Nutrition Frenzy

“Lacking vitamins, the body can make some use of minerals, but if lacking minerals, vitamins are useless” – Taken from Senate Document No. 264, year 1936 74th Congress, 2nd Session.

If this is true than why do most multi supplements contain mostly vitamins and very few minerals?

One reason is that minerals can be very dangerous if given in the wrong form. Larger sized molecules of minerals are not utilized by the cells. They either Burden the liver to break them down or they stay in the body undigested and can poison the system. I would beware of any supplement that has a child safe lock on the lid.

You can actually have an excess and a deficiency of the same mineral at the same time and even die from it. Simply because you can’t digest it.

You’ve probably heard about the soil in America becoming more and more depleted of its minerals. And with that cry came several companies selling bottles of colloidal minerals. Colloidal minerals are liquid minerals from water-leached shale. The idea being that we could digest this much easier than if we were to go out and eat mineral rich dirt or rocks.

This got people thinking seriously about minerals. Yet there were a couple of problems with this. One was that other, not so safe, elements were found in this colloidal solution such as mercury and cadmium. Another issue is that the size of colloidal is still too big and burdens the liver. Colloidal Silver was especially a problem. Some people were making colloidal silver at home and having serious consequences.

“99% of the American people are deficient in minerals, and a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease.” – Also taken from Senate Document No. 264, year 1936 74th Congress, 2nd Session.

Bottom line is Yes, we need minerals to survive. Yes mineral supplementation can be dangerous. And yes getting minerals from your diet is the safest but even if you are a juicer you aren’t likely to get what you need from your diet. So what do we do?

Personally, I think the solution lies in changing the way we farm. Resting the land, replenishing the soil, flooding etc. But that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
So for now; eat the best you can, and if you decide to supplement use ionic or angstrom size minerals so that you’re body is able to use it on a cellular level and discard the rest. Ionic minerals are supposed to be the same size as the minerals we get from fruits and vegetables.

There are a number of products now that manufacture angstrom size and or ionic minerals. Energy Images, Water OZ, Ionic-Fizz, and Isagenix are a few that I am familiar with.

Here are “some” of the functions minerals perform.

Calcium - Alkalizing, bones, muscle contraction
Magnesium - muscle relaxant, blood sugar balancer, anti-aging.
Zinc – Body odor, infections, calming, prostrate health.
Gold – Glandular health, sleep (Dangerous if bigger than angstrom)
Copper – Hair color, anti parasite.
Sulfur – Allergies, ant inflammatory, pain, anti-cancer, metabolize sugar
Platinum – energy, headaches, PMS (Dangerous if bigger than angstrom)
Chromium – Blood sugar regulator, fat burner
Vanadium – Circulatory, blood sugar
Selenium – Immunity, detoxifies liver, antioxidant
Iron – Blood oxygen
Iodine – Thyroid and metabolism
Boron – Bones, anti inflammatory
Cobalt – Nerves, blood sugar, blood building
Germanium – Cell structure
Manganese – Digestion
Molybdenum – Sexual health, circulation
Potassium – Brain fog, muscle energy, water balance, nerves