RECOVERY IS PARAMOUNT

Hi everyone!

Today, I thought I’d switch gears for a little bit and talk about the depletion of minerals and why they’re important.

First, the human body needs 90 essential nutrients: 60 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 amino acids, and 2-3 essential fatty acids. They’re called essential because our body’s cannot make them, and we have to consume them either through food or supplements.

However, there’s no way you can tell, by looking at a carrot, cabbage or tomato, that that vegetable has all the minerals in that you need.

Plants can’t make minerals, they aren’t genetically capable of making minerals. Plants get their minerals from the soil; but with dams previously built that stop with water washing the minerals off the mountains into the soil; the industrial revolution (1760-1840), and it’s increasing use of electronics, which urged people to convert from wooden pots and pans to electric stoves; and the modern agricultural methods which use herbicides, pesticide, and insecticides - well . . . you can just kiss minerals good bye!

What did the wood ashes contain? MINERALS. People were unknowingly putting minerals in their gardens because it’s what their grandmas taught them to do! Life lessons and all that.

What do herbicides and insecticides do? Deplete whatever minerals are left in the soil.

It’s no wonder our health is in a state! And what do the pharmaceutical companies do? Well, they prescribe over the counter medications that block natural processes in the body - stomach acid blockers (which prevent you from having sufficient stomach acid to break down carbs, fats and proteins, and absorbing nutrients), calcium blockers (which makes your absorption wore because you need calcium for the chief cells to make stomach acid!), blood pressure medication (when your body really needs the correct ratio of calcium and magnesium - this also effects your bones because your bones need these minerals).

Why is this important? Your body needs minerals and when you exercise you sweat out a soup full of minerals. Therefore, you must supplement and eat food, and drink water, and sleep, to sufficiently recover from exercise and fill up your tank.

Thanks for reading!

Brad

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