Common Questions About Minerals

Common Questions About Minerals

1. What are minerals?

They are elements, along with carbon, from which all living matter is constructed.

2. How many of these minerals are there in the body?

Over 60 have been identified (70+ available in Organic Minerals™ and Active Life™)

3. Why are minerals essential?

As well as oxygen, the body must have a full spectrum of minerals to experience full health. Two-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling and others are convinced that every sickness, disease and every ailment is linked to a mineral deficiency or imbalance. It is said that vitamins, enzymes and anti-oxidants do us little or no good if we lack minerals. They all act as co-factors. Even Farmers and vets know that our plants are not enough to raise healthy animals and always supplement from birth with major minerals, trace minerals and vitamins.

4. How can I get minerals into my body?

We should be able to get all the minerals we require from the food that we eat, but even organic food now has only 15 to 25 minerals, due to soil depletion. Years of natural erosion and over farming have left most of our food mineral-deficient. An official government report has stated, "The soil is seriously deficient in minerals".

5. What about the mineral tablets and bottled water, I buy from the shops?

These are not intended for the human body. They are inorganic and not readily assimilated by the body because of their electrical charge and size. The electrical charge of the body's cells is positive '+' and the charge of inorganic metalic minerals is also positive '+' and two like charges always repel.

It is known that on average, approximately 8% of the minerals in tablets and in water, are absorbed into the body, the rest are excreted via the urine.

6. What are colloidal minerals?

These are particles of minerals that are up to1,000 times smaller than inorganic minerals. Colloidal is the form of mineral found in plants and carries a negative (-) charge. This negatively charged form of mineral allows for easy assimilation into and use by the body (up to 98% absorbable).

Click here to read the following "What Does Colloidal Mean?"

7. Why do we need Organic Minerals?

As well as the major minerals such as calcium, magnesium etc. there are 70 essential trace minerals such as Selenium and Copper. These minerals are all required to fulfill various roles in the body. A good example of how they work together can be seen from the major mineral calcium, which also needs the trace mineral boron as a co-factor before it can be assimilated into the bones. It is still not known just what all these trace minerals do. Research is continuing to ascertain which ones are essential. Until then it makes sense to take the full spectrum of minerals as insurance, as nature intended. We do know that many of the minerals are needed as co-factors with the vitamins to perform their specific function. A deficiency in any mineral can have a detrimental effect on the human body.

8. Can I get all the minerals I need, in tablet form, from the Health Shop?

Unfortunately the answer is no

Our Organic Minerals™ and Active Life™ are nearly 10 times more digestible, by the body, than tablet forms of minerals and vitamins.