So, What's All This About Minerals? Why Are They Really Vital for Any Plant, Any Animal?

 (Not just 4-legged creatures, but 2-legged ones, too)         

Minerals and Life.

Life without minerals is not possible. It would be unpleasant with too little minerals. Apart from water (Hydrogen and oxygen), carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, we are all minerals.

We are constantly using, and thus losing, minerals. To stay healthy and remain in peak condition, we need to take in as much minerals as we lose.

When mineral levels fall, aging and disease set in. In a large study involving autopsies of many different species, every subject (both animal and human) had died of natural causes, died of a nutritional deficiency!

Living organisms, we included, cannot absorb minerals in the metallic state - the state they exist in nature (rocks, limestone's, dolomite, crushed egg shells) - no matter how hungry or starved we are, we cannot derive nutrition from the soil. This type has its uses; just not internally.

When minerals are made ionic (i.e., in solution), you can absorb them with 3-8% availability. When they are chelated (amino acid wrapped around the mineral), absorption of the mineral goes up to 40%. The body is “tricked” into absorbing the mineral disguised as an amino acid.

As we get older, we gradually lose the ability to absorb minerals.

After the age of 50, we absorb less than 1% of minerals. However, your body absorbs, transports, utilizes and stores minerals in the colloidal form.

Colloidal minerals have 100% availability to all living tissue.

Colloidal Minerals are the smallest state the mineral can keep their identity. They are 100’s of times smaller than metallic minerals and only 1/1700th the size of a red blood cell.

They carry a negative charge.

They remain in suspension (all the negative charges repel each other to stay in suspension).

Only plants can “digest” and make minerals “colloidal” - hence the term “plant derived colloidal minerals”.

Animals and Humans must get the minerals that are in the soil via plants or other animals that eat plants. Iron from red meat is much more plentiful and available than it is from spinach.

Our soils are depleted due to extensive and repeated farming practices. This is made worse by top soil erosion and acid rain.

Minerals are not evenly distributed around the world. They are concentrated in certain areas.

At least 70 of the 106 known minerals have been proven to be necessary for health (some times only in trace amounts).