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Electrolytes are Minerals

Electrolytes are minerals but not all minerals are electrolytes. Basically, electrolytes are mineral substances that produce an electrically conducting solution when dissolved in water or body fluids (including our blood, sweat, and urine) . Electrolytes are essential for a number of bodily functions. They help balance the amount of water in our bodies, balance our body's pH level, move nutrients into our cells, and remove waste from our cells. They're also important for nerve function, muscle function, and many other important bodily processes. In nutrition, the electrolyte term refers to essential minerals in your blood, sweat, and urine.

The main electrolytes in our body systems include sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, calcium, phosphate, magnesium, copper, zinc, iron, manganese, molybdenum, copper, and chromium. In terms of body functioning, the six electrolytes that get most people's attention seem to be sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, calcium, and phosphate.

Here's a breakdown of each:

·         Sodium: Primarily found in extracellular fluid, sodium regulates fluid levels, nerve and muscle function, and helps maintain blood pressure.

·         Potassium: As the major intracellular cation, potassium is essential for nerve and muscle function, including the heart, and helps transport nutrients into and waste products out of cells.

·         Chloride: A major extracellular anion, chloride helps regulate fluid balance, blood volume, and blood pressure, and plays a role in maintaining the body's acid-base balance.

·         Bicarbonate: An important component of the body's buffering system, bicarbonate helps regulate blood pH and also aids in the transport of carbon dioxide.

·         Calcium: Crucial for bone health, calcium also plays a vital role in muscle contraction (including the heart), nerve function, and blood clotting.

·         Phosphate: Important for bone and teeth health, phosphate also plays a role in muscle and nerve function, energy production, and DNA and RNA structure.

The lesser of the main electrolytes of magnesium, zinc, iron, manganese, copper, and chromium are all essential minerals for human health. They are needed in small amounts (trace elements) but also play vital roles in various bodily functions.

Here's a breakdown of their importance:

·         Magnesium: Supports over 300 biochemical reactions, including muscle and nerve function, blood sugar regulation, and energy production.

·         Zinc: Essential for immune function, cell growth, wound healing, and the senses of taste and smell.

·         Iron: Key component of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen throughout the body, and myoglobin, which provides oxygen to muscles.

·         Manganese: Contributes to metabolism, bone formation, blood clotting, and reducing inflammation.

·         Chromium: Important for insulin and glucose metabolism, affecting blood sugar levels.

2 Quick questions:

·         Which of the 11 electrolytes above should you do without?  

·         Of all of the popular sports drinks and other so-called electrolyte replenishment drinks that you consume, how many of the listed above electrolytes do you see on your label?

While this may only be a partial list of electrolytes flowing through our sweat, blood, urine, there are others along with other essential minerals as well. There are other minerals as well that work as cofactors to help assist the electrolytes in many ways. Quick example of what a cofactor mineral and electrolyte relationship could be is the essential mineral “Molybdenum”. Molybdenum is an essential trace mineral that functions as a cofactor for several enzymes, including those involved in iron metabolism. Let your iron levels get unbalanced and you could end up in a hospital.

I know many medical and many nutritionists may say to not worry about those extra minerals because you can get them from eating a well-balanced diet. Unfortunately, there are many agricultural resources that report that our farm lands' mineral levels have been severely depleted for decades now. So, if the minerals aren’t in the soil, then minerals aren’t in the foods … oh well so much for that healthy eating thought. When you have a bad bout with diarrhea, excessive peeing and or sweating (from whatever), eating your way back to normal electrolyte levels might not be a great choice. Then there’s one always overlooked way of losing your electrolytes and that’s certain medications. Always check with the pharmacist to see if the medicine has electrolyte depleting abilities and or side effects.

I will say it this way as a re-cap that electrolytes are essential for numerous bodily functions: They are vital for various processes, including but not limited to:

·         Nerve and muscle function: Electrolytes help with nerve impulses and muscle contractions.

·         Fluid balance: They help regulate how much water is in your body and where it's located.

·         Blood acidity balance (pH): Electrolytes help maintain the proper pH level in the blood.

·         Nutrient transport: They help move nutrients into cells and waste products out of cells.

·         Heart rate and blood pressure: They play a role in regulating these vital signs.

Electrolytes are also important because they can help:

·         Keep your heart rate and rhythm steady

·         Keep your bones and teeth healthy

Don’t forget to check your favorite electrolyte drink label. If you’re missing a lot or a few electrolytes then checkout one of my favorite electrolyte replenishment drinks that has the minerals, vitamins, amino acids and more. If you're looking to rebound your electrolyte levels in a positive direction by replacing and replenishing many of your lost nutrients, you don't know what you're missing if you've never tried ReboundFX sports drink

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Bruce Jacobs
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How Many Essential Nutrients Are There

A "deficiency of essential nutrients in the human body" refers to a condition where the body does not have enough of a or multiple vital nutrient, like vitamins or minerals, needed for proper functioning and good health, which can lead to serious health issues. One of my favorite quotes from a 1962 Nobel Prize winner name Mr. Linus Pauling said “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” We all know about the basic vitamins but seem to be clueless on  minerals, trace minerals and trace-trace minerals and their importance. Nutrients are essential in so many ways. 

Please take time to view my blog to learn more about the Essential Nutrients and where you can get the actual name of each nutrient. Now is your time to visit https://90hive.com/post/essential-nutrients

 

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Plant Based Colloidal Trace Minerals

There are times that I hear questions about various types of minerals within the nutritional industry. When you hear a doctor say "Take a good quality multi-vitamin, many times minerals, amino acids, pro-biotics and other elemnts are added to the multi-vitamin complex supplement. Keep in mind that Youngevity adds colloidal minerals to a few of their proprietary base products. Also keep in mind that their colloidal trace minerals are not just any kind of minerals. Hopefully this can shed some insight on the matter of how the minerals are acquired for many of the Youngevity fantastic products. Colloidals are microscopic-sized electrically charged particles. When absorbed by the body, colloidals act like a magnet, helping to pull broken-down cells into the bloodstream to be eliminated. Meanwhile, the body is replenished with nourishing life-enriching minerals. The human body contains about 70 or so elements from the periodic chart. While we do not know what the specific function for many of these elements is within the human biochemistry, their mere presence would indicate purpose. Further, not all minerals are created equal. The source of the mineral supplement is of vital importance.

 

Youngevity’s minerals are organically derived minerals. These don’t come from rocks and soil. They are neither metallic nor salts. These are called colloidal minerals. The organic or plant derived minerals come from humic shale. What’s that? Well, it’s prehistoric plant life in its concentrated form. It was first discovered on a Utah mountain-top and sold in 1926. It’s plant derived minerals. That was around 90 years ago, so we’re not talking about some brand new, unproven product. Colloidal minerals are still harvested on that mountain today, from a 6000 year-old humic shale deposit. Prehistoric plan life was packet with one of nature’s most amazing nutrients… colloidal minerals are taken from plants that have already assimilated inorganic minerals from rocks and soil. Through a process called photosynthesis, the plants have converted these precious minerals into organic colloidals that are easily absorbable by the human body. The air was full of oxygen and nitrogen back then, not like today. Some trees grew 25 feet A YEAR! Earth was a nutrient rich environment. Animal life like the Brontosaurus ate lots of minerals back when it was in plant form. And you know how big they got.

Minerals that come from inorganic sources such as rocks, clays and sea water can store in the soft tissues of the body, building up to potentially harmful levels. Plant-derived minerals, because of their electro-magnetic circuitry, cannot be stored in the body for longer than about 6 to 8 hours, never creating a potential toxic overload. Plant-sourced minerals have the additional ability to remove their heavy metal counterparts. For example, plant-derived aluminum is very effective in not only cleansing the body at the cellular level but assists in removing any metallic aluminum that might be present in the body as well. These differ greatly from the inorganic acid leached clay products claiming to be plant derived colloidal minerals. The key here is PLANT DERIVED!

 

Only metallic minerals that are not metabolized or processed out of the body are potentially toxic. Plant-derived liquid trace minerals cannot be stored by the body, therefore cannot reach toxic levels. Due to their unique properties, these minerals have the ability to remove heavy metals by a process called ionic exchange. Just because a mineral is thought to be toxic today doesn’t mean that it really has no biological value. Not so long ago we did not know what the vitamin pantothenic acid was for. Today we know it is a member of the B-complex family and its functions are many. Recently the mineral arsenic has been identified as having biological value and FDA is considering adding it to the RDI for human nutrition. The easy way to spot acid leached minerals is the high CHLORIDE content (1100mg or more). This is the chemical signature of the acid process used on dolomite and bentonite sea bed clay originating in Arizona and other areas that were covered by inland seas at the end of the last Ice age. These products are not plant derived and are potentially dangerous due to the amounts of heavy metal released by the acid leaching process. (Minerals in their metallic form can be toxic to the human body.)

 

Plant source minerals are completely non-toxic.

Colloidal minerals have a negative electrical charge, and each particle is hundreds of times smaller than a metallic mineral. The colloidals stay suspended in water rather than going into solution because of the negative charge and their size/ weight ratio. Expert chemists say the reason colloidals are non-toxic is because of their plant or vegetable source, and their negative electrical charge. For example, iodine in colloidal form is one of the elements essential for human cells. But, if you drank even 2-3 grains of free iodine, it would surely kill you. In colloidal form, it is not only harmless, it is beneficial. The same is true for arsenic, lead, aluminum, and other minerals considered toxic.”

 

Plant Derived Minerals and Bioavailability

Youngevity Plant Derived Minerals™ are extracted from humic shale, which is a layer of earth formed from ancient, mineral-laden plants. Humic shale is superior to other commonly-used supplement sources such as bentonite (ground up clay) or dried sea beds (ground up rocks).

As in plants, Plant Derived Minerals™ have a natural negative electrical charge that has two important benefits. First, it may enhance the transport and bioavailability of other nutrients, and second, it may support the body’s natural detoxification of toxins and heavy metals.

 Plant derived minerals are clearly the BEST way to get your mineral, Get Yours Today

 

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