MINERALS
MEAN HEALTH
Major minerals are required in amounts greater than 100 mg per
day, while others are referred to as trace minerals. Our government acknowledges twelve or
thirteen minerals necessary for average health and that another eight or ten are possibly
needed. One reason many have been overlooked is that they just aren't available from the
soils that produce our foods.
Soils provide the minerals necessary for plant
development. Plants serve as food for the animals which assimilate them. Then, we eat the
meat. The minerals then act as co-vitamins and co-enzymes in our metabolism. At least 84
minerals have been isolated from human tissues and at least 60 are known to function in
metabolic reactions. What is happening today, is an awakening as to the importance of
minerals in total health. They are actually the foundation of our biochemical life.
SUGGESTED USE:
Two tablespoonfuls once or twice a day, preferrably with food.
Contains no preservatives, sugar, starch,
salt, wheat, yeast, corn, milk, soy derivatives, artificial flavoring or coloring agents.
TYPES OF
MINERALS
Three different types of minerals exist, metallic, chelated and
colloidal. Metallic minerals are most commonly used in nutritional supplements, especially
for the major minerals because larger amounts are indicated. They have the least degree of
absorption. Chelated minerals are the next step up the ladder. The metallic mineral is
"chelated" with an amino acid. The "mineral chelate" is more
bioavailable. Colloidal minerals occur in nature as small particles that either are or can
be easily dispersed in a dispersion medium. Plant derived colloidal minerals provide the
best of all worlds because they are colloidal in nature and are associated with natural
plant tissues, giving them all of the advantages of chelated minerals and more. Erosion
and unwise farming methods have made mineral rich soil a rare commodity. The result is
mineral deficient plants and livestock and mineral deficient people.
ORGANIC
HUMIC SHALE
The best quality plant derived colloidal minerals in the world
are concentrated from the mineral rich natural organic humic shale in the Rockland Mine.
About 75 million years ago, the Earth's mineral rich soils produced succulent fruits,
vegetables and lush forests. The soils contained at least 84 minerals, which is why some
experts believe some trees grew ten feet the first year.
Plant and animal life was extremely healthy and
it is believed that a major reason is a direct result of the plants' access to at least 77
minerals from the soil. This is a far cry from the number of minerals available from the
average soil throughout the world today. As the lucious vegetation died, it accumulated in
deposits. It was compressed or compacted so that all of the moisture in it was eliminated.
What remains today is a deposit of dried, prehistoric plant derivatives known as organic
humic shale.
This organic humic shale contains 77 plant
derived hydrophilic minerals which are very small in size when compared to metallic
minerals. Because the minerals in humic shale were assimilated by plants, they are
naturally incorporated into the tissues of the plant and are more hydrophilic and more
readily utilized.
COLLOIDS
AND COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS
Colloidal science is devoted to the study of systems in which
finely divided substances (colloids) are dispersed within a medium. A colloidal system can
be a solid dispersed in a gas, solid-in-solid, solid-in-liquid, gas-in-gas, gas-in-liquid,
liquid-in-liquid, etc. A colloidal system is not really a solution in which one substance
is totally dissolved into the other and a colloidal system is not really a
suspension either. In a suspension, the particles of the substance being suspended are
larger and remain in the solid state.
Some people do not realize that solids can be
colloids. A colloid is one thing and a colloidal solution is another. A colloidal solution
is merely a system in which a colloid has been dispersed in a liquid. Most all of the
so-called colloidal mineral nutritional products on the market today are liquids.
Actually, most of them are not true colloids at all. They have been manufactured by
extracting some source material such as shale, clay or sea bed with citric or some other
kind of acid. In this process, the acid helps dissolve the minerals and breaks down much
of the organic matter in the source material, which occurs naturally associated with the
minerals. This acid extraction can actually destroy the plant derived colloidal nature of
most minerals and trace elements.
THE
ROCKLAND PROCESS
The proprietary low-temperature Rockland process uses only cool,
contaminant-free water. By maintaining low temperatures, the integrity of the natural
delicate state of plant derived minerals is maintained. A major advantage of the finished
product is that the super highly concentrated plant derived colloidal material is
maintained in its natural state and can be easily hydrated by water to become a colloidal
solution.
The humic shale is mined in the natural dry
state as it has existed for millions of years. It is then ground to smaller aggregates and
placed in stainless steel vats, where it is leached slowly. No acids are used. Negative
pressure is applied which makes the concentration more efficient at low temperatures. Only
the water is removed and the solid plant derived colloidal minerals are all that are
present, but in a highly concentrated form. When the leaching is complete, the mother
liquor contains 38,000 milligrams of the 7 major minerals and 70 trace minerals per quart
of liquid.
The amount of minerals and trace elements
contained in each tablespoonful of BERRY'D TREASURE is equal to the contents of one Life
Plus MICRO-MINSTM capsule.
Each ounce contains 1200 mg concentrated pure
plant derived colloidal minerals in a base of the valuable Rainforest herbs, Suma, Uncaria
Tomentosa (Cat's Claw) and Chuchuhuasi and natural flavoring from grape skins, cherry and
berry extracts plus fructose and other natural herbal flavoring aids. Each tablespoonful
provides only 8 calories.
Metallic minerals carry a positive charge in
their ionic form in solution and, in general, are just not very soluble. Scientifically,
they are called hydrophobic because they are not very soluble in water. Minerals that have
been assimilated by plants are hydrophilic, so they are very water soluble. They are
negatively charged and form direct hydrogen bonds with water. Hydrophilic plant derived
minerals, which have not been destroyed by heat or acids or other chemicals, are
enzymatically active and thus are highly bioavailable.
ALUMINUM
IN OUR FOODS
Some people believe that the so-called toxic metals (minerals)
are bad regardless of their source. Aluminum is found in the earth in its metallic form.
There is no question about its metallic form, which is well documented that it can be
leached from aluminum cooking utensils and absorbed from antiperspirants and deposited in
both brain and heart tissue. However, the aluminum, which comes from food, is hydrophilic
as it has been assimilated by plants and it is naturally tied to oxygen or silica. The
World Health Organization estimates the average adult dietary aluminum intake between 10
and 15 mg per day. Aluminum is one of the most abundant minerals on earth, second only to
silica. It is in virtually everything we touch, most of the air we breathe, water we drink
and is in most foods that we eat.
HOW TO
TAKE BERRY'D TREASURE
No RDA's are established for most of the minerals in BERRY'D
TREASURE, however it is known that many are needed for optimum health. Adults, drink one
or two ounces (2 to 4 tablespoonfuls) during or after meals per day. More can be taken if
desired. Children usually take one-half the adult amount.
