HEALTH REPORT
minerals Everyday health A daily dose of colloidal minerals can help people to find and retain better
V itamin supplements get plenty of press - but minerals are also vital and must be consumed, as your body cannot make them. Nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara explains. Minerals are found in soil and rocks. Your body obtains minerals by eating plants that absorb them from the earth, and by eating meat from animals that graze on those plants. However, if the soil is deficient in minerals, the plants will be as well - and so will we. Conventional herbicides and fertilisers can compromise the soil’s mineral status. For example, the herbicide glyphosate (see “Glyphosate facts”) has antimicrobial and antibiotic properties which render the minerals in soil useless to plants. Soil problems In the 1990s, I heard a tape called Dead Doctors Don’t Lie by veterinarian Dr Joel
Wallach. One thing that really stuck with me was his description of the disease pica, which is when domestic animals (cows, sheep, goats, etc) start eating non-food items like fence posts and rocks. The farmers know this means there is a mineral deficiency in the herd, and so they throw a salt block into the paddock; the animals lick the salt and no longer have pica. I researched the minerals that Wallach discussed and brought them into Australia for my family. However, when I received their product specification data, I found that the manufacturers used a preservative (sodium benzoate) which was not listed on the label. Disappointed, I decided that I
found in each cell), as well as reseal the gut lining. The Changing Habits Colloidal Minerals come from the ancient plant holo core sedge and are like the product in Bush’s research: the only difference is that our minerals come frompeat (non-coal, the step before lignite), and they contain a mix of fulvic and humic acids (also from soil) in a natural acid base, with the majority being cells in order to produce energy. I recommend taking a teaspoon of Colloidal Minerals when you first wake up, without other food or nutrients because it draws out heavy metals. Our enzymatic and biochemical reactions need minerals. health, by helping to counteract the effects of glyphosate and also helping the gut microbiome to communicate better with the body’s
needed to source a better product. The colloidal difference
I became aware of the research by Dr Zach Bush into a product that contained fulvic acids (from soil) from lignite (coal), which was able to counteract the effects of glyphosate. The most important part of this product was a carbon-based redox molecule that could support communication between the gut microbiome and the mitochondria (the energy powerhouse
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