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Ben Greenfield explains why your fatigue probably isn't from low iron. Modern diets are mineral-depleted like Swiss cheese, leaving you short on copper and magnesium, which your body needs to make energy and handle stress.

Ben Greenfield explains why your fatigue probably isn't from low iron. Modern diets are mineral-depleted like Swiss cheese, leaving you short on copper and magnesium, which your body needs to make energy and handle stress.
What's happened, Ben, is we as a species have become Swiss cheese because we're missing minerals and our nutrients, and we're eating Swiss cheese because the food is missing the nutrients.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe French cheese.
Okay, but. Yeah, but the point. The point is we have a compromised diet and we have a compromised physiology. And the whole purpose behind this book is just to wake people up to this reality that minerals are. Are critical for our physiology, but especially copper and magnesium, because we're seeking to make energy to respond to the stress that we're constantly under.

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