Liquid Ionic Minerals

In our journey to better health, the vitamin and mineral supplement market can leave you abandoned by the healthcare world and left to figure out solutions on your own. Hundreds of products dangling promises and guarantees, but here’s the facts: only 17 minerals are recognized as essential to human health. This is important to keep in mind while navigating the high pressure marketing of colloidal and ionic mineral supplements.

Here are the essential Macro and Micro minerals and how they benefit humans.

MACRO - essential minerals that the human body requires in relatively large amounts.

Sodium
An important component for fluid balance, hearing, equilibrium, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction.

Chloride
Needed for proper fluid balance, plays an important role in maintaining the pH levels of the fluid in your body

Potassium
One of the most important minerals for our bodies. It is critical for proper fluid balance, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction.

Calcium
Critically important for healthy bones and teeth; important in nerve functioning, blood clotting, blood pressure regulation, and immune system health.

Phosphorus
Helps manage how your body stores and uses energy, key role in filtering out waste in your kidneys. Helps grow, maintain, and repair tissue and cells. Every cell in your body contains phosphorus.

Magnesium
Found in bones; needed for making protein, muscle contraction, nerve transmission, and immune system health.

Sulfur
Found in protein molecules and is important for skin health.

Trace minerals (microminerals)

Iron
Part of a molecule (hemoglobin) and is found in red blood cells that carry oxygen to organs in the body.

Zinc
An important component for making protein and genetic material; and is key for immune system health.

Iodine
Found in thyroid hormone, which helps regulate our metabolism.

Selenium
An Antioxidant that protects us from free radicals.

Copper
Helps our bodies metabolize iron.

Manganese
Helps regulate blood sugar, improves bone health, and is an antioxidant.

Chromium
Helps regulate blood sugar levels. Enhances our ability to metabolize protein, carbohydrates, and lipids.

Molybdenum
Helps enzymes breakdown toxins in our bodies.

Cobalt
Part of the B12 vitamin and is essential for healthy red blood cell formation and neurological health.

Silica
Is essential for making our bones strong.

Absorption is key!

Traditional supplements (pills) have limits, with only about 10-20% (at best) of the nutrients they contain making it into the bloodstream. Why? Pills must first survive the digestive process, with significant loss along the way.

In contrast liquid ionic minerals, plain and simple are a game-changer! When placed under the tongue (sublingually), they bypass the digestive tract, and enter the bloodstream directly. According to the The Physician’s Desk Reference liquid supplements boast an absorption rate of 85–90%, often within mere seconds. This means quicker, more effective results, getting your body the nutrients it needs in a form it can use. But not all liquid supplements are created equal so let's do a little Comparison of Colloidal and Ionic Minerals

The basics of these minerals.

• Colloidal Minerals: Imagine a suspension where tiny mineral particles float in a liquid or gas without dissolving, this is a colloid. Colloidal minerals often hail from deposits of humic shale. The shale is pulverized, placed in water, and allowed to release minerals into the solution, but maintaining their little grouping of different molecules. This means that you are still relying on your digestion to breakdown and process those minerals for your body. Even more concerning, some colloidal products claim to include up to 75 different minerals, many of which, like aluminum, arsenic, and mercury are actually hazardous and toxic to humans.
• Ionic Minerals: These minerals, on the other hand, dissolve into ions (charged particles) in a liquid. This makes them smaller, more bioavailable, and easier for the human body to absorb. You’re likely familiar with ionic minerals in another form: electrolytes. Think calcium, magnesium, and potassium, the vital players that enable muscles to contract and hearts to beat. These ionic compounds also enhance the conductivity of solutions, literally creating sparks of life within us.

Science has made this one pretty clear: Our bodies prefer ionic minerals due to their higher bioavailability. Colloidal minerals, while natural in origin, simply don’t measure up when being compared to ionic options for optimal absorption and utility.