I am often asked why I insist so often that people supplement with minerals above everything else. It is simple, minerals are essential to all life. All chemicals in the body work together as a collective whole.
If there is a shortage of just any one mineral the balance of the entire bodily activity can be thrown awry. A deficiency of one mineral may disrupt the entire chain of life, rendering other nutrients either useless or inefficient. A marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. It makes it impossible for the body to maintain its immune status adequately.
-All body processes depend on the action of minerals as all nutrients such as vitamins, proteins, enzymes, amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, sugars and oils etc, require minerals for activity. Vitamins cannot function unless minerals are present. Vitamins can be synthesised by living matter, minerals cannot.
-Mineral are the catalysts that make enzyme function possible.
-Minerals are necessary for the proper digestion and assimilation of our food.
-Hormonal secretions of glands are dependant upon mineral stimulation.
-Minerals control the acid-alkaline balance (PH) of the tissue fluid.
-Minerals help protect the body from pollution by heavy (toxic) metals and other contaminates. They have a natural chelating effect which helps remove build-ups of metallic minerals
-Minerals are therefore justified as a supplemental dietary substance, especially in these days when the mineral content of our fruit and vegetables are destroyed by petrochemicals and synthetic fertilisers.
-Trace or colloidal minerals are more important in nutrition than vitamins.
The human body is designed to receive minerals from plants so that they may be properly assimilated and utilised. Colloidal minerals are plant derived and naturally chelated. The term 'Colloidal' means 'in suspension'. Colloidal minerals contain all major and trace elements (do not confuse 'Colloidal minerals' with 'Colloidal Silver', it is not the same thing!!) The efficiency of each mineral is enhanced by balanced amounts of the others.
AS for which brand, .I usually recommend Life Springs' liquid minerals simply because I know they work!! They are undiluted (as opposed to many others that are diluted from the original concentrate) and therefore are good value for money. These minerals come from mines in the state of Utah in the United States, where plant derived colloidal minerals are extracted from a 75 million year old pre-historic plant deposit. These prehistoric plants were encapsulated by a layer of sand rock sealing in the minerals and keeping them free from erosion, toxins and pollutants. The 70 plus minerals contained in this mineral supplement contain the same energy and nutrient levels that were once part of life on earth many millennia ago.
-The human body requires at least 7 macro minerals and 70 trace minerals to maintain optimum health. We should be getting these minerals from our diets but modern farming methods and the use of chemicals for growing has lead to nutrient deficient diets for people. A 1992 earth summit report found that Australian soil had lost over 55% of its minerals. There is suggestion that the situation is the same in New Zealand.
-Organic colloidal minerals are different from normal metallic or chelated minerals. Only plants can produce organic colloidal minerals. Animals and people are designed to absorb, transport, assimilate and use minerals in their organic colloidal form.
-Organic (plant derived) colloidal minerals should not be confused with metallic or chelated minerals, which have very low absorption rates and can be toxic to the human body. In terms of health it is not what you take but what you absorb that counts.
-'Life Springs' Liquid minerals are 100% bio available so only small doses are required to experience benefits (5 to 30ml per day)
-There is no toxic build up - minerals are completely harmless in their plant derived colloidal form.
