What Exactly Are Nutrients and Why Do You Want Them

Long term health: Nobody knows much. Short term results: Bodybuilders and competitive athletes have a long history of intentionally manipulating body mass and composition with a great deal of success. Want long term health? Probably don’t be obese, exercise a bit, and stay away from anabolic steroids and other PEDs. Other than that, they haven’t figured it out yet. Looking for current results in strength, mass, performance, or body composition? See bodybuilders and competitive athletes.

Awesome video! I make simular content. Would be great to get your feedback

Human nutrition could be as straight forward and scientific as plant nutrition if making a profit didn’t incentivize misinformation and mass confusion. Plus the academic institutions have become corrupt enough that they are sure to silence any discoveries that threaten to expose already established mistakes in any major field, be it in nutrition or any other scientific field a pertinent example being Brett Weinstein’s discovery regarding laboratory mice and their ineffectiveness for measuring drug toxicity in humans, along with the unbelievably unprofessional acts that followed on the part of the academic establishment to silence the discovery; as it would be threatening the profits of the pharmaceutical establishment

Always talking about deficiency but very seldom on excessiveness ��

There is something I don’t get…
You say: N-P-K => 10-10-10 means 10%-10%-10% (So far, so good)
Then, you say: 100 pounds of 30-0-0 is exactly the same as 200 pounds of 15-0-0…
While the end result is still 30 (pounds, I guess), you still have 100 (pounds..?) more when using the 2nd, than using the 30-0-0…
Which to me, is still 15%, and not 30%. Am I missing something..?
Learning everyday, but this one tricks me…

Thank you for doing this. Im more of a visual learner and was searching for this exact type of video. Honestly, it would be nice to have an expansive explanation with pictures (like this video did.) Of each element. The pros and cons of each element and what not.

There should be a study on who sponsors these nutrition studies. This mess may be caused by economic interests, and then most of these studies are actually fake.

Thank u brother! Definitely needed this because im new and a couple of my plants are showing some of these signs. Great information! Namaste

This is a really good video though. As someone who has an interest in science based herbalism it is really important to look at the contexts and methodology of various studies to get the right idea. Instead of just being like “Bleh it’s all quackery” like NO plenty of medicines are refined from plants in the first place come on!
It’s complex.

Doesn’t help when media outlets over-hype certain studies to make headlines and therefore sell more (newspapers, increase viewing figures). Also those with an agenda only promote certain studies so get more followers on their diet/health plan

This video starts out with having you write down what you think a plant needs. This is why I started watching, I HAVE NO CLUE! WTF DUDE? Also he leave out CO2! That is needed more than O2! WTF?

Anyone know of some good Utube channels that deal with science based nutrition and health???

Awesome video man I love it when people share real knowledge! It is definitely a lot to ingest but well worth the time to learn how to keep your garden fine-tuned. I’ve always been a fan of Harley Smith and he’s with the NPK University. Just a treasure Trove of knowledge!

There is definitely a reason to justify yet another study when a flaw exists in a study that was vague or downright wrong. do the study correctly and it wont be needed to run again,hard to get money for a study that doesn’t need to be refined.

i will disband the nutrition department it was all a lie. hey secretary your fired

You neglected a fourth consideration: the source of funding for the research. What can you expect when in the 70s, Dr. Stephen Kreitzman at Emory University was funded to do a study on the effects of white sugar. The source: Coca Cola.
There’s also a severe problem with isolating substances for testing. For example, some additives may be restricted to 50 parts per million (ppm) when added to food. This is based upon tests to determine the safety of that additive alone, as described early in this video. However, the total of some 400 micro-additives adds up to 1,500 ppm in food for human consumption. The big problem is that interactions between two or more additives that produce adverse effects are constantly being discovered. An example is the caution regarding consuming grapefruit when taking statins. There is yet to be a study that compares a diet free of additives with a diet that includes the 1,500 ppm of additives; the FDA will explain they can’t do that study because it would be too expensive.
One other concept worthy to note: Western medicine is obsessed with “normal” values in blood, with weight, height, and longevity. Here’s the problem: “normal” blood sugar, blood pressure, weight etc. is not normal; it is in reality “average.” You may be aware that the “normal” weight in charts today is quite a bit higher than the charts of 20 years ago. Another years ago event occurred in California in the 1970s. There was concern about strontium-90, a radioactive element, contaminating milk and vegetation. The “normal” level at the time was zero ppm according to the laboratories. When workers went to have their blood taken to determine if they had strontium in their bodies, they found levels unexpectedly high. After a few months of similar results, the labs were suddenly reporting a normal level range from 0 to something greater than zero. The real normal is zero; their “normal” was adjusted to reflect the average levels they were finding.

Very comprehensive and well structured. I will be checking out the site for sure!

I just started this video it will help me alot, did u made any video on climate condition a plant need

Studies once showed that you’re damned if you do.
Then meta-analysis later indicated that you’re damned if you don’t.
But new data is convincing scientists that the damnation cannot be avoided, nor sugar-coated.

Dude with all these subs and money… Please ffs buy a Mic. It is cheap….

vid was okay there are some moments you kinda mumbled (like the top lip doesn’t move) open your mouth and move your lips more, this will help with projection and pronunciation.. you have a lovely smile own it

So, it’s basically, if not contradictory, virtually impossible for even a pretty smart person to keep track of, let alone us common rubes, and a healthy diet is about as out of our hands as everything else in our lives, and we are all hopelessly powerless in every possible way while being just sapient enough to have the seeming capability of control tantalyzingly dangled in front of our noses.

Good to know.

Is it the studies or is it the media reducing the results into a catchy soundbite at the end of the news which the general public then believes as gospel.

Your amazing!! I was watching one of ur videos accidentally… And I am in love ❤️ hahaha u should be a professor ��

This truly enlightened me, is like what happened when we were thinking on how to help my uncle with terminal cancer. Some stuff was good for one thing but bad for the kidney disease & antioxidants are worse if you already have cancer… Was horrible & sad & then you understand why is so hard to cure.

I stopped watching when you said 100 lbs of 10-10-10 fertilizer is just the same as 200 lbs of 5-5-5.. man that’s basic math, and they are not the same. You need to take this video down. You are articulate but misinformed. Do better next time.

Perform tests on controlled groups of people like children, prisoners, nursing home patients. The real problem with conflicting data is the source of funding and the individual biases of the researchers. Until we address the problems with ethics in the scientific community we wont be able to fully understand the data we are presented with.

you seem to cover every question one can have about our world, and thank you for that!
the only question i have and cannot really google (i tried researching, but no results) is WHY it became so trendy to YOLO, live a moment, becoming one with the universe, etc.
I mean, it’s a very fine concept but it became so mainstream these days! where are the roots of it? what’s the story?

humans aren’t rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, or monkeys……
As a quick example, if we tested chocolates on dogs, then it wouldn’t have made it to human testing because it makes dogs very ill… But the same chemical that causes dogs to be ill, is benign in humans.
likewise, dogs aren’t affected by salmonella when they eat raw meat, but humans get very very ill if they consume salmonella laced meat.

The food industry (dairy/meat) funds and publishes rigged studies. Eat plants! ������������! Go ��������������������������������������️������!

If a plant seed comes from the same bed of a deficiency crop, will the seed be devoid of those nutrients or does a plant concentrate enough into the G0 of the seed to keep it growing right? For say Example: micro greens nutrition

I’m actually waiting for her sentences to end to hear that manly tone of voice appearing

Really, there are four things that have plenty evidence and are good for you:

1) Don´t be obese
2) Excercise, sport or any kind of workout
3) Friendship, social life, social contact
4) Don’t smoke

Salt is good, if it is not industry salt (like industry sugar).

I planted a new plant in pot but there is not so ever any improvement and all leaves have fallen what to do

i think this is a great explanation and it applies also to drugs. Doctors and their patients often don’t want to accept that a drug may have a good effect on one area and a bad effect on another. Take metformin for instance. One of the best diabetic drugs out there. We now know it dramatically decreases vitamin B12 levels (which can kill you as it is essential to human life) and contributes to diabetic neuropathy. How many people suffered because of that? Now it is becoming more recognized and doctors are supposed to supplement patients B12. Lets look at statin drugs for heart disease. Some studies show it reduces arterial inflammation, but it is death to your liver. We need to accept that we are complex systems and we need to treat it as a whole and not as an individual process.

I’m a soil scientist and I recently just started a channel all about the science of gardening. My main focus has obviously been on the soil. I just released a video on deficiencies & fertilizer solutions. https://youtu.be/mDD62C1662M

10:15 Copper deficiency has the same effect on Humans “hair” turning GREY, who knew… �� (molasses is the remedy…, not sure if that works for plants… a drop of ��)

….Bokashi!!..of course!! ���� your vid just popped up on my recommendwho knew?! The universe has a way of providing, always, haha. Love & light Kevin ��

One thing to also consider, if the soil PH is too high or to low, the different minerals have issues depending on whether or not the PH is high or low. Most plants do well with a ph between 7 and 5.5. Outside of thy range, and issues arise. So the liberal might be there, but it is not accessible due to improper PH. And then we throw biology in the mix, which makes the nutrients available to plant like through what called nutrient cycling. Lost of info to be discussed here. But you do a great job at showing and explaining the different deficiencies through the photos chosen. I commend you. And I give thanks for the info.

Just my littls “patch” of knowledge here. It is my understanding that Iron is probs the most important trace element, other than one a plant is lacking obviously. It makes things LUSH deep deep green
Why? Well, the plants you put all that Nitrogen into need Iron to do its turning Green Thing. Sort of like the chain cause effects explained in the vid. I learned this info on a website dedicated to the growth of St. Augustine grass.

moral of the story: Don’t care about the news on nutrition, eat whatever you like to eat.

This was so good! Thank you! I love how you say you’re a simple gardener but you always back your suggestions up with science and evidence.

Hi Kevin. Where can I find this article on your website? I would like to get transcript of it so I can print. Thanks.

This is a great video for a high school Hort or plant science nice job on the video

What’s an organic way to increase phosphorus in the soil? I use coffee to increase nitrogen, banana for potassium, egg powder for calcium; what would help with phosphorus?

Where has been your channel this whole time? Glad to have found you!

Many people create content on that topic and I really appreciate your work! But could you please also make a follow-up video on how to amend deficient soils in an organic farming context? I’m not talking compost, PH, etc…. I would like to know how to add e.g. Boron when a Boron deficiency has been detected if you are an organic gardener.

Crappy observational epidemiological studies based on food frequency questionnaires, finding weak correlations and reporting them as causitive. See Prof John Ioannidis

Does Miracle Grow have some sort of liquid nutrients that have all these essential nutrients I can just add to the plants?

Great video!
note. The human body naturally expels excess macro & micro nutrients.

Good video but missing a load of things:
#1 a large number of “Scientific” Studies these days are bought and paid for by corporations pharma, food etc. Results tend to favor what these guys want to hear.
#2 You don’t need the media or scientists at all to figure out what’s good for you! Zero confusion can be achieved by some simple deductions.
#3 Anything will have a toxic effect at a certain dosage even things we can’t live without, like water.
#4 Balance is definitely the key, but this statement isn’t very useful on its own: Balance yes, but which foods? This is, happily, where it gets very simple:
#5 You just have to look at what the human body subsisted on in nature, before denatured factory food became available. Animals in the wild never get sick, other than physical injury. Only those fed by humans do get sick. Or those that live in environments humans have altered and polluted.
#6 Look at what we were able to feed ourselves with, before industrial production of food became prevalent. If you ingest mostly packaged food from the American and European food Mafia, you become a customer of the pharma Mafia in short order. Its that simple.
#7 Since we already know that our intestinal system matches that of herbivores, we know that meat is suboptimal meat spends too much time in your system, causing heavy loads of bacteria and various other problems. If you think you must have meat to live, you’ll just have to accept that you’ll be less healthy to a variable degree, depending on individual constitution and other habits.
#8 If you can’t follow the “natural food” train of thought, try the next one:
#9 The last thing our corporate overlords want to do is pay an employee who retired at 60 Years old or pension for another 40 Years, while they’re not working. Do you really believe it to be in the interest of the food industry to keep you healthy? Do you believe its in the interest of the pharma industry to keep you healthy, where every healthy person is a lost customer?
#10 Remember those industries are not separate, they are owned by the same banks. 20 global banks control 140 major corporations, which includes the media. They work together in concert, mostly. And the most advantageous scheme for them is, that you should keel over soon after retirement preferably from cancer, so they can use high cost Chemo-therapy to get you to kick the bucket and for the charges, take your family home from you, that you paid off throughout your working life. There is absolutely zero interest in curing cancer. If there’s something good against it, it won’t be publicized.

I used to be a bodybuilder and obsessed about nutrition and diet. I apply what I learned building my own body, to my garden. (We’re more similar that you think in a certain way)
I would love a list of matter to add to a compost heap, for certain nutrition issues
I.e
Nitrogen comfrey, nettle, lawn clippings..
Carbon Branches and woody materials..
Calcium Dandelion leaves..
Iron Spinach and other dark leaves..
Etcetera…

I figure that just like taking a multivitamin and eating crap all day, the soil will not be treated by endless fertiliser.
Seems similar to fast food. Good in a crisis but not best practice.
You must make the garden “eat” well (compost and mulch)
I prefer a holistic approach and treat the soil with organic matter more often with fertiliser. Seems to be working well.
I know troubleshooting means using some fertiliser, as issues occur, but I prefer to treat the problem not the symptoms.

Just like in bodybuilding, where I started scrawny and finished at 105kg of muscle;
The plot on our rental property was a neglected hell of rubble, weeds and 3ft of sand.
Been applying permaculture methods to treat the soil up to 4ft deep in places.
Healthy soil healthy food healthy ecosystem…..its all linked.

Brilliant video. Very helpful
Now where did I put that molybdenum….

Plants require 17 essential elements for growth: carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), boron (B), chlorine (Cl), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn).
Manganese was left off of your list my OG but it is essential and very important for healthy green foliage and along with iron these two elements are often misdiagnosed as a Nitrogen deficiency because people automatically think if the foliage is yellow it’s a lack of N. Calcium is a Macro nutrient imho as you stated it is responsible for the translocation of nutrients and cation exchange in the root zone.

Rather than go over the symptoms it would have been helpful to understand what fertilizer to use for what, different types, and how to use them properly

It’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S1qMFMAv4E Molybdenum

I know you could grow some big marijuana trees u should give it a shot, I love your videos

Thanks for the simple explanation with pictures to clearly see symptoms. Much appreciated!

Thank you! Awesome nutrient video! Love that you go beyond NPK

The Bible actually says that wine is to be drunk in special occasions like celebrations it makes the heart marry, so basically use it once in a while for like a wedding or something but, even think becoming drunk is obviously sinful. Just another reason the Bible is true ��. Thanks for this info, I will keep tryin different things and experimenting I realized I had a allergy to dairy which I can only assume will cause problems with weight loss if you are consuming something that is toxic to you. So I wonder if I eliminated everything my body has allergies to would I naturally lose weight? Just eating the foods I want? Do my allergies to certain foods cause weight gain I love dairy and eat it often perhaps if I cut it out completely would I lose some of the weight would I feel better? Bread is also something high in carbs but, it never causes me to become sick. I wonder honestly.

You make NO mention of industry funding at all and the ensuing conflicts of interest. And for Pete’s sake, there’s NO J-curve for alcohol consumption. Drinking a tiny bit every day isn’t somehow magically healthier. A proper review of the research has clearly shown that healthy non-drinkers have the lowest all-cause mortality. You have to separate out the people who were wrongly classified as non-drinkers, but merely quit drinking after contracting diseases. BTW The alcohol industry has crazy lobbying power and they’ve funded plenty of studies designed to create very specific perceptions.

Use vertically farmed berries, to remove the variable of local variability. Since it is well known that growing environments can change the composition of grapes for instance.

I was called back into the doctors office in October of 2018. Red blood cells dangerously low, internal bleeding. The doctor proceeded to ask me a bunch of question correlating too including which diet I followed. I informed him, Mediterranean diet. His response, I don’t what that is.

I burst out laughing. Not at first. I explained what the diet consists of. He went on explaining that the blood work indicates that I was bleeding internally. Then out of nowhere I burst out in laughter just thinking to myself, he’s a doctor and doesn’t know what the Mediterranean diet is.

I couldn’t contain myself.

Three months later, cause this doctor was like: we will wait and see come back in two months and we will run another blood test and go from there. By then I was so fatigue, in pain so my father took me to A&E and turns out it was a tumour. A fucken tumour causing the internal bleeding and pain and discomfort and so much more.

“You can’t both drink and not drink alcohol at the same time.” Meet the new brew “Schroedinger” where you can both have your drink and not have it at the same time.