279: The Top Vitamins and Minerals You Need Daily to Unlock Better Health | Dave Asprey

Don't eat seed oils, and don't eat grains, and don't eat fake meat. If it tastes like meat and it's not meat, it is hacking your operating system and not for your interest.

It is a fool's errand to pretend that your serving of pinto beans or liver has X amount of minerals in it, because it probably doesn't ... You can go to a calorie and a food tracker app... That is all masturbation. It feels good, but nothing productive happens at the end. You simply don't know what's in your food.

The only person who should not supplement is the person who lives in nature, in a wild area, with no artificial lighting, no non-natural EMFs... and only eats wild-caught food.

Copper balances out zinc, so when you take too much zinc, you get copper deficiency from it—and the copper deficiency gives you gray hair. How many people went gray during the pandemic? A lot of them.

You don't get meaningful vitamins from your brown rice. The fact that there's more of them in there than the white race doesn't matter because you have to eat 6 pounds of it or something to get enough vitamins to matter, and then you're just going to be fat.

You can get copper from shellfish. But surprisingly, oysters are not a great source of copper, because they have so much zinc they stop you from getting copper. So, other shellfish can work really, really, well.

If you expose yourself for 3 days to cold temperatures, that is the amount of time it takes to change the amount of compounds in cardiolipin, which is a critical part of your mitochondrial membrane. That's why, after 3 days, suddenly, it doesn't suck to be in the cold, but the first 3 days are miserable.

If you get your mineral levels back up, you have incredible bone density, which is one of the biggest and best signs of metabolic sufficiency—that your metabolism works.

If you're eating a lot of, especially raw spinach, and raw kale and beets—beets are also a very high source of oxalic acid—you might actually need to take calcium specifically with that food, ideally even when you're cooking it so that you can precipitate the crystals of oxalic acid out in your stomach.

The very best source of copper on the planet is dark chocolate by flavor.