In this Q&A I answer listener questions including: Is there a limit for magnesium absorption in one sitting? How many mg would that be? Solutions for irritable bowel disease? Apparently farmers are finding boxes of ticks - alpha gal, etc concerns? Supplements for kids? Whats been your experience seeing the chiropractor? Natural ways to balance hormones beyond diet and environmental factors? What health product do you wish existed? What do I feed my cats and how do I take care of them?

My website: www.matt-blackburn.com

Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co

Music by Ryan Parr: www.huemanpictures.com

By popular request after years of interviewing several different women and getting their perspectives on how to create healthy babies, I decided to create a solo show dedicated to the topic. While I don't talk about iron at all in this show, and several other nutrients and supplements that can support a healthy pregnancy, I highlight vitamin K2 and melatonin. I also talk about vitamin E and why fears about pregnant women supplementing it are unfounded, how I view the four fat soluble vitamins, the benefits of zinc for fetal development, and briefly touch on magnesium and shilajit.

If you want to learn the science of why iron deficiency (low serum ferritin) can permanently cause brain damage to your child (I believe i'm in this category), check out episode number 337.

I've helped two families here in northern Idaho create several healthy babies by supplementing all of the Mitolife products. The conventional health system combined with influencers with various agendas (usually the whole food supplement types) have really mudied the waters and confused a lot of mothers. In this show I aim to break the spell that many are under regarding fear around various supplements, specifically exogenous supplemental melatonin while a woman is pregnant and the tremendous benefits that it provides.

My website: www.matt-blackburn.com

Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co

Music by Ryan Parr: www.huemanpictures.com

Vitamin K2 supports midbrain and pons medulla development:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8774117/

Decline of world IQ:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289607000463

Melatonin research:

https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/4/2058

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0890623824000017?via%3Dihub

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7081745/#CD010527-bbs2-0027

Role of vitamin E in pregnancy: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/76117

Zinc: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021016431

Strap in your seatbelt and buckle up because this is nearly three hour show is an interview that I did with Vanessa Lopez over on her podcast Intentionally Well. She asked many excellent questions and had me break down the nuts and bolts of my CLF Protocol, which stands for calcification, lipofuscin and fibrosis.

I talk about how every DM I get on social media about a rare health condition i've never heard of relates back to one of those three accumulations in the body. I also talked about burnout recovery, my thoughts on peptides, and shared a lot of information that I've never shared before either on interviews or on my solo podcasts.

Vanessa's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intentionally-well/id1646659655

My website: www.matt-blackburn.com

Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co

Music by Ryan Parr: www.huemanpictures.com