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 capsules 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 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. When dried,
the colloidal powder is placed in capsules of 600 mg each so that one capsule is
equivalent to one half ounce of liquid, insofar as mineral content is concerned.
This unique method makes it possible to have a dry product that can be
made into capsules containing high quality plant derived colloidal minerals just as they
were in their natural state. When swallowed with water, the minerals in Micro-Mins
capsules readily return to their liquid colloidal state in the digestive tract and provide
all the advantages of the liquid form without the disadvantages.
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 and water we drink and is in most foods
that we eat.
HOW TO
TAKE MICRO-MINS
No RDA's are established for most of the minerals in Micro-Mins, however it is known that
many are needed for optimum health. They are packaged in bottles of 64 capsules making it
convenient for the ideal dosage of two capsules twice a day for two weeks, or two capsules
daily for a 30 day supply.
