This article looks at the role of minerals for human health and possibly the best known source of all the minerals the body needs.
Minerals are a crucial requirement of the human diet.
They are critical to our mental and physical health, to bones, teeth, heart, lungs, muscles, digestion, metabolism, water balance, blood, the creation of antibodies, nerves, tissues and fluids and the transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.
All these components of our bodies contain and need varying amounts of minerals.
Magnesium for example is an essential part of the digestive system and the metabolic process. A deficiency in it can cause, among others, an impairment of the body’s ability to turn glucose into energy and can lead to one degree or another of loss of vitality or chronic fatigue. Probably over 80 percent of the population is deficient in one degree or another in magnesium.
Zinc, by way of another example is critical to maintaining the health of many organs and bodily functions, including eyes, liver, kidney, muscles, skin, bone, testes and so forth. A deficiency in zinc can cause problems with infertility, hair, skin and nails, the immune system and so on.
The body requires a supply of these various minerals. It cannot make minerals but can only get this supply through food. Getting enough of each mineral in the right balance with all the other minerals is vital if you are to feel well and indeed a significant deficiency in just one of the many minerals the body needs can result in disease and even shorten your life.
It is a sad fact that our modern diets, indeed the very soils in which food grows, are seriously deficient in minerals, so much so I very much doubt whether anyone reading this article is not, in greater or lesser degree, deficient in minerals.
It is very good news then that the wild blue-green algae harvested from the Klamath Lake in Oregon contain all the essential trace minerals required by the body: iron, zinc, cobalt, magnesium, boron, calcium, chromium, copper, manganese, sodium, potassium and vanadium. It also contains chloride, fluoride, germanium, iodine, molybdenum, nickel, phosphorus, selenium, silicon, tin and titanium. Moreover, the Klamath Lake algae hold these minerals in proportions and balance perfect for the human biochemistry and this means they are very readily absorbed by the body.
One of the pitfalls with taking supplements, for example supplementing zinc to handle problems with zinc deficiency, can be that the body does not always absorb the supplement well: one can take the capsules, pills, lozenges or liquid religiously with little or no alleviation of the deficiency. There is nothing wrong with the supplement but the body, already working below optimum, does not always have a digestive system working well enough to process it.
The minerals contained in the Klamath algae however come to us in a form the body CAN readily assimilate (AND balanced correctly against other minerals): nature, it seems, has solved the problem of absorption for us.
In the algae of the Klamath Lake it has done a whole lot more besides.
They are critical to our mental and physical health, to bones, teeth, heart, lungs, muscles, digestion, metabolism, water balance, blood, the creation of antibodies, nerves, tissues and fluids and the transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.
All these components of our bodies contain and need varying amounts of minerals.
Magnesium for example is an essential part of the digestive system and the metabolic process. A deficiency in it can cause, among others, an impairment of the body’s ability to turn glucose into energy and can lead to one degree or another of loss of vitality or chronic fatigue. Probably over 80 percent of the population is deficient in one degree or another in magnesium.
Zinc, by way of another example is critical to maintaining the health of many organs and bodily functions, including eyes, liver, kidney, muscles, skin, bone, testes and so forth. A deficiency in zinc can cause problems with infertility, hair, skin and nails, the immune system and so on.
The body requires a supply of these various minerals. It cannot make minerals but can only get this supply through food. Getting enough of each mineral in the right balance with all the other minerals is vital if you are to feel well and indeed a significant deficiency in just one of the many minerals the body needs can result in disease and even shorten your life.
It is a sad fact that our modern diets, indeed the very soils in which food grows, are seriously deficient in minerals, so much so I very much doubt whether anyone reading this article is not, in greater or lesser degree, deficient in minerals.
It is very good news then that the wild blue-green algae harvested from the Klamath Lake in Oregon contain all the essential trace minerals required by the body: iron, zinc, cobalt, magnesium, boron, calcium, chromium, copper, manganese, sodium, potassium and vanadium. It also contains chloride, fluoride, germanium, iodine, molybdenum, nickel, phosphorus, selenium, silicon, tin and titanium. Moreover, the Klamath Lake algae hold these minerals in proportions and balance perfect for the human biochemistry and this means they are very readily absorbed by the body.
One of the pitfalls with taking supplements, for example supplementing zinc to handle problems with zinc deficiency, can be that the body does not always absorb the supplement well: one can take the capsules, pills, lozenges or liquid religiously with little or no alleviation of the deficiency. There is nothing wrong with the supplement but the body, already working below optimum, does not always have a digestive system working well enough to process it.
The minerals contained in the Klamath algae however come to us in a form the body CAN readily assimilate (AND balanced correctly against other minerals): nature, it seems, has solved the problem of absorption for us.
In the algae of the Klamath Lake it has done a whole lot more besides.
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