27. Are You Really Low In Iron? With Morley Robbins
The Freely Rooted Podcast
Kori Meloy and Fallon Lee
5 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around about iron. Morley Robbins is the founder of The Root Cause Protocol and has helped thousands of people find the same healing he has found through understanding minerals. We devote the majority of this discussion to iron and copper, two minerals that are largely misunderstood by the allopathic and even functional medicine spheres. The point we keep coming back to is how beautiful and intelligent the human design is. Join us as we explore how we can best support our physiology through a greater understanding of these important minerals.
In this episode, we cover:
- Morley’s personal journey of finding healing through nutrition and minerals
- The impact of copper deprivation on the body and its connection to oxidative stress
- The role of critical thinking in taking responsibility for our own health
- What factors in our modern world have lead to pervasive iron overload
- How our bodies actually store iron and why blood tests fall short in measuring iron
- The flaw of iron supplementation in pregnancy
- How copper and iron move from mother to baby during pregnancy
- The impact of mineral deficiencies in the postpartum period
- Advocating for a safe and healthy birth even in the face of opposition from practitioners
- How the birth landscape has become highly medicalized over the years
- Taking a proactive instead of reactive approach to health and nourishment in pregnancy
- Making the choice to trust your body in pregnancy and birth
- Forgoing prenatal vitamins and pursuing whole food nutrition instead
- Exploring the reasons for the high rate of babies diagnosed with anemia
- Individualized mineral needs based on melanin
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Morley Robbins | Website | Facebook Group
Kori Meloy | Instagram | Freely Rooted Course
Fallon Lee | Instagram | Fallon’s Table
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The information presented in this episode does not constitute medical advice. It is for educational and inspirational purposes only.
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| 0:00.0 | We should be able to understand what to eat, how to support our nutrient needs. |
| 0:05.2 | And that isn't to downplay the importance that the practitioners play because they're |
| 0:10.8 | wonderful people. But I think a lot of our problems should be self-corrected. |
| 0:16.0 | Hmm? |
| 0:17.0 | Mm? |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the Free rooted podcast where we are passionate about helping |
| 0:27.3 | women reclaim their metabolisms, restore their youthful vitality and |
| 0:31.2 | rediscover God's original design for motherhood and wellness. |
| 0:35.6 | We are your host, Fallon and Corey, and we're so glad you're joining us for season four. |
| 0:39.6 | If you're new here, be sure to listen to our previous episodes where we talk through many of our |
| 0:43.0 | favorite foundational topics now grab your favorite nourishing drink and join us |
| 0:46.8 | as we continue discussing simple, attainable, and life-changing approaches to |
| 0:50.2 | wellness. Welcome Morley. We are so excited to have you on. Fallon and I have been looking forward to this episode for quite a while now and maybe some of our audience actually knows you as the Magnesia man. I love that that's one of your little |
| 1:13.4 | nicknames and I don't know if a lot of people actually know that before you got |
| 1:17.5 | into the world you're in now you actually were pretty deep into more of the |
| 1:21.9 | Western medicine world and I would love to hear about your |
| 1:25.0 | transition from that to where you got here now and because I feel like that just switches |
| 1:30.7 | switches on this whole paradigm and you know this transition to be able to kind of see the |
| 1:35.7 | world differently once you make you know just that one transition so yeah tell us about it. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah absolutely so I was born into a very sickly family, you know, mom was an alcoholic and had all sorts of heart issues. Dad was a manic-depressor, |
| 1:52.6 | with schizophrenic tendencies, |
| 1:54.8 | and just all sorts of other relatives |
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