| Minerals are a crucial requirement of the human diet. | | | | in minerals, so much so I very much doubt whether |
| They are critical to our mental and physical health, to | | | | anyone reading this article is not, in greater or lesser |
| bones, teeth, heart, lungs, muscles, digestion, | | | | degree, deficient in minerals. |
| metabolism, water balance, blood, the creation of | | | | It is very good news then that the wild blue-green |
| antibodies, nerves, tissues and fluids and the | | | | algae harvested from the Klamath Lake in Oregon |
| transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. | | | | contain all the essential trace minerals required by the |
| All these components of our bodies contain and need | | | | body: iron, zinc, cobalt, magnesium, boron, calcium, |
| varying amounts of minerals. | | | | chromium, copper, manganese, sodium, potassium |
| Magnesium for example is an essential part of the | | | | and vanadium. It also contains chloride, fluoride, |
| digestive system and the metabolic process. A | | | | germanium, iodine, molybdenum, nickel, phosphorus, |
| deficiency in it can cause, among others, an | | | | selenium, silicon, tin and titanium. Moreover, the |
| impairment of the body's ability to turn glucose into | | | | Klamath Lake algae hold these minerals in proportions |
| energy and can lead to one degree or another of | | | | and balance perfect for the human biochemistry and |
| loss of vitality or chronic fatigue. Probably over 80 | | | | this means they are very readily absorbed by the |
| percent of the population is deficient in one degree | | | | body. |
| or another in magnesium. | | | | One of the pitfalls with taking supplements, for |
| Zinc, by way of another example is critical to | | | | example supplementing zinc to handle problems with |
| maintaining the health of many organs and bodily | | | | zinc deficiency, can be that the body does not |
| functions, including eyes, liver, kidney, muscles, skin, | | | | always absorb the supplement well: one can take the |
| bone, testes and so forth. A deficiency in zinc can | | | | capsules, pills, lozenges or liquid religiously with little or |
| cause problems with infertility, hair, skin and nails, the | | | | no alleviation of the deficiency. There is nothing |
| immune system and so on. | | | | wrong with the supplement but the body, already |
| The body requires a supply of these various minerals. | | | | working below optimum, does not always have a |
| It cannot make minerals but can only get this supply | | | | digestive system working well enough to process it. |
| through food. Getting enough of each mineral in the | | | | The minerals contained in the Klamath algae however |
| right balance with all the other minerals is vital if you | | | | come to us in a form the body CAN readily assimilate |
| are to feel well and indeed a significant deficiency in | | | | (AND balanced correctly against other minerals): |
| just one of the many minerals the body needs can | | | | nature, it seems, has solved the problem of |
| result in disease and even shorten your life. | | | | absorption for us. |
| It is a sad fact that our modern diets, indeed the | | | | In the algae of the Klamath Lake it has done a whole |
| very soils in which food grows, are seriously deficient | | | | lot more besides. |