize it and get rid of it. 37:00.070 --> 37:05.090 However, other forms of aluminum may actually be essential 37:05.090 --> 37:07.490 and there is some literature to support this 37:07.490 --> 37:11.350 and we know that there are trace amounts of aluminum 37:11.350 --> 37:12.930 now it's a different form of aluminum 37:12.930 --> 37:15.830 than that aluminum hydroxide which I mentioned 37:16.410 --> 37:19.630 but are present in plants and animals. 37:20.370 --> 37:25.150 So could it be a similar story to aluminum and selenium 37:25.670 --> 37:28.510 that now it's generally considered to be toxic 37:29.130 --> 37:33.390 but that could be related to the certain chemical form 37:33.390 --> 37:36.630 of the aluminum and the amounts of exposure 37:36.630 --> 37:38.070 and even the root of exposure. 37:38.250 --> 37:41.870 Whereas we may in the future realize that 37:41.870 --> 37:45.910 oh aluminum is actually essential in a certain form 37:45.910 --> 37:50.250 in a certain amount and some of the diseases 37:50.950 --> 37:53.490 now that we know about actually would improve 37:53.490 --> 37:55.890 if we weren't deficient in the appropriate type 37:55.890 --> 37:57.850 of aluminum and the same thing could be true 37:57.850 --> 37:59.530 for lead and mercury, et cetera. 37:59.850 --> 38:01.910 Now I'm not saying that there's evidence 38:01.910 --> 38:04.910 to support all these things but there is some evidence 38:04.910 --> 38:07.370 to suggest that some forms of mercury 38:07.370 --> 38:10.530 may actually not be toxic and it may be useful 38:10.530 --> 38:12.150 in certain ways. 38:12.930 --> 38:16.310 So we don't really know the full answer to this of course 38:16.310 --> 38:18.950 but we do know one thing for sure 38:18.950 --> 38:21.010 that if these minerals are required 38:21.010 --> 38:24.490 for our health and biology that it would be 38:24.490 --> 38:28.950 the natural form that would be in plants and animals 38:28.950 --> 38:32.070 and in the soil that would be the appropriate form 38:32.070 --> 38:35.150 for our bodies, not something synthetic 38:35.150 --> 38:38.230 that is distinct in some important way. 38:38.750 --> 38:40.830 Now the other thing about heavy metals 38:40.830 --> 38:45.230 which is quite interesting is that if our body is deficient 38:45.230 --> 38:48.910 in the mineral it needs ideally for certain protein function 38:48.910 --> 38:51.970 sometimes it can substitute other metals 38:51.970 --> 38:54.710 that are close to it on the periodic table 38:54.710 --> 38:56.970 and this could even include things like lead. 38:56.970 --> 39:00.590 So in other words, during the compensatory phase 39:00.590 --> 39:04.370 of mineral deficiency our body may substitute other metals 39:04.370 --> 39:06.990 even ones that we normally think of as toxic 39:06.990 --> 39:10.190 and they may actually provide us some level of function 39:10.190 --> 39:11.670 for a period of time. 39:11.870 --> 39:14.530 Now I'm not saying that's an ideal type of functioning 39:14.530 --> 39:17.510 and I think once we replenish those minerals 39:17.510 --> 39:20.370 the substituted minerals will go away. 39:20.550 --> 39:22.430 Now there actually is some evidence of this 39:22.430 --> 39:24.950 in the literature, it's not purely theoretical 39:24.950 --> 39:29.470 that these enzymes can use other minerals even toxic ones. 39:29.830 --> 39:34.630 Let me now talk a little bit more about the solution 39:34.630 --> 39:38.710 how do you ensure that your body has adequate minerals 39:38.710 --> 39:42.110 so that you can function well, have optimal health 39:42.110 --> 39:46.990 and maybe even live well beyond 100 years of age 39:47.670 --> 39:52.610 and so I always say that nature provides what we need 39:52.610 --> 39:56.950 but I also described how we have really corrupted nature 39:56.950 --> 40:00.570 in our food system so if we have circumstances 40:00.570 --> 40:05.710 where we're able to produce our own food almost 100% 40:05.710 --> 40:08.810 and we make sure through testing 40:08.810 --> 40:11.230 and through replenishing the soil 40:11.230 --> 40:15.250 that we have the adequate variety and amounts of minerals 40:15.250 --> 40:18.610 that is probably the way nature intended it 40:18.610 --> 40:22.130 but that would be like a very significant effort 40:22.130 --> 40:24.390 and I don't expect there are too many people out there 40:24.390 --> 40:26.630 who will do that but there will be some. 40:27.490 --> 40:29.950 So if you wanna live a modern lifestyle 40:29.950 --> 40:31.430 how do you handle this? 40:31.550 --> 40:34.310 Well I would say first of all it's important 40:34.310 --> 40:37.470 to consider the food sources in their totality 40:37.470 --> 40:41.530 with respect to these minerals because if some foods 40:41.530 --> 40:44.390 like plants are deficient in minerals themselves 40:45.090 --> 40:48.750 they may try to amplify their systems 40:48.750 --> 40:51.090 to extract the minerals from the soil 40:51.470 --> 40:54.490 and one of the ways they do this is through chelating agents 40:55.230 --> 41:00.050 so a chelating agent would grab the minerals out of the soil 41:00.050 --> 41:01.310 and bring it into the plant 41:01.310 --> 41:04.470 and if these are up-regulated 41:05.510 --> 41:07.910 they could actually keep the minerals 41:07.910 --> 41:10.830 from being absorbed in our body when we eat these plants. 41:11.130 --> 41:13.930 Sometimes these chelating agents are referred 41:13.930 --> 41:17.990 to as anti-nutrients and one relatively famous example 41:17.990 --> 41:21.210 is from kale that if people overeat kale 41:21.530 --> 41:23.570 it can pull iodine out of the body. 41:23.730 --> 41:25.550 Now iodine isn't a metal right 41:25.550 --> 41:29.310 but nevertheless this is such a well-known example 41:29.310 --> 41:32.470 I wanted to bring it up and then people can develop 41:32.470 --> 41:36.770 iodine deficiency and conditions like nontoxic quarter 41:36.770 --> 41:39.110 as a result of that. 41:39.490 --> 41:41.990 So if the food that you're eating 41:42.630 --> 41:44.470 has a certain mineral content 41:44.930 --> 41:47.650 you don't know if those minerals 41:47.650 --> 41:50.270 are actually gonna get absorbed into your body necessarily 41:50.790 --> 41:53.730 and this is information that's largely missing 41:53.730 --> 41:55.750 from nutrition and nutritional labeling 41:56.210 --> 41:59.090 they say how much of a nutrient is in the food 41:59.090 --> 42:02.310 but they don't say how much of it your body will absorb 42:02.310 --> 42:05.930 and I'll go back to aluminum to give you an example 42:05.930 --> 42:08.270 because if you eat aluminum 42:08.270 --> 42:11.010 your body absorbs less than 1% of it. 42:11.110 --> 42:13.350 Now if you inject it like with a vaccine 42:13.350 --> 42:15.730 100% of it gets into your body right 42:15.730 --> 42:18.330 that's why the small amounts used in vaccines 42:18.330 --> 42:21.970 are so significant compared to what we might eat 42:21.970 --> 42:24.310 in our food if we store it in aluminum foil 42:24.310 --> 42:26.710 or things like that. 42:27.150 --> 42:31.470 So the same thing is true with essential minerals 42:31.470 --> 42:34.370 that we depending on the source that we eat 42:34.370 --> 42:36.750 we may only be able to absorb a certain amount. 42:36.950 --> 42:39.470 Now I did mention earlier that we're very good 42:39.470 --> 42:42.790 at extracting iron and we need a lot more iron 42:42.790 --> 42:44.750 than we need of most of these trace minerals 42:45.210 --> 42:47.350 but we may not have the same kind of systems 42:47.350 --> 42:51.330 for other minerals so how bioavailable is it from the food 42:51.330 --> 42:54.610 and is it actually in the food is very important 42:54.610 --> 42:58.310 and I think for most people even carnivores 42:58.990 --> 43:02.250 because they don't give 60 different minerals 43:02.250 --> 43:05.770 to their livestock they give the most important ones 43:05.770 --> 43:08.050 at the most important times in the life cycle 43:08.550 --> 43:10.130 to get the outcome they want 43:10.130 --> 43:12.630 because remember they don't want their animals 43:12.630 --> 43:14.810 to live a long life they want them 43:14.810 --> 43:16.710 to live a healthy short life. 43:17.150 --> 43:20.430 So that's a little bit different than our goals 43:20.430 --> 43:22.330 so I think it's more important for us 43:22.330 --> 43:25.690 to get the full compliment of all these minerals. 43:26.470 --> 43:29.350 Now we can if we get the most important ones 43:29.350 --> 43:31.390 are the ones that we need in the biggest amounts 43:31.950 --> 43:34.190 we definitely will have improvements in health 43:34.190 --> 43:38.350 but will this allow us to live our full lifespan 43:39.080 --> 43:44.610 and this is why I found started using myself 43:44.610 --> 43:47.850 and decided ultimately to sell shilajit 43:47.850 --> 43:51.690 because in my opinion there is not a better source 43:52.060 --> 43:54.150 of these minerals that you can find 43:54.150 --> 43:56.570 and there are several reasons for that one 43:56.570 --> 44:00.030 is because it is produced naturally 44:00.590 --> 44:03.550 through time, heat and pressure 44:03.980 --> 44:06.770 from ancient decomposed plants 44:07.380 --> 44:09.730 that existed and lived at a time 44:09.730 --> 44:13.250 when the mineral recycling system in nature 44:13.250 --> 44:17.030 was completely intact so they have these minerals 44:17.460 --> 44:22.390 because of the chemical processes that occur over time 44:22.390 --> 44:25.750 and because of the purification of this material 44:25.750 --> 44:28.790 to make a final product that we can ingest 44:28.790 --> 44:32.910 those other anti-nutrients are really not present 44:32.910 --> 44:36.390 and the minerals are generally keelated to fulvic acid 44:36.770 --> 44:41.090 and fulvic acid is very compatible with our biology 44:41.090 --> 44:46.290 that the minerals in this fulvic form are highly absorbable. 44:46.570 --> 44:49.770 Now there are preparations called fulvic minerals 44:49.770 --> 44:52.870 which are harvested from a little bit of a different ore 44:53.530 --> 44:57.710 and those are also a reasonable way to get minerals 44:57.710 --> 45:00.050 they are from nature, they are mined 45:00.050 --> 45:03.750 but generally they don't have 60 minerals 45:03.750 --> 45:07.450 they usually have in the teens or 20s 45:07.450 --> 45:10.710 in terms of the spectrum of minerals they contain 45:10.710 --> 45:13.670 whereas shilajit generally has over 50 45:13.670 --> 45:16.790 sometimes even up to the 70s and 80s 45:16.790 --> 45:21.030 in terms of the number of different trace minerals contained 45:21.030 --> 45:24.090 so you can be sure by using shilajit 45:24.090 --> 45:26.650 that you're getting all of the essential minerals 45:26.650 --> 45:28.150 or as sure as you can be 45:28.150 --> 45:30.990 without actually having definitive knowledge 45:30.990 --> 45:34.730 of exactly which trace minerals we do need 45:35.290 --> 45:38.470 and in what amounts and there is a good amount 45:38.470 --> 45:43.130 of clinical data showing a lot of positive benefits 45:43.130 --> 45:45.950 both from mineral repletion in veterinary 45:45.950 --> 45:50.250 and human studies and even specifically from shilajit itself. 45:51.150 --> 45:55.170 So there also are other forms 45:55.170 --> 45:59.450 of mineral supplements and they are generally speaking 45:59.450 --> 46:04.770 made into factories artificially by human manufacturing 46:04.770 --> 46:08.730 and not mined from nature and minimally processed 46:08.730 --> 46:10.890 like fulvic minerals and shilajit are. 46:11.330 --> 46:14.790 So but they can still be very bioavailable 46:14.790 --> 46:19.090 and improve health like they do in animal livestock 46:19.090 --> 46:22.330 but in my opinion maybe are not fully optimal 46:22.330 --> 46:25.270 or the best option but I think colloidal minerals 46:25.270 --> 46:28.430 in a colloidal form are the most bioavailable 46:28.430 --> 46:31.830 or absorbable and so that would be an alternative 46:32.350 --> 46:35.270 for people who would like a solution like that 46:35.270 --> 46:38.950 and those are available also as individual minerals 46:38.950 --> 46:42.650 if you want to try to make up your own custom combination 46:42.650 --> 46:46.750 to address your specific health condition 46:46.750 --> 46:49.810 but I have kind of highlighted a little bit 46:49.810 --> 46:53.990 of Dr. Wallach's work talked about the true lifespan 46:53.990 --> 46:58.190 of humans, framed the problem of why we're even facing 46:58.970 --> 47:01.970 this issue of mineral deficiencies, 47:02.630 --> 47:05.310 went through some of the science mostly to highlight 47:05.310 --> 47:07.270 that it's in the very early stages 47:07.270 --> 47:09.430 there's not a lot of definitive evidence 47:09.430 --> 47:12.370 and how the medical and health system 47:12.370 --> 47:14.650 kind of willfully ignore this information 47:14.650 --> 47:17.750 when it comes to human health largely 47:17.750 --> 47:21.470 because it doesn't fit within their profit driven system 47:22.010 --> 47:26.410 and then lastly I talked about foods, minerals, 47:26.990 --> 47:29.670 heavy metals and what are the ways 47:29.670 --> 47:32.610 that you can optimize your health.