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Minerals Articles:

What’s in Your Multiple Vitamin?  Detecting Real Quality.  Part 1 – Minerals

Junky vitamins are often passed off as quality, and many times endorsed by a physician or celebrity. There are many tricks that low quality supplement companies use to hide their poor quality, spending more money on marketing than on what is under the hood.

Read More:  Calcium, Coral Calcium, Daily Energy Multiple Vitamin™, magnesium, minerals, quality

Vitamins and Minerals Can Fix Genetic Weaknesses

New research is showing that most people carry numerous functional gene problems that may be readily corrected with vitamins and minerals.

Read More:  disease, genes, minerals, vitamins

Dramatic Increase in Nearsighted Americans

It is typically thought that nearsightedness is primarily genetic. However, that can’t be the case based on data coming from the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Their research shows that over the last 30 years the number of nearsighted Americans has increased from 25% to 41% of the population.

Read More:  DHA, minerals, nearsighted, Super B Complex

Potassium Supports Bone Health

Mineral buffers play an important role in preserving overall health by helping to keep pH in a range where enzyme activity in vital body systems works efficiently. Potassium, like magnesium and calcium, has an important role as a mineral pH buffer. In comparison, excessive salt intake can tilt metabolism into an acid pH state that corresponds to increased inflammation and poor health. Bones as an organ are a reserve of mineral buffers, like a savings account. Depleting this savings account creates a physiology situation prone to bone loss. Potassium is proving itself as a key mineral that helps to offset this stress and preserve bone.

Read More:  acid pH, metabolism, minerals, osteoporosis, potassium