Morley Robbins on Magnesium, Stress, Mineral Balance and the Root Cause Protocol

Episode Highlights With Morley Robbins

• His background and what led him on his own journey into researching these topics
• What the “innate healer” is why this was a paradigm shifter for him
• The importance of minerals and understanding mineral balance
• Stress: the body’s inability to make energy for the mind to respond to its environment
• Understanding oxidative stress and what happens to oxygen without the body
• What ADP is and why it is important
• Antioxidant enzymes and why they are important to understand
• Why copper is so unique in its ability to regulate both iron and oxygen and how to use this to our advantage for health
• The reason you likely aren’t iron deficient or anemic
• Why we need to produce 2.5 million new red blood cells per second and why this is important
• The difference between iron in the blood and iron in the tissue, and why this distinction is so important for understanding health
• How iron ages us
• Why most testing isn’t accurate and the testing that shows a more accurate picture of iron, copper and magnesium
• 5 habits of daily living that are a good insight to health: sleep, hunger, elimination, energy, and mood
• Why they started adding iron to wheat flour and why this can be a big problem
• The nine different forms of iron being added to our food system and why they are carcinogenic
• Why gluten sensitivity might actually be a reaction to glyphosate and added iron
• The reason he firmly believes that there is no iron deficiency anemia and what is actually happening
• How mental health and emotions have a measurable effect on physical issues and how to disrupt the process
• Best forms of magnesium for restoring balance
• A good rule of thumb - 5mg magnesium per pound of body weight plus more during stress
• How to actually get bioavailable copper to help restore this balance

Resources We Mention

• Root Cause Protocol - Morley Robbins
• Iron Toxicity Posts - Morley Robbins
• So You've Just Been Told You're Anemic? 
• Jigsaw Health Magnesium
• BiOptimizers Magnesium
• Soverign Silver copper - Use code wellnessmama for a discount
• Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How To Fix It On Your Own by Morley Robbins
• Iron: the Most Toxic Metal by Jym Moon PhD

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