29 - Real Talk - Personalized Nutrition & Nutrient Deficiencies Explained

In this episode of Real Talk, we’re breaking down the real reason your “healthy habits” might not be working: nutrient deficiencies.

If you’re eating clean, taking supplements, and still feeling tired, foggy, anxious, or inflamed—this one’s for you. Daniel and Gerardo unpack how stress, gut issues, medications, and food quality affect your ability to absorb and use nutrients, even when your labs look “normal.”

We dive into the top 5 deficiencies we see in practice, what symptoms to look out for, and why functional testing is the key to stopping the guesswork.

You’ll learn how to spot subtle signs of deficiency, what tests actually tell the truth, and how to build a targeted nutrition and supplement plan that works with your body—not against it.

Plus, Gerardo shares what changed when he fixed his own deficiencies, and Daniel explains how Mindful Objective helps clients get clear answers and real results with personalized lab testing and wholesale supplement pricing.

🎧 Listen now and take the first step toward rebuilding your energy, clarity, and long-term health—one nutrient at a time.

📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. Always consult a healthcare professional before making dietary changes. By listening to this podcast, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to this disclaimer.

If today’s conversation helped reframe your symptoms or sparked a question of your own, share the episode with someone who could benefit. For more insights, resources, and ways to connect, visit ⁠⁠⁠mindfulobjective.com⁠⁠⁠

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Healing doesn’t happen all at once, but each question, each step, and each small win adds up. This episode is a reminder that the answers you’re seeking often begin by asking the right questions.

Stay Well!

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome to Real Talk, the podcast where we get honest
about what's really going on in your body and how to take
control of your health. I'm your host doctor Daniel
Sproule, integrative health practitioner and professor.
And today we're breaking down something that many people
struggle with, nutrient deficiencies and why eating
healthy sometimes isn't enough. If you ever felt like you're
doing it right by eating clean, taking your vitamins, maybe even

(00:20):
tracking macros, but you're still tired, foggy, anxious, or
even stuck, this one's for you. Because the truth is,
personalized nutrition is a missing link, right?
And today, we're going to unpackwhat's really going on
underneath your symptoms and howto fix it.
Hey y'all, I'm Gerardo Ortega your Co host.
I've had moments like this before just in general living

(00:44):
life but I still felt like garbage.
Looking forward to getting into this because I think a lot of
people are just out there guessing their way through
nutrition, taking whatever they see on social media, whatever is
out there, whatever is popular at the moment.
Yeah, just another video, another product sold.

(01:04):
It takes time. We've said this many times in
the podcast before. It's this is not overnight.
Yeah, it takes time. We're here to get you healthy.
As a quick reminder, this podcast for information on
educational purposes only. We do not diagnose, cure, or
treat any illness or disease. So let's get into it and talk
about why just eating better isn't always the answer.
You can eat all right foods and still be nutrient deficient.

(01:25):
I don't think a lot of people know that.
No, I and these are some of the things I've struggled with
before. Right.
And I'm not just talking about folks who live on fast food and
soda. People who are really trying
meal prepping, eating organic, hitting the gym, taking
supplements, and still feel tired, foggy, anxious and stuck.
I see in my practice every single week they come
frustrated, wondering what am I doing wrong?

(01:46):
And the answer usually isn't what you're doing wrong.
It's about what their body isn'tabsorbing and or what it's
burning through faster than theycan replenish.
But we see that a lot with electrolytes.
People burn a lot of electrolytes and they do not
replenish them. So they wonder why they have
these symptoms. But you do.
So here's things that most people don't realize.
Your body's nutrients needs aren't static.

(02:09):
They shift with stress, lifestyle, medication, age,
sleep quality, digestive health,and even your trauma history.
So even if you're eating clean, such as greens, lean protein
smoothies, you can still be missing key nutrients like the
magnesium, B12, iron, zinc or your Omega threes, I think,
Geraldo, you learn that? Yeah.
I've been there and I've been there and I've been working all

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day outside, sweating a lot, noteating the best food out there
as well with coming home and doing side projects, cutting the
grass and just dragging through the day.
I've noticed as well now, like even in days like I've said this
before, I'm comparing this year me to last year me.
I'm running a lot better now, taking the correct needs as far

(02:55):
as supplements as far as just a tiny changes with adding the
electrolytes in my water. Yeah, because I think that's
where a lot of people don't understand how important a
multivitamin S for one, but they're very important.
And it it just goes in differentdirections to it's like you do
have those people that work out a lot, eat a lot, eat proper and

(03:17):
like just saying, what am I doing wrong?
And it's not always what you're doing wrong.
It's like it says it's your body's not absorbing it.
And we saw that in the organic acid test.
We may see you're taking vitaminC and stuff.
And then we look at the test andyou know what, you're not, your
body's not absorbing this. So let's look more deeper into
that why it's not. And I think you see that with

(03:37):
the food sensitivity test. Yes, no, that was for me, that
was an IE and not an eyesore, but it was a, it's kind of like
shock to me, exactly an eye opener to me.
It's I was eating things that weren't sitting right in my body
that were causing me harm to me.Technically they were comfort
foods like my yogurt parfaits, having almond milk in my coffee

(04:02):
and then finding out that I'm that I have a low sensitivity to
almonds. So I was instead of helping
myself, switching out the Dairy Milk products to almond product.
It was causing me more harm thangood.
Yeah, and that's where a lot of people's, they'll say, oh, I
take so much protein. I we always know, like we talked
before, a lot of people are sensitive to these protein

(04:24):
shakes, pea protein, whey protein.
That's me. It all depends.
For me too. It's like that's why I'm
limited. And if I do have protein shakes,
I do them in a like low quantity.
If it requires you to do a full scoop and a full scoops, 3040
grams of protein, that's too much for me to have at once when
it comes to a protein shake. Now, if it's two chicken breast,
no issues. But if it's a protein shake, so

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it's something in there, it's just doesn't mix well with
myself. All the preservatives that they
have to add in it just for it tohave a longer shelf life me
personally I do and I would recommend anybody my body
health. It's the perfect aminos that to
me, no issues, no no digestive issues, no cramps, none of that

(05:06):
stuff. Versus you have all the popular
pre made protein products out there.
They're good, they have great flavors, but quite frankly they
don't sit well with me. Not just with me, but in my gut
alone. Yeah.
I think the big thing is when you have those protein shakes,
is that bloating feeling? Yeah.
Or people feel gassy and stuff afterward.
It's just not worth it. No, not at all.

(05:28):
Yeah, you go to have that shake because you want to get the
protein and then you feel like garbage afterwards.
You're like, I'm not doing this again.
I agree. And that's the case if you're
going to spend already, let's see, what are they like a four
pack of proteins? What are we talking about?
Like. 10/12/15. Months.
Yeah, that why don't just go to the store and buy chicken breast
and have it right after you either before or after you work

(05:49):
out. Just have it pre.
Made yeah, I think that's where a lot of people struggle too
with prepping, but that's where you can use trifecta or some of
those other ones too. Depends what your budget's in
for and how often you eat and stuff and I guess what kind of
meals you do too. Are you vegan?
Are you paleo or you eat meat? And then if not, it's and
sometimes it's very hard to get enough protein on plant based

(06:10):
diet. That is hard, yes, and not
everything you eat. And even for the vegetarians,
some of them might just eat lentils and their veggies.
But me personally, I don't thinkit's still enough.
I feel like they need a lot of the seven, not some, but most of
the nutrients that meat actuallyhas in it.
Oh yeah, because that's a big one is a lot of vegans and stuff

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are deficient like B vitamins, B12 and stuff.
It's because you can't get that without having meat or taking a
supplement. And I think a lot of people
struggle not knowing that there's nutrient deficiencies
out there, right? But that's where everything
goes. The staple of is the staple of
your foundation is nutrition. And people hear that, but I

(06:53):
don't think they listen to that.They don't, they don't
acknowledge, they don't want to truly let their actual guard
down and finally break it down and say, OK, what do I really
need? What's really going on?
Because one of the things a lot of people say too on these
different protocols and stuff too, you have to be, if there's
a diet plan that goes with it, you have to be very specific to

(07:14):
that diet plan, such as you're doing a 21 day detox or Candida
protocol or anything like that. The reason you need to be
specific to certain diets is because it's different than a
pharmaceutical, right? You have a pharmaceutical that's
very strong that works to kill whatever bacteria and stuff
versus you doing this via nutrition, the healthy way.

(07:35):
It just takes longer and you have to be more precise because
food's going to help heal. So people just need to eat the
right thing and follow the rightscript and get to the right
place. But a lot of people do not know
about nutrient deficiencies. And I think that's where we talk
more about people should still take a multivitamin.
But you hear some people say, oh, again, we mentioned a

(07:55):
different podcast, but you live in a, you don't live in a third
world country, you don't need a multivitamin.
And that's just not true and we could show a test after test
that proves that you need a multivitamin.
How would how else would anybodybe vitamin D deficiency if
you're getting it, if you're getting the sun daily me and I'm
still deficient. Yeah, so it goes again.

(08:16):
Why is your body not absorbing it properly or making it?
It's a trial by error. You have to learn these things,
do different testing and see howyou feel.
Again, for those that do take vitamin D supplements, it takes
your body like three to six months for your levels to get
optimal, which are around like 50 to 80, not 30.
So now your normal labs might come back.
Oh, as long as you're at 30 you're OK, but that's not

(08:38):
optimal. And you're feeling like crap.
Yeah, so definitely increase that and stuff too because it's
a it helps regulate hormones andstuff too.
So it's a common story, right? People assume they're eating a
nutrient rich foods, their body must be using them efficiently
and that's not right. Digestion, stress and
inflammation, these are things that block absorption.
So you could eat the best diet in the world and still feel like

(08:59):
garbage. And even if your gut isn't is
working. So let's break down 4 big
reasons why you could be doing everything right and still feel
off. Have any guess what one of those
would be? The one I struggle the most.
Gut health. Yeah, exactly.
So if your stomach acid is low, enzymes are weak, and your gut
lining is damaged, you're not breaking down food properly.
That means that less nutrient extraction and more

(09:21):
deficiencies, even on a great diet.
And this is a lot of people. Oh, I hear it all the time.
I eat healthy. Let's look at that.
But what is healthy, and I've said this already, with anybody
that's eating the correct way, awell balanced diet, a lot of
people will consider, oh, you'redieting?
No, I'm just eating right for mybody.

(09:41):
I'm not buying a cheeseburger every day.
It's just now I'm eating for myself, not just to please my
little cravings that I have for half an hour.
Yeah, and people remember they say 21 days is habit.
So the first 21 days are struggle when you change your
lifestyle. So just keep that in mind and if
you hear my voice a little different, my allergies are
going nuts because that's great.Illinois weather or that dust

(10:05):
storm that we had with the for last Friday.
Yeah, one week ago. How's the government?
And I wouldn't put it, I wouldn't put it past them, but a
lot of people that didn't have any allergy issues all of a
sudden became very sensitive to allergies this past week.
So. They're out to get us.
Shout out to Zyrtec. Yeah, So another one would be

(10:27):
nutrient depleting medications, which a lot of people do not
think that they didn't, they're not aware of this, but birth
control antacids, metformin, SSRI statins, these all drain
nutrients like B6B12, magnesium,folate and Co, CoQ10, Co Q10.
You might not feel the effect immediately, but over time it

(10:47):
adds up. So how many people are on tons
of medications out there and they're eating proper, but
that's they're the medications causing the problem?
And you would think the doctors ain't going to prescribe these
medications and also let you know, hey, just an FYI, these
medications will deplete your nutritions like vitamin B6B12,
magnesium, folate and or the Co Q10.

(11:11):
If that was the case, I don't think nobody would want to even
go back to doctors because they would say, hey, I'm taking my,
I'm taking the prescription thatyou're giving me.
But then again, you're also telling me to take a handful of
supplements that I'm going to get depleted from.
Yeah, and no fault of the medical doctors themselves is
they don't do the research in this stuff.
No, so they don't not they, mostof them do not know this

(11:33):
information. And again, we do have good
medical doctors out there and medical doctors that are into
integrative health too, but theydo not do the research.
So you are your own advocate. So you, if you're being
prescribed the medication, do research.
Is it worth taking? Is it they're beneficial?
What's it going to do to your body?
And if you're on medications now, you know, you got to do

(11:55):
that research. But the hard thing on it is you
see so many people on multiple medications, so how do they
interact with each other and what are they doing to your body
internally? That right there is that part
alone is scary just because evenbeing part of the volunteer
fireman with you and I can't remember it's been many moons,

(12:17):
but I know it was there. If a certain patient has, I
don't know, it was oxygen like alike a having assistance with
oxygen. There was a certain medication
that you couldn't pump in them because they would block and you
would cause more damage. I don't remember what it was,
but so chief, if you're listening to this, I'm sorry.

(12:38):
Yeah. So if so, if you're on oxygen,
don't smoke. Exactly.
So another one would be chronic stress.
Stress depletes magnesium, B vitamins and vitamin C.
It also shuts down digestion, which effects how you absorb
what you eat. And we see this lot on organic
acid test. People are very stressed out.
We could see it in that organic acid test.

(12:58):
And a lot of times high stress, we see very low vitamin C.
God. Now question real quick side
note for that for the chronic stress, for anybody dealing with
chronic with chronic stress, could it get better by them
taking a multi plus a vitamin C can those can they see like a
reduction in the stress levels? You got to change your lifestyle

(13:19):
factors. But in general, yeah, when
you're depleting on stuff, it's easier to get more anxious and
get more angry and all that stuff too, because your brain
chemicals and stuffs out of whack, like we're talking
earlier is hormones. All your nutrients in general
just falls out of place. That's why we're here to
rebalance the body. And people don't realize like
how important B vitamin is for your mental state until you're

(13:42):
on it for six weeks, 8 weeks. And then I had a lot of clients
who come to me and be like, man,it's night and day difference.
And they no longer take like Xanax because of the B complex
has helped a lot. So there are other opportunities
out there for you to do and do to try.
But again, I always work with your primary care physician if
you plan to take supplements andif you're on any kind of

(14:02):
medications and stuff like that too.
So just something to know, but you could always reach out if
you have any questions. Another one.
Here's my one of my big issues for years and years as
repetitive meals. So clean diet isn't always a
diverse one. If you eat the same 10 foods
over and over, even if they're healthy, you may be missing
entire groups of nutrients. The repetitive meal thing, it's

(14:28):
it for some people it sucks, Some others they love it because
it's a no. It's a no brainer.
They just pop it in the in the microwave.
But for me, eating the same thing for the past nine years, a
bag of chips, my boring sandwiches and on and off.
I would either have a soda, but lately I just been drinking
water with electrolytes just because it's been getting
warmer. But man, it's just it's tough,

(14:50):
but I wouldn't want it any otherway.
There's sometimes that like every second week on the week
and I'll I'll indulge and I'll have a cheeseburger, but it's
just it's that's when that's nowme eating better definitely has
had it's like benefits because I'm not, I'm not popping

(15:12):
ibuprofen every other work day because I got a headache.
It's just eating better, gettingbetter sleep, not consuming so
much garbage so you won't feel like a trash can.
So just over the last year, did you notice a reduction in those
ibuprofen? Yes, and not to mention I also
found out I did. I don't take them anymore.
But then with me getting involved with all this, with the

(15:34):
supplements, nutrition and getting cracking down like on
what's actually in these medication, pain meds, like a
lot of this stuff hurts your microbiome in your gut.
So you might think that you're helping it or you might have a
headache. Yeah, let me just pop to Tynos.
And then later on you do your own research and then you find

(15:55):
out I might have been causing more harm to my gut versus a
headache that I had for a littlewhile.
So it's as of lately my gut health has been a lot better.
Yeah, I just noticed a lot of people too that take over the
counter prescriptions such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen and
stuff too. They end up with more rebound
issues. No, of course, the more you take

(16:16):
it, the more issues you have. Now you have gut issues, but
before you went from a headache to where, hey, if that worked on
a headache and then the next day, now you have a headache
again or the day after and it's just repetitive.
It just doesn't go away. It becomes a habit and it
becomes a habit and it's, I got a light headache coming out.
Let me just go ahead and take a pill now.
And it's, it's not about that. You got to figure out why it's
coming and what are you doing? What did you have to eat the day

(16:39):
before? Are you sensitive to a specific
food that could be causing the headache?
Yeah, it turns into an addiction, Yeah.
I don't want to say I was, but for me it was like maybe every
3rd day I would get a headache. Yeah, every 3rd day and I was
just now it's rare. It's rare and I'll figure it
out. It's OK.
Is it a sinus pressure? Do I have to take a nasal spray?
Are my eyes dry? That's what I've always dealt

(17:00):
with, like having dry eyes, but taking the multi are Yeah,
taking the multi, taking my night supplements along with the
fish oil I've had. I've noticed that I haven't
really dealt with dry eyes in a while, but I still take my night
eye drops. So just I don't it's a habit
now, but it's all a habit now. Yeah, and you get your body used
to it, just like they say other medication stuff too.

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But it's, I think a lot of people, one, they're not going
to know a lot about nutrient deficiencies or how it affects
them. Two, they don't know that the
medications cause a lot of this and stress.
So learning that those are important factors.
Hopefully you learn that from this podcast.
But you think, OK, if I am you are out there and you're taking

(17:42):
these medications, what are theydoing to your body?
And maybe you need to run that organic acid test to see where
are you deficient these nutrients because the organic
acid tests will show bacteria overgrowth, fungal overgrowth.
They'll also show neurotransmitters.
They'll show your vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin B's.
It's a lengthy test and it has alot of great information in

(18:04):
there. It's definitely recommended.
So for anybody out there that may have a concern, feel free to
reach out and we can run that test.
This is why we always talk aboutpersonal nutrition, that mindful
objective, not because it soundscool, but it does sound cool.
Though it it does, I think it sounds cool.
I think it's awesome. Yeah, I think everybody's grows
up hearing about nutrition, but they don't understand what
nutrition is. Not until they become unhealthy.

(18:27):
That and more aware of what's really going on.
OK, this cheeseburger that I hada what is it a Daily double or
something like that with the lettuce, I had lettuce in it.
But but I'm not calling this is no shots to anybody that's
having meals like that because and especially for my mail
carriers, they're walking out there just as much as I am.

(18:47):
So if they need 5 to 800 calories of a boost just to get
by, I support it. What would you do if a mobile
porta potty follows you around like, oh, I'll get some business
from this mail carrier? Depends how much they're
charging, but I will use it. I would for sure use it.
Good business. Idea.
Good business idea, yeah. Yeah, again, a lot of people

(19:07):
don't know about nutrient deficiencies.
We know there's a lot of misinformation.
I'm not sure if you saw two but RFK how I think the manual for
Nutritions 500 and something pages and now it's going to be 4
pages. It's just keeping it simple.
That's all it is now. Yeah, do not follow that food
pyramid. I do not agree with that.
It's not good at all. But yeah, it's your body has its

(19:30):
own unique needs, how it processes stuff, how it stores
stuff and how it utilizes nutrients.
So multivitamins help, but many people poorly absorb them.
They miss key forms, are just not strong enough to meet the
body's real demands. Are you really stressed?
Is that multivitamin barely scratching the surface?
At least it's something, especially for people who have
horrible diets. At least it's something to get

(19:53):
some kind of nutrition. You know, and I agree, a lot of
people would take supplements without knowing if it's A and
I'm screwed up. I can't think about it right
now, but it's just they'll take a multivitamin and an empty
stomach. Oh.
Yeah, No thanks. That's not going to go anywhere.
It's not going to do nothing foryou if it's having a fatty
substance with it. As far as if it's an avocado

(20:15):
toast, a hand of a handful of nuts, just anything rich in
nutrition would help. And navigate the multivitamin to
the correct spots that they are need that they're needed in.
But when you're taking a supplement on an empty stomach,
it's not doing you any justice or good at all.
Yeah, plus taking supplements without knowing your levels is

(20:38):
trying to fill a tank without checking the gauge.
You could be under filling or overflowing, and that's where we
were. So many people are blindly
taking supplements like we said because I saw it on TikTok
video. I just got to do TikTok and
probably be a billionaire prettyquick.
Yeah, you need to get a TikTok, but if you're anything like me
right now, my TikTok is full of caring for chickens and tools

(21:01):
and that's about it. Just those two things, caring
for chickens and in tool videos,that's all I'm getting right now
and some nutritional stuff, but it's just, it takes time away
from me. Yeah.
I got to do it and at some pointI know I got to get a TikTok out
there for the business, but that's just so many things going
on. I need a good hire, a good video

(21:21):
and editor. I know a couple.
Of immediate people. So if you're out there eating
and you still feel off, don't assume you're broken.
You're probably just missing something specific.
And that's where we're here to unpack this next part here we're
going to be talking more about nutrient deficiencies before
they show up on a lab test. So again, just like your labs

(21:41):
from your medical doctor, when you go for your yearly labs,
your yearly physical and they run those labs, if they detect
something, that's when it's really bad.
So that's not where you want to be.
And I feel like there's a huge difference where people don't
really understand from a medicalteam, when you get their blood
work, it's like a look over and that's it.

(22:03):
All right, everything's fine, you're OK.
But when it comes to integrativehealth and getting extensive
blood work, we go in deep to seewhat little micro things are
bothering you. What's going on is, is it a, is
it a supplement deficiency? Is it a just the minor details
as far as your thyroid? Are both parts of your thyroid

(22:25):
Your thyroid is running good? Again, we work at the
subclinical level, not the clinical level.
Medical doctor works at the clinical level.
They looked at the higher the top overall how you're doing.
We look at subclinical to look at the little details like
Geraldo saying to identify what's not showing up on those

(22:45):
clinical tests. And oh, where we see it
differently is we see, hey, yourbody stress, you're depleted on
vitamin C and these BS because of this stress.
You're not going to get that in your routine conventional blood
work. So that's what we do
differently. So let's talk about something
that trips up a lot of people. You can be nutrient deficient
and never hear a word from your doctor, right?

(23:06):
That's what we just said. Why?
Because most standard labs don'tgo deep enough.
They only catch things that are really bad.
Like I was saying before, they look at those clinical
deficiencies, not functional ones.
And again, if you get to the point where you go in and your
doctors, hey, your A1C is bad, it took a while to get there and
we could have saw that way earlier.

(23:27):
Yeah, they know it's we're here to prevent long term issues.
And I've said this before many times, If I could do what I need
to do now to prevent myself fromtaking horse medication in the
future, I'm going to do what I can.
And if I don't have a healthy body, I don't have a healthy
mindset, I can't provide for my family, and everything else

(23:49):
trickles down after that. Yeah, like we always say, we
definitely believe in Western medicine.
You get a heart attack, go to the hospital.
You get in a car accident, go tothe hospital, but subclinical in
your daily life, there's no way it should be specific to a
medical doctor. That's not what they do.
No, they're there to treat the symptoms.
So you break your arm, hurt yourarm, they're there to give you a

(24:11):
pain pill. They're not there to say, you
know what, this is causing that arm pain.
Exactly. Or the muscle tightness they
don't get, they don't get too involved in your life.
They just want to give you a prescription and get you out
because they have somebody else waiting in a different room.
They don't. They're not taking the time to
invest in you and get to know you.
Yeah. So just remember, there's good

(24:32):
news. Your body gives you signals way
before things go completely off the rails.
That's where these symptoms comeinto play.
So you just need to know what tolook for.
You could start addressing deficiencies early before they
become chronic symptoms. And there's a lot of people out
there at this stage during your chronic symptom, but it still
could be addressed and rebalancethe body and you could heal.
Just takes time. So let's run through some common

(24:54):
signs of low nutrients that mostpeople miss or misinterpret.
Craving chocolate or sugar constantly?
That could be a magnesium deficiency.
Waking up tired even after 8 hours sleep might be low on B12,
iron or another 1B Vitamin D tingling in your hands and feet.
B12 or folate might be low, coldhands and feet.

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That's a red flag for thyroid nutrients, especially iron and
selenium here thinning brittle nails, dry skin.
This could be zinc, protein or your Omega threes.
Irritability or anxiety for no clear reason.
Think about magnesium or B6 headaches or muscle cramps.
This is often linked to magnesium, calcium or potassium,

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right? The electrolytes, that's where
they help there a lot light sensitivity or trouble seeing at
night. vitamin A or zinc might be to culprit.
So again, none of these are random.
These are whispers of your body saying, hey, something's running
low. I had no idea that magnesium was
tied to that. It was tied to, like a sweet
tooth. Yeah.
I just thought that's what I hadman, to be honest.

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Yeah, it's, I think a lot of people out there and I just a
reminder, Dave doesn't like sandwiches.
That's true. Yeah.
OK. I know.
For as hard as that man works, he deserves a steak dinner.
Yeah, I love sandwiches though that.
Would be too like I that's my goto because I don't have, like I
said this before, I don't have anice break room to go and relax.
I used to get calf cramps after work and then I figured it was

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hydration. That's why I think This is why
I'm so on the board with electrolytes.
I got people that worked there with me.
Oh yeah, I drink 2 gallons of water, but just water alone
isn't enough. It's if I could have an
electrolyte vending machine at the post office, I will.
Yeah, one of the things too, andthis was all from the like, EMT

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stuff, all that back then or theremember and all that stuff was
I was out with Aaliyah, my daughter, my youngest, and we're
walking through a store and she came, grabbed my arm.
She's like, dad, I'm going to pass out.
And then boom, she hit the floor.
I thought I was walking her likeout.
And I thought she's going to be fine.

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Oh, she's just being dramatic. And then within seconds, boom,
she hit the floor. I, I held her while she was
going down. I gently put her down, put a
coat under her head. And I knew right away in my head
that she's dehydrated. The thing is, she had these
spells like once a year, always around like February, March.
So could be anything. But then come to find out right

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away, I knew based on her symptoms, because she woke up
right away. As soon as I lifted her head up
a little bit, I knew, OK, it's based on hydration.
Her electrolytes must be off. And I thought this is like the
third time it happened in three years.
I'm just going to, while this happened to her and she has
these symptoms, I'm going to take her to the ER, Took her to
the ER. But before I took her there, I
was like, I'm going to get you aGatorade, gave her a Gatorade,

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got to the ER, she drank the Gatorade, started waking up and
she was more coherent. We got in there and there for
three or four hours for nothing.I, my main thing was she's here.
Let them run tests so I could prove to everybody this is what
it is. And she ran those tests and they
came back in and doc said, oh, the nurse told her this.
This was like weird nurse. Oh, as a teen, it's normal to

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pass out a few times a month. What?
Get out of. Here, that's what I said.
I said when is that normal? I she's all know it's normal
because teens get anxiety. I was like, that has nothing to
do with anxiety. She's dehydrated.
And I said let's run labs, all this stuff.
So they finally ran labs. The doctor came in and stuff.
He's Oh yeah, he's she's good togo now.
I was like, we've been here 3 hours, nobody said what's wrong

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yet. I want to see the labs and the
surprise thing to me they're like, oh, after the age of 11 or
something. Whatever law that was passed
that I'm not as a parent allowedto see the labs though the kid
has to approve you too and you have to sign some waiver or
something online before you're able to get it.
Either way, I got the labs and Iwhen I was talking to the

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doctor, I told him how are her, how's her sodium and stuff
levels? He's oh, they're low on here.
So he's and I was like, they're low normal right now.
And she just had a full Gatorade.
So that's why she's getting better.
I said, how come you guys still haven't given her AIV 3 hours
and you're just saying now Oh yeah, she looks dehydrated and
stuff. So I had to force them to get

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AIV and then they finally gave in.
It's like, oh, it looks like this caused by hydration.
I was like, then why did she sayit's normal to pass out a couple
times a month as a teen? I was like, this is ridiculous
advice. But in the end, Long story
short, sorry everybody, she was drinking like 2 gallons of water
a day and it depleted all her sodium and all that out of her

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system. So now she just drinks
electrolytes and it's been a couple of years and she hasn't
had any issues whatsoever. And she hasn't passed out.
No, she don't get light headed nothing and that's what it was.
She was over drinking regular water.
And what happens when any patient goes into the hospital?
What do they spike? What is a spike egg?
Yeah, they're supposed to do it.But I seen even talking to my

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eldest daughter Danielle, they haven't been even if she had to
go to emergency room and stuff, they weren't giving her I VS at
least she knows all this medicalstuff and she's like me on the
side of medical. Like she done so much research.
She knows her body, she knows what to do or not to do.
She could tell the doctor like blindly, this is what's wrong.
This what you need to do all this stuff and they don't like

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to hear it and. And I think that's what sucks.
It's, it's just like anybody, anybody telling you how to do
your own job, you know, like, I know what I'm doing.
And it's the same for doctors. But they don't see how in tune
most of us are with their bodiesthat we know what we actually
need. So they're just going to blindly
take the test, wait to get a result.
The labs are tied up. So now you got to wait even

(30:38):
longer. Just like my dad.
He was in the hospital a couple days ago.
A home nurse went to go take a look at them and said, you know
what, you don't sound too good. Your, your oxygen levels are
really low. What do they do?
They just, they loaded him up into the ambulance, took him to
the hospital. They were there for think it was
four to five hours just to let them know, oh, we're just giving

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them some, some antibiotics for the for the phlegm that's in his
lungs. That was it.
Nothing else, No oxygen, no nothing.
And it's like that could have been an easy fix to do a quick
X-ray. All right, this is what's going
on, but they're going to drag itout.
They do and is if your insuranceis paying for five day hospital
stay, they're staying 5. Days.
Exactly. So yeah, if you go to your

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doctor and you say I'm tired, I can't focus, my hair is falling
out, then run basic labs, which is usually CBCCMP, maybe even
vitamin D, and those come back in the range.
They say you're fine, but functional medicine looks at a
different scale. We want optimal again, we're not
want those fine levels. We want optimal levels.
Not just you're not sick. So let me be clear, I'm not anti

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lab testing. Labs are incredibly helpful, but
you don't need a lab to start listening to your symptoms.
That's actually encouraging to hear.
A lot of people don't have access to expensive testing, but
they do have symptoms though. That's the problem.
They have the symptoms, they just don't have the resources to
be able to test. That and how many people just
blindly dressed a medical doctor, no questions asked.

(32:03):
That again, from an integrated perspective, you should run
these functional labs up clinically.
This is what we could identify your nutrient deficiencies and
stuff. Oh, no, no, thank you.
But then they'll go to the doctor, spend $1000 on labs and
doctors go, you're fine. And they're like, oh, I'm fine.
But then they have all these health issues.
How about take this prescription, Your insurance may

(32:24):
not cover it. You got to pay me 500 bucks
every three months or something like that.
Just something wild. It's but I've definitely
learned, you know, to just startpaying attention to how I feel
instead of just brushing things off even it's just like the dry
skin, the mood stuff that might feel normal.
I know I shouldn't be putting itoff.
Yeah, I'm with you then. Like we say about tracking your

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symptoms, right? When clients track symptoms like
craving, sleep, energy crashes, bloating, mood swings, patterns
emerge. And those patterns point towards
nutrient needs. And I think you learned that
after me yelling at you. No, that it's yes.
I'll never let that down. Yeah, so let's do a quick
example. So woman feels irritable, gets
migraines and craves chocolate around her cycle.

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Standard answer? What would it be?
They're the time of the month, but we all know, yes, it's PMS,
yeah. But if we look closer, she's low
on magnesium, B6 and zinc, and those are all crucial for
hormone balance. What do we do?
We replenish those and suddenly PMS doesn't knock her out for
five days every month. Do you think our wives would get
mad at us? Instead of giving them chocolate

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as they requested and we have them, we give them a handful of
a magnesium, AB6A, zinc just to be like here you go, take these
instead. If they get mad then they're PMS
saying oh. But you don't want to tell them
that. No way.
Yeah, so if your body feels off,trust that you don't need to
diagnose yourself. You just need to be curious and
take the next step. So now let's talk more about a
deficiencies that you can't ignore.

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So we laid the groundwork. We talked about the top five
nutrient deficiencies that we see most often, even in people
who eat well and try to live healthy.
These aren't just common, they're foundational.
So when one or more of those arelow, your body struggles, your
metabolism slows, your energy tanks, your mood swings, your
craving spike. Worst of all, you're just

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starting to think just you. It's not you.
So let's walk through them one by one.
One common one we say is magnesium, right?
This is the powerhouse men are involved in 300 enzyme reactions
in your body and helps regulate your nervous system, sleep
cycles, muscle function, blood sugar and even your response to
stress. Common signs you're low.

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What would they be, Geraldo? Or any low signs when you were
talking about anxiety. Muscle cramps and twitches,
especially around the eyes. That's when you know you're low
on magnesium. Poor sleep, Constipation,
headaches, migraines, feeling wired but tired.
Yeah, magnesium is one of the first things to do when you're
stressed. It also depleted by caffeine.

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That's another thing that dehydrates people that they
don't know is caffeine. How many people drink coffee
before drinking anything? Or especially electrolytes?
At least if you're going to drink coffee, drink electrolytes
after. I drink electrolytes before and
after and it's just as much as Ilove my coffee.
I would take a big cup of my coffee and then just take a
little sip of my of the water. I don't know.
It's just that's just in my mindthinking I don't want to fully

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deplete myself and that's the headaches are gone pretty much.
Yeah, the other thing too is people don't know sugar.
I think alcohol and certain medications like antacids and
diuretics will do it too. So another one that we talk
about all the time is vitamin D.It's technically a hormone.
Vitamin D is critical for immunefunction, bone health, your
mood, hormone regulation. And a lot of people always think

(35:41):
it's just a sunshine vitamin that's useless if you live near
the equator, get sun exposure. But we know that's not the case
when we run labs. And what do we see?
What are common signs of this? The common low signs of vitamin
D? We're talking about fatigued,
frequent infections, low mood orseasonal depression, joint pain

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or mono imbalance. Yeah, Optimum vitamin D helps
your body regulate inflammation,which a lot of people don't
know, helps you produce serotonin anxiety.
You think about that and chemical issues, you're low on
vitamin D. It even helps you absorb calcium
properly. Another one would be B vitamins,
which we talked about a lot. This is critical for energy,
brain health and detoxification.So they need, they're needed in

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general to help make red blood cells and neurotransmitters.
Again, neurotransmitters goes back to the brain, anxiety,
depression, all that stuff too. B vitamins are very important
and they help your liver processed toxins.
So what are some common signs ofa low B vitamins?
Brain fog, low motivation, tingling in the hands or feet,

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anxiety or panic attacks, anemiaor shortness of breath.
Yeah, and what about if you're avegan or vegetarian?
Cheese. I can't even Yeah it you're low
on. Everything, yeah, you're more at
risk, right? B12 is found primarily in animal
based foods again. So if you're vegan or vegetarian
and you're not eating meat, you're not getting B12.
That's where you need to take a supplement.

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And if you're taking antacids orhave gut issues, absorption is
also compromised. For a vegan person, would you
recommend them taking? AB complex and you may need
additional B12 specifically. Got it.
OK, that's it's good to know forthose that are out there that
are vegan, make sure you pause, write it down that way you don't
forget and make AAB complex and AB12A priority.

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Yeah, 100%. One of the things I have to say
too is I didn't get a lot of migraines until, this is man, a
decade ago. But I went vegan for a couple
years and the I started with non-stop migraines.
That's what started the whole migraine nightmare was going
vegan and in the end running labs and stuff.
I was super super deficient, pretty much everything.

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Wow. So I learned the hard way, but I
messed my body up for life because of that.
It was supposed to happen for usto be here at this moment
because if you were eating, if you were eating meat and eating
like trash, you would have nevergotten the test you needed to be
in this position that we're. In the Oh, yeah, no.
Yeah. All worked out for a reason.
Another one would be zinc. Zinc's a major one.

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It plays a role in your immune function, skin health, hormone
production and also your wound healing.
It's also needed to make stomachacid, so deficiency can become a
vicious cycle that worsens digestion.
What are some common signs of a low zinc?
Acne or skin rashes. Slow wound healing.
Low libido, Hair loss or thinning.

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Loss of taste or smell. White spots on your nails.
Yeah, zinc is also crucial for testosterone production in men
and egg quality in women. So another one that a lot of
people harp on is Omega threes. These anti-inflammatory fats are
essential, meaning your body can't make them.
You have to get them from food or supplements.

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And I'm not a seafood person, soit's coming via supplement.
I don't like fish. Yeah.
I love my Omega and I noticed a difference that is my I know you
had asked a couple weeks ago what's your wow or what do you
noticed? I noticed when I don't take my
Omega, that's when I noticed. Oh yeah huge, especially when
your omega-3 to Omega 6 ratio gets off causes a lot of

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inflammation and body aches and everything else.
But people don't realize becauseit still takes time for your
body to get your levels up and stuff too.
So give it time. Take omega-3.
You want to take at least like 2G so you could get this too by
fish. Wild caught fish, flax seeds and
walnuts are all good sources butmost people fall short.
So unless you're eating a lot offish, maybe live in Hawaii or
something or near coast, you might get enough Omega threes

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but it's not always. So what's common signs of a low
Omega threes? Dry skin or dandruff?
Joint pain or stiffness? Depression or mood swings, Poor
memory or focus? That's a big one right there,
and excessive inflammation. Yeah, low Omega threes are
linked to everything from heart disease to cognitive decline to

(40:06):
autoimmune flare ups. I was, I know for a fact that I
was low on magnesium, but I had no clue that once I started
supplementing with magnesium glycinate, my sleep, my muscle
tension improved almost immediately.
I would take I take it every once in a while, but not every
once in a it's once every other day.
But I've also noticed a huge difference in the mood focus

(40:30):
after adding on the omegas. That's why I say now I cannot.
I Omegas will always be stocked up.
Yeah, at my house. You're taking zinc and stuff
too, right? Yeah.
That's yeah, those are all my night.
Speaking about supplements, I'm running low on vitamin C so I
might have to just hit your stats before I leave today.
Yeah, so that's why your libido's up.
Exactly. No, I said I'm low.

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Yeah, I didn't say I'm out of it, but I probably have two
more, 2, two more capsules left.Yeah, so these nutrients are an
extra, they're foundational. We want to focus on
foundational. Even if one of these are
missing, your entire system can be throw off.
Again, it's and people don't realize you, you take all these
supplements all the time and then stop taking it.
It's dramatic on your body too, especially once you get your

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nutrients. Gosh.
It's it's just the same way there's certain things.
It's the same reaction that yourbody will have when you stop
taking supplements is the same way that your body will react if
you start having sugary drinks. As in coffee for sure with
flavored creamers and drinking pops.
Now look at me, I stopped drinking pop and coffee for a

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little while and I dropped 20 lbs instantly.
Yeah, it makes a huge difference.
And that's where it goes. Again, nutrition and people hear
the word but don't really hear it.
And the reason for that is because I think because we hear
about nutrition all the time andwhat is nutrition in America?
It's garbage. So unless you really focus on
your nutrition and still, even if you're eating healthy, like

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we said, you're still depleting nutrients because of our soils,
because of the the how the foodsmade.
Now what is real organic? Are you buying quality meal?
Because the dirt has already been sprayed with so much
pesticides already. So even when you're getting, you
change up your diet if you can, if you got it, make the

(42:16):
investment of getting organic quality stuff versus the
quantity, yeah. Again,
mindfulobjective.com/resources. Again,
mindfulobjective.com/resources. There's a handful of healthy
shopping list. Another one, anti-inflammatory
information. There's one how to read food
labels, how to buy organic meat and dairy.

(42:37):
So there are free resources there.
Feel free to download them. Again,
mindfulobjective.com/resources. Download those, they're free by
organically and change your dietup.
Most of these won't show up as ared flag on your basic blood
work that you're depleted. They do not run tests for that.
That's why most people feel terrible while their labs say
they're fine. So next, let's talk about
testing without playing a guessing game.

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And here's the next logical question.
How do you know what your body'smissing without just guessing?
How many of us guessed? I think we all guess, honestly,
it's just one of those things, am I hungry?
Do I want to eat something else?And it's just, it's a simple
guessing game. That's all it is in it.
We always seem to make the wrongdecisions, especially when we're
hungry. Now for sure, I like I'll run

(43:22):
labs on myself, like subclinicallabs, the functional labs and
say OK, I'm good on all these nutrients.
Now I'm taking B complex, doing zinc, doing this stuff.
My labs look good, but then there's this new product that
comes out and a lot of times I do buy it and test it out.
And it's not that I'm running a specific lab before I do that,
but my foundational information,again, zinc, D3K2, Omega threes,

(43:48):
B complex, vitamin C, protein, Omega threes, those are
foundational that I would say just about everybody does need.
Yeah. So at least start there.
So again, mindfulobjective.com, you get 20% off retail on
supplements. If you need them or you need a
question answer, just feel free to reach out and we'll guide you
in the right direction. So there's, we have to face it

(44:11):
that there's thousands of supplements out there and most
people understandably just buy it because they said they did
buy it on saw it on TikTok. And that kind of makes me upset
too, because a lot of people selling these products are
selling low quality products fora high dollar amount and they're
giving out the wrong informationand people are blindly buying it
and it's making their body worse.

(44:32):
I'll do you a quick example. There's a nutrition guy, Bobby,
he's he goes by always Bobby approved.
He did a video rating Khloe Kardashian's popcorn clouds or
something like that, it's called.
And he did the Bobby approved it.
And then someone else, like an actual integrated health

(44:52):
practice broke it down and he pretty much said, OK, so it has
all these extra chemicals that you said they weren't good in
other products. Why are they OK with this
specific product was because you're getting a check And we
all know that. It's just there's so many out
there. There's so many items I so many

(45:13):
items out there that look nice. The marketing is amazing.
The person behind it is popular,but it doesn't mean it's the
best for you. Yeah.
And lately, the big thing everybody's saying is a lot of
these products on Amazon are notthe original product.
That's what I'm afraid of. It's like it's just anybody just

(45:34):
ordering anything. And I don't want to say this
because it's me and us, but it'sif it's not coming from full
script, like I don't want it. It's just does that make me like
that? I'm one minded person.
No, I just know that these products are all tested and
vetted for. Yeah, because the other thing
too is like I used to, prior to all this stuff, I used to order

(45:56):
off Amazon stuff too, or if I needed something right away,
then I found out like I'm buyingthis product.
And then people are, you read the reviews and then you do lab
tests and stuff on it and then you find out this vitamin D is
not even that brand. They copied the bottle, they
copied the label and it's a totally different supplement in

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here and we don't know what's init and where it's from.
So that's what's scary. So are you buying supplements?
How do you know they're really from there?
Because you'll see. It'll say, I don't want to say a
store name. We'll just say store 1.
It'll say, oh, this is this vitamin D is from store 1.
And then when you click on it and then you look at the profile
that's actually selling it, which is always hard to find if

(46:37):
you have to go to like description or reviews And oh,
it's sold by something China Inc.
So it's not even that store. They're representing that store,
but it's like a Chinese product,but it's like Black Label
they're copying. It just the same way that they
mass produce and you have the lowest quality supplements that
are at the store. It's the original 1.

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You'll either see the green bottle with the yellow top, but
you have that brand and then youhave the store brand and you're
getting 120 pills of vitamin D of vitamin D for 350 versus from
for what I for what's available on full script.
I think they're around the $30 mark and it's like when you look

(47:23):
at it that way, I'm I'm prioritizing my health.
Is it easy for me to go to the store and buy the crap ones?
Of course 'cause it's cheaper and I can get way more for my
dollar amount. But are they even doing any good
to me? I know how much crap is in it
now and it's you know what? It's not even worth it.
Spend the money. Prioritize your health over
anything. Yeah, like we said before, there

(47:45):
was that one pill that's supposed to have garlic in it
from the store brand grocery store, and they tested it and it
didn't have no garlic in it, hadaluminum in it, no garlic.
And it just it's not vetted, it's not tested, no third party.
Let's look at basic blood labs. You may go to your doctor and
get vitamin D in this one. You want to not be just within

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range. You want to aim for at least 50
to 80 nanograms per milliliter. That's where you want to range
vitamin D50 to 80B12. Ideal is around 500 PG to ML.
But also look for MCV or on yourCBC.
This will be on your conventional blood work.
Ferritin if you get your doctor to run that.
These are your iron stores. Healthy ranges are different

(48:29):
from men and women. Too low or too high can indicate
problems. Magnesium RBC which is not serum
RBC. Magnesium is better window into
your body's health. And I know a lot of people out
there do not know a lot about labs and stuff too.
That's where we work with you, but we could off.
So if you're going through insurance to your medical
provider, we could sometimes give you a list of labs to run

(48:51):
if you could get insurance to pay for it.
If not, then you could come to us.
And still a lot of times we can run labs for a lot cheaper than
even using insurance. So next that's conventional
labs. Let's look at functional labs.
Organic acid test. This is a urine test that looks
at metabolic, metabolic. So organic acid test.
This urine test looks at metabolic byproducts and shows
functional needs like nutrients of B vitamins, Coq 10,

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carnitine, and even antioxidants.
It also screens for yeast, the bacteria and your mitochondrial
markers. Another one we talked about a
lot too is hair tissue mineral analysis.
This shows heavy metals in your body and it also shows calcium,
magnesium, potassium, sodium, and like I said, those toxic
elements like aluminum, arsenic and mercury.

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I'm almost certain that a lot ofpeople out there are high on
aluminum. Oh yeah.
And possibly even on in mercury.And it's just I don't think
people realize, you know, not just people, all of us, we don't
realize how many products we consume that have aluminum.
But it's just because you're noteating a ball of aluminum that
you cover up your veggies or whatever.

(49:58):
It just because you're not taking a bite out of it, it
doesn't mean that you're not consuming them.
It's just so many products out there.
It's why do you think some of the deodorant say on there
aluminum free? Yeah, and it's not just things
they eat. It's in the air we breathe, all
the spraying and stuff going on.But I would say on a hair tissue
mineral analysis test, testing for heavy metals, those two you

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mentioned are the $2.00 come back high for a lot of people,
aluminum and mercury and it's same thing.
It's you have somebody, oh, I never use aluminum products,
aluminum tinfoil. The food you ate at the store at
the restaurant do it. Was it stored in aluminum like
you don't know? So it's hard to stay the
container of cookies you bought.It's an aluminum container, you
just don't know or it's shampoos.

(50:41):
It's in everything. Heavy metal Detox 1 is I would
say a 21 day functional medicinedetox first and then follow up
with buy that. And once you're done with that
21 day heavy functional medicinedetox, you'd want to do a heavy
metal detox to get those heavy metals out of your system.
So these tests help you to understand why is your energy

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low, why your immune system is weak?
Why do you get bloated, anxious or Moody after meals?
I remember getting the oats test, the organic acid test, and
I got the results back and I wasbeing surprised.
I thought eating plenty of eating plenty of vitamin B
vitamins and put my, my metamethylacin markers were way

(51:24):
off. And it's just for me, even
though you do the right things or some things that just don't
stick and you just got to keep chugging along.
Also had no idea how much stresswas impacted.
The the stress itself was impacting my my mitochondrial
until I saw those markers pop up.
Yeah so that is key. Testing takes the guesswork out

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of healing. You don't need 20 supplements,
you probably need 3 or 4 of the right ones.
Outside of the foundational ones, most people need those and
that's where quality matters too.
Auto sand. Not all supplements are created
equal. Some are loaded with fillers,
synthetic forms and doses too low to make a difference.
I see all the time too is oh, people take in, oh, I take a
multivitamin, it has vitamin C in there and it has like

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nothing. You need like a gram of vitamin
C and other people are like, oh,it has 12 Meg of vitamin C.
You're not getting it right and they don't know.
And that's what we're here for. So again, if you're taking these
junk supplements and they contain fillers, now you're
having liver issues or all this other bloating issues because
you're trying to be healthy and that's causing more issues.
That's why we only recommend clinically backed third party

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tested brands again through Mindful Objective, and it's why
we pass wholesale pricing along to our clients instead of
jacking up the cost. We'd rather support long term
healing than turn supplements into a profit machine like all
these people are doing on TikTok.
Yeah. And not just myself, but I'm
sure a lot of people just because it's expensive, it means
that it means well. But some of the best ones I've

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taken the supplement wise, they weren't the cleanest.
But once I learned how to read supplement labels I realized how
many junk ones I had at home. So it's just now I focus on what
what testing tells me I need. So if anybody even before we've
said this before, but testing isone of the biggest things at the
moment just to just so you're not just spending the money on

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supplements you don't need. Yep.
So again, when it comes to lab testing or supplements and you
have a question, don't hesitate to reach out my objective.com.
So that now we did talk about all these different gaps and
these issues out there. And again, magnesium, vitamin D,
what's the game plan, right? What does rebuilding actually
look like in real life? And that's why people ask what

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do I do? So I want to walk you through a
step by step process. We use a mindful objective to
help our clients rebuild their nutrient foundations.
SO1, rebuild with Food First. Again, we harp food should be #1
that's where you should get mostof your nutrients.
So eat quality meats, quality olive oils, healthy fats,
functional foods, bone broth, fermented foods, herbs.

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So think real food color, texture, rotation, not
perfection, just diversity and consistency.
So another one would be a support your digestion.
You could eat the world's most nutrient dense meals, but if
you're not digesting it properly, you won't absorb what
you need. So you got to take a few deep
breaths, calm your nervous system down too thoroughly.

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That right there to support it. Just take your time, don't eat
it fast. And I've noticed that when I
take my time, I feel better whenI'm low on time and I'm rushing
through that meal. I hope I'm not the only one, but
there's people out there that are just like that's what kind
of tanks their system. It's I shouldn't have ate that
so fast. Yeah, and the people could add

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better herbs to it too, like dandelion arugula.
And this will help stimulate stomach acid.
And again, most people are low on stomach acid, not high like
everybody says. That's all you hear.
Oh, you have indigestion stuff, whatever.
You have high stomach acid, you're having that.
And it's not it's you actually have low stomach acid.
And that's what I've heard. I think I told you this before.
It take people with acid reflux.Oh, I have bad acid reflux.

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No, that's just in my I think I read the article and it said you
don't have enough acid in your stomach.
That's why that's happening. You know where people are really
constipated and that's causing acid reflux because it's just
backing up or they're overeatingand stuff.
And there's a lot of causes to it too, to where don't blindly,
if somebody says to you have high stomach acid, take this

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whatever pill. And a lot of times did they test
your stomach acid? No, I forgot what the actual
metric is with 90. Some percent of people have low
stomach acid, something crazy like that.
So again, gut health is a missing link in nutrient
absorption. I see many people double their
energy just time by improving digestion.
No new foods or supplements needed, just an eating better.

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And I think you learned that. Yeah, no, eating way better
helped me a lot and it's crazy just for that what you just
said. It's no at no, I didn't take an
energy drink. It's just, but I know people
live on energy drinks and that to me, it's just, I don't know,
to each their own. I'm not going to sit here and
judge you and be like, hey, you shouldn't be doing that.
It's going to kill you or it's not.
It's doing you a lot. It's giving you a quick fix.

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It's giving you a Band-Aid for the tiredness that you're
feeling now. But when are you going to come
down crashing on it? So to each their own.
They could do it. Every day we see a new popular
energy drink out here. So it's once you realize the
harm that you may be causing yourself, that's when you start
investing in yourself. Yeah, for sure.
And then people got to supplement smartly when once

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your digestion's on point, you want to get targeted
supplements, Magnesium, vitamin D with K2, methylated B and
folate, zinc, bacolinate, Fish Oil Co Q10 for energy.
I think again, at least address your foundational nutrition, eat
healthy and get on the right. Path and sleep and hydrate.

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Yeah, exactly. #4 would be a monitor, adjust and repeat.
Rebuilding isn't just one and done thing.
Nutrients fluctuate with seasons, stress, and lifestyle
changes. That's why we always say recheck
your lab or symptom. Like rechecking labs or symptom
logs every three to six months. You want to at least do if you
can, functional labs at least once a year.

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Just see what your body's doing and get you on the right track.
You want to adjust your doses based on stress or activity
levels. You work like you in the summer
in the heat. You got to say, oh, now I need
to drink more water. So it's just you're working out,
you're doing a marathon, you're depleting yourself with more
nutrients. Yeah, no, it's and it's you have
to dose accordingly to your bodyas well.

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Like I know for a fact that the amount of electrolytes that I'm
consuming now, I won't be doing it in the winter.
I would be doing half of that just because I know my body.
I'm not going to be sweating outall the sodium in my body.
Yeah, so that's why the mindful objective, we walk people
through the entire process, so we don't want you to have to
guess now. So from testing and personalized

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plans to vetted supplements at adiscount, we help you cut
through the noise and get real results.
Stop following TikTok videos. Let's go the right direction,
get you on the right health plan.
Yeah, and for me, I'll be honest, having a system made it
easier for me. Once I knew my top priorities it
it took away the stress of doingeverything.
I focus on better meals, took the right 3 to 4 supplements and

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just tracked how I felt. That's when things started
shifting, when I started tracking my food, when I started
tracking my body, my symptoms. That's when I was able to move
things around and pinpoint what was bothering me, what was, you
know, what was best for me. My advice, don't wait until you
feel awful starting out. Even if it's just adding one

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thing like magnesium or better food variety.
Exactly. That's one day at a time.
Start slow and it's not about perfection, it's getting on the
right track. So as we wrap things up, know
that you don't have to be perfect.
You just need to start from where you are and build from
there because healing doesn't happen from hacks or trends.
Stop watching these wasteless videos and just more and more

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misinformation out there. This all happens when your body
gets what it needs to function. You need to give it tools.
The body will do the rest. So again, thanks for joining us
on Real Talk. So if you've been feeling off,
low energy, mood swings, weird cravings, trouble focusing, know
this. You're not broken, you just

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might be missing something your body needs.
And I guarantee everybody out there is missing something.
So personalized nutrition is about being perfect.
Like I talked about earlier, it's about listening to your
symptoms, getting curious and making adjustments that actually
work for you individually. You can't compare to like your
neighbor, your friend. What works for them may not work
for you, and it will most likelynot work for you.

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Yeah, and this. And to be honest, this
conversation has helped me out alot just to connect all the
dots. I used to think nutrition was
just a macros or eating clean, but now I get the nutrition
everything. When you get the right ones in
place, the whole system works way better.
Yeah, exactly. So again, a mindful objective.
We help people figure this stuffout from functional lab testing

(01:00:11):
to supplement protocols and reallife nutrition coaching.
So if you're tired of guessing, head to mindfulobjective.com.
You can explore podcast episodes, get personalized
support, access high quality supplements at a discount.
Reminder as always, this podcastfor information education
purposes only. We do not diagnose, cure or
treat any illness or disease. And if you've got a question you

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want us to answer on the show orjust don't know where to start,
we're here for that too. You do not need to do this
alone. Yeah, and you don't need to do
everything at once. Just pick one thing that works
for you. Like I, I tell people all the
time that you know what, at least start now.
If you do testing like we started with you before is at

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least start with food sensitivity test and then go
from there. You don't spend all the money.
You don't need 500 labs right away.
Let's do one thing at a time. You listen to these podcasts,
you try your best, you make changes that didn't work.
OK, now let's do a food sensitivity test.
OK, You're still struggling, let's do organic acid test, but
maybe let's get you on a functional medicine detox to

(01:01:15):
clean out your liver and all that.
And then maybe get you a heavy metal detox to to clean out
those heavy metals and then see how you feel.
And then you know what, it's a lot of people feel super good
after that and they're on their way.
I don't hear from them for a while.
And then other ones, there's more testing we need to do.
It depends what your condition is.
Yeah. And from the detox that you

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ended up passing over to my wife, she liked it.
And it's just, and it was a simple liver detox.
And quite frankly, once you're done detoxing, don't go and
Retox your body. There's crazy plans out there
that they're you got people doing 20 to 30 day water fast

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and they break it with a huge greasy meal.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't recommend that, but.
Yeah, I see a lot of videos too where people like functional
medicine, detox and has all yourmultivitamins, your nutrients,
your probiotics, has liver and stuff, support to clean out your
liver and all that. So that's one thing developed by

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a doctor, science backed. And then you have these other
ones where people do the 30 day fruit cleanse, like a grape
cleanse or 30 day watermelon cleanse.
Now think of you doing watermelon for 30 days.
Like definitely you're going to lose weight like this.
It's common sense, but what how deficient are you after the 30
days? What did you just do to your
body? So I don't think people get it.

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They just see it. Hold this guy saying this video,
30 day cleanse, whatever, do this that and I'm going to be
healthy. And they look at it because they
lost weight. Exactly.
You know what? Now you just damage other things
in your body. So you might feel good for that
month or the month after a couple months until your body
really recognizes and then your body crashes and now you try to
eat normal. Now you're having all these
issues. So again, try 1 nutrient dense

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food this week, fix your bedtime, start tracking your
symptoms or even take your supplements consistently.
That's a big one that a lot of people don't do.
It's you know what? You have these supplements, take
them every single day if you want them to work.
Like when you're sick, you don'ttake vitamin C, just when you're
sick, you take vitamin C all thetime.
So when you do get sick, your body and magically just fights
it feels faster. Yeah, feels faster.

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But again, because progress isn't about doing more, it's
about doing what works constantly.
And because progress isn't aboutdoing more, it's doing about
what works consistently over time.
And that's it. Start simple, stay consistent
and give your body the stuff it really the stuff that your

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body's really asking. And just before we take off, I
just want to send a shout out tomy boys.
They've been asking for a shout out.
So my oldest, Noah. What up, Noah?
My middle 1 Lucas and my youngest Gabe.
So shout out to all three of. Them.
Hello, Gabe. Yeah.
So next, until next time, stay well.
Stay grounded as always. Keep it real.