This is a Wellness Force podcast episode (host Josh Trent) featuring guest Barton Scott (founder of Upgraded Formulas). The conversation frames minerals as foundational to hormone production and energy (linking mineral inadequacy to symptoms like weight gain, hair loss, fatigue, brain fog, and poor sleep). Heavy metals and pollutants are highlighted as worsening modern mineral-related health problems. Barton introduces his company’s focus: hair mineral analysis and improving mineral absorption through targeted formulations.
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You have to have the minerals to have the hormones. Inadequate supply, demand, consistency. And, you know, if you don't, then you'll have, you know, you'll have weight gain, you'll have hair loss, you'll have all the things outwardly that we don't like. And then internally, you. You'll have malaise, you'll have low energy, you'll have fatigue, you'll have brain fog, you'll have poor sleep rhythms. So really, any physical symptom is going to be, in part dictated by this world of minerals, because it's the elemental world that we're built of. Even a few hundred years ago, we had a lot less pollutants in the atmosphere, in the air we breathe. And I know a lot of people point toward plastics, but what's even more of a concern is heavy metals, because they stay in the body longer and they're more toxic. This is why people get sick early, and this is why disease exists, because disease doesn't exist when the cells have the nutrients they need.
Bart and Scott, welcome to Wellness Force.
Good to see you, brother. Good to be here.
I'm so excited. What we just did in the sauna. We just did the sauna and the cold, had some great conversations and just dropped in, which is my favorite thing to do with all podcast guests. But you especially, because I felt from the very first time that I met you that there was a kinship, and it was around a shared health struggle, which we're going to talk about. I mean, mine obviously is like a weight gain issue, and I've been really honest with our community, so everybody knows, you know, nothing to hide. But for yourself, man, people look at you and they're like, wow, he's the leader of a company. He's an entrepreneur. He's in good shape. That was not always the case. And there's a direct correlation with hair minerals and with minerals in the body, which we're going to talk about today. Dude, for people that don't know, tell us about your company. If you're in an elevator and maybe somebody was like, hey, I see that there's something to do with minerals and upgraded labs. Is your company upgraded formulas? Upgraded formulas. So tell us about upgraded formulas and hair minerals in the analysis. If somebody has no idea, we'll go into depth. But just give us, like, the. The skinny.
The. The skinny is we help you. Or wouldn't it be cool if you could know what you were missing and be able to absorb those nutrients? We thought that. I thought that should be a thing. So. So now we as a company have this. This approach, and it's. It's really impactful because as a lot of people know, the. The absorption of both food and supplements is not great, and there's a lot of nutrient deficiencies in the soil, and. And it's getting worse. So instead of turning a blind eye to it, my approach was, let's go full into this, headlong into this, and really find a. A solution. So, yeah, that's. That's what we've done. And we have a. We have a special approach that. That really, I think is. Is fundamental no matter what you're doing.
Yeah, I went through it myself, which is awesome. It's my favorite thing to do is, like, be in n equals 1, but, like, truly go through it, you know, and really actually understand what a company has to offer before we hold a conversation and share it with the world. And, oh, my God, the amount of depth that you and your team go into. I mean, first of all, I didn't even know really what hair mineral analysis tested for, which is a lot of things. How many total things can you actually get from mineral analysis for hair? How many total things can you get, Sam?
