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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Warning: Missing Mineral Causing Arthritis

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the number 1 missing trace mineral involved in arthritis. Vitamin D and magnesium are often used for arthritis, but they won’t work without enough boron.


There aren't many studies on boron, but there is some promising data involving boron and arthritis. Boron seems to be the key trace mineral that allows calcium and magnesium to work.


If you’re deficient in boron, you’ll have excess calcium and magnesium in the urine and tend to get more calcification in the soft tissues. You might also have weaker bones.


Here are some of the health benefits of boron:

• Helps keep minerals inside the bone

• Allows vitamin D to be activated

• Helps prevent tooth decay


Boron helps prevent joint inflammation by reducing C-reactive protein. A boron deficiency can also cause receding gums, kidney stones, calcium in the arteries, and calcium in the joints.


The parathyroid gland stores the most boron in the body and produces a hormone that helps control calcium. If you don’t have enough calcium, the parathyroid hormone will increase to extract the calcium from your bones. You need boron to allow this process to work.


If you’re low in boron, you might also be low in testosterone or estrogen. Research suggests that boron can even potentially help reduce the risk of prostate cancer.


To use boron to help relieve arthritis symptoms, try starting with 3 mg of boron three times per day and see if the problem resolves within 1 to 3 months.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's topic revolves around the number one missing trace mineral in arthritis.

0:07.3

For arthritis, a lot of people are taking Vitamin D, and they may not see the difference.

0:14.0

Other people take a lot of magnesium for their joints.

0:16.9

And they also might not feel much difference unless they have this additional trace mineral involved and that is boron. Now let me

0:26.7

explain what boron is. It's a trace mineral that we don't have a lot of studies on

0:31.6

but there's a lot of data relating to arthritis and I'm going to share with you.

0:35.5

Boron seems to be the key trace mineral to allow calcium to work, to allow magnesium to work. To allow magnesium to work. If you're deficient in boron, you're going to have excess

0:48.4

amounts of calcium and magnesium in the urine. You're going to tend to get more calcification in the soft tissues.

0:55.2

You're not going to have the strong bones.

0:58.2

So boron really helps keep the minerals inside the bone and allows vitamin D to be activated and help this whole process work.

1:07.0

BORON also prevents tooth decay like in tooth cavities.

1:12.0

If you don't have enough boron, you're going to have more

1:13.8

inflammation in the joints because boron helps reduce something called C-reactive

1:19.1

protein. You may even find that you're getting receding gums, kidney stones, calcium in the arteries, and

1:25.2

calcium in the joint because you're deficient in boron.

1:28.1

The tissue that contains or stores the most boron is something called the parathroid gland. Let me explain very simply

1:36.1

what the parathroid gland does. It sees four small glands around your thyroid. And what the parathroid

1:42.4

gland does is produces a hormone that

1:45.2

helps control calcium so let's say for example you don't have enough vitamin D or

1:50.3

you don't have enough calcium well Well, the parathyloid hormone will increase

1:55.0

to extract the calcium from your bone,

1:58.0

pull it out, so you have enough calcium.

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