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Trace Minerals

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date September 7, 2024

A patient asked me the other day, What are trace minerals? With this question, I realized that I have never addressed this in my newsletters. Since we would all die without trace minerals, this may be an important topic to cover. So our first consideration is what distinguishes trace minerals from regular/macro minerals? Macro minerals […]

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Iodine

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date May 4, 2024

About a hundred years ago, we had a big problem in this country — goiter. Back then about one-third of Americans had this disease! This is one of the late-stage manifestations of iodine deficiency. What is goiter? It is a swelling of the thyroid gland in your neck just above your collarbone. While this is […]