
The Mineral Wheel
The human body requires about 100 elements. This mineral wheel shows
some of the most important elements needed by the body and the inter-relationship
between these elements.
The lines and arrows connect specific minerals to others. Every mineral has synergistic and antagonistic counterparts. If you have too much or not enough of a specific mineral, it will affect the counterpart causing a mineral deficiency or excess that may create toxicity.
An arrow pointing to a particular mineral means that an excess of that mineral may cause a deficiency of the mineral the arrow is coming from. For example, an excess of calcium can cause decreased absorption of Phosphorus, Zinc, Magnesium, and Manganese. The same thing happens in farming soils. Too much or too little of any nutrient results in sick plants and crops. The same is true for animals and humans.
The lack of seemingly insignificant trace minerals in our diets can be challenging to the human body. Degenerative disease is the direct result of diet and lifestyle. With knowledge and application, you can begin to achieve more optimum health.
I was asked recently
to look at a nutritional product and comment on it. I counted eleven added minerals in forms the body had to convert before they
could be used, and calcium in the form of calcium carbonate.
Calcium carbonate will yield about four percent ionic (bioavailable)
calcium after going through the digestive process. (It is basically
the same as blackboard chalk.) I said, "Where are the
other seventy-one essential minerals?"
The point is, too high or too low amounts of any mineral will cause negative
problems adversely affecting the absorption of all the other minerals.
It's easy
to see why people who think they are getting everything they need through
their diets and nutritional supplementation are getting diseases.
When you take food supplements that are supposed to be providing you with everything you should be getting from your food (and are not), and those supplements don't even come close, you are not creating optimum health. No doctor or scientist could ever develop a dietary supplement that contains all the minerals in the proper forms and proportions for optimum absorption. It has to come from your food since plants have the ability to make minerals bio-available for the human body. In other words, we just can't gobble up raw minerals.
Heart disease is challenging the people of America. Cancer is becoming very popular these days. We are clearly losing the war against these diseases. And with more than 153 additional known diseases, it is easy to see that we are on the wrong track. With all the people taking supplements and supposedly eating balanced diets, why is disease still so prevalent? If even half of those people really were getting what they needed, the disease rate would be nowhere near what it is today.
When imbalances, are corrected and brought in proper
balance, the organs and glands will be operating
more perfectly, and more optimum health will be the only outcome. The
circulatory system can now carry oxygen and nutrients to the cells. Carbon dioxide and other waste products will be carried away from the cells
to the organs of elimination which are now working more perfectly. The
immune system is now operating more perfectly and able to detect and
destroy pathogens and other invading material. The digestive
system can efficiently extract nutrition from the foods you
eat... and so on.
Lab tests using Praseodymium and Yttrium have doubled the lifespan of laboratory animals. Rubidium and Cesium have proven successful against cancer in both animals and humans. Zinc is essential for wound healing and also in the production of Super-oxide-dismutase (SOD), one of the most important anti-oxidants naturally made by the body.
Iron and copper are important for hemoglobin. Germanium is an adaptogenic mineral that helps fight all diseases. All of these minerals have a purpose and function in the human body. You can study each of these minerals and find out exactly what they do in the body.