So today we're going to talk about the most common nutrient deficiency in irritable bowel

disease.

Now, this would include Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis.

Now, in both of these conditions, you have a massive amount of inflammation going on in your gut.

And you're also getting an overreaction of the immune system.

And the more inflammation that occurs in your gut, the less you're going to absorb nutrients.

So if we take a look at all of the nutrients and identify the ones that are the most deficient,

at the top of the list we have iron, an iron deficiency, which is going to create

anemia. And that occurs because there's usually bleeding in your loss of blood,

as well as the inflammation that prevents the absorption of iron. One of the best sources of iron

is not the inorganic minerals that you get from the one-a-day vitamins that you're going to get

at the CVS drugstore, but from animal products like organ meats, beef has a lot of iron.

And it's a type of iron that's easily absorbed, but also spirulina is another good source of iron.

So I always recommend getting your iron from actual food.

And you got to be careful because you can actually overdo with iron. Iron is one of those minerals

that is very difficult to get rid of. So it's very easy to develop an excess, especially in men.

Because with women, they menstruate, but men, they don't. So men can actually build up a toxic

accumulation of iron, and that can create cirrhosis of the liver. So 80 percent of everyone with

IBD, irritable bowel disease, has a iron deficiency. So that is the most common deficiency.

The second most common deficiency is vitamin D.

70 percent of everyone with IBD has a vitamin D deficiency. That's not surprising because the

vast population has a major deficiency of vitamin D. Now, compounded by the fact that people don't

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