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There are at least four mineral deficiencies that can significantly affect your IQ.

That's the topic for today. Generally speaking, it's your intelligence, it's your ability to solve

problems, it's your ability to learn and understand certain things. There's a memory or recall

component to it. And some people say, well, you know what, your intelligence is really finite

and either you're born with it or you're not. That's absolutely not true, okay? You can have

training, you can do self-improvement, you can do a lot of things. And even what your mother

ate while she was pregnant has a factor on your intelligence and your future ability to solve

problems as you're going to find out. But there are other factors too, like with learning,

it could be that you're in school and no one ever taught you how to study or learn. And I'm

being very sarcastic because they don't teach kids how to study or learn. You're just expected to

know that. So you go in there and you sort of memorize, you reread, you rewrite things over and over

and hopefully somehow you pass the test in, you get through it. But today I want to really focus

in on the nutrient part of your intelligence. So probably one of the most influential trace minerals

which you don't need a lot of it, but you need a little bit of it. And if you don't have that

little bit, you're going to be in big trouble because if you're deficient in iodine as a child,

your IQ can go down significantly like 13 points. Now, even if your deficient iodine is adult,

there are certain studies that show that it can decrease by 15 points. And that's pretty significant.

But the crucial time to get iodine is when the woman is pregnant with that baby, as well as when

they're breastfeeding, vitally important. And so iodine is involved in the creation of your brain

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