Rhonda Patrick· PhD
You put in the 30 vitamins and minerals. You need 30 different substances to run your metabolism. They're co-factors for enzymes mostly, and if you don't get any one, you die.
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You put in the 30 vitamins and minerals. You need 30 different substances to run your metabolism. They're co-factors for enzymes mostly, and if you don't get any one, you die.
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there are about 15 minerals that you need in your diet and about 15 they're the essential minerals and about 15 vitamins so they're about 30 substances you have to get the right amount of in your diet to work your metabolism because what these compounds mostly do is the cofactors for enzymes