Ray D. Strand
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 The body also has the ability to make CoQlO from the amino acid tyrosine, but this is a complicated process that requires at least eight vitamins and several trace minerals to complete. A deficiency in any one of these nutrients can hinder the body's natural production of CoQlO.
Coenzymes as a group are cofactors essential for a large number of enzymatic reactions within the body. CoQlO is the cofactor for at least three very-important enzymes used within the mitochondria of the cell. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mineralization strategies (taking trace minerals, zinc, magnesium, and quality calcium supplements) to boost cardiovascular health, eliminate excess stress, accelerate tissue repair and recovery speeds and resist infectious disease.
Planned sunlight exposure for enhanced creation of vitamin D which prevents gum disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, heart disease, obesity and all kinds of cancers including prostate cancer. |
Ron Garner
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 ORGANIC FOOD
Eating foods that have been grown organically is much healthier for the body because the soils they are grown in contain more trace minerals. Organic farming is based on a system that replenishes and maintains soil fertility. Using organic matter, compost, or animal manure enhances soil quality. Chemical fertilizers are not used. Studies have shown that organic produce contains significantly higher levels of minerals and fewer heavy metals than conventionally grown crops.13
READ THOSE LABELS! |
Andreas Moritz
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 Distilling water can lead to the loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals such as magnesium—deficiencies that can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure. Cooking with distilled water may pull the minerals out of foods, thus lowering their nutritional value.
When exposed to the air, distilled water actively absorbs carbon dioxide and becomes more acidic. Drinking distilled water regularly, therefore, may increase the overall acidity in the body. This was confirmed by the U.S. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Supplementation with single trace minerals can throw off mineral balances and can be toxic in larger amounts.
NICKEL
Nickel (Ni) is an essential trace mineral. Nickel is needed by certain enzymes used in anaerobic energy production in the cell. Nickel works with iron and sulfur to release energy from carbohydrates.
SILICON
The human body contains about 35 grams of silicon. Silicon (Si) strengthens connective tissue such as bones, cartilage, blood vessels, and tendons. Silicon is found in whole grains and fresh vegetables. |
| Fluoroapatite.
25. trace minerals are found in the body in:
(a) Large amounts.
(b) Medium amounts.
(c) Small amounts.
(d) Trace amounts.
Final Exam
Do not refer to the text when taking this exam. A good score is at least 75 (out of 100 questions) correct. Answers are in the back of the book. It's best to have a friend check your score the first time, so that you won't memorize the answers if you want to take the test again.
1. Water-soluble vitamins:
(a) Are first absorbed into the lymph fluid.
(b) Are absorbed directly into blood.
(c) Are found only in fruits and vegetables. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 You'll be getting a cornucopia of nutrients, including minerals like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, copper, silicon, trace minerals, and pectin as well as many other nutrients and enzymes. It's a real natural cure bonanza.
Fish Oil and Essential Fatty Acids
IF THERE WERE one thing you could ^^B: " ^ do right now, besides diet and exercise, that would probably make the most profound difference to your physical health, it would be to consume fish oil on a regular basis. |
Hyla Cass
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 It contains trace minerals, including iodine—the mineral usually added to table salt, important for the health of the thyroid gland—in a concentration that is more usable by the body.
If you crave salt, this may be a sign of low thyroid and adrenal function. Salt is particularly important for balanced function of many of the body's glands and organs. (The thyroid and adrenal glands make hormones that play roles in your energy levels and help keep you at an ideal weight; reduced function in either can lead to fatigue and weight gain. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Many people, including Peggy Ramundo, have been helped by vegetable chlorophyll green algae, a natural food that appears to stabilize the blood sugar level, provide amino acids in relatively balanced proportion and trace minerals in assimilable form, as well as concentrated sources of beta carotene and vitamin B12.
Ramundo also finds that adults are helped by exercise, "very strenuous exercise, not just your three times a week, 20 minutes of aerobics, but an hour or two hours a day. Adults say it stimulates the action in the brain sufficiently that they do not need to take medicine. |
| Eleven participants aged 19 to 46 years with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder received high doses of a broad-based supplement of dietary nutrients, primarily chelated trace minerals and vitamins. After six months, symptom reduction ranged from 55 percent to 66 percent, and the need for psychotropic medications decreased by more than 50 percent.
Brain Aging
The Effects and Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Nutrient Alpha-Lipoic Acid on Improving Age-Associated Mitochondrial and Cognitive Dysfunction: An Overview. Liu J. Neurochemical Research, 2007 June 29. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Where minerals are concerned, in addition to the macrominerals (those needed in large amounts), such as calcium and magnesium, you'll also want to select a formula that has a wide range of trace minerals (those needed in small quantities), such as selenium, vanadium, chromium, boron, and iodine. Take these with meals as per label directions.
Why Vitamins and Minerals Are So Important
Vitamins and minerals act as catalysts to the digestion and metabolism of food. Vitamins are organic bio-molecules that act in small amounts as catalysts in chemical reactions. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 It takes about twelve years for farmland to become deficient of angstrom-size trace minerals. For this reason, traditionally, farmers would often move every twelve years.
Minerals of micron-size or larger can cause a variety of problems. The paradox, which is hard to understand, is that while the tissues are full of minerals in a sense, the cell is lacking in the angstrom-size minerals. This is one reason why we can use salt (Himalayan or Celtic sea salt) products for our bodies with amazing results, because they are in ionic angstrom-sizes. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Similarly, studies that have tried to ferret out the association between the different compounds present in plant foods and colon cancer have shown that, even when controlling for dietary fiber, trace minerals, antioxidants, and other nutrients found in plant foods, vegetables still remain significantly inversely associated with colon cancer [53], implying that other unmeasured compounds contained in plant foods could be protective. Biological plausibility is based on abundant evidence that components in fruits and vegetables have potential influence on carcinogenesis (Table 3). |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Without the essential minerals and trace minerals, we could not survive.
Of a total of ninety minerals, there are approximately twenty-three key minerals, including sixteen major minerals and seven minor, or trace, minerals. All key minerals are needed for the body to function at the highest level. They need to be replenished in the system through water-soluble ionic forms. As early as 1936, the U.S. Senate declared: "99 percent of the American people are deficient in minerals, and a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| In this way, the soil is made deficient in those critical trace minerals that are not resupplied.This is similar to the situation we have created by "enriching" refined foods. After the refining process strips the food of dozens of critical nutrients, that food is "enriched" through the addition of just four nutrients (Bj, B2, niacin, and iron, in a synthetic form). Here again, a situation of imbalance is created, which makes the deficiency worse, rather than correcting it. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 When nutrients such as the B vitamins, iron, antioxidants and specific trace minerals are depleted in the diet, the liver's ability to function effectively as a detoxification organ is impaired. This impairment causes the individual to become more vulnerable to the environment," according to nutritional medicine specialist Dr. Jeffrey Bland.18 These nutrients are also critical for the formation of neurotransmitters and hormones necessary for sleep. |
| Calcium and magnesium are the macro-minerals that most directly play a role in sleep. Key trace minerals involved in getting good sleep are chromium, copper, iron, and zinc.
Calcium
Calcium and magnesium nourish the nervous system and act as natural relaxants. Many people have systems that are too acidic and benefit from taking these mineral supplements, which are both alkaline and also have sedative qualities. Low levels of calcium and magnesium have been associated with muscle cramping, which can disrupt sleep. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Green, leafy vegetables are a real nutrition bargain because you get magnesium as well as calcium, potassium, trace minerals, antacids, vitamin K, polyphenols, antioxidants, and fiber.
If you take blood thinners that are affected by the vitamin K in green, leafy vegetables, you'll need to take magnesium supplements. For someone on blood thinners, it's more important to eat a consistent amount of green, leafy vegetables than to avoid them altogether. It is the variability in green, leafy vegetables/vitamin K intake that throws off the dosing of your blood thinners. |
Tom Bohager
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 Hydrilla is nature's most potent source of calcium, and one of the richest plant sources of many trace minerals and amino acids. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| The active principle of shilajit is fulvic acid, which improves the bioavailability of important trace minerals, and there is some feeling that it creates regeneration in the pancreatic cells. It is known as an adaptogen and should be taken mostly during the winter.
COCCINIA INDICA
Coccinia indica seems to have a blood glucose lowering effect that operates on the same mechanism as bitter melon.185'186
GINGKO BILOBA
Gingko biloba has membrane-stabilizing flavones and anthocyanides, which seem to protect against retinopathy. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| It contains trace minerals, including iodine—the mineral usually added to table salt, important for the health of the thyroid gland—in a concentration that is more usable by the body.
If you crave salt, this may be a sign of low thyroid and adrenal function. Salt is particularly important for balanced function of many of the body's glands and organs. (The thyroid and adrenal glands make hormones that play roles in your energy levels and help keep you at an ideal weight; reduced function in either can lead to fatigue and weight gain. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Due to a unique method of harvesting from ocean water (on the northwestern coast of France), along with gathering the naturally evaporated salt using wooden tools, it also contains up to eighty-two trace minerals not found in other sea salts. Another other excellent whole salt is Himalayan salt. Both salts are in their ionic form.
Common table salt, which I do not recommend, lacks minerals and trace elements because it is purified and refined, leaving only sodium and chloride. |
Mark Sircus
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 When trace minerals are scarce in plant bodies they become scarce in human bodies.
Dr. Scott Whitaker, in his book MediSin, tells us how unfortunate it is that the modern day farmer has been persuaded to use monoculture, artificial fertilization, pesticides, and herbicides. "The end result of our domestic food production has been 'quantity' rather than 'quality'. The human body can thrive on fruits and vegetables that are grown on vital rich soil but not on soil that is artificially pumped up with chemicals. |
Ron Garner
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| But our soils have become depleted of many of their trace minerals. Silver is generally now present in only very small amounts in the soil.
Colloidal silver acts to disable the breathing ability of bacteria, viruses, and fungi, causing them to suffocate and die very soon after contact.20 It promotes cell repair and tissue and bone healing.21 Colloidal silver in concentrations of 3-5 ppm is very safe to use and has no recorded side effects.22 However, silver nitrate or other forms of silver in various concentrations disturb the balance of body salts and are also corrosive and cause pain. |
| Because of overfarming, soils have become depleted of many trace minerals that are required by our bodies for complete health. If we are not able to consume a diet of organically grown food, we can avoid or replenish mineral deficiencies in our bodies by using supplements. In the next chapter, we will examine the criteria for good supplements and also consider some alternative suggestions.
16 SUPPLEMENTS
... and let your medicine be food. |
| Mined and refined sea salts have lost some of their macro and trace minerals.55 The sodium chloride content of living sea salt is approximately 84%, whereas the sodium chloride of mined salts is approximately 98%. Mined salts are trace mineral deficient and unbalanced for true health.
Besides sodium and chlorine, natural sea salt contains at least 82 other minerals in trace amounts. The body must have, and can only utilize, minerals that are in trace amounts of parts per million, furnished in ionized form. Natural sea salt recharges cells just like batteries get charged. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| It contains more beta-carotene than any other whole food, as well as 92 trace minerals and other nutritional elements such as vitamins, chlorophyll, gly-colipids, phycocyanin, carotenoids and sulfolipids. It is also abundant in superoxide dismutase (SOD, an antioxidant), RNA, and DNA, which were identified in 1990 as essential nutrients. The high amounts of beta-carotene in spirulina have shown to be effective in fighting oral cancer in animals.78 In India, the beta-carotene in spirulina was studied for its effectiveness and absorption in young children and found to be extremely effective. |
Ron Garner
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| During the correction period, supplementing with natural food-based trace minerals and enzymes will help to correct nutritional deficiencies and digestive inadequacies. In a healthy body, the intestinal flora population is constantly rebuilding itself.
For detailed information on correcting a Candida problem, I recommend the brief but excellent book titled Candida: Treating it Successfully, written by Dr. B. R. Blinzler. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 It also has a strong endocrine association, especially to your pineal gland, which controls your sleep-wake cycle, and to dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which is a precursor to female hormones such as estrogens and progesterone, relating this Integrator bioenergetically to parts of the menstrual cycle. trace minerals have an important link to Energetic Integrator 6, so this Integrator is involved bioenergetically in enzyme and hormone production and function. The thymus is also correlated to Integrator 6, making this Integrator important to your overall immune function. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 However, as with all trace minerals, excess amounts of copper in the body can be toxic.
Too much copper in the system can cause a variety of ailments, including diarrhea, eczema, hemolytic anemia, high blood pressure, kidney disease, nausea, premenstrual syndrome, sickle cell anemia, stomach pain, and severe damage to the central nervous system. |
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