In the past few months, I learned that a mineral which very few people talk about—molybdenum—may play a significant role in chronic health conditions.
Ever since my own challenges with unexplained weight gain led me to discover how molybdenum deficiency can make or break a person’s health, I’ve been discovering among my clients that molybdenum deficiency is a common thread with uterine fibroids, thyroid issues, and other chronic symptoms that medical science has struggled to diagnose or cure.
Watch this video to learn about molybdenum deficiency’s role in chronic conditions, or read the written version beneath it.
What I’m about to share is ahead of what medical science currently knows. Back in 2011, the National Institutes of Health published a study concluding that molybdenum deficiency is incredibly rare, and nothing significant has been published on the topic since. But recent revelations in my own healing journey and work with my clients tell a different story: Molybdenum deficiency seems to be a significant, hidden cause behind multiple chronic health conditions.
What Molybdenum Is and What It Does
Molybdenum is a trace mineral. Your body needs it, but only in tiny amounts, measured in micrograms rather than milligrams or grams. As far as I’ve learned, it’s used primarily by the liver, to extract amino acids from the protein you eat and convert them into other amino acids your body needs.
That single job matters more than it sounds like it should. There are roughly two dozen amino acids in the human body, and they’re the building blocks for nearly everything—muscle tissue, gut lining, blood vessel walls, lymphatic duct walls, neurochemicals, some hormones, immune cells.
When amino acid production falters, the effects ripple outward, which is exactly what I keep finding in the chronic conditions I work with most.
Uterine Fibroids
Low progesterone is a known cause of uterine fibroids, but conventional medicine doesn’t really explain why progesterone runs low in the first place. To me, it’s become obvious: Without enough molybdenum—along with a few other minerals and vitamins—the pituitary gland can’t produce and regulate the neurochemicals that tell the ovaries and adrenal glands to make progesterone. Progesterone is what tells the uterus to stop building lining, so without enough of it, the lining just keeps building.
Candida Overgrowth
Amino acids are also needed to make digestive enzymes and proteins. As those decline, food stops digesting well and travels through the GI tract undigested, which feeds the candida that naturally lives in your gut. So overgrowth isn’t really about sugar or carb content—it’s about food not being broken down properly in the first place.
Thyroid Deficiencies
This is the most straightforward example. Without the right amino acids, the pituitary can’t produce thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). No TSH means no T4. No T4 means no T3. I’m now seeing this show up not just as diagnosed hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s, but in clients with low T4/T3 and no official diagnosis at all.
Other Undiagnosed Symptoms
Even if you don’t have an official diagnosis, if you’ve had these symptoms for a while, then molybdenum deficiency could be an underlying cause:
- Fatigue. If your body can’t digest and metabolize protein, it can’t extract fuel from it—or make the neurochemicals that tell your body how to use that fuel. That bone-deep tired feeling, like your body is constantly tapped out, is a natural result.
- Low mood. Even when you’re doing the inner and spiritual work to raise your vibration, you can get pulled back into doubt, resentment, or feeling unsupported. Sometimes that’s unresolved core wounds—but it can also be physical: Raising your vibration requires dopamine and oxytocin, and both require amino acids.
- Weight gain that won’t budge. This is the symptom I have the most personal experience with. It’s what led me to molybdenum in the first place, and I’m starting to see my weight drop naturally, now that I’ve figured out the right amounts of molybdenum I need. When your body can’t extract fuel from food, or can’t get the signal for how to use it, it reads that as starvation—so no matter how much you eat, you keep gaining.
Also worth noting: your body is supposed to make its own GLP-1 and GIP—the same hormones people are now taking as prescriptions—to regulate fat storage. Because amino acids are involved in making GLP-1 and GIP, molybdenum deficiency can impair their ability to tell your body where to store fat, which might be why we end up with visceral fat instead of it all being stored subcutaneously.
Why Molybdenum Deficiency Happens in the First Place
In my explorations and assessments, I’ve observed three key potential causes for why molybdenum gets depleted in the first place and stays that way:
Chronic stress. Production of stress hormones steals the minerals and vitamins your body needs for repair and maintenance, especially because it’s a very inefficient process. It was never meant to run constantly. It was designed for a few minutes at a time—e.g., being chased by a predator, or chasing down an animal for food—not hours or days.
When I intuitively ask a client’s body how often it’s in fight-or-flight mode, the answer for every client who has a chronic condition is at least 90% of the time—no matter how well they tell me they manage their stress. This is a reminder that stress isn’t just emotional—it’s a physical state that steals raw materials and repair time, because the autonomic nervous system shuts down repair and maintenance functions whenever you’re in fight-or-flight.
This is why supplementing molybdenum alone might not work—because those are the raw materials, but your body also needs time to use them. I think of it like driving past a construction site where the materials are stacked up, but no one’s building anything. You can take the supplements or eat more molybdenum-rich foods, but if you haven’t addressed the chronic stress, you’re wasting your money and your hope. That’s why my work focuses on Core Wounds—the source of chronic stress—so that our nervous systems can reset and our bodies can not only heal chronic conditions but move toward optimal health.
Diet. The richest food sources of molybdenum are legumes—especially lentils, chickpeas—and organ meats. Growing up, the only legume on my family’s table was peas, which I hated, and we never ate organ meat because my dad couldn’t stand it. So I didn’t get much molybdenum as a kid, and it wasn’t until I learned about my own deficiency that I started eating lentils and chickpeas regularly enough to make a difference.
Unless your diet contains lentils, chickpeas, or organ meats several days a week, your molybdenum might also be low.
Soul agreements. This final piece is one that people might not expect, but as with most health conditions I write about, there is a spiritual cause.
I find that with chronic health conditions, these soul agreements are most often ones we make with ourselves—not with other people—working out who we need to be to survive in this world.
I have found in multiple cases (my own and clients’) that molybdenum deficiency was directly tied to a soul agreement to suppress our energy flow. It makes sense to me, because the body needs amino acids to make ATP, the energy molecule produced in the mitochondria of our cells. (Remember that from high school biology?)
Limiting the body’s ability to make ATP would be a very effective way to fulfill a soul agreement to limit the energy a person needs for all aspects of life. This part isn’t backed by science, but 20 years of experience tells me ATP isn’t just for physical function—it’s needed for our intuitive and spiritual capacities too. It also appears that we use extra ATP while transforming our minds and bodies in deep healing.
My read on it: The soul agreement to suppress energy gets made because, on some level, the soul knows it has to limit its own energy in order to be born through a mother who isn’t a lightworker/starseed—or who had suppressed her own nature so much that the energy mismatch might be too great to support a pregnancy. The agreement may have been necessary then; even if it isn’t needed anymore, it stays active until it’s addressed.
In the same way that I said supplementing molybdenum without addressing chronic stress is often a wasted effort, trying it without finding and resolving related soul agreements might be too.
That’s exactly why I do Intuitive Health Assessments: so that people like you have somewhere you can go to get all of these answers in one place, including the ones that others don’t know to look for.
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