Minerals Are The Currency of Life

It's impossible to underestimate the importance of minerals and trace minerals for the human body.

·    Minerals are involved in virtually every function that sustains your life.

·    Minerals are the catalysts for all the vitamins and other nutrients your body uses for developing and maintaining good health.

·    Minerals help your body grow, develop, and stay healthy.

·    The body uses minerals to perform an untold number of different functions — from building strong bones to transmitting nerve impulses.

·    Some minerals are even used to make hormones or maintain a normal heartbeat.

The two kinds of minerals your body requires are: macro minerals and trace minerals.

·    Macro means "large" in Greek.  Your body needs larger amounts of macro minerals than trace minerals.  The macro mineral group is made up of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, and sulfur.  Researchers have established a Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for this classification of minerals.

·    A trace of something means that there is only a little of it. Though your body needs trace minerals, it needs just a tiny bit of each one. Scientists aren't even sure how much of these minerals you need each day.

Your Body Needs Balanced Macro Minerals and Trace Minerals

Balance is important to all areas of nutrition.  It is critically important when it comes to minerals and trace minerals: There are 92 elements found in nature and an additional 22 theoretical and/or observed elements, all of which may play a role, known or undiscovered, in human health.  Keeping levels of minerals in balance in every tissue, fluid, cell and organ in the human body may be the key to maintaining efficient function that, by default, promotes health.

In agriculture, for example, the role for trace mineral nutrients in maintaining the health and vitality of livestock, poultry and household pets is well documented and universally accepted.  Trace minerals are considered essential and are regularly added to their feed because much of the grazing pasture and cropland on which the hay and grain are grown is missing one or more these essential trace minerals.

Mineral Deficiency is Common

Trace mineral deficiencies in humans occur more frequently than are generally recognized.  Deficiencies usually occur because one or more trace minerals may be lacking in the soil in which the food plant was grown.  Commercial farming practices and dietary choices, eating processed food and failing to consume 5 – 7 servings of vegetables everyday, are at the core of the deficiencies.  Chronic under-consumption of trace minerals is of greater concern than acute mineral deficiencies because the specific symptoms that are characteristic of a trace mineral deficiency aren’t profound or as well know.

Macro and Trace Minerals Produce Balanced Electrolytes

The body is an intricate circuit board of electric charges and impulses.  Every second, of every day, your body relies on trace minerals to conduct and generate billions of tiny electrical impulses.  Without these impulses, not a single muscle, including your heart, would be able to function.  Your brain would not function and the cells would not be able to balance water pressure and absorb nutrients.

In fact, many vital body processes depend on the movement of substances across cell membranes supported by trace minerals.

·    Most notably, when your body is lacking these essential trace mineral elements, it causes your body to misfire so you feel rundown and tired.

·    They may also prevent and reduce injury from environmental pollutants.

·    Trace minerals enhance the ability to work and learn.

·    They can also protect the body from the effects of toxic minerals.

·    It’s important to keep your body’s acid base balance because an acidic body is a breeding ground for disease.  Trace minerals also have the power to maintain and even promote the pH balance in your body.

·    Trace minerals condition the body to more readily absorb other nutrients.

·    Trace minerals have the capacity to help renew and energize your body's entire electrical system to promote energy and generally feel better.

·    Recent research indicates that minerals may play a significant role against a variety of degenerative diseases and conditions.

The Power of Minerals and Trace Mineral Supplements

Estimates are that 90% of Americans suffer mineral imbalance or deficiency.  The chemical and electrical processes that are occurring within your body at every moment can only function correctly if the proper balance of macro and trace minerals is continually being supplied to your system.

Balance is the Key

The fact that the macro and trace minerals are in proportion and balanced is the key. The intricate balance of every mineral and trace element is beneficial to the human body.