Manganese is a trace element necessary for healthy body functioning. Its biggest role appears to be as an antioxidant. That is, it functions as a spear tip looking for ‘bad oxygen’ (that’d be O instead of the normal O2) and when it finds one of these so-called oxygen radicals *BOOM*, MnO is formed, a harmless substance, which is then shown the way out via your kidneys.

Despite what scammy vitamin commercials may lead you to think, there’s no need to go out and try to help your body out with extra manganese. It is one of the elements that you get enough of by literally breathing in. Yes, each breath you take has enough micrograms of suspended manganese in it that it can be literally harvested right off your lung’s alveoli. In fact, for the meager amount necessary so much manganese enters the body that almost all of it is rejected as excess. So really, paying for manganese supplements is in a very literal sense a waste of money.

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