Morley Robbins on A Deep Look at My Labs and My Life (What I’m Deficient In)

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Morley

• What my labs say about what’s going on in my body and in my life
• Why he did a hair test and a blood test and what the results say together
• What showed up… surprise! I have some stress going on
• More data about the importance of addressing stress and how it shows up in lab work
• Oxidative stress in the body and what this means
• The minerals that drive liver metabolism and why I am low on these
• Why high magnesium on my hair test doesn’t mean I need less magnesium and actually means I need more
• The reason women especially tend to get estrogen dominance paired with adrenaline dominance and iron dominance
• Why progesterone is important but supplemental might not be necessary if we balance copper and magnesium
• How we lose copper and what to do about it (cortisol depletes copper)
• Ways to use techniques like EFT, EMDR, Emotion Code, etc to help with stress
• Why my hemoglobin is low and what this means for my iron recycling
• Labs that point to my liver being slow because of excess iron and how castor oil packs, quercetin and supplemental copper, retinol and magnesium may help
• Why it was probably a good thing that I gave blood
• The two most important proteins for regulating the health of the body in his opinion and how they relate to iron status
• Good food and supplement sources of retinol, and copper
• One unusual lab result that means I might have parasites
• It takes 56 days for blood to rebuild itself and why this means we can make improvements fast
• Minerals run the body and hormones respond to minerals and not vice versa
• More reasons to avoid processed food… as if we needed more reasons

Resources We Mention

• The Root Cause Protocol - Morley's site
• 614: Morley Robbins on Thyroid Health, Retinol, Magnesium, and the Real Story of Aging
• 596: Morley Robbins on Magnesium, Stress, Mineral Balance and the Root Cause Protocol
• Essential C from Paleovalley
• Rosita - Cod Liver Oil
• Queen of Thrones - Castor Oil Packs
• Adrenaline Dominance: A Revolutionary Approach to Wellness by Michael E. Platt

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