Hi Dr. Minkoff here. I want to talk today about seven nutrients everybody needs.
Now I just didn't make this up. In my clinic I measure these nutrients on
everyone that comes in. I have thousands and thousands of lab records
of what people are often deficient in. And if they're deficient in it then
their body is missing things that it needs in order to work really well in
the environment and to give them optimum performance and optimum health.
Let's go through these. First one is a good multivitamin. Now the thing you want from
a multivitamin is it should be in a whole food base of natural things.
If your vitamin is only just separate chemicals it's not as good. So if the
multivitamin is in a whole food base it's mixtures of organic
fruits, vegetables, things that are good and then you potentize those with
other things. We know that the studies of someone taking something like Centrum
which is devoid of almost everything, they live longer they get sick less than
somebody who's not taking them. So if you take a good multivitamin it's really
good because it gives you A, B, C, folic acid, b12, magnesium, some calcium so that you
at least get some because a lot of times the food that we're eating isn't
that good, it's devoid of nutrients, or you're not eating a good blend of foods
and so this can really be helpful. That's the first one. Number two is,
In the old days when we were hunter-gatherers the ratio of what's
called omega-3 fats which are the fish oils versus omega-6 fats which are the
vegetable oils used to be about three to one or four to one. Nowadays it's often
like thirty or forty to one. People are eating a lot of vegetable oils, often
damaged vegetable oil. If you're eating deep fried foods or fats that are
created fats like Crisco, those are not good fats. Then when the ratio of
those is way too high to the omega-3s which would be fish oil, or the fats
that come in grass-fed animals, beef or chicken, those are on the omega-3 fats.
In our brains and our cell membranes need the correct ratio of each and so
most people need to supplement with omega-3 fats. It seems like in the
neighborhood if you're doing fish oil of about 3,000 milligrams per day is about
the right amount. And, what that insures is that your brain and your cell
membranes are gonna have the optimum nutrients so that they can function well.
We know that if the body doesn't get enough of the omega-3s
it will substitute other fats in the place where the omega-3s are supposed to go
You don't get normal function when that happens.
This is really interesting, if this is the cell membrane,
there is a lineup of these fats and they spoon each other.
When the fats are of the right configuration then the membrane has the
right stiffness or softness. The balance of omega-3 that's Greek omega-3
to omega-6 should be 1 to 3. If this is 20 to 1 or 30 to 1 what happens is that
the omega 6's get more and the omega 3's get less. Then what happens with
that is you get a stiff membrane. It's too stiff. Now just imagine if this is a
red blood cell and it's getting pumped around your body. It has to go
through a capillary, which is a very small blood
vessel in order to get to your muscles, or get to your brain, or get to your
kidney. This red cell has to flatten in order to go through. If it's stiff
it doesn't flatten as well, and if it doesn't flatten as well the body has to get
that through what's it going to have to do to get it to go through? It's gonna
have to raise blood pressure to push it harder. So, we find that some people who
are diagnosed with hypertension is correcting the right balance of
omega-3 to omega-6 takes about three months, sometimes four months. Their red cells
now get softer and now they go through and now the high blood pressure goes
down because the body doesn't need to push it to get it through. Now you can go
the other way too if someone's taking too much fish oil now these things get
too floppy. That's not right either, so we're looking for the right balance.
Most people on about 3,000 milligrams a day of fish oil will do well.
It's a good nutrient unless you're naturally eating a lot of fish.
Just the precaution on fish is that a lot of fish if they're big predator fish
tuna, mahi, grouper, they're predator fish and their flesh is
high in mercury and other toxins. You have to watch it. Shellfish tend
to be better sardines, anchovies, small little fish are better. You have to watch
your fish oil too because sometimes fish oils are contaminated. The best ones are
actually distilled so that they're certified free of mercury
and chemicals and other stuff, so you want a high quality one. The other one
that isn't recognized very much is iodine. When I was growing up in the
Midwest when we were in grade school they gave us iodine tablets every day
because we lived in what was called the goiter belt and many children
got goiters. They got swollen thyroids because we were all
iodine deficient. What they did is they gave us iodine tablets,
chocolate-covered iodine every day in school and we would
always try to fudge to see can we somehow get more of them because they
tasted really good. They were to protect us, now people aren't really
conscious of it now. In my clinic I measured over 500 people's iodine levels
and about 480 of them had low iodine. I've stopped measuring it and I just
give everybody iodine, about 6 milligrams of something called "Iodoral" or "Lugol's".
Now you don't want too much I wouldn't take more than 6 on a daily basis unless
you're being treated for something. Low dose it's good.
Iodine is very necessary for thyroid function, for breast tissue, for prostate
tissue, for ovaries, it's really important. Iif you have low levels you can have
trouble. We found that many women who have fibrocystic breast disease, if we
kick their iodine levels way up the cysts go away and their breasts soften
up. Sometimes it's to the state where they actually have problems. The next one
that's very common is about 80 percent of the people that we test are deficient
in magnesium. Our food is very refined today and magnesium isn't usually eaten
enough, so people can have constipation.
Magnesium is essential in about 300 different enzyme reactions in the
body. Everything from activating thyroid, to making your colon work right, to heart
rhythm problems. When I was an emergency room doctor and someone came in with a
heart attack the first thing we gave them was a dose of 2,000 milligrams of
IV magnesium because it would often turn off a heart attack. Their heart arteries
would spasm and magnesium is a relaxer for for blood vessels and their
heart sometimes would open up the blood vessel would open up, and it would abort
a heart attack. Same for cardiac arrhythmia, so this is
really important. I think is an oral nutrient it's really good to take. You
always know if you're getting too much magnesium because you'll get a loose
stool. I usually people go up to the point where they
don't have a loose stool. It's often good at night because it's a relaxant, helps
people sleep. Next one's vitamin D. Now almost everybody's measuring vitamin D
levels today because most people are low. We know that the level of somewhere in
the neighborhood of 60 to 80 milligrams per deciliter is the right level because
it protects you immune wise. It's good for bones, it's almost like a hormone. It
isn't even really like a vitamin so supplemental vitamin D is really
important. I'm here in Florida and I find that even though I'm outside, I'm
training. Today I was out for four four and a half hours on my bicycle
without sunscreen that my vitamin D there's only about 34 unless I
supplement. I find this is true for most of my patients, that you have to
supplement vitamin D. The only way that you're gonna know how to how much to
take is you measure the blood level and then based on that you increase the D
level until you get a good healthy level. The next one, number six is amino acids.
When we test people's blood levels of amino acids we find that in many cases
they have low levels of our what are called essential amino acids. These are
things that have to be there for the body to make its own structure, to heal,
for muscles, for enzymes. Many hormones are made out of amino acids ,and many
people are low. These should be supplemented as well. The last one is
greens. In my clinic we did a test, this was several years ago where we measured
the level of what are called carotenoids in people. Carotenoids are the
colored chemicals that are in fruits and vegetables. They're basically
antioxidants, they are created by plants to protect them from sun radiation. We
don't make these ourselves, we have to get them in body from nutrients
that we take in. On this particular test that we did the level that was
considered good was above 50 and we tested every patient that came in for a
two-year period. We found that the average level coming in was about 18.
Virtually everyone was deficient in antioxidants unless they were green
juicing or they were taking a green supplement. What's interesting is we
tested the children and the average child was only 14. Children don't eat
a lot of fruits and vegetables often and they're very deficient and it's really
important as antioxidants to protect them from in the environment. We found
that if you took one scoop of a good greens product, there's hundreds of them
on the market, that the level would go above 50 within four weeks. One scoop a
day. Put it in your soup, put it on your salad, put it in a smoothie,
didn't matter. One scoop in usually most products is equivalent to about ten
servings of fruits and vegetables. Now if you're eating ten servings of fruits and
vegetables your level may be okay. If your green juicing a few times a week
you may be okay. But if you're not doing something like that chances are very
high that you're low. So one scoop of this is easy you just add it to
something that you're eating it ensures that your antioxidant levels are
adequate. Now if you put this together a lot of people if they would supplement
with these things and eat an organic based, usually paleo type diet you will
feel a difference in six weeks that is beyond anything that you would ever
imagine. It will really make a difference, so if you want to be healthy add these
things. Supplement it to your already good diet and you'll be in much better
shape, less likely to get sick, get illness, and you'll probably have a
better mood too
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