Ep. #184 | Copper Overload and Iron Imbalances with Amanda Leigh
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Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I’m delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women’s revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.
Amanda Leigh is an HTMA expert and a hair trace mineral analysis expert. She puts her passion into teaching people about whole food sources, possible toxicity or overload, and the body’s inability to utilize certain minerals.
Amanda discusses how copper and iron can affect the body and how the bioavailability of these minerals can affect your mood and your health. For example, a lack of copper in the body can lead to anxiety, depression, mood swings, and skin issues.
We also talk about how testing is important to detect the amount of minerals in the body but the interpretation is even more important. You need experts to provide the proper interpretation for your best health care.
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Here are the main topics of today’s episode:
- What we are missing in our health care
- Copper’s bioavailability
- The importance of mitochondria in the cells
- Lack of copper can lead to low energy and postpartum anxiety and depression
- Sources for copper and why everyone is unique
- Sources for Vitamin C
- The role of iron and the confusion around it
- The addition of iron
- HTMA testing
- Testing depends on good interpretation of the results
- How mineral availability is affected by your mental state
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Quotes –
- “It’s really more about copper not being bioavailable in the body and when not being able to be used properly, like anything, it starts to become a problem.”
- “At the gut level, copper is our natural God-given anti-parasite, antivirus, antifungal. You’ll sometimes see people using copper… to defend against viruses.”
- “I really do think some of the things we’re taking right now actually are depleting our copper and it’s causing. Actually, there is more chaos in our body.”
- “When you look at cereal boxes or any sort of flour the iron is added in and most of the forms of iron are carcinogenic.”
- “Iron is estrogenic and the body. It does help how fast we can store estrogen in the tissues. And then vice versa. The more estrogen you have the more iron you’re going to store.”