Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology (INE): Body Freedom Foundations – Pillar 5: Diet – Nutrients: Minerals
Body Freedom Foundations
Pillar 5: Diet
Minerals
Below you’ll find a variety of resources you can use to assist you in creating lessons, sessions, and handouts for your clients to help them understand which foods to choose for a mineral-rich diet, and what they can do if supplementation is needed.
There is a video that explains, in client language, what minerals are, how to get them through foods, how to assess mineral status and how to know when to supplement. I suggest you watch the video and use as a guide in talking to your clients, whether in groups or one-to-one. Then work through the action steps.
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Watch the Minerals Video
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Create An Action Plan for Your Client
#1: Help your Client Assess their mineral status.
Use this mineral assessment as a guideline for creating one of your own, or use the PDF nutrient assessment chart to ask the questions needed to determine their status and/or imbalances.
Mineral Balance Assessment: This health assessment will examine your client’s potential levels of minerals, including calcium, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
Nutrient Assessment Chart: For each nutrient, you’ll find a list of conditions/symptoms that may indicate imbalance for your client.
#2: Rank your clients mineral imbalance(s).
Using the results from the online “Mineral Balance Assessment” above, make a list of the minerals that show imbalance for your client, in order from highest score to lowest.
#3: Choose mineral-rich foods for your client to correct their imbalances.
Along with your client, review the Mineral Density Food Charts from Word’s Healthiest Foods to determine the foods for them to focus on to correct any deficiencies they may have.
Mineral Density Food Charts – WHF: For each nutrient, you’ll find a list of food sources ranked excellent, very good, and good that you can share with your client.
#4: Help your client decide if there are any supplements indicated for them to take.
Looking at your client’s ranked list of deficiencies, help them to consider short-term supplementation for the minerals with high scores, and/or for those where they have many symptoms related to a deficiency.
#5: If supplementing for your client, help them choose the highest quality supplements.
In our blood sugar balancing program, Sweet Spot Solution, we list brands and guidelines for choosing high quality supplements. You can refer your client to the Sweet Spot Solution supplement guide below for ideas of where they can buy good quality supplements.
Sweet Spot Solution Supplement Resources Guide
About Your Client Using Supplements and Brands (Excerpt from the guide above)
Note of Caution:
Not everyone reacts the same to every supplement, and it’s certainly possible that your client’s body is sensitive, and does not do well with some of the recommended supplements. Please have them use as directed, and note our medical disclaimer and your own at the very bottom of our program pages, along with your own. Before you have your client make a large purchase, it may be wise for them to try these supplements in smaller amounts and see how they react to them. Once you both are comfortable that the supplements are working well for them, you can have your client order the recommended quantities for the duration of the program you have them on, or until they’ve reached their goal weight and energy level.
For all supplements, I recommend you have your clients buy the purest they can find. In terms of availability to their body, liquids are better than powders, which are better than capsules, which are better than tablets.
Liquids → Powders → Capsules → Tablets
Most Desirable → Least Desirable
Some nutrients are not available as liquids or powders, either because of the taste or because they are too delicate and need the protection of a capsule. Tablets usually contain fillers and binders to hold the materials together and are the least desirable.
A note about the suggested brands:
The brands and items named in this guide for your clients are not an exhaustive list. The brands I’ve listed are those I’ve used in the past and from manufacturers I trust. That does not mean they are the only brands that might work for your client. This is also not an exhaustive list of helpful supplements you can share with your clients. These are the ones that tend to most rapidly restore the sensitivity of your client’s insulin receptors.
If there isn’t currently a specific suggested brand listed for a supplement below, these are brands I generally recommend:
Premier Research Labs- HealthForce Nutritionals
- Vitamin Code
- Pure Encapsulations
- Allergy Research Group
- Thorne
- Seeking Health
- Restorative Formulas
Extras for Going Deeper
Iodine Controversy: Should Your Client Be Taking Iodine… Or Not?
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The Many Uses of Magnesium
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Magnesium Loading: Learn how to determine your optimal dose of Magnesium.
Zinc for Healthy Hormones and Immune Function
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