Rhonda Patrick· PhD
vitamins and minerals and when you're low in one turns out you're affecting your metabolism so and the body rations uh if you start getting a little low on the vitamin or mineral a Joyce showed in two beautiful reviews looking at Vitamin K and selenium it's built into metabolism that you do a rationing the minute you get a little low and how do you want to ration it well those proteins that are essential that need that vitamin that are essential for survival and reproduction they get it first and the ones that are protecting you against some long-term damage DNA damage or calcification of the arteries those get starved because you're trading long-term health for short-term health so the body has figured out uh humans have been migrating over the whole earth and every time you move the diet changes and the soil some soils are red that have a lot of iron some soils don't have much iron a selenium is a required nutrient and if you get too little selenium it poisons you and but if you had too much selenium it poisons you and the patches of too much and too little all over Europe and in China so one has to get the right amount of each of these to keep your metabolism going so the body responds by doing this rationing training training uh trading long-term Health the short-term health I call the triage but uh and you and I talked about that previously in another podcast people can listen yeah Rhonda has a podcast on that