You may collect silver coins, wear a platinum ring, or have a gold filling. You’ve likely sipped tea poured from a copper kettle, eaten a cookie from a fancy tin container, or traveled on an airplane made of titanium. But did you know that these elements and many others—in very small, balanced trace amounts—are critical to your health? Although trace minerals are no longer as plentiful in the foods you eat, they exist plentifully in their proper proportions in the mineral-rich waters of the earth’s oceans and seas.
Colloidal vs Ionic Minerals
Colloidal minerals are probably the most common on the market. These are derived from clay deposits ground and then suspended in solution or put into tablets. This requires the body to breakdown the "clumps" of minerals into an absorbable form. Ionic minerals on the other hand are already broken down to the molecular level making them easier and faster for the body to absorb completely. In addition, they are already in the form the body will utilize them. Although chelated minerals are much more easily broken down to the ionic form compared to colloidal minerals, this is still one more step required before absorption can occur.
Why Do We Need Trace Minerals?
From vitamin and nutrient utilization to a healthy immune system and body, trace minerals are essential in small amounts to help the body operate optimally. Every second of every day your body relies on ionic minerals and trace minerals to conduct and generate billions of tiny electrical impulses. Without these impulses, not a single muscle, including your heart, would be able to function. Your brain would not function and the cells would not be able to use osmosis to balance your water pressure and absorb nutrients. To ensure you are getting the ionic minerals and electrolytes your body needs, only choose ionic mineral supplements or supplements that contain ionic minerals. “Experts estimate 90 percent of Americans suffer from mineral imbalance and deficiency.”
Where Have All the Minerals Gone?
Traditionally, eating fresh grains, fruits, and vegetables grown in nutrient-rich soil has been the primary supply for a full spectrum of ionic minerals. Unfortunately in today’s world, naturally occurring, nutrient-rich soil is becoming increasingly rare. Eons of vegetation growth and aggressive modern farming techniques have brought many of the earth’s minerals to the surface where they have been washed away. Synthesized fertilizers are routinely applied to farms and fields where minerals have been depleted. But man-made fertilizers provide only enough mineral substance to support basic plant life. Numerous trace minerals essential to human life don’t get replenished.
Many of the trace elements once abundant in soil have been washed into the oceans. In the oceans they are found in their proper proportions—the same basic proportions that are found in healthy human bodies. In a few surviving inland seas such as the Great Salt Lake of western North America, these essential elements exist in highly concentrated, salubrious proportions. This healthy, intricately balanced proportion of minerals and trace elements found in sea water is beneficial to the human body. Today, these life-sustaining sea waters contain all of the minerals and elements necessary to support human life. Most importantly, these minerals and elements are ionic and in perfect balance—prime for being absorbed into the cells of your body.
Larry Scott Products and Trace Minerals
Most of the Larry Scott products we carry at Warriors Warehouse contain all 72 trace minerals in ionic formulation. Revive (the multivitamin mineral supplement), Ultrapro (weight loss protein) and Hypergrowth (gainer protein) all contain these trace minerals. Before starting on any supplement plan you should have a good vitamin and mineral foundation to build upon. Without this you will never be able to achieve your highest performance or quality of life with your body.
