Minerals

In Japan, cadmium toxicity is referred to as ow-ow disease because the damage inflicted on the kidneys? bodily cleansing system is so severe as to cause pain with every step.

Supplemental Boron increases Calcium and Magnesium recycling inside the body, thus decreasing dependency upon outside sources.

Researchers are adamant that there is no lower threshold of safety for mercury or lead. Our bodies are already burdened with dozens of times the levels of these toxins as in ancient times. Even the minutest amounts drastically tip the health scale against your favor.

Dead Doctors Might Not Lie,
But That Doesn?t Mean You?ve Heard The Whole Truth
About Minerals

It seems that almost everyone has listened to the widely circulating ?Dead Doctors? tape or read one of the numerous brochures from many different companies about the Importance of minerals and their lack in our diets. I am often asked why we here at Exsula don?t offer a mineral supplement or colloidal mineral supplement. The fact is, we do offer the absolute ultimate mineral supplement. It is called Iridesca and is a fully integrated nutritional product.

Exsula Iridesca is the only product on the market to contain each one of the known-to-be-valuable minerals in a specific diet-balanced potency and in the superior life-created form. Colloidal products and other trace mineral supplements lack meaningful potencies of many of these valuable minerals - and they provide them in a far less than ideal form while carrying with them dozens of other elements, several of which are known to be toxic in any form. The following opinions and facts are offered to present an alternative view well worthy of your consideration.

Some of the present day marketing materials about minerals have painted a less than complete portrait. This leads to some odd questions that otherwise wouldn?t even be getting asked.

Here are a few of those most frequently asked questions and answers to those questions from an alternative viewpoint.

Q. I understand we need 70 minerals. Is this true?

A. No. By any stretch of the research, only about 35 minerals are considered useful (or possibly useful) and available in a safe form. The other minerals have shown no usefulness in human nutrition, and several of them are toxic in any form.

Q. Is it true the body can function without vitamins, but not without minerals?

A. No. There are certain vitamins that the body cannot restructure from other nutrients. You are absolutely as dependant upon these vitamins as upon the essential minerals. Scurvy resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C is just one classic example of a fatal condition caused by a vitamin deficiency. The human body has zero capacity to manufacture its own vitamin C.

Q. If we naturally produce vitamins from our Inherent mineral supply, why bother with vitamins?

A. Vitamins and minerals do work synergistically to assist in each other?s utilization. But in fact your body does not make vitamins from minerals. The only vitamin that even contains a mineral is vitamin B-12 with its tiny trace of cobalt.

Q. I understand the liquid colloidal form of minerals makes them easier to absorb than tablet forms, and that tablets are not assimilated.

A. The assumption here is that particle size is the only issue, i.e. a tablet versus a colloidal particle. I concur that the liquid colloidal form is more assimilable than the typical mineral isolate supplement tablets on the market.

However, there is another option, proven again and again to be the wisest choice for health. That superior form is the living-colloidal, life-matrixed nutrients of plant cells. These are a life-modified, life-complexed mineral form in a food-matrix of essential fatty acids, proteins, enzymes, vitamins and carbohydrates. Your body welcomes these life-bundled minerals as food.

Tiny particle size is only one consideration among many. There are minerals in common colloidal supplements that are toxic and inappropriate for human nutrition. For example, cadmium is toxic no matter how tiny the particle size and no matter what form. When ?every? mineral is present that means that lead and mercury are also present.

Take also for example that chromium in certain forms can be toxic. Other forms of chromium are less toxic, but not nearly as effective nutritionally. Still other forms of chromium (as chromium picolinate) are effective nutritionally, but are potentially mutagenic to cells. Only organic chromium in a life-created complex referred to as GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor) naturally incorporating niacin and amino acids, meets the multi-fold criteria of being bioavailable, perfectly effective, non-toxic and non-mutagenic, ready to serve as delivered, and not requiring difficult restructuring.

Further, some of the mineral elements are highly reactive and do not exist in nature in a pure form. They do not exist naturally as separate atoms or as clusters of the same atoms. They only exist in nature, as molecular compounds comprised of themselves with other atoms. (Analysis statements of colloidal products may refer to certain minerals in such compounds as being in a matrix.)

Silica is one such example, existing in nature, only in combination with oxygen, as silicon dioxide. Fluorine is another example, existing as fluorides - calcium fluoride being the food-complexed, biologically beneficial form as found in human mother?s milk and other foods. This is quite different from the toxic sodium fluoride form added to city water. Separately, Sodium and Fluoride are considered essential; yet together in compound form they become toxic. It is important to know the compound form you are taking.

Form and availability (particle size) are equally important for biological benefit.

Q. But aren?t the ancient mineral deposits free of man-made pollution?

A. Of course they are free of man-made pollution, but that does not magically lessen the toxicity of their inherently toxic elements like aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury, etc.

There is ample opportunity for toxicity amongst the hundred naturally occurring chemical elements and the thousands of their naturally complexed forms as found in the earth. Mere age of the deposit is no assurance whatsoever of biological benefit or lack of toxicity.

Q. Doesn?t acid extraction of colloidal minerals make the minerals even more available?

A. Consider if an industrial acid-extraction of eons-dead mineral dirt is truly superior. Is it really more desirable than plant-life-complex (?live?) nutrients -grown in wholesome, mineral-enriched environments and soils, and then carefully handled to save all useful vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes and phytonutrients? This seems an easy choice.

Q. Without an entire encyclopedia, can you give me a quick review of the known-to-be-valuable minerals?

A. Yes. The following minerals are useful as described. (In my opinion any of the mineral elements not listed here should be considered useless and very possibly dangerous. Until you can find a respected, neutral, non-biased source of information clearly stating otherwise, supplementation with dozens of the more obscure elements not listed here represents a bizarre risk.)

Here are the useful ones in alphabetical order.

Arsenic

Of course the industrial arsenite form of arsenic is fatally toxic in the tiniest amounts, yet nutrition studies have shown that cell health declines when entirely deprived of naturally occurring dietary arsenic. A small trace in this biologically useful form may actually help displace the toxic industrial (arsenite) form. Almonds, Eggs, Sea Plants and Sea Foods are food sources of the useful form.

Boron

Boron is quickly depleted from soil. It is essential for plants, though not yet recognized as essential for people. U.S. Department of Agriculture research suggests a bone maintenance benefit similar to that of estrogen. Supplemental Boron also boosts serum levels of estradiol and testosterone yielding enhanced sex drive. Grapes and Apples are good food sources. Supplemental Boron increases Calcium and Magnesium recycling inside the body, thus decreasing dependency upon outside sources.

Calcium

Calcium is essential for bones, teeth and nerves. The world?s largest human nutrition study indicated that vegetarian diets are a more effective source of Calcium. Need for supplementation has probably been exaggerated - Ignoring the need for Strontium and Silicon. Studies indicate that crude Calcium mineral supplements and dairy-form may actually interfere with assimilation of the plant-form of dietary Calcium.

Carbon

Carbon is foundational to all food and biological structure. Yet there is no evidence of any deficiency in any reasonable diet. Therefore, carbon is not pertinent to discussions about supplementation.

Chlorine

Chlorine is essential for cellular function and cleansing and is found throughout living things in natural compound form with Sodium and Potassium. Plentiful throughout the typical diet and as salt (sodium chloride). Kelp and Dulse are beneficial food sources. (The isolate mineral form of Chlorine as added to city water is highly reactive with other substances and creates toxins destructive to living systems. (Abundant in all diets.)

Chromium

Chromium is essential for certain enzymes, synthesis of proteins, supporting the pancreas and balancing of blood sugar. Life-created GTF form is important to avoid toxicity, and assure assimilation and utilization. The typical diet in North America falls short due to soil deficiencies. Beets and Nutritional Yeast are rich sources.

Cobalt

Cobalt is essential because it is integral to vitamin B-12. Land crops are totally devoid of B-12. Sea Plants and Nutritional Yeast are good sources of Cobalt and B-12. Beneficial intestinal microorganisms utilize dietary Cobalt to make B-12 for your benefit.

Copper

Copper is essential for utilization of vitamin C and iron, energy, enzymes involved in healing, nerves and RNA (longevity). Most ?dietary? Copper comes from water pipes and is poorly and improperly utilized.

Food sources are best as Nutritional Yeast, Whole Grains, Green Leafy Veggies, Almonds, Lentils, Garbanzos, Spirulina, Kelp and Dulse.

Fluorine

Calcium fluoride as found naturally in healthy plants and animals is considered essential for bones

There is great debate as to the opotential toxicity and usefulness of the industrial sodium fluoride form as added to city water (The Soviets dosed political prisoners with sodium fluoride to assure lack of drive, lack of self-direction and an early death of ?natural? causes.)

Human Mother?s Milk, Goat?s Milk, Seafood, Kelp, Dulse, Nutritional Yeasts, Whole Grains and Organic Veggies are rich food sources of the beneficial organic calcium fluoride form. The ratio of ?bad? fluoride to ?good? fluoride in our bodies has increased dramatically over the last 100 years.

Germanium

Germanium is abundant in soil, yet poorly taken up by most plants. Among the popular healing foods, Garlic, Ginseng, Chlorella, Barley, Nutritional Yeast, Spirulina, Aloe and Medicinal Mushrooms are dozens of times richer in Germanium. On a cellular level, Germanium is a catalyst in oxygen utilization and immune function

Gold

Traces of Gold are available in sea vegetables such as Kelp and Dulse. Supplemental Gold is sometimes used to relieve joint pain. (Iridesca provides a trace.)

Iodine

Iodine is essential for humans. Soil and diets are seriously deficient. Supplementation is essential to assure a calm disposition, proper thyroid function, energy production, burning of fat, normal mental functions and healthy skin, hair and nails. People wisely avoiding table salt in their diets are particularly vulnerable to iodine deficiency.

Airborne radioactive iodine is a deadly toxin produced by nuclear power plants and was the primary toxin released at Chernobyl. Generous food sources of non-radioactive iodine such as Seafoods, Kelp and Special Nutritional Yeast help prevent uptake of radioactive iodine. (Iridesca provides 130% of the RDA.)

Iridium

The biological values of Iridium, and other members of the platinum group of elements, are just now beginning to be realized thanks to breakthroughs in high-temp chemical analysis techniques. Monatomic forms of Iridium, and its twin Rhodium, are now thought by some researchers to account for some 5% or more of the dry weight of the brain. They apparently perform essential tasks as superconductors in a sort of nutrient-of-consciousness role. The monatomic form of these minerals are thought to be the secret of European alchemists?, Indian holy men, and Hebrew and Egyptian priests. Their ?white powder of gold? or ?vibhuti? is an Iridium-rich mineral ash used to achieve states of super-consciousness.

Iridium is scarce in soils, except certain volcanic soils and those near ancient, major meteor strikes. The utilizable monatomic form of Iridium is even scarcer. Exceptional sources of Iridium In the necessary form include Aloe Vera grown on volcanic Caribbean soil, Grapes, Watercress, Burdock Herb, Sorrel Leaf and Turkish Rhubarb Root. The legendary healing nature of these plants (all found in Iridesca) hints to an overall health tonic benefit with Iridium, and especially to Its relationship with the immune system (health and longevity).

Iron

Iron is essential to health and several body systems, though way oversold by iron tonic manufacturers. Now fallen to some disfavor as a supplement, since it seems to antagonize vitamin E (an essential antioxidant) thus doing as much harm as good in any excessive amounts. A good diet contains just enough, and that is exactly what you want and not very much more. A well crafted daily supplement should probably contain no more than 30% of the RDA, and best in a plant complexed form. Raisins and cherries are especially rich sources.

Lithium

Lithium is the least common recognized nutrient in the body, and not readily available in the diet, though drinking water does contain minute amounts. Lithium can disrupt herpes-type viruses. Lithium is regarded as a mineral contributing to a calm and considerate manner. Apparently most diets are only just barely at adequate levels. Some researchers have noted a correlation between the low-lithium content of city water in certain cities and their higher than average rate of violent crimes. In his book ?Love, Sex and Nutrition,? Dr. Bernard Jensen mentions Lithium from the Sea Vegetable Dulse, as a source of composure lending to romantic mood.

Magnesium

Magnesium is an essential mineral for bones, teeth, metabolic enzymes, muscle activity, regulation of body temperature, and assimilation and utilization of Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Sodium. Fresh Green Vegetables, Seafoods, Soybeans, Special Nutritional Yeasts, Seeds, Apples and Whole Grains are rich sources.

Most Americans are marginally deficient in Magnesium. Crude mineral Magnesium is poorly absorbed and utilized. Plant-complexed forms are superior but quite bulky to supplement. Including green vegetables in your daily diet is by far your best option.

Manganese

An activator of numerous enzymes including those involved in utilization of biotin, thiamine and vitamin C. Often lacking in soil and diet, then further depleted by food processing. Supplementation is advisable.

Molybdenum

Molybdenum is an essential part of an enzyme needed to convert fat to energy. It is also involved in Iron metabolism and tooth enamel. Supermarket diets can easily be low in Molybdenum even to the point of contributing to impotence. While soil Molybdenum has continued to decline, functional impotence of college age men in America has risen 400% from 1 in 20 in 1955, to around 1 in 5 today. Cats fed Molybdenum deficient school lunch diets, lost their sexual differentiation within a few generations and became unable to reproduce. Green Leafy Veggies, Special Nutritional Yeasts and Whole Grains are dietary sources.

Nickel

Nickel is important for longevity due to its role as a stabilizer of RNA and DNA. It is connected to fat and carbohydrate metabolism. It is an activator of certain enzymes and supportive of healthy cellular membranes. Nickel is regarded as essential in tiny, plant-complexed amounts. Nickel can potentially be a problem in cruder forms or as industrial toxins. Form and correct potency are critical to optimum utilization of nickel.

Osmium & Palladium

These are members of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be useful in that context. See Iridium for comments.

Phosphorus

The body?s second most abundant mineral, it is widely essential to virtually every process in the body. For example, it is necessary for utilization of Niacin and Riboflavin, and for nucleoproteins during cell division. It is also essential for bones, teeth and proper functioning of nerves.

Phosphorus is particularly useful in the phospholipids of lecithin to balance cellular and blood acidity and to help break up and transport cholesterol and fats. The brain and nerves are composed primarily of phospholipids indicating a clear, proven connection to mental stamina and intelligence. Useful quantities of phosphorus are bulky and not optimally employed as an isolate supplement.

Food sources of phosphorus are best. Lecithin, Nutritional Yeast, Eggs and Whole Grains are primary sources. While phosphorus is generally plentiful in the diet, delivery of phosphorus in the phospholipid form as in these foods seems especially beneficial to the brain, heart and circulation, longevity, youthfulness and health in general.

Platinum

Platinum is a member of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be useful in that context. See Iridium for comments.

Potassium

Potassium is the essential mineral necessary for regulating the tidal flow of fluids in and out of the cells. Without sufficient potassium, the balance is disrupted and health suffers by every measure. Potassium is involved in carbohydrate to energy conversions and storage.

It is involved in enzymes and in protein synthesis. It is critical for the heart, muscles, kidneys and oxygenation of the brain.

Potassium is bulky and not optimally delivered as an isolate crude mineral supplement. It takes a handful of potassium supplement pills to be equivalent to the Potassium of a good diet. Potassium is best delivered in a good diet including Green Leafy Vegetables, Oranges, Fruit Juice, Bananas and Potatoes.

Rubidium

Rubidium is a rarely mentioned life-supporting mineral. It is shown to be a transporter of other minerals into the cell, especially some of those minerals most deficient in cancerous cells. While it is not regarded as a cancer cure, some researchers are starting to seriously study its role in cancer prevention.

Rhodium & Ruthenium

Members of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be useful in that context. See Iridium for comments.

Selenium

Selenium is a key element for longevity. It is not reliably available in soils or in the diet. Chemical fertilizers block uptake of selenium by plants. Selenium is essential for its abilities as an antioxidant and synergist to Vitamin E. Selenium is a key player in the production of foundational hormones. It helps keep arteries clean and flowing.

Selenium supports energy production and oxygen delivery. Researchers have noted a correlation between poor cellular oxygenation and cancer, and between low dietary Selenium and increased cancer rates, and between optimum dietary Selenium and reduced cancer rates. Studies have also related low Selenium to an increase in crib death.

Large amounts of Selenium are lost in semen, thus men typically need more Selenium than do women.

Selenium should never be taken in excessive amounts (700+ mg) for extended periods. A responsibly crafted supplement will provide Selenium in reasonable potencies and in the less toxic forms. Grains, Nutritional Yeasts, Seafoods and Dairy products are food sources. Excessive Selenium intake slows assimilation of Fluoride.

Silicon

In 1878, Louis Pasteur declared that In the future, Silica would become an optimal therapeutic agent. In 1939, Nobel Prize winner, Professor Adolf Butenant found Silica to be essential to human life. In 1972, Columbia University scientists confirmed that Silica must be continuously supplied from food sources, yet there is still no official RDA for Silica forthcoming.

Silicon is never found alone in nature. Silicon dioxide or Silica, is comprised of Silicon and Oxygen. This is the form found in plant fibers. Food processing strips away fibers. Much of the little Silica that is left remains locked-up in fibers and is poorly assimilated.

Algae. Special Nutritional Yeasts, Oats, Barley, Whole Wheat and the herb Nettles (all found in Iridesca) deliver approximately 100 times the Silica of other foods.

Silica is important for utilization of several other nutrients including vitamins B-6, C, D, K and Folic Acid as well as the minerals Boron, Copper, Fluorine, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Strontium, and Zinc.

New research is showing Silica is every bit as important to bone health as Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Boron and Strontium. Researchers in Germany have noted a correlation between higher than average levels of Silica intake and reduced rates of cancer. Silica is synergistic with Vitamin C and Bioflavonoids (including Pycnogenols and Bilberry) for collagen production and the protection of beautiful radiant skin. According to Klaus Kaufman, a leading Silica researcher, Silica is the most important antioxidant.

The level of body declines with age, falling to only 7% as much in a 50 year old with heart disease as he had at a healthy age 10.

Silver

The direct benefits of silver for human nutrition remain elusive. However, while non-toxic to humans, silver does seem to be disruptive to bacteria, creating an environment less inviting to them.

Sodium

Sodium is generally abundant in nearly any diet as a component of most foods and as salt (sodium chloride). Sodium supplementation is not desirable on a daily basis and it is too bulky to be practical in a plant complexed supplement form. Dietary sources are more than sufficient, except in salt restricted diets in combination with excessive perspiration situations, where addition of a little salt to food and beverages quickly remedies the deficiency.

Strontium

Though virtually unheard of as a nutrient, Strontium exists in substantial amounts in healthy bones and teeth. In a 1959 Mayo Clinic study, 85% of osteoporosis sufferers who increased Strontium in their diets reported a marked reduction of pain.

Early research indicates Strontium to be a protector of life-energy production within the cell. Despite its proven safety and important benefits, research and supplementation of Strontium has been inexplicably neglected.

Sulfur

Sulfur is regarded as nature?s ?beauty mineral? because of its role in young, healthy-looking skin and glossy hair. Sulfur is an integral component of protein. It is assumed that a diet with sufficient protein automatically delivers sufficient sulfur. It may not be so simple. Sulfur is also involved in functions outside of its structural protein - Cellular respiration, life-energy and oxygen utilization, to name a few. Thus supplementation may be useful.

Sulfur is found in insulin and is synergistic with B vitamins and lipoic acid for metabolism and nerves. Some forms of arthritis may be indicators of Sulfur deficiency Sulfur may also be useful in making the body undesirable to worms and parasites. Colloidal supplements can contain 29 times the sulfur as the typical diet. However, an excessive intake of crude sulfur may also result in toxicity.

Tin

Tin was only recently identified as essential, but its precise function remains elusive. Scientists noted a 24% to 59% acceleration in growth when tin was supplied to baby rats on tin-deprived diets. This hints of some very important role for Tin and a possible relationship to growth hormone. Thus, Tin may be a player in our struggle to trade fat for muscle. Dietary intake of tin has been sharply reduced over the past 20 years. Supplementation is desirable.

Vanadium

Vanadium has an essential relationship to Iron metabolism, red blood cell growth and health of bones, teeth and cartilage. Vanadium supplementation has been known to lower cholesterol.

Dietary Vanadium has been on the decline due to food processing and because It is not replaced in soils. Vegetable oils are the one remaining significant source, yet ironically everyone is cutting back on fats to lower their cholesterol. Fish, Organic Whole Grains, Special Nutritional Yeast, Dulse and Kelp are also notable sources of Vanadium.

Zinc

Zinc is one of the most obviously essential trace elements. Zinc is necessary for insulin and for 25 enzymes involved in digestion and metabolism, and for utilization of B vitamins.

Zinc is intimate to synthesis of DNA, longevity, reproduction, the immune system, a healthy circulatory system (synergistic with Copper and Vanadium).

Zinc helps the body eliminate excess cholesterol. Zinc supports a more rapid rate of healing and even has a role in night vision. Zinc?s benefits are all encompassing.

The industrial toxin cadmium is antagonistic to Zinc. Your Zinc is severely under attack since your body contains approximately 700 times as much cadmium in this industrial age as in people in ancient times - and since the Zinc content of soils, and the utilizable-plant-complex form of Zinc, has been declining.

Zinc mineral isolate supplements are not ideal for the delicate system of nutrient assimilation and can result in undesirable reversals of benefit at levels only double or triple the RDA. The plant-complex form is far preferable, better utilized and excesses are easily disposed.

Organic Whole Grains, Special Nutritional Yeasts and Pumpkin Seeds are meaningful food sources of Zinc in the most desirable food-complex form. Consistent inclusion of these foods and supplementation of plant-life-complexed zinc is essential for optimal health and longevity - and especially for the prostate gland.