there are at least four mineral deficiencies that can significantly affect
your iq that's the topic for today generally speaking it's your intelligence it's your ability to solve problems it's your ability to learn and understand certain things there's a memory or a recall component to it and some people say well you know what your intelligence is really finite and either you're born with it or you're not that's absolutely not true okay you can have training you can do
self-improvement you can do a lot of things and even what your mother ate
while she's pregnant has a factor on your intelligence and your future ability to solve problems as you're going to find out but there are other factors too like with learning it could be that you're in school and no one ever taught you how to study or learn and i'm being very sarcastic because they don't teach kids how to study or learn you're just expected to know that so you go in there and you sort of memorize you re-read you rewrite things over and over and hopefully somehow you pass the test and you get through it but today i want to really focus in on the nutrient part of your intelligence so probably one of the most influential trace minerals which you don't need a lot of it but you need a little bit of it and if you don't have that little bit you're going to be in big trouble because if
you're deficient in iodine as a child your iq can go down significantly like 13
points okay now even if you're deficient iodine is adult there are certain studies that show that it can decrease by 15 points and that's pretty significant but the crucial time to get iodine is when the woman is pregnant with that baby as well as when they're breastfeeding vitally important and so iodine is involved in the creation of your brain and of certain parts of the brain like the hippocampus which is involved with learning memory being able to navigate yourself through different things so primarily we have the hippocampus and then the frontal lobe involved in problem solving but of course how much of these parts of the brain are involved with problem solving in iq i mean it's pretty remarkable some people have had huge amounts of trauma and damage to their brains i mean destruction of a good portion of the brain and they still seem to maintain their cognitive function and their iq so i just wanted to point that out because we really don't know how much brain we really need apparently we have a lot of extra now the second mineral that is the most important is zinc zinc is involved in hundreds of different enzyme reactions okay it's definitely involved with the hippocampus it's involved with making neurotransmitters and if you're low on zinc your iq is going down but this zinc correlates with copper they both work together so you need this zinc to copper ratio and when you have children who have autism for example there's nearly always extremely low zinc and copper
ratios copper is also very low in alzheimer's patients also it's super brainconcentrated in a structure in your brain
stem called the locus aurelius which has everything to do with your sleeping and then we have magnesium magnesium is needed for making atp it's needed for energy in the brain and if you don't have enough magnesium there is a huge correlation between a lower iq and so if we look at this right here we have you know seafood shellfish okay and magnesium salad vegetables leafy greens but you can also get it in nuts and other foods as well but seafood shellfish very important to get the top three i wanted to add a few more vitamin d deficiency is also correlated with learning disabilities lower iq and cognitive function so here's another one that's very very important especially if you are pregnant now iron also correlates with the lower iq probably because it's involved with anemia and red blood cells and carry oxygen to your brain now there's a couple other things i really need to cover related to this cognitive function and that has to do with this thing called sugar sugar actually makes you stupid it definitely correlates with a lower iq now that being said i do want to make a very important point just because someone has a high iq just because someone is so-called intelligent doesn't mean that they are sane okay they could be very intelligent but be completely insane and when i talk about insane i'm talking about destructive right but when we're talking about sugar we're talking about blood sugar we're talking about even diabetes so if your a1c is like above seven your recall is goes down okay your ability to recall memories is significantly affected diabetics on average have a lower iq by 7.84 points when someone is a diabetic and they have higher sugar in their blood that shrinks the hippocampus so we have less hippocampus to work with which means less capacity for memory less capacity for learning and that is
intimately connected with iq now if we take a look at the brain that has insulin resistance okay it's brain insulin
resistance which is always the case for someone that has high sugar like a diabetic there is a lot of destruction going on in the neurons okay and so when you feed the brain cells the neurons too much sugar you end up destroying those synapses and thank goodness there's an alternative fuel to bypass that whole thing and get the energy that the neurons need so you can have more intelligence and that alternative fuel is ketones now what's interesting about ketones is that your brain is the organ that does not have to adapt to ketones like other parts of the body in other words there's not a period of three days where you have to adapt or convert over to ketones it can use ketones immediately if it's in the blood there's not a lot of if any stored sugar in the brain the brain does not store glycogen why because there's no space because when you're storing glycogen you have to store a lot of water and there's just no space so the brain is dependent for its energy from the blood okay and then that usually comes from your liver primarily so if your liver is damaged that can affect the brain but if the brain has a choice between ketones or glucose it will always pick ketones as a primary fuel and that way even if there's damage to the brain the brain cells can get energy so in other words your brain is very vulnerable to what diet you are on and really what determines if there's ketones in your blood or not is really two things glucose and your insulin levels so when a person starts to go on the ketogenic diet and they start lowering their glucose they notice also their insulin levels lower they may still have problems and they may not notice the significant benefits of ketosis for quite some time primarily because there's this background basic level of insulin in their blood at all times and if someone is obese they usually have like three times the insulin levels and this really has nothing to do with their diet it's just that their baseline insulin is just a lot higher than someone that doesn't have a weight problem so if you are watching and you're overweight just realize the
more you lose weight the more the insulin levels decrease the more the benefits and it could take some time so
what are the takeaways from this article📰📰📰 shellfish seafood big salads and cut the sugar out and go on a low carb diet now there's a lot more to talk about the brain if you haven't seen this video related to brain health this would be a very interesting one to watch next
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