IIRC you need a very big star - a supernova, in fact - to create some of the trace elements in our bodies. I am comforted by the thought that we are entirely generated in the insides of stars and eventually end up there again - reincarnation on a truly epic timescale.It burns hydrogen and then helium and so on. You can burn carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon and all sorts. It's just our sun isn't very big.
And is it true that all the lithium in our universe was created in the first few seconds after the Big Bang?