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Essential Minerals Introduction
Minerals are very much like vitamins: They are essential for the proper
functioning and health of the human body. Vitamins need to be replaced
regularly, though, where as minerals stay in our body and make up the actual
structure of the body.
Minerals "turn over", though, meaning a some of them must be replaced or
renewed continuously in order for us to stay healthy.
Minerals are essential for our bodies to activate, assimilate and use
vitamins properly. Minerals are absorbed by plants through the soil,
and animals and humans get the minerals from those plants. There are many
essential minerals we know about, can identify and know what their importance
is. There are also trace minerals, which are found in plant life too,
and these are also needed by our bodies even though scientists don't have much
information on them yet.
In most cases, vitamins and minerals work together within our body. Calcium
and Vitamin D are excellent examples, because the body needs enough Vitamin D
to be able to absorb and use calcium.
Chelated (key lated) minerals are required for our bodies to be able to use
them. Chelation happens when a mineral is wrapped in molecules of protein, and
chelation is needed in order for the blood stream to accept the minerals. If a
mineral is not chelated, then both it and the vitamins associated with it will
pass through the body without providing any benefit.
This is one of the reason it's usually suggested that you take a vitamin or
mineral with a meal. Because the proteins from your meal will help your body
chelate the minerals and absorb and use them properly, along with the vitamins
too.
Before the body can chelate a mineral, it must dissolve it first. Once
it has dissolved the mineral, it then uses protein to chelate it for proper
use. Now, if you don't eat enough protein of course, you're going to have a
problem utilizing both minerals and vitamins in your body. And if you take
vitamin supplements, they may be in a form which is difficult for your body to
dissolve properly, which of course would make them unusable as well.
These are reasons to use natural herbal supplements for adding vitamin and
mineral content. Herbal sources contain high amounts of both vitamins and
minerals, including the trace minerals. Herbal supplements are often
purchased in crushed or powdered form, so these are much easier for the body
to readily dissolve and put to use within.
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