The necessity of minerals in our body has been well documented. Our bodies use minerals as raw material. Minerals cannot be manufactured by the body but must be available in the food we eat and the fluids we drink. Unfortunately intensive farming practices and modern food processing has resulted in a severe depletion of necessary minerals and consequently everyone looking to achieve optimum health must look at mineral supplementation.
The principal mineral elements that the body requires are sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium but it also requires a very wide range of other micro minerals to perform optimally.
Dr F Batmanghelidj in his extraordinary book ‘Water & Salt'' states that ‘ Potassium, calcium, magnesium and zinc are the main minerals that regulate water levels inside cells. These elements are needed to keep the interior of the cells in good osmotic balance and in good working order. These are the elements that work with sodium to keep blood pressure in its normal range''.
Minerals in the body are essential for a wide number of body functions and in particular for the production of enzymes. The importance of enzymes cannot be overstated. Dr Edward Howell, the father of modern enzyme research has written that enzyme deficiency is a significant contributory cause of premature aging and the development of numerous degenerative diseases.
Dr Ralph Cinque has written in an article in The Life Science Health System, that vitamin and mineral supplements because they are fractionated, are treated as toxic waste in the body. Minerals, in particular, in an unnatural form can accumulate and cause harmful effects. Yet clearly we need minerals today as never before. An increasing number of doctors and scientists believe that our bodies can only function optimally when given whole food nutrients.
For the body to absorb and utilise minerals effectively they are best supplied to the body in natural colloidal form: that is they are so small that your cells can readily absorb them.
Drinking ‘Alkalark ' water provides the body with a very wide range of minerals for the body in easy assimilated colloidal for. There are 7 specific mineral compounds present in the ‘Alkalark ' minerals. An average analysis of Red Clay (just one of the minerals) has shown no less than 67 minerals.