Benefits of Minerals
Minerals are as important as vitamins when it comes to
overall health and well-being. Since all enzymatic activities in
the body require minerals, your body wouldn't be able to use
vitamins and other nutrients without them. Calcium, Magnesium,
Chromium, Iron, Selenium and Zinc are just a few of the numerous
minerals essential to continued health.
For years the supplement market has been dominated by vitamins,
but vitamins and amino acids are useless without minerals
because all enzyme activities involve minerals. Minerals for
healthy bones, organs, and tissue minerals are needed to
maintain the delicate cellular fluid balance, to form bone and
blood cells, to provide for electrochemical nerve activity, and
to regulate muscle tone and activity (including organ muscles
like the heart, stomach, liver, etc.)
Minerals act as catalysts for many biological reactions
within the body, including muscle response, the transmission of
messages through the nervous system, the production of hormones,
digestion, and the utilization of nutrients in foods.
Minerals are primarily stored in bone and muscle tissue
so toxicity is a possibility. Toxicity risks increase when one
isolated mineral is ingested without any supportive cofactor
nutrients. Such situations of mineral toxicity are quite rare,
because toxic levels accumulate only if massive overdoses
persist for a prolonged period of time.
Benefits
* maintains healthy bones, organs and tissue
* regulates muscle tone
* assists with the formation of bone and blood cells