Hi, I'm Katie from Lonesome.com and I am so excited today to be here with Jason and

Mira, call set of call to nutrition to talk about micronutrients and also some off-topic

subjects like the many places they've traveled in the world because you often hear about

these traditional cultures all over the world and how they live and what they eat but you

guys have actually seen it and I'm so excited to jump right in. Welcome, Jason and Mira.

Thank you so much for having us, Katie.

Awesome. Well, I know that you often hear and I hear all the time that in modern times we're

overfed but undernourished and you guys are the experts in that realm because you specialize

in micronutrients. You've even written the book on it, the micronutrient miracle that's

coming out this year which is exciting but can you delve into that? What are the role

of these micronutrients and what are some of the deficiencies that we're seeing these days?

Absolutely. So first of all, micronutrients are not scary or frightening. You already know

what they are. You probably just didn't use this word long, scary word, micronutrients.

So micronutrients are your vitamins, vitamins A, C, D, things you already hear about. Your

minerals like calcium magnesium, your essential fatty acids like that of mega three that

we all hear so much about and your amino acids like you're taking in your protein powder.

So it's just those four things put in one category and what they do is they make it so your

body can function. Basically without them, you can do nothing. You can't breathe. We

like everything from your breath to your skin tone to your bones, dry, hardwood muscle.

Absolutely. Everything requires these in order to and more or for you to function unlike

the macrata trans. Right. So food has two basic units to it. When we eat food, when we

want to eat real food or rich food, what we're getting is we're getting a caloric component.

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