What are Liquid Minerals?

Liquid Minerals is derived from the ocean, whereby 98% of the sodium is removed. As the ocean's minerals and our Blood Plasma are almost chemically identical, Liquid Minerals are the finest and the best source for nutritional minerals and trace elements in nature. It is ALL NATURAL & ORGANIC !!!

You may be surprised to know that ocean water is a rich and balanced source of all minerals and trace elements in concentrations that are not only beneficial to man, but every living creature and life form on earth.

Why should I use Liquid Minerals?

Did you know that a foetus starts its life in its mother’s womb comfortably suspended in a warm solution much like ocean water? Is it a coincidence that sea minerals and our very own “blood plasma” are almost chemically identical?

Liquid Minerals is the ultimate and highest source of natural minerals and trace elements and IN THE RIGHT RATIO to replenish what we use.


Who should take ocean minerals ?

Everyone!

Mineral and other micro nutrient deficiencies are now recognized as having a brain draining effect, impeding not only the growth and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of children and adults, they also disrupt a person’s academic and production potential, confining whole nations to poverty for generations.

A mineral deficiency in children will lead to underachievement in school. It will have a detrimental effect on the child’s, and adult’s natural immune -defences. Adequate levels of minerals and other micro nutrients will do the complete opposite, freeing up the child to excel in study, work and play and freeing you up to enjoy life to the fullest.

The Definition of Minerals

These are naturally-occurring inorganic elements that have a characteristic crystalline structure, chemical composition and physical properties. Close examination of the basic building blocks of life reveals that they are formed out of elemental substances we have called minerals.

Mineral species are generally limited to solid substances, with the exception of metallic mercury and water. All the rocks forming the earth's crust consists of minerals, and encased in the mineral ratios of whole sea water is life information itself. When the earth was created, a perfectly-balanced cocktail of these minerals became the catalyst for the mysterious event that we know as the evolution of life.

Minerals in the sea

Water is an extraordinary solvent (refer: The geochemistry of sea water) and is capable (over time) of literally dissolving, via chemical and physical processes, most of the elements found in nature. When a mineral is dissolved by water its balanced molecular structure is broken down into ionic form, either positively or negatively charged. The excess or lack of electrons in the resulting free-flowing ions accounts for their dynamic capacity to attract or repel each other. This creates a myriad of molecular structures with the capacity to communicate through the transmission of electrical signals.

Ionic minerals

These are unbound mineral elements of either positive or negative charge. Highly active, and sometimes known as a 'radical', they have a capacity (called 'valency') to form bonds with other ions or repel other ions. Some of the most essential minerals show a dependency on this ionic form for absorption in the intestinal lumen and/or for physiological validation. Through digestive processes (some of which are dependent upon sufficient stomach acids) the body is able to break down other forms of organically- or inorganically-bound minerals to their ionic form, and thereby increase their rate of absorption.

Electrolytes

Electrolytes are substances whose molecular structure split into free, individual ions when dissolved, thereby allowing them to conduct electrical energy. Salt is an electrolyte. Dried sea water does not reconstitute the elemental minerals that have been dissolved but rather the free-flowing ions form weak molecular bonds (such as sodium chloride, NaCl) and precipitate out as solid crystals that are easily dissolved back into their separate ionic forms in solution. To reconstitute dissociated ionic minerals into pure elemental forms such as gold or iron, a significant amount of energy is required.

Colloidal minerals

Colloidal minerals are tiny non-dissolved mineral particles suspended in water. Most colloidal minerals are held in suspension by their tiny size and/or a static electrical charge. Colloidal minerals must be digested by stomach acids in order to dissolve the minerals into ionic form ready for absorption.

Chelate

Chelate is a form of mineral ion which is bound into, or part of, a carbon based or 'organic' molecule. In order for a chelated mineral to be bioavailable the organic molecule must first be digested and broken down into its constituent elements, allowing the release of readily-absorbed mineral ions. It is claimed that organic mineral chelates are more easily separated out into ionic form by digestion than colloidal minerals.

Macrominerals

Macrominerals are minerals that the body requires in doses of more than 100 milligrams per day for proper maintenance of health. Calcium, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus are macrominerals.

Trace minerals

Trace (or micro) minerals are minerals that the body requires in doses of less than 100 milligrams per day. Zinc, iodine, iron, manganese and copper are trace minerals.

Biomin - Balanced Minerals in the right ratio

Concentrated liquid minerals such as BioMin is a rich source of soluble minerals. It contains 84 ionic minerals along a long chain molecule in a dynamic fluid relationship, the minerals can act in concert or individually.

The soluble minerals in sea water:

• act as ionised conductors of the body's electrical current, which is necessary for all bodily functions.
• act as catalysts and activators of other nutrients including vitamins.
• are the building blocks of enzymes, hormones and other natural body chemicals used by the body to perform specific functions.
• have an equalising and balancing effect. Body fluids, fluid pressures, and pH levels are balanced by minerals. In the absence of certain trace minerals, various heavy metals are more likely to accumulate. Trace minerals are often administered in the medical treatment of such disorders as lead poisoning.
• are essential in digestion and absorption of nutrients by our body. Large amounts of chlorides are necessary for the body to make hydrochloric acid (for digestion). Other minerals are used in the absorption process.
• replace the minerals that are lost in distilled water. Research shows that animals, as well as humans, benefit from mineral nutrients. Dramatic improvements in vigour, coat, and performance are reported in dogs, cats, chickens and horses.
• are one of the highest quality and least expensive sources of magnesium. Magnesium is an important nutrient that hardens and strengthens bones and teeth.
• have an effect on mental stability, thought process and reactions to stressful situations.
• help to prevent viral infection through neutralising the acid attack mechanism of infection.

Specific mineral nutrients have a myriad of individual functions, many of which are yet to be discovered. What is known, however, is that imbalanced interactions of minerals, caused by consistent consumption of single processed or refined minerals, causes many long-term health problems such as hypertension. This is particularly evident when it comes to the most commonly refined mineral that many people take into their diet on a daily basis - sodium chloride.

Whenever the consumption of a single nutrient is significantly altered, an entirely new dietary pattern is created. Nutrients occur in clusters in the diet and may therefore act synergistically to alter physiological variables such as blood pressure.

When minerals are consumed in proper ratios, however, they can have an equally profound benefit on human health. Certain minerals and trace minerals, in balance, can serve additional non-classical roles like acting as antioxidants. Minerals and trace minerals can also assist each other in the process of assimilation, and create safety buffers for minerals that have the potential of being toxic to human health.

Within the blood stream, lymphatic fluid, cells and extracellular fluid, minerals and trace minerals are found completely dissociated in solution. This is also known as 'electrolyte' or 'ionic' form. In this state, they all have specific positive or negative electrical signatures that attract or repel. These ions exist in a state of perpetual dynamics; a motion that seeks as its outcome an equilibrium of relationships.

The body can use minor changes in this equilibrium to create proper osmotic pressure, move nutrients to areas that need them most and create electrical impulses that run the entire nervous system. This same equilibrium can also be found in the waters of the ocean where minerals and trace minerals collected and concentrated in liquid ionic form for millions of years, existing in varying ratios throughout the oceans of the world across space, place and time. On a macrocosmic/microcosmic scale, it is astounding to realise that the dynamic equilibrium that takes place with liquid ionic minerals and trace minerals in healthy blood plasma, lymphatic and cellular fluids is the same basic balance that is found in sea water.

By understanding the mechanism of dynamic equilibrium we can understand the problems associated with an excess consumption of sodium in the diet unbalanced by an intake of other complex mineral salts. Sodium exists in the body in strict ratios with a myriad of other mineral ions. An increase in sodium levels means the body must balance it with the other associated minerals to maintain equilibrium. If the intake of minerals in the diet is depleted the body will draw minerals from its own internal reserves, for example, calcium laid down in bone tissue. Minerals leached from the body's internal reserves can be easily lost, flushed out with sweat and urine. This is why sodium is often referred to as the 'calcium robber'.

The Ocean

Geography & Processes

70 per cent of the earth's surface is covered by the oceans. These vast reservoirs, together with inland waters, ice, snow and water vapour, form what is known as the hydrosphere. The ocean covers a total area of 361,253,200 square kilometres and has an average depth of between three and five kilometres. The Marinas Trench in the Pacific, where a sounding of 11,040 metres has been made, is believed to be the deepest part of the ocean.

Ninety-three per cent of the earth's water is stored in the oceans and polar sea ice, while most of the remainder is stored as underground water (four per cent). All the rivers, lakes, snow caps, glaciers and clouds together contain less water than is stored underground. Only a tiny proportion of the earth's fluid mass is contained in living organisms but all these forms of life have a high proportion of water in their bodies.

The life cycle of the ocean, as that of the earth, is the closest one can ever get to the greatest of all inventions, perpetuum mobile, the perpetual motion machine. And the secret is that nothing was composed by nature that could not be recomposed by nature that could not be recomposed, recycled and brought back into service again in another useful wheel in a smooth running global machine.
Robbie Newman, op. cit.

The ocean is constantly moving and so is the air. The two are inextricably linked. The ocean's surface circulation is driven by wind and by density differences. The atmospheric heat engine, powered by the sun, is also driven by the sea.

The polar nature of the water molecule causes it to form polymer-like chains of up to eight molecules. A certain amount of energy goes into linking the molecules in these chains. This explains the ocean's ability to absorb and retain heat energy that then may be transported by ocean currents. The molecular chains of up to eight molecules occur for about 90 per cent of all of the molecules. As a consequence, water has the highest heat capacity of all liquids except ammonia. Again this is due to the energy that goes into the chain formation. This high heat capacity is the primary reason that the ocean is so important in the world climate system. Unlike the land, the ocean stores large amounts of the heat energy that it receives from the sun. This heat is carried by ocean currents, thereby exporting or importing heat to various regions. This aspect of the ocean plays an important role in the interaction between the sea and atmosphere and the determination of global climate.
Pickard and Emery, The Physical Properties of Seawater (Ch. 3), University of California

The sea in motion represents the essence of life. Alternately focused and dispersed, swelling and receding, the tremendous energy of the atmosphere and the ocean combine to form some of the most spectacular of nature's physical interplays.

Another important effect of the chainlike molecular structure is the high surface tension of water. This is due to its high viscosity for its atomic weight due to the chains resisting shear. In the ocean, one effect of this can be seen in the formation of surface capillary waves with wavelengths on the order of centimetres and whose restoring force includes surface tension as well as gravity. Such capillary waves, despite their small size, are important in determining the friction between wind and water which is responsible for the generation of larger waves and for the frictionally-driven circulation of the surface layer of the ocean.
Pickard and Emery, op. cit.

Minerals Nutrition

No Minerals, No Health

When the intake of minerals in our system becomes unbalanced or depleted, it draws from stores laid down in the muscles, the liver and even the bones.

Mineral nutrients consist of two classes: the major elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine, and potassium; and trace elements such as copper, cobalt, manganese, fluorine, and zinc. All of these must be supplied in our diet because the body is unable to manufacture its own and can only maintain its mineral balance for short periods of time.

Our ancestors long ago recognised the value of minerals in their diet, particularly those derived from the sea (as opposed to mine salt from the earth), although they had none of the sophisticated knowledge about natural biology or physiology that we have today. Instinct alone was their guide.

Minerals provide the spark for many of the body's cellular processes and keep them running efficiently. Without these finely-tuned chemical reactions no organism could function. Inorganic mineral nutrients are also essential in the structural composition of hard and soft body tissues, and are necessary in processes such as the action of enzyme systems, the contraction of muscles, nerve reactions and the clotting of blood. Humans need a wide range of minerals to maintain good health and we need them in the right amounts and relations to each other (coaction). A variation of as little as one per cent in established limits will cause noticeable pathological states to occur.

Whenever a dietary deficiency of trace elements occurs, the cell loses its ability to control its ions - with dire consequences for humans. Even a minute loss of ion equilibrium causes cells to burst, nervous disorders, brain damage, or muscle spasms, as well as a breakdown of the cell regenerating process and growth.
Seasalt's Hidden Powers, Jacques de Langre, Ph.D, Happiness Press 1994

The biological demands of the human body require mineral salt concentrations in the blood and the body fluids to be maintained at a constant level. Too little salt, or consumption of only refined salt, activates a hormonal mechanism that compensates by reducing the excretion of salt in the urine and from sweat glands. On a completely salt-less diet, small amounts of salt are lost via the kidneys and perspiration. The body then attempts to adjust to this situation by accelerating its secretion of water so that the blood's salt concentration is maintained at the level vital for survival. If this process continues the result is gradual desiccation, dehydration and finally death, which is often preceded by a loss of rational thinking (dementia). The cells literally die of thirst.

Conversely, a lack of water consumption will activate the body to retain water in order to maintain the salt concentration in the blood. In this case the hormonal control mechanism works in reverse. It attempts to reduce the secretion of water and increase the salt secretion to maintain the correct salt level. The body's normal craving for salt and for water strives toward the same vital need: a balanced and healthy internal saline fluid.

Every second of every day our bodies rely on ionic minerals and trace minerals to conduct and generate billions of tiny electrical impulses. Without these impulses not a single muscle, including the heart muscle, would be able to function. The brain would be unable to function and the cells would be unable to use osmosis to balance water pressure and absorb nutrients. In fact, many vital body processes depend on the movement of ions across cell membranes.

Recent research has indicated that minerals may play a significant role against a variety of degenerative diseases and processes. They may also prevent and reduce injury from environmental pollutants, enhance the ability to work and learn, and protect the body from the effects of minerals that may become toxic at high concentrations.
Mineral Absorption

The form that different minerals take also plays a key role in how well they are transported through the circulatory system and absorbed by the aqueous microenvironment of the cells. Inter-relationships of minerals and trace minerals in their non-soluble form are not nearly as effective as those of soluble minerals.

No matter what the nutritional potential of a food it might as well be non-existent if it doesn't pass the test of absorption. Minerals that the body is unable to break down to their ionic form are likely to pass from the body as though they were never consumed.

Minerals that are absorbed in ionic form are in true liquid solution and have either positive or negative charges. They also have unique properties that distinguish them from each other and allow them to play a special role in biochemical communication throughout the body. These communications help nutrients work synergistically and enable them to move to areas of the body that need them most. Imbalances of any of these ions or certain trace ions in the body can lead to dysfunction in the conduction of electrical messages.

Much recent research indicates that the physiological reactions of our bodies are blocked and cannot utilise trace elements properly (mainly due to poor diet, pollution, stress and so on). This malfunction can lead to anything from simple deficiencies to the establishment of chronic illness.