A "healthy" diet is great, but that alone isn't going to cut it, not with nutrient depleted soils, nor to mention rampant low HCL production and gut issues and environmental toxins / metals that respectively impair nutrient absorption and block receptor sites preventing nutrients from effectively getting into the cell. See it's not just about how much of something you consume, but how much is actually absorbed, and toxins impair this absorption. Chelate those toxins? It's not that simple. We have to consider the antagonistic effect of stress on nutrients such as magnesium and zinc, depleted levels of which lend to the body holding on to toxic metals such as aluminum and mercury for which doctors then want to chelate, only further creating a vacuum in the body as the primary nutrients were lacking in the first place. We go about our diets, blissfully unaware that the "organic vegetables" we consume thinking we're making healthy choices are often sprayed with dangerous copper sulfates (a known toxin); or the non-organic crops being laced with glyphosates which deplete magnesium and further impair our stress responses. Consider further that if thoughts can lead to actions and stress, with stress in turn affecting our minerals, then our very thoughts play a role in our accumulation of toxins, as well as the body's ability to release them. If we're not addressing our stressors (present day as well as buried traumas from the past), this can and will affect our mineral and metal levels.
Stress also raises soft tissue calcification - this calcification affecting at least 3/4 of the population and being an underlying factor in the common degenerative bone diseases we see so often in old age. Yet our media and doctors have conditioned us to believe we need more calcium when that just adds to the problem. Aiming instead to reduce high calcium with nutrients such as K2, Mg, Zn, and Io can help to an extent, but what if a deeply engrained trauma is working subconsciously and protectively to keep that calcium shell high? We now move into the field of psychology, into an area most phsycologists are not even aware of. While nutritionists study nutrition and psychologists study psychology, there is very little integration between the two fields. If a mental health counselor is able to understand the psychological ramifications of minerals patterns such as high Na/K, calcium shell, copper toxicity, etc we'd be able to address so many relationship and mental health issues without the needed for dangerous psychotropic drugs. Calcification goes beyond the obvious - bones and tissue. What if a copper toxicity induced calcium shell calcifies the pineal gland - our third eye that connects our physical body to the astral plane. Logic, self awareness, and perception of the universe around us diminish. We become closed, shut down, rigid, yet the numbing effect of the calcium shell (which is essentially a protective mechansim against overhwleming stress) buffers the awareness of what's happening. Understanding these concepts means first accepting that our minerals affect far more than just our physical body, and the reverberations of this extend far beyond that which is taught in standard nutrition or psychology. This however is the transformational unlocking to understanding and achieving our highest potential, in physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Relying just on eating healthy or adjusting a mineral imbalance to 'heal' is over-simplifying things. While proper testing, eating 'healthy, and those mineral adjustments are essential first steps, we also have to do our own self nurturing and inner investigation to heal. Though, as just alluded to, mineral imbalances can block the mind from doing the work, just as traumas and stressors can block minerals from rebalancing, just as poor detoxification pathways and metals can impair nutrient absorption. This is why, ultimately, working all areas of the path when possible is so important.