Now, the nutrition industry has known for years that the body could not make minerals on its own, and it came to realize that nature was not being given the chance to produce mineralrich foods. This, combined with knowledge of America's bad eating habits, set the stage for our next topic…..The Billion Dollar Hoax.
Over the last several decades, the nutrition industry has developed a real fast ball. They knew nutrient deficient foods were coming to us from our crop land. They realized processing was robbing us of any trace minerals that could be found and finally, they knew we were cooking any remaining nutrients right out of our food.
Now, go ahead and add aging baby boomers, and you’ve set the stage for the creation of a multibillion dollar industry Mineral Supplements.
Unfortunately, the majority of these supplements are not doing to your body what you believe, or hoped, and in fact, can result in toxic accumulation while having devastating effects on your health.
To understand the ineffectiveness of the majority of current mineral supplements and to learn what our bodies are really looking for in terms of supplementation, all we need to do is look to nature. For years it has provided us with a perfect blue print for the form and design of our nutrition. When this blue print is not followed, supplements have very little or no impact upon improving health, and even worse, can actually contribute to harmful toxicity conditions.
The presence of nutrients in plants has been known for centuries. As simple as it sounds, minerals are rocks. The natural process is for minerals and other nutrients to be absorbed from the soil by plants. Humans, then, consume the plants – after the plant has changed the metallic compound into a design that is usable by the body. In this way, through the miracle of Mother Nature, we receive our mineral nutrition.
Three Basic Requirements for Proper Absorption
Now there are three basic requirements for mineral particles to be effectively absorbed and used by the cells of our bodies.
1. Correct Particle Size
2. A WaterSoluble Form
3. An Ionic Charge
The first requirement to address is particle size. In simple terms, minerals are rocks. Each tablet you take, or colloidal mineral you drink, has minerals that are crushedup into a certain sized particle. The size of the particles in your supplements may actually be prohibiting you from receiving positive benefit. And if they re not in the correct particle size, they may actually be contributing to a whole host of conditions or diseases you’re not even aware of. So what impact does the size of these mineral particles have on their usefulness to the body? How well can these mineral particles be absorbed? If they are absorbed, where, and what effect, are they having on your body?
Let me ask you a question, if I gave you a watermelon and asked you to squeeze it through a hole the size of a BB pellet, what would you say? Impossible, right! Well, when it comes to minerals, all minerals used by the body are angstrom-sized or smaller. That’s worth repeating, all minerals used by the body are angstrom-sized or smaller.
It seems to reason then, that larger-sized particles, micron sized particles for example, are not properly used by the body. For the sake of comparison, it would take 10,000 angstrom on a horizontal plane to cover the distance of just one micron. For those of you who are wondering, if you split a human hair, the tip would be about one micron in size. Remember, mineral particles usable by the body are angstrom-sized.
We’ve evaluated mineral supplements on the market including metallic minerals, which are things like oyster shell, dolomite, calcium carbonate, limestone, and seabed minerals, which often come in tablet form. We evaluated chelated minerals, which often come in tablet form but have an amino-protein or enzyme chain wrapped around them… and we even evaluated minerals labeled as colloidal, and found they all have mineral particle sizes of a micron size or larger. They were not soluble, not ionic, and not effectively used by the body. Therefore, they would be thousands of times too large to be absorbed by the cells of the body!
Can The Body Absorb Micron Size Minerals?
Your body can absorb mineral particles a micron in size or larger into the blood stream, bit it won’t allow them into the cells. Once in the blood stream, these mineral particles, too large to enter into the cells float around until deposited into the soft tissues of the body, many times encouraging toxic conditions which can result in debilitating health challenges.
Everybody knows too much of a good thing is a bad thing. At the same time, too much of a good thing, in the wrong form, can be even worse.
One of the key contributors to toxicity in the body is incorrect particle size. Too much of any mineral is unhealthy. A lack of it is just as unhealthy. In the wrong form and size, toxicity is inevitable.
Incorrect Particle Size = Health Conditions
The unnecessary accumulation of minerals in your body due to incorrect particle size increases the likelihood of devastating health conditions:
If the particles cannot get into the cells, they stay in the bloodstream. Iron toxicity is very dangerous, especially for men, where it directly contributes to cardiovascular disease! Ironically many foods fortified with iron contain iron particles in the incorrect size and design. Just finely crush a cereal fortified with iron, run a magnet over it, and you’ll see for yourself the iron particles and remember minerals are ROCKS. They are indigestible by the body. They do not break down.
Supplements must be presented to the body in a form that is water-soluble, ionized, and in the correct particle size for maximum effectiveness. These requirements are also necessary for excretion from the body as well.
What about Colloidal Minerals?
Right now, sitting in stores across America, are colloidal multi-mineral drinks that are toxifying people’s bodies.
– Chromium, a common ingredient in these drinks, in its colloidal form causes hearing loss and liver failure.
– Selenium in its colloidal form can be fatal.
– Copper in its colloidal form causes mental disorders and violent rages, vascular collapse, and induces coma.
Taking colloidal products is like drinking dirt! Just because a supplement is in liquid form, doesn’t men its mineral particles are in solution!
What’s worse? Mineral particle sizes in mineral tablets and pills are generally even larger than the particle sizes in colloidal products! Right now, millions of Americans are taking tablets, pills, chelated, and colloidal products that are having devastating effects on their bodies, while absolutely throwing their hardearned dollars away!
Folks, watermelons will never fit through a hole that is BB pellet sized. It just doesn’t work! Remember, one of the required characteristics in order for your body to maximize the potential of mineral supplements is correct particle size.