The Mineral Consideration

2000-3-12 20:21:00

The Question:

"The second consideration has to do with the condition of the soil the various plants are grown in. In the United States, for instance, the farm ground is missing about 85% of trace minerals. Many other countries have a similar problem. Australia fares about the best with only about 55% depletion. Europe averages 72%.

What effect do you suppose this mineral depletion has on us and what can we do to correct it?"

The Gold Star today goes to Craig who gave an excellent answer on this. By the way Craig, your humor has not passed unnoticed. Thanks for adding a little levity. I can just see Craig back in his school days giving his teacher a wise-cracking answer and making the class laugh while the teacher looks on with disdain. Not this teacher, for I am also part of the class and laugh along with you.

Craig says: "There is only one way to remedy mineral deficient soil, and thus introduce nutritional minerals into plant life grown in that soil. The minerals must be put back in the soil."

Many people think that they get a lot of benefit from minerals in water and much non-plant derived mineral supplements, but what is not realized, is what happens to minerals that are processed by plants. After processing they become colloidal, as Craig mentions.

Let us enlarge the smallest particle that a mineral in its normal state is divided into, and magnify it up to the size of a good sized rock. Now let us give that rock to a plant and see what it does with it. What the plant then does is to take that rock and divide it up into many more particles that are like grains of sand, many times smaller than a rock. In addition to this, the plant changes the charge of the particles from positive to negative.

Thus the plant creates two very positive effects on the minerals as they are prepared for human consumption.

First, the negative magnetic charge causes the particles to be drawn into the human tissue as if by a magnetic force rather than being repelled, as are regular minerals.

The second benefit is quite logical when you ask this question. Which would be easier for my body to absorb, rocks or fine particles? The answer is obvious. When the body receives metal in chunks then it just wants to get rid of it, but when it receives them as fine magnetic particles it embraces them.

When a plant finishes the processing of a mineral, the particles are so small (as small as .01 millionths of an inch) that one teaspoon of the material could cover 127 acres of a completely smooth surface.

Dr. Joel Wallach did some research into various people who live in remote areas and purport life spans up to 150 years, and here is what he found in common among them. Interestingly, it was not a vegetarian diet or even low fat. In fact, some of them seemed to have diets that we consider unhealthy. The one thing that they had in common was that they raised their plants in highly mineralized soil. The healthiest among them used water from nearby glaciers, which was very highly mineralized.

Thus, as Craig tells us, the best solution for this is to put the minerals back into our farm ground. This is possible, to a degree, for those who have the time to raise their own gardens, but for those of us who do not what is the alternative?

One answer is to get colloidal mineral supplements. There are several available that are leached from ancient plant beds that are now 70 million year old humic shale.

My wife bought some of this. We both developed a lot of joint pain. She swelled up like a balloon and got quite ill for a period of time. It took me about six months to get rid of whatever poison was in the product, and my wife about a year. I think it was quite possible that the product we consumed had some regular lead or other toxic substance in it.

After this experience we concluded the safest way to get colloidal minerals was from the food itself. I also concluded that highly mineralized food is a much better and more powerful source than eating depleted foods along with mineralized liquid. Even if you are supplying the body with colloidal minerals through supplements, it puts a strain on the body to handle all the depleted foods.

Many of the so-called health foods and organic foods are also grown in mineral depleted soil, so many of the foods sold as being healthy may be just as mineral deficient as regular commercial foods. The answer is to eat as much food as possible that was not grown in regular depleted farm ground, but was derived from highly mineralized areas.

Let us make a list of such foods that are now available to all of us - some of them in the local supermarket. What are they?