MINERALS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE
Did you know that …
Minerals are as important as, if not more important than, vitamins. Minerals are co-enzymes which help vitamins function. In the absence of minerals, vitamins cannot do their job. Many minerals are referred to as trace minerals, which might make it seem as though they are of little importance, but nothing could be further from the truth. Minerals and their deficiencies have been implicated in a wide range of off-balance health conditions.
Here are some examples:
* An early selenium deficiency shows up as age spots
* Supplementing a diet with sufficient chromium and vanadium can help prevent diabetes and
has been seen to reverse diabetes in those already diabetic, as vanadium is reportedly able to
replace insulin
* Copper deficiency is implicated with aneurysms (brain, aortic, etc.) Low copper is also
implicated in gray hair, skin wrinkles, varicose veins and sagging body parts
* Magnesium is quite possibly the most important mineral for the reduction of coronary heart
disease
* Tin deficiency is implicated in male pattern baldness
* Boron helps keep calcium in the bones, helps women preserve and make estrogen, and helps
men keep testosterone. Boron affects alertness. Boron can help eliminate arthritis
Calcium deficiency is implicated in over 140 different diseases such as, Bell’s palsy,
osteoporosis, receding gums, arthritis, hypertension, kidney stones, insomnia, bone spurs, heel
spurs, calcium deposits, cramps and twitches, PMS, low back pain, diabetes…
* and calcium, though implicated in many diseases, is also the most misunderstood and over
prescribed supplement. People often don’t need more calcium, they need potassium and
magnesium
* Potassium and magnesium (along with organic sodium) are some of the most important
minerals for rebalancing the electrical properties of the cell, for eliminating excess acidity, and
for helping to balance calcium
* Magnesium helps conduct electrical messages between all the neurons of the body. People get
irrational when potassium levels are low
* Zinc is involved in over 200 brain enzyme interactions
* Drinking zinc mixed with distilled water can stop anorexia nervosa within a day
* Zinc deficiency symptoms include loss of taste and smell
* Zinc deficiency in children results in moodiness, depression, irritability. Photo phobia (light
sensitivity), antagonism, temper tantrums and learning problems
* Children who do poorly on achievement tests tend to have low iron levels. These children also
display disruptive, impulsive and irritable behavior in the classroom. Children who have high
lead levels do more poorly overall. Most of these children’s mineral imbalances go
undiagnosed. Instead the children are medicated with drugs.
* Likewise, ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder – can often be eliminated by balancing nutritional
trace minerals. There is no need to drug our children
* Cigarette smoke is rich in cadmium (the blue color in the smoke). Cadmium is the most
neurotoxic substance known to human beings. A low zinc/high cadmium ratio is implicated in
learning disabilities
* Coffee is a major source of cadmium in the diet. Its in the bean, so decaffeinated doesn’t help
* Zinc is needed to balance cadmium. The half life of cadmium is 20 to 30 years
* Too much copper is an irritant to the brain
* High manganese levels show statistically high correlation with violent behavior
* Lithium balances and helps control manganese
* The cities of the world with the highest lithium concentration in their water show the lowest
homicide rates
* The trace element rubidium cures manic depression
* The right ratio of copper to zinc in the cell acts an an antioxidant
A story is told by Dr. Alex Schauss, a noted author, researcher, and nutritional mineral expert. It is about his experience with a 9 year old boy brought into his clinic some years ago. The boy had been charged with attempted murder. His criminal record began at age 6. He burned animals, shot at people’s houses and beat up mothers pushing baby strollers. The police all said he would be a lifetime criminal, a Charles Manson type of psychotic. He was on six psychiatric drugs, and was kicked out of school after he tried to kill a 10 year old girl. Dr. Schauss did a hair mineral analysis and discovered his copper levels were off the charts. He hadded supplemental zinc to the boy’s diet to chelate out the excess copper, and within two weeks the boys urinalysis showed all the excess copper had been eliminated. He went off all medication, returned to school and became a model student. Years later the boy returned to see Dr. Schauss. He was a junior in college, an A student, on the varsity basketball team, and had a heart of gold.
This information shows just a teeny fraction of how minerals and mineral imbalances can affect your health. Much of this information is buried in professional journals, there for the taking. It appears that due to politics and the influence and strength that the medical/drug industrial complex has over the suppression of information, these things stay buried.
If this type of information, along with the other things we know, could be assimilated into our society, whether through the efforts of individuals or that of government, and if people like doctors, psychiatrists, and dieticians were to act on it, we could lessen violence in our society, close jails, raise academic achievement, and greatly reduce outlays of public money for Medicare and Medicaid. We could see our health insurance premiums drop to about $50 a month for a family of four because we could eliminate our need for expensive hospital visits and treatments excepting emergency care for accidents.
Without a doubt, the single most important thing you can do for your health is to get your mineral house in order. There are 19 major and minor minerals in the blood stream and when those balances start to sway – too much of one, not enough of another and visa versa, things start to happen. Remember, it is minerals that give you electricity – too much can give you problems, too little can give you problems.
