Maximize your health with minerals
How to avoid deficiencies and increase your energy and performance
I’m Brandon Wilson. I am constantly working toward improving my mind, body, and spirit using various ancient techniques and cutting-edge biohacking tools and devices. I want to be healthy, but not at the expense of being happy. This simple idea is what it means to be wellthy.
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In Dave Asprey’s new book Smarter Not Harder, he emphasizes the importance of minerals.
“A lack of raw materials is one of the biggest blockers of your energy, longevity, and performance.” - Smarter Not Harder, Pg. 33
Minerals contribute to the structure of your body and are required for proper enzyme function and energy transfer. If you are deficient in minerals, you will have low energy and probably other issues with overall performance.
There are three categories of minerals:
Macrominerals - Magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, chloride, phosphorus, and sulfur.
Trace minerals - Iron, copper, iodine, zinc, cobalt, manganese, and selenium
Ultratrace minerals - Found in tiny quantities in the Earth’s crust
You might think you get all the minerals you need from your diet. You eat minimally processed, organic, whole foods. You pay extra to get the good stuff. Maybe drop an entire check at Whole Foods. Did you know some “healthy” foods have antinutrients that bind to minerals and make them unusable for your body?
One example is phytic acid, a natural plant chemical and potent antinutrient. Phytic acid binds with minerals, making them unusable for your body. Humans don’t make meaningful amounts of the enzyme that cancels out phytic acid. Plants don’t want you to eat their babies, so seeds in all forms tend to be high in phytic acid. Our ancestors knew about this and used traditional processing techniques like sprouting the seeds and treating them with acid or fermenting them.1 Here are the top antinutrient foods that might be stealing your minerals.
Another reason you can’t get everything you need from food is our modern lifestyle. We don’t get enough sun. We are surrounded by synthetic materials, toxins, and indoor pollutants. EMFs are everywhere. Artificial light messes with our sleep. It’s challenging to unplug from technology.
On top of that, we’ve changed the environment through factory farming, extensive tilling, and industrial fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that deplete the soil of its minerals and cause health problems. Multiple studies have found that rising levels of carbon dioxide are reducing vitamins in food and cutting mineral concentrations by up to 15 percent.2
Let’s review. Even so-called healthy foods don’t have the minerals we need, and some foods have antinutrients that render the minerals present useless. Armed with this information, what do we do? One answer is to supplement strategically, and I’m boosting my minerals with a product from BEAM Minerals.
BEAM Minerals—The Multi-Mineral Solution
BEAM Minerals are organic, plant-based, and made from rainforests that decomposed millions of years ago. I take two products: Electrolyze™️ and Micro-Boost™️, which provide a full spectrum of electrolytes, trace minerals, micronutrients, amino acids, and some B vitamins in a 100% bioavailable, ionized format. Electrolyze™️ contains fulvic complexes that provide essential transportation for nutrients into the cells and bio-waste and toxins out of the cells. Fulvic complexes boost metabolism and provide exceptional immune system support. Micro-Boost™️ contains humic complexes that are significant antioxidants. They collect free radicals and bio-waste, bind with heavy metals, and provide necessary detoxification support.
If you take either one, you are miles ahead for mineral support, but if you combine the two, you’ll get the absolute best electrolyte and micronutrient support. One bottle will last you one month, taking a capful per day. If you take both, you only need 1/2 capful of each per day.
If you read my newsletter about my experience with the Vivoo home urine test, you might wonder how I scored 9.6/10. One reason is that when I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is drink a glass of clean water with my BEAM Minerals. No, it doesn’t have a funky taste. My energy is up, and I know my other supplements are working better.
For more information, listen to this podcast interview with Caroline Alan, co-founder and CEO of Beam Minerals.
If you want a cheaper option, Dave’s Suppgrade Labs offers a Minerals 101 formula. You can also pick up some Danger Coffee, a clean coffee with added minerals.
Minerals are not a nice-to-have; they are a must-have to support cellular function and give you the energy you need to be wellthy.
The Daily Habit is where I share my habits related to the fundamentals: sleep, diet, physical activity, mindfulness, and stress management.
I found this one courtesy of Ben Greenfield on Twitter. Dubbed the Greatest iPhone Health Hack of all Time, this tutorial shows you how to add four shortcut buttons on your iPhone: Red phone, Blue phone, Sleep, and Wake. These shortcuts change all the proper settings on your phone for each time period. I’m unfamiliar with Android functionality, but I found a guide to adjusting the blue light filter for Android.
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This week:
Which day is two days before the day after the day three days after the day before Tuesday?
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A year ago, I wrote about a tune-up for your digestive system called Oxy-Powder. I don’t need to take it often, but it works when I have digestive issues.
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From Smarter Not Harder Pg. 35
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30108-1/fulltext