AOR Ortho-Minerals - 210 V-Caps

Ortho Minerals from AOR

Minerals, in some ways, play a larger role in the human body than do vitamins: less than 1% of body mass is vitamins, while minerals account for 4-5%. Every cell, and every biochemical transformation in the body, requires minerals such as zinc, manganese, chromium, and selenium, in addition to health-food store standbys like calcium and magnesium. Mineral depletion may be the biggest cause of poor health, illness, and premature aging facing a substantial percentage of the population. Most North Americans face borderline mineral deficiency due to poor food choices, food processing, soil depletion from agrobusiness factory farming, and mineral antagonists such as phytic acid, oxalates, caffeine, alcohol, and refined sugars along with other high-glycemic dietary carbohydrates.

The amounts of minerals in typical multivitamin/multimineral formulations are inadequate; for many people, a separate multimineral is the best solution. When choosing a multimineral, there are several key factors you need to keep in mind.

Many supplement companies pack their multiminerals with ineffective forms of key minerals because they are available at cut-rate prices, or because they are dense meaning that you can cram a lot of the elemental mineral into a limited number of capsules. Their low cost make the price look right, and the high elemental yields make the pills look "high-potency" on the label but if your body can't use the minerals in the capsules, it doesn't matter how much you cram into them.

Minerals: Vital for Health

Minerals are of cornerstone importance to human function, and work synergistically with the vitamins in our body to normalize metabolism, growth, development and cellular activity. Deficiency of only milligrams in just one mineral can often lead to serious health problems. As a chief component in both enzyme and coenzyme function, the minerals in our body play a key role in speeding up the chemical reactions that take place in our body.

Are We Mineral Deficient?

In general most individuals are deficient in trace minerals for two reasons. The first is that our food supply is deficient in minerals. Our farms' soils are depleted after years of farming without allowing fields to lay fallow and replenish themselves. The second is that many people consume filtered water. In order to remove contaminants, some of these processes also must remove the trace minerals. Distilled and reverse osmosis water are two examples of water that have had all of their minerals removed.

Even those who are seemingly without any signs or symptoms of mineral deficiency will most likely benefit from replenishing their minerals. Health practitioners recommend trace mineral therapy to those individuals who drink reverse osmosis or distilled water, those with hair and nail problems, those with cardiovascular diseases, like hypertension and those with neurological or emotional problems.

You Can Increase Your Mineral Intake By:

• Steaming your vegetables instead of boiling
• Buying organic foods
• Adding liquid minerals to your drinking water
• Eating more raw foods
• Eating a balanced diet
• Consuming a green drink daily
• Eating and cooking with sea vegetables