Magnesium
Plays several important roles in the health of your body and brain including: Energy creation, Protein formation, Gene Maintenance, Muscle Movements, Nervous System Regulation and IQ efficacy. Works in tandem with vitamin D to convert it into its active form, and with Calcium to balance insulin levels.
Selenium
An essential trace mineral that supports many bodily processes such as improved cognition, immune system function, and fertility. It plays a key role in maintaining thyroid hormone metabolism (helps with hypothyroidism and hashimoto’s), DNA synthesis and protecting the body from oxidative damage and infection.
Protein
Needed to build and repair muscles, allows metabolic reactions to take place, produces hormones such as insulin and oxytocin, stimulates antibody production, and helps you feel fuller for longer. Too little protein can cause muscle wasting, bone fractures, skin, hair and nail problems, fatty liver and an increased risk of infection. Increasing protein intake directly increases muscle mass with or without exercise, and increases longevity.
Zinc
This essential trace mineral plays a role in over a hundred enzymatic reactions in the body. It helps to decrease oxidative damage, aids in wound healing, and helps with the formation of hemoglobin. It sharpens the body’s innate and adaptive immune response and is critical for mitochondrial functioning & the regulation of testosterone levels
Antioxidants
Help stop or limit damage caused by free radicals. Your body uses antioxidants to balance free radicals. This keeps them from causing damage to other cells. Antioxidants can protect and reverse some of the damage.
Vitamin Ks
The role of vitamin K2 is to put calcium where it belongs in the body, like your teeth and bones. In the past, it was thought that you did not need to worry about a vitamin K2 deficiency because it is made by our body from vitamin K1.
Vitamin D
Regulates calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus intake and levels in the blood, with high levels increasing intestinal absorption. Supports immune, brain and nervous system health including the formation of oligodendrocytes, cells principle to remyelination. Relaxes blood vessels, supporting cardio health and lung function. Regulates insulin levels and supports diabetes management by significantly improving insulin sensitivity.
Phosphorus
Needed for the growth, maintenance, and repair of all tissues and cells, and for the production of the genetic building blocks, DNA and RNA. Found in tandem with calcium within bones to produce structural integrity. Phosphorus is also needed to help balance and use other vitamins and minerals, including vitamin D, iodine, magnesium, and zinc. A deficiency can cause anxiety, fatigue, irregular breathing, bone issues, and irritability.
Manganese
Helps the body form connective tissue, bones, blood clotting factors, and sex hormones. It also plays a role in fat and carbohydrate metabolism, calcium absorption, and blood sugar regulation. Manganese is also necessary for normal brain and nerve function. ‘Manganism’, or the toxicity of manganese, can lead to Parkinson’s like symptoms and is often caused by exposure to manganese dust or toxins, usually through the inhalation of welding fumes.
Vitamin E
Important for vision, reproduction, and the health of your blood, brain and skin. Vitamin E also has antioxidant properties that might protect your cells against the effects of free radicals — molecules produced when your body breaks down food or is exposed to tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals might play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
Calcium
Vital for healthy teeth and bones. It also important for the health and functioning of nerves, muscle tissue and cardiovascular function such as lowering blood pressure. A calcium deficiency can often be the result of a Vitamin D deficiency, which inhibit calcium from being absorbed by the bones, teeth and other organs which need them, and not purely a calcium deficiency.
Iron
Helps oxygenate the blood, convert blood sugar to energy, boosts the immune system, aids cognitive function and supports healthy skin, hair and nails. Iron deficiency anemia is common in those suffering with autoimmune diseases. The storage form of iron, ferritin, is absorbed through the intestines.
Copper
Increases iron absorption and energy manufacture, helps form connective tissue and blood vessels, maintains the nervous and immune system. Low copper levels contribute to increased grey hairs, brittle bones, sickness, and fatigue, with decreased efficacy towards memory, learning, IQ, walking ability, resistance to cold and vision sharpness