Minerals are an essential part of life, and are just as important to a human as breathing. Minerals and trace minerals play a major role in our everyday lives and internal bodily functions. A perfect example of this is the role that minerals play in the absorption of vitamins. Everyone knows that vitamins are essential to life and healthy living, but what most people don’t know is that without minerals vitamins are simply worthless. Minerals in the body bind with their vitamin counterparts and create a wonderful substance, but without the appropriate mineral to activate the vitamin it doesn’t get used. Therefore, minerals are essential to vitamin absorption, as well as balancing the body’s alkaline and acidic levels.
The body must maintain a constant level of alkaline and acidity, if this level gets thrown off it can put the whole body into a nasty tail spin that is going to lead to a stay in the hospital. The human body is a very fragile machine that has very little lee way in terms of balance. I like to refer to it as a game of dominos… if one chip, just one chip falls it can set off a domino effect that will be felt throughout the body. Minerals play a key role in maintaining this alkaline and acidity in the tissue fluids, and the blood. Minerals are also responsible for the exchange of chemicals in a cell, as well as the passage of nutrients in the blood stream.
Minerals are often referred to as electrolytes, and this is because minerals are the conductor to the electrical current in the body. As you know if you become dehydrated the number one concern of the doctors is to replace these electrolytes because of their extreme importance. A deficiency in electrolytes, if not quickly corrected, will rapidly lead to death. Minerals are so important to the body, on so many levels, that it is simply impossible to explain every function they perform in your body. Basically minerals have an impact on every single cell, and functioning system, in your body. It is essential to maintain a healthy level of all minerals, since one mineral is rendered useless with out the other.
Green vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are supposed to be full of minerals. However, if the soil they are grown in is lacking the proper nutrients than the plant will be lacking the proper amounts of minerals needed to enrich your diet. Unless you have grown all your own organic foods, than you have no assurance that you are getting the proper amounts of minerals. Taking a daily mineral supplement will provide you with the correct amount of minerals needed each day without having to worry about whether you food contained the correct amounts.
