Missing From the Databases: Molybdenum

Optimizing your hormones and mental health by getting the amount of molybdenum you really need.

If you’re a male trying to boost his testosterone or a woman trying to avoid nausea and histamine problems that ebb and flow with your hormones, you need to get enough molybdenum.

While we can generally say that eating a lot of meat, eggs, and dairy without eating liver or legumes is a recipe for tanking your molybdenum, it’s tough to know how much we are getting when the USDA and NCCDB databases, Cronometer, and anything else you might use to track your vitamins and minerals universally ignore molybdenum.

It makes it even worse that the RDA is based on not losing more molybdenum in the urine than you eat, rather than on optimizing hormones minimizing itchiness.

And it makes it 100 times worse that the RDA is based on studies of people consuming a measly 56 grams of protein, which really only works for you if you are into that sickly kind of look.

And it makes it 1000 times worse that the RDA study provided biochemical evidence that a quarter of people will accumulate the testosterone-tanking histamine-releasing sulfite on this intake!

Accordingly, here are my recommendations for how to get enough molybdenum from food, how to match it to protein intake, and a spreadsheet you can search through of molybdenum in 94 foods or food categories taken from four sources in the peer-reviewed literature.

This information has also been used to update the custom nutrient targets and the molybdenum lesson.

This article is reserved for Masterpass members. You can learn more about the Masterpass here.