7 Minerals that Will Make or Break Your Health

And what you need to know about them

Are you tired? In pain? Anxious? Depressed? Worried about aging?

Minerals are the first thing you have to understand if you're going to find your way out of whatever medical mess you find ourself in. They're the spark plugs of life, and that means you'd better understand how they work if you're going to survive and thrive in our modern world.

That's why Clark Engelbert and I are offering a webinar on Secrets of Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis this Saturday, July 29th. Register here and set a reminder for the YouTube video here:

We're offering a course on hair tissue mineral analysis that will include:

• Six webinars covering different diseases and their relationships to minerals

• Twelve group coaching sessions where we'll cover exactly how we interpret hair tissue mineral analysis tests

• One hair tissue test that we'll be happy to help you interpret on the group calls

This course isn't just for practitioners - if you're curious and passionate about health, you'll love it. You can enroll in the course right now or you can tune into the webinar. Enrollment ends at 12:00 am, August 3rd and we’re only taking the first 30 people who sign up. We anticipate that this course will sell out, so if you’re keen to learn more, I suggest you book now.

Enough about that. Here are seven minerals that will make or break your health.

#1. Magnesium

I'm not going to bore you with what everyone else has already told you about magnesium.

I'm going to tell you something you don't already know.

The trouble with magnesium is that it probably isn't your primary problem. Your problem is likely either 1) excessive losses of magnesium or 2) a mineral imbalance that is interfering with magnesium utilization.

What does that mean?

Imagine you're trying to do your dishes. You turn on the water and get it nice and hot. You reach for the dish soap and - it's not there.

Have you ever tried to wash dishes without soap?

You can do it. But there's a reason that beside every single kitchen sink in the world, there's a 99.99999% chance that you're going to find a big beautiful bottle of dish soap.

In this analogy, the water is magnesium. Yes, you can just dump more and more magnesium into your system and see good results. But you'll need a lot less if you get your other minerals right.

That's why there are six more minerals we're going to talk about in this post.

#2. Copper

Copper deficiency is one of the biggest drivers of disease in our modern world, but it's not as simple as just, "you need more copper." Why? Because while copper is a vital nutrient, it's also a loaded gun. Free copper - copper that is not bound to peptides and enzymes - actually creates enormous oxidative stress.

You need to optimize your body's copper levels, balancing total copper with bound copper. The first thing we need to assess with copper is actually, "are you using what you're getting well enough to handle more?" This is why so many people feel better on a low-copper, high-zinc diet.

Hidden copper toxicity is extremely common in our modern world. This is another reason why so many people feel WORSE when they eat more copper, despite having diseases associated with copper deficiency. It's also why I think LifeWave patches are working so well for so many people - they trigger the body to produce peptides that bind copper and put it to use, instead of leaving it to run around the body creating chaos.

Clark and I will be talking about WHY modern people are having so much trouble using minerals in our webinar.

Copper is closely related to another vital mineral that most people aren't getting enough of - zinc.

#3. Zinc

Zinc is one of the most important minerals that you're probably deficient in. Stress ruins zinc levels. High levels of copper, manganese, mercury, aluminum, lead, and cadmium ruin zinc levels. But this doesn't mean you can just run around giving everyone zinc and making them all better (close, but not quite).

This is because zinc can antagonize other minerals, like sodium, copper, and manganese.

This is why mineral "balancing" is the key to health - not mineral "replacement."

Knowing when and why to supplement zinc can make or break your health. Clark and I will be talking about why in our webinar.

#4. Manganese

Manganese is an essential component of many oxidation-reduction reactions, making it one of the most important minerals you probably haven't heard much about. However, manganese also replaced lead in gasoline as a catalyst for combustion. The type of manganese added to gasoline doesn't work well with your biochemistry, making it a poison. Whenever I see high manganese levels on a hair tissue test, I think, "manganese toxicity from gasoline." There are other potential sources, such as groundwater (fun fact - manganese isn't filtered well by RO filters - you need ion exchange filters).

Manganese, zinc, and copper are all similar to a mineral you've heard a lot more about - iron.

#5. Iron

Iron is the most toxic nutrient known to man. Iron deficiency is disastrous to health, as iron is a critical component of many vital systems within your body, such as the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide via hemoglobin. However, iron in excess creates massive amounts of oxidative stress, which is why blood donation can be so good for you. I wrote more about this here and in my book, Dying to Be Free.

One of the consequences of iron-overload is diabetes, which, ironically (pun very-much intended), is one of the symptoms of deficiency of the next mineral I want to tell you about - chromium.

#6. Chromium

Chromium gets too little love in the nutrition world. I think that's because people haven't embraced measuring it via hair tissue rather than blood or urine. I think that's a shame, because there's no reason to take blood or urine levels of chromium as a robust measurement/indicator of total-body chromium status. Hair tissue results consistently show low chromium levels in modern people and it's one of the elements we almost always supplement because of this.

One of the most striking cases I've seen in the past few years, and that clued me into the power of hair tissue mineral analysis, was a case of chromium deficiency made worse by nickel and mercury toxicity. The patient had profoundly brittle diabetes that didn't respond to practically anything. More on that story one of these days...

Another critical mineral for metabolism is selenium, which is up next.

#7. Selenium

Selenium is critical for:

• Thyroid hormone production

• Immune function, specifically our defenses against cancer and viruses

• Antioxidant defenses against free radicals

Most people are low in selenium, but you can over-supplement. I've seen three cases of high selenium levels and they were always from supplements, so make sure you're not taking too much.

Clark and I will be expanding on these secrets and sharing even more valuable information about minerals with you on Saturday. Make sure to add the event to your calendar and hit the "notify me" button on YouTube. While you're at it, subscribe to my YouTube channel - I'm putting out a lot more content there.

Until next time, be well,

Dr. Stillman