A Bit About Minerals and Calcium

Minerals are way more important than vitamins are. They act as catalysts that induce vitamins to work. We could take all the vitamins in the world and they still wouldn't do anything without minerals. For this reason, we could get by without vitamins thanks to our body's ability to produce some of them, but minerals on the other hand cannot be produced in the body. Minerals are supplied in our diet by what we eat and drink. Often doctors look for what might be making us sick and never once think about a mineral deficiency. If the mineral supply is high enough in the body less protein and vitamins are needed. An example of this: if the body normally uses 100gm of protein a day, with a hearty supply of minerals, the body would only need 50gm of protein a day.

I cannot stress enough of the importance of making compost and giving back to a vitamin-deficient soil so that the foods produced will be healthy for people and animals.

Having a low supply of minerals in the body causes aging, but when there's enough the body can continually replace cells the second a cell death occurs. Meaning minerals can give us younger more youthful bodies and allow us to live longer in a healthful independent state. Living well past one hundred should be typical if we all get enough minerals for the body to prosper.

There are three ways to look at minerals. There are Necessary Minerals. These are minerals the body has to have and are fundamentally needed for life. Major Minerals, the most abundant minerals supplied; found in every organ, tissue, and blood cell that when lacking can cause disturbances such as bone loss. Trace Minerals occur in small amounts in plants and animals, but are needed to sustain the overall health of the body.

Calcium is the most plentiful Major Mineral of the body. From functioning as a sleep aid, easing nerves, stabilizing the hearts pumping action, keeping blood clots normalized, and constructing bones and teeth, its plain to see how valuable this mineral is and why we need a lot of it for it to do its job.