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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

16 Signs That the Body Needs More Nutrients: Fixing the Deeper Cause

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to look at 16 common signs of nutrient deficiencies. First, let’s look at why you might be deficient in the first place. Here are some of the common causes of nutrient deficiencies:

• Not eating nutrient-dense foods

• Eating foods grown in depleted soils or grown in water (hydroponics)

• Genetic weaknesses

• Low stomach acids

• No gallbladder/gallbladder issues


The following symptoms are 16 signs your body needs more nutrients.


1. Brittle nails–protein deficiency

2. Blue sclera–iron deficiency

3. Pain in right scapula–bile deficiency

4. Tetany (twitching)–magnesium deficiency

5. Flaky, scaly skin–omega-3 deficiency

6. High blood pressure–potassium deficiency

7. Excessive worrying–vitamin B1 deficiency

8. Hyperthyroidism–boron deficiency

9. Hypothyroidism–selenium deficiency

10. Hip clicking/joint clicking–vitamin D3 deficiency

11. Low testosterone–zinc deficiency

12. Slow hair growth–manganese deficiency

13. Premature gray hair–vitamin B5 deficiency

14. Red gums–vitamin C deficiency

15. Feeling weak–sodium deficiency

16. Bruising easily–vitamin K1 deficiency


If you’re deficient in any of the trace minerals like boron or manganese, be sure to take a blend of trace minerals rather than taking them individually.


Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm going to cover the 16 signs that your body needs more nutrition.

0:04.8

Now the problem is when I teach you this information you're probably going to want to

0:07.7

evaluate your friends and family and neighbors.

0:10.3

If you do that, don't mention my name.

0:13.0

Sometimes it offends people if you're talking about certain,

0:16.0

I don't know, skin problems they have on their nose or something like that.

0:20.0

So we're going to dive through all 16,

0:21.0

but you need to kind of know, first of all all why people are deficient.

0:25.0

It could be because you're just not eating nutrient-dense foods or you're eating foods that are

0:29.3

grown on soils that don't have the right nutrition or even like grown in water like

0:33.9

hydroponic. You can also be deficient if you have genetic weaknesses or if you

0:39.0

have low stomach acid and you can't break down certain things like proteins and you can't extract minerals or let's say for example you don't have a gallbladder or you have a gallbladder problem you're not going to be able to absorb vitamin A, D, E, and K.

0:53.7

All right, here we go.

0:54.5

Let's dive right in.

0:55.8

Number one, brittle nails.

0:58.1

This usually means low protein.

1:01.9

And this is common in horses because a horse will keep eating until it gets enough

1:06.6

protein and sometimes if there's too much carbohydrate in the grass like in the spring they'll

1:11.8

end up eating too much just because they're trying to get

1:14.2

enough protein in the process they get too many carbs. And this is really common in humans.

1:18.4

We keep eating until we get enough protein. And so if you're getting a bag of

1:22.4

chips, for example, there has no protein, it's very easy to down many bags of chips because we constantly are trying to fulfill this protein requirement.

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