What Are Micronutrients?

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A micronutrient is, “a chemical element or substance required in trace amounts for the normal growth and development of living organisms.”

More specifically, the term ‘micronutrient’ encompasses vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and even gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide that are required by the body of a living organism in order to properly carry out hormonal, metabolic, cellular, and neuronal functioning.

Micronutrients are not needed in as high raw amounts as macronutrients, by definition, so we tend to find the daily need for them between the microgram range up to just a few grams, depending on the micronutrient.

Despite this low raw material requirement, most people are massively deficient in key micronutrients their body needs.

When the body is deficient in any important micronutrient, it has to compensate for the lack of the necessary material within the specific system that needs it by trying to find it elsewhere within the body. For example, low calcium levels, also known as hypocalcemia, which can be caused by a range of different things such as low thyroid function, low dietary calcium intake, kidney disorders, and as a side effect of many pharmaceuticals, will compromise the basic functioning of many important processes, especially neuronal communication, since calcium is one of our main electrolytes, or electrically-charged minerals needed in cellular communication.

Over time, a chronic calcium deficiency can lead to disorders such as osteoporosis, in this case because calcium is stored in the bones, and when the body needs it for basic neuronal functioning it will leech it from storage areas, like the bones, in order to attempt to maintain normal function.

Over time, this natural compensation mechanism can be deleterious to your health, developing into full-blown osteoporosis. This is precisely why it is not uncommon for people who develop bone disorders like osteoporosis to previously exhibit neurological dysfunction symptoms such as depression, brain fog, soreness, and tingling in their extremities sometimes years before their osteoporosis diagnosis.

The body is trying to maintain normal functioning within the important systems like your nervous system and circulatory system, which have a higher priority to your survival than your bone health, however you can only escape the symptoms of this compensatory response for so long before it comes time to pay the piper.

Watch the full episode of Think Again, Micronutrients here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTR55wt-r7Q

Видео What Are Micronutrients? канала Christopher Walker