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 Mitopure from Timeline Nutrition - Easy way to get your daily 500mg dose of Urolithin A. It upgrades your body's cellular power grid - giving your body the energy it needs to optimize. And clinical studies have shown that 500mg of Urolithin A alone significantly increases muscle strength and endurance with no othe