CLAY  MINERALS  FOR  MAN

 

    "Since 1950 I have advocated the use of the clay mineral Montmorillonite for the very reason that this clay mineral, Montmorillonite, contains all the essential mineral trace elements - in a balanced ratio as laid down by Nature.   Montmorillonite as mined and processed, is a natural mineral, containing no harmful elements of any kind.  It has no direct therapeutic effects, but acts as a normalizer of physiological activities in animal tissues.   In comparing the chemical analysis of the mineral with the chart of biological elements, we notice that the mineral contains all of the variable, and invariable elements of the animal tissues.   In comparing the chemical of the mineral with the analysis of blood and tissues, we again notice a similarity.  However, the mineral contains the elements in a slightly higher percentage.   According to these figures the mineral will furnish any one of the variable and invariable elements that might be lacking in the particular animal’s body tissues, or in the feeds furnished to it."

    Because of the many interactions and interdependences among minerals, it is believed that the availability of many minerals, even in minute quality, may be more effective than larger quantities of only two or three minerals.  We quote Dr. Walter Mertz, M.D., head of the United States Department of Agriculture's Nutrition Institute at Beltsville, Maryland.  "It is not enough to be concerned about the optimal intake range of any one nutrient by itself - what is optimal varies, depending on what other nutrients are interacting with it at that particular time.  A given intake of a specific nutrient can be ideal, deficient, or excessive, depending on what other substances are also present."

    "Take dietary Iron.  The requirement for human nutrition is very strongly dependent on the presence and concentration of several factors: Vitamin C, Copper, Nickel--and a special factor in meat, poultry, and fish--all enhance the availability of iron.  In other words they help you to absorb it.  But then there are other substances, such as the tannin in tea, which reduces the availability.  So, if you have an iron intake, and your intake and your diet is favorable in regard to the ‘enhancing’ factors, i.e., containing some Vitamin C, Copper and Nickel, or meat, poultry, or fish factor--the amount of Iron may be ample.  But if you have a diet that contains a lot of tannin and phosphate, but is low on ‘enhancers’, the same amount of Iron will be insufficient."

    "There are at least a hundred other interactions that have already been identified.   And I am sure there are more that we have not yet been able to spot."

    We provide you with a quantitative analysis of the essential elements and those suspected as essential, but not yet proven.  It is obvious that the relative quantities do not correspond with the FDA RDAs, but because of the similarity of the ratio of the elements in the deposit to that found in blood and tissue, it just might be that nature knows more than we humans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Two (2) tablets of 500 mg each will supply approximately the following trace mineral elements:
 

MINERAL 2  TABLETS RDA
     
Silicon  200 mg     * 
Aluminum   50 mg       *
Potassium    33 mg     *
Iron    15 mg 18 mg
Sulfur   14 mg      *
     
Iodine      8 mg  150mcg
Calcium     8 mg     1 g 
Flourine      6 mg      *
Sodium       4 mg      *
Magnesium     3 mg     * 
     
Phosphorus   450 mcg   1 g
Boron   220 mcg     *
Chlorine   220 mcg     *
Strontium   180 mcg      *
Vanadium     80 mcg     * 
     
Manganese     70 mcg     *
Arsenic    55 mcg      *
Molybdenum    30 mcg     *
Chromium    20 mcg     *
Zinc    12 mcg   15 mg
     
Nickel     10 mcg     *
Copper        5 mcg    2 mg
Selenium       5 mcg     *
Silver       4 mcg     *
Cobalt       3 mcg     *
     
Lithium      3 mcg     *
Gallium      3 mcg      *
Tin      2 mcg     *
Gold        1 mcg     *

              
 *RDA not established or requirement not known.

In addition to the elements listed above, laboratory analysis has identified 49 other elements in PPM or trace levels.


TOXIC METALS

 

            "The mineral does not accumulate in the tissues, any excess not needed by the tissues, is expelled. 

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