How important are trace minerals to health? Important enough that, in 1936, the second session of the 74th U.S. Congress saw fit to issue a public statement about them. A key portion of that statement read: “It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives.”
The reasons given for the shocking deficiency were that fruits, vegetables and grains “now being raised on millions of acres of land no longer contain enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us—no matter how much of them we eat!”
That was over 70 years ago, and as you might guess, matters have only become worse. While a minute number of minerals (about 12) have been added back into soil with modern farming methods, they nowhere near approach the 100 or so minerals available in truly fertile soil. Hence, the terrible mineral deficiency spoken of by the Senate in 1936 has only been perpetuated.
“One of the biggest issues that we have today is that if we’re not making the physical effort to put these trace minerals back into our diets, then into our health, it jeopardizes our overall health because we’re just not getting it in our foodstuffs because of the diets that we have as a society today,” says Dr. Darrin Starkey, director of education and training with Trace Minerals Research.
“Trace minerals are the activators, the assimilators,” Dr. Starkey continues. “They help the body utilize the nutrients that we’ve given them. If we don’t have that proper foundation, the vitamins and macrominerals1 that we take are basically useless to our health.”
Early in the twentieth century, it was found that seawater contained a natural balance of trace minerals required by the body, and it was sold as a supplement. In 1968, a Utah doctor named Dr. George Crane read several newspaper articles on the benefits of seawater. The articles piqued his interest, and he began testing the water of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. The testing found that the Great Salt Lake water was 6 to 10 times more concentrated than seawater. Dr. Crane and his wife founded Trace Minerals Research in 1968 and started selling pure Great Salt Lake water to the public. A short time later, they discovered how to use nature’s own processes to remove the sodium, thereby creating low-sodium ConcenTrace® Trace Mineral Drops.
“What I love about the ConcenTrace trace mineral drops is that science can’t duplicate it,” says Dr. Starkey. “Man can’t manufacture it. There are no additives, no preservatives, no sweeteners—it’s Mother Nature at her finest. I think that’s why it separates itself from all the other products in the marketplace. It is a truly superior product in the fact that man has not developed or created it in any way and therefore it meets our bodies’ needs perfectly.”
Because it is the finest product of its kind, Peter Gillham’s Natural Vitality has chosen to include ConcenTrace trace minerals in their Organic Life Vitamins (OLV).
“We’re very excited about the inclusion of ConcenTrace in OLV,” says James Crawford, a sales manager for Trace Minerals Research. “It is the addition of a superior product to an already superior product. OLV provides a huge benefit because people notice a difference in the way that they feel, and now even more so because those minerals are naturally charged and people will feel that energy, that increase in energy.”
1. macromineral: any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and zinc.
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