10 Signs You’re Missing Essential Nutrients (And How to Fix It)

Well, excited to dive into this topic.

We see patients all the time with chronic gut health issues, chronic adrenal and hormonal issues.

And with that, there's lots of symptoms that can happen downstream when we're missing either certain nutrients in our diet or not absorbing certain nutrients because our gut's unhealthy, we're not making enough stomach acid enzymes or bile, or we're just under a lot of stress, right? So a common one is electrolytes.

Common deficiencies, when we're under a lot of stress, we're going to pee out electrolytes.

Very commonly, we're going to see it with magnesium.

Magnesium, we have over 300 plus enzymatic roles in the body, especially when we're consuming lots of glucose or more carbohydrate, especially the more processed, to run the Krebs cycle, the citric acid cycle, to generate, take that glucose, bring it through glycolysis, funnel that into acetyl-CoA.

Acetyl-CoA goes right around the Krebs cycle twice.

You're generating... three NADHs, one FADH2 each time.

So each time it turns twice, you're at six NADHs, two FADH2.

The hydrogens, those are kind of reducing their redox agents.

That means you've gained a bunch of electrons, i.e. these hydrogens, right? The NADH, the H is a hydrogen electron.

The FADH2, right? It goes FADH1 to 2.

So that extra H is an electron and that dumps into the electron transport chain and we generate 32 ATP.

So 32 ATP in the electron transport chain, two in citric acid and then another two in glycol.

So 36 to 38 total.

And that requires lots of nutrients to go around.

So some of the key ones that we're going to see in that when we get stressed, magnesium is a key one when we get stressed.

B vitamins, especially folate and B12 are also really key.

And we also see B6.

B6 is a very important one because it is one of the rate-limiting cofactors for our neurotransmitters to work.

Serotonin and dopamine rely on B6.

So when we start to have any craving issues, mood issues, sleep issues, that's going to be a big cofactor that can impact serotonin and melatonin, impact dopamine, adrenaline, etc.,

yeah and this is huge and only exponentially growing as a problem due to the soil degradation and the depletion of nutrients in the food supply we've talked about this before these papers that have come out from the usda and unfortunately in today's society you have to eat about 10 oranges to get the nutrient density of one orange from back in our great grandparents era say in the 1920s so if you're eating organic that's amazing Most of the people that reach out to us, they're already dialed in.