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All right. In this episode, I am digging into minerals and children. And that's going to cover,

I'm going to talk about babies,

you know, mostly like six months plus, toddlers, and then, you know, slightly older kids as well.

The goal is to just break down how we can start to prioritize these with our kids. And I got a ton

of questions. I posted a question box on Instagram and man, you,

the mom's delivered. Okay. So I'm going to try to touch on the major, there was a lot of major

like repetitive questions and themes. So basically I'm going to get into mineral nutrition

for babies, toddlers kids, give you guys some tips there. And obviously,

like, I mean, I don't really think kids should eat that differently from us. It's just more

like varying amounts. But there were some really good questions on like how much beef liver

and stuff like that. So we'll get into that. And then we're going to go into minerals and gut

health and kids because this is like a whole thing.

And I got a lot of questions around eczema.

I think I'm going to do a whole separate episode because this is something that I have been going through with my daughter.

Unfortunately, it has improved so much, but it's like exosom is like a whole.

It's like it's similar with adults, but with kids and we have questions around testing and stuff. I'll talk about at the end.

Kids and stool testing is just challenging, especially like toddlers and babies because their microbiome is shifting so much.

And honestly like adults too, but I'll talk about that a bit,

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