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Podcast: Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Episode: Why You Need More Essential Minerals in Your Diet and the Dangers of Mineral Deficiency with Barton Scott
Description: Barton Scott is a chemical engineer and nutritionist. In 2025, he founded Upgraded Formulas, a company offering a line of supplements "that are 100% bioavailable and are absorbed better by the body than any other brand on the market today." Our bodies, Barton claims, only "absorb about 25% or less" of most supplements on the market. Â This fact, he says, is less telling of what is and isn't in most of today's supplements and more of a reflection of how inefficient our bodies are at absorbing the nutrients in them. Â In fact, this inefficiency is only going to get worse for many as ce...