Minerals

2. Minerals

3. Minerals are the spark of life, and without them we simply wouldn’t function.

4. Minerals are the basic components of all matter. They are built into key enzymes and hormones, and are part of cells, tissue, bone, blood and body fluids.

5. Although we Americans have greater abundance, and perhaps a more balanced diet than most of our primitive forebears, our intake of vital, life sustaining minerals is woefully inadequate. The people of the United States are the best fed, nutritionally starved people in the world…

6. Most people today, especially those living in North America, are severely deficient in essential minerals. A number of experts in mineral science, cell physiology, soil science and cellular biochemistry have linked mineral deficiencies to virtually every illness and disease known to man.

7. Through a process called transmutationthe human body can produce vitamins, but it cannot produce minerals. Minerals must be consumed, whether through food or proper supplementation since they are the building blocks the cells utilize to manufacture vitamins at the cell level.

8. The very word vitamin is basically an antonym constructed from the first three letters of two other words - Vital and Mineral.

9. Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems thanupon calories or vitamins, or upon the preciseproportions of starch, protein or carbohydrateswe consume!

10. Every reaction and interaction of organic molecules requires inorganic mineral catalysts and cofactors to complete.

11. They also assist in every aspect of life from the production of hormones and energy, digestion, nerve transmission and muscle contraction, to the regulation of pH, metabolism, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

12. Without these mineral catalysts and cofactors, biochemical reactions can’t reach their end point.

13. Macro-minerals and trace-minerals supply neither energy nor fuel to the body but are instrumental in their production and use.

14. All the vitamins in the world do us little good without minerals.

15. Lacking vitamins, the system can make some use of minerals, but lacking minerals, vitamins are useless.

16. Minerals are sometimes called “co-enzyme factors” --because enzymes are basically mineral combinationsin their most basic structures.

17. Same with amino acids which are hydrogen chains produced by cellular interactions with mineral TRANSMUTATIONS within the cells themselves.

18. There are more than 100 mineral elements found on earth. Four of these, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen, make up 96% of our body.

19. The remaining 4% of our body is basically made up, in part, of the other minerals, which are available to us, and these vary somewhat, depending on where we live.

20. Our daily mineral intake is about 1.5 grams–our total intake of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids are about 500 grams.

21. Thus our mineral intake represents only about 0.3% of our total intake of nutrients, yet minerals are so potent and so important that without them we wouldn’t be able to utilize the other 99.7% of foodstuffs and would quickly perish.

22. More important than mineral’s role in balancing pH levels, however, is proper cellular hydration. No amount of minerals can balance pH if the cells are chronically de-hydrated.

23. There is a huge gap in knowledge regarding the understanding as to why proper hydration is important for health, and for competitive success as well.

24. Humans are water beings. We form during 9 months in a water-filled environment called a womb. Our blood is water based, as is our brains. Without water, minerals are worthless and vice verse.

25. There are seven major minerals. They are calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium and chlorine. Our bodies should contain significant amounts of each!

26. Trace minerals, on the other hand, are present in the body in very small amounts. Each makes up less than one-hundredth of one percent of our body weight.

27. Rocks are the parent material for soil which is the main source of nutrition for plants, animals and ultimately humans.

28. The health and survival of all plants, domestic or wild, depends on the health of the soil and its ability to provide a constant supply of minerals.

29. Vitamins, enzymes, hormones, every sub-cellular and chemical reaction, every metabolic cycle requires mineral cofactors and catalysts, even oxygen itself can not be utilized without mineral cofactors.

30. According to science, millions of years ago the soil near the earth’s surface, where our plants are grown, was saturated with dozens of minerals. At least 84 minerals were available nearly everywhere and some areas of the planet contained 100 minerals.

31. When humans began to till the soil, wind and rain erosion began to take its toll along with continuous cropping, which gradually strip-mined the nutrients from the soil.

32. Years ago, humans used to burn wood for cooking and heating.

33. Ashes contain all the minerals that the tree brought out of the earth through it’s roots.

34. People would then deposit the ashes onto the garden.

35. When they would grow food, it would contain all the mineralsthat were added to the soil from the burned wood from trees.

36. When we stopped burning wood and started using coal and electricity, the mineral content of the food started diminishing and has continued to today.

37. Soil tests from all over the world have revealed that our soils are severely lacking in minerals, leaving us with mineral-deficient plants with very little food value.

38. Most farmers never put back more than 6 minerals. Animals require at least 60 minerals, creating a deficit of 54 minerals.

39. Soil depletion is the only reason today’s plants contain no more than 16 minerals, on average, in most of the food available today.

40. Man-made, chemical fertilizers, introduced in 1908, upset the delicate balance of minerals and organisms in humus-rich soil by killing off the beneficial bacteria. Lacking in the naturally occurring minerals, they are less available to plants.

41. Farmers add 46 billion tons of synthetic fertilizer to their crops annually in an attempt to compensate for the useless soil.

42. The more chemical fertilizers are used, the weaker the plants become, the more insects attack, and the more insecticides have to be used.

43. Chemical fertilizers also saturate plant roots with too much of one nutrient, making it difficult for plants or crops to pick up and absorb other minerals they need so much.

44. Most of the mineral supplement formulations available today contain no more than 10 to 15 minerals because most are derived from the earth, from ancient sea beds, clay or ground up rock and soil.

45. This type of mineral is known as a metallic hydrophobic mineral!

46. Minerals must be fully assimilated at the cellular level before they can deliver positive benefits to the human body.

47. Whether it is a blood cell, a muscle tissue cell, or an organ tissue cell, the mineral MUST eventually penetrate the cell wall/membrane for the particular mineral to be of any value and to enhance cellular functions.

48. In order for a mineral ion to effectively penetrate the membrane, the mineral must be attached to a pure hydrogen and oxygen molecule (be completely water soluble) and thus enter the cell via the process of osmosis.

49. The type of mineral which comes from a plant has been assimilated or digested by the plant and is known as a water soluble, plant derived, hydrophilic mineral.

50. The human body is not designed to absorb or assimilate and use metallic or elemental minerals.