{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"41: Summing Up Minerals","description":"Remember learning about vitamins and minerals for the first time? Maybe it was fun and exciting or maybe it was overwhelming - or possibly both. Regardless of how you felt, there's a lot of them. And remembering all them isn't easy.  So I broke them up into two episodes - one on vitamins and one on minerals. In this episode, I cover the minerals - both the major and trace minerals.  Normally, you'd have a whole semester on micronutrients so this episode is a summary - a review.  This is what you'll learn in this episode: A review of the major minerals, electrolytes, and complications that happen when the levels are elevated or depleted A breakdown of the trace minerals - the role, food sources, deficiency, and toxicity symptoms Here's a glance at this episode:  [08:30] \u2013 Why elevated potassium levels need to be addressed and the dangers of elevated potassium levels [10:30] \u2013 Symptoms of hyponatremia and what I used to see in my patients when I worked in pediatrics [11:45] \u2013 A review of the symptoms of hypernatremia [13:35] \u2013 An overview of magnesium including hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia. [16:59] \u2013 Phosphorous, what it is, why it\u2019s important, and where it likes to hang out in the body [20:17] \u2013 The role of calcium and phosphorous in the body and why these two go together \u2013 like buddies [22:37] \u2013 A quick review of refeeding syndrome and how the electrolytes reviewed in this episode are connected to refeeding syndrome [24:48] \u2013 What foods interfere with iron absorption [34:20] \u2013 The role of zinc especially for people in the clinical setting [38:38] \u2013 Why copper is monitored in people with cholestasis [47:29] \u2013 What\u2019s up with Chromium? [48:39] \u2013 Fluoride, the tooth mineral [50:01] \u2013 Molybdenum - not only fun to say. You'll hear about a case study of a rare genetic condition involving molybdenum ","author_name":"RD Exam Made Easy Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/rdexammadeeasy.libsyn.com\/","html":"