Calcium, Potassium, Iron and Vitamin C with Dr. Robert Thompson
Dr. Thompson has been practicing longevity medicine for over 2 decades in Alaska. His primary testing tool is the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA). He provides clients a detailed interpretation of HTMA results and guides the implementation of specific and individualized nutritional and supplement recommendations based on his extensive experience. His personal modifications of the HTMA recommendations are offered to optimize results.
In this interview with Dr. Thompson, he weaves through the mineral landscape within our bodies and how to balance it.
Here are the highlights:
The two most important things to put in the body everyday are water and minerals
Our bodies are 72% water and 28% minerals in our tissues
We dilute our minerals by drinking too much water, unless you’ve added minerals to your water
According to Thompson, the most important of all minerals is Potassium and 94% of it is inside cell (or should be)
Potassium is required in the cell for it to be hydrated
Potassium is responsible for the DC current in the body, citing Gerald Pollack’s “Gels, Cells and The Engines of Life”
Calcium excess acts like zippers for proteins that prevent them from unfolding properly
Sodium is required to unzip/unofold the proteins and salt restrictions makes things worse
Iodine detoxes bromine, fluoride, and chlorine. Dr Robert recommends 12.5mgs/day of Lugol’s Iodine.
Every hormone uses iodine to activate it
Thyroid hormone requires potassium
Thompson thinks 90% of hypothyroidism is potassium deficiency
Roots are a good source as are watermelon and coconut juices
Iron is implicated in almost all chronic disease because its highly oxidative
Ferritin’s is only produced with a deficiency of whole food Vitamin C
Whole Food C’s purpose is to recycle the used mitochondrial back into the mitochondria FeS clusters
Ascorbic acid is harmful because we lack the enzyme to break it down as well as stripping copper from ceruloplasmin
He warns against frozen fruit and freeze-dried fruit because freezing splits the Vitamin C molecule and creates ascorbic acid
The way you know your source of Vitamin C is good is that your ferritin will go down
Ferritin is a marker for all cause mortality
Viral spike proteins free iron from hemoglobin which then gets absorbed by fibrinogen.
Fibrinogen absorbs this free iron and causes it to coil. At 30% coiling it becomes alpha amyloid, at 40% insoluble beta amyloid and with more coiling becomes prion disease.
Anemia symptoms are caused by copper and whole food vitamin c deficiency
For more info on Dr. Thompson go to https://aurorahealthandnutrition.com/