Inflammatory diets and gut damage can impair vitamin and mineral absorption.

“if you are eating these inflammatory diets and you're damaging your intestine you can't even absorb these vitamins and minerals well and so and and the other aspect is the dramatic oxidative stress that is taxing your vitamins and minerals because our antioxidant enzymes are literally built off of cofactors like minerals right superoxide dismutase needs copper zinc manganese and almost every single antioxidant enzyme in some way is going to depend on minerals and vitamins from that aspect”