Iridesca: Balanced, Useful Minerals
by Jevari Oberon, from Creative Insights Issue
52
Exsula Iridesca is perfectly balanced to assist your diet with pure,
wholesome, beneficial, plant-life-created minerals. You can have it all:
performance, energy health, lean muscle and longevity.
Iridesca offers so much more than mere minerals. It is the Superfood
of Superfoods, containing 150 Superfoods inherently rich in vitamins,
minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients, energy factors and antioxidants. Hundreds
of nutrients, generating an incomparable synergy of life.
It seems that almost everyone is aware of the importance of minerals
and their lack in our diets.
Exsula offers the absolute ultimate mineral supplement.
Iridesca is a fully integrated nutritional product, and the only product
on the market to contain each one of the known-to-be-valuable minerals
in a specific diet-balanced potency and in the superior life-created form.
Colloidal products and other trace mineral supplements lack meaningful
potencies of many of these valuable minerals - and they provide them in
a far less than ideal form while carrying with them dozens of other elements,
several of which are known to be toxic in any form.
Facts About Minerals and Vitamins
You Need Both
Some research suggests that we need 70 minerals, but only about 35 minerals
are considered useful (or possibly useful) and available in a safe form.
The other minerals have shown no usefulness in human nutrition, and several
of them are toxic in any form.
Your cannot function without both vitamins and minerals.
There are certain vitamins that the body cannot restructure from other
nutrients. You are absolutely as dependent upon these vitamins as upon
the essential minerals. Scurvy resulting from a deficiency of vitamin
C is just one classic example of a fatal condition caused by a vitamin
deficiency. The human body has zero capacity to manufacture its own vitamin
C.
Vitamins and minerals do work synergistically to assist
in each other's utilization. But in fact your body does not make vitamins
from minerals. The only vitamin that even contains a mineral is vitamin
B-12 with its tiny trace of cobalt.
Particle Size and Combinations
The wisest choice for health is in the form of living-colloidal,
life-matrixed nutrients of plant cells. These are a life-modified, life-complexed
mineral form in a food-matrix of essential fatty acids, proteins, enzymes,
vitamins and carbohydrates. Your body welcomes these life-bundled minerals
as food.
Tiny particle size is only one consideration among many. There are minerals
in common colloidal supplements that are toxic and inappropriate for human
nutrition. For example, cadmium is toxic no matter how tiny the particle
size and no matter what form. When "every" mineral is present
that means that lead and mercury are also present.
Take also for example that chromium in certain forms can be toxic. Other
forms of chromium are less toxic, but not nearly as effective nutritionally.
Still other forms of chromium (as chromium picolinate) are effective nutritionally,
but are potentially mutagenic to cells. Only organic chromium in a life-created
complex referred to as GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor) naturally incorporating
niacin and amino acids, meets the multi-fold criteria of being bioavailable,
perfectly effective, nontoxic and non-mutagenic, ready to serve as delivered,
and not requiring difficult restructuring.
Further, some of the mineral elements are highly reactive and do not
exist in nature in a pure form. They do not exist naturally as separate
atoms or as clusters of the same atoms. They only exist in nature, as
molecular compounds comprised of themselves with other atoms. (Analysis
statements of colloidal products may refer to certain minerals in such
compounds as being in a matrix.)
Silica is one such example, existing in nature, only in combination
with oxygen, as silicon dioxide. Fluorine is another example, existing
as fluorides - calcium fluoride being the food-complexed, biologically
beneficial form as found in human mother's milk and other foods. This
is quite different from the toxic sodium fluoride form added to city water.
Separately, Sodium and Fluoride are considered essential; yet together
in compound form they become toxic. It is important to know the compound
form you are taking.
Form and availability (particle size) are equally important
for biological benefit.
Mineral Deposits are Free of Pollution, but...
That does not magically lessen the toxicity of their inherently
toxic elements like aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury, etc.
There is ample opportunity for toxicity amongst the hundred
naturally occurring chemical elements and the thousands of their naturally
complexed forms as found in the earth. Mere age of the deposit is no assurance
whatsoever of biological benefit or lack of toxicity.
Plant Sourced Minerals Are Superior
Plant-life-complex ("live") nutrients -- grown
in wholesome, mineral-rich soils, and carefully handled to save all useful
vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes and phytonutrients are the
best source of nutrient for your health.
The Known-To-Be-Valuable Minerals
The following minerals are useful as described.
In my opinion any of the mineral elements not listed here should be considered
useless and very possibly dangerous. Until you can find a respected, neutral,
non-biased source of information clearly stating otherwise, supplementation
with dozens of the more obscure elements not listed here represents a
bizarre risk.
Here are the useful ones in alphabetical order.
Arsenic
Of course the industrial arsenite form of arsenic is fatally toxic in
the tiniest amounts, yet nutrition studies have shown that cell health
declines when entirely deprived of naturally occurring dietary arsenic.
A small trace in this biologically useful form may actually help displace
the toxic industrial (arsenite) form. Almonds, Eggs, Sea Plants and Sea
Foods are food sources of the useful form.
Boron
Boron is quickly depleted from soil. It is essential for plants, though
not yet recognized as essential for people. U.S. Department of Agriculture
research suggests a bone maintenance benefit similar to that of estrogen.
Supplemental Boron also boosts serum levels of estradiol and testosterone
yielding enhanced sex drive. Grapes and Apples are good food sources.
Supplemental Boron increases Calcium and Magnesium recycling inside the
body, thus decreasing dependency upon outside sources.
Calcium
Calcium is essential for bones, teeth and nerves. The world's largest
human nutrition study indicated that vegetarian diets are a more effective
source of Calcium. Need for supplementation has probably been exaggerated
- Ignoring the need for Strontium and Silicon. Studies indicate that crude
Calcium mineral supplements and dairy-form may actually interfere with
assimilation of the plant-form of dietary Calcium.
Carbon
Carbon is foundational to all food and biological structures. Yet there
is no evidence of any deficiency in any reasonable diet. Therefore, carbon
is not pertinent to discussions about supplementation.
Chlorine
Chlorine is essential for cellular function and cleansing and is found
throughout living things in natural compound form with Sodium and Potassium.
Plentiful throughout the typical diet and as salt (sodium chloride). Kelp
and Dulse are beneficial food sources. (The isolate mineral form of Chlorine
as added to city water is highly reactive with other substances and creates
toxins destructive to living systems. (Abundant in all diets.)
Chromium
Chromium is essential for certain enzymes, synthesis of proteins, supporting
the pancreas and balancing of blood sugar. Life-created GTF form is important
to avoid toxicity, and assure assimilation and utilization. The typical
diet in North America falls short due to soil deficiencies. Beets and
Nutritional Yeast are rich sources.
Cobalt
Cobalt is essential because it is integral to vitamin B-12. Land crops
are totally devoid of B-12. Sea Plants and Nutritional Yeast are good
sources of Cobalt and B-12. Beneficial intestinal microorganisms utilize
dietary Cobalt to make B-12 for your benefit.
Copper
Copper is essential for utilization of vitamin C and iron, energy, enzymes
involved in healing, nerves and RNA (longevity). Most "dietary"
Copper comes from water pipes and is poorly and improperly utilized.
Food sources are best as Nutritional Yeast, Whole Grains, Green Leafy
Veggies, Almonds, Lentils, Garbanzos, Spirulina, Kelp and Dulse.
Fluorine
Calcium fluoride as found naturally in healthy plants and animals is
considered essential for bones.
There is great debate as to the potential toxicity and usefulness of
the industrial sodium fluoride form as added to city water (The Soviets
dosed political prisoners with sodium fluoride to assure lack of drive,
lack of self-direction and an early death of "natural" causes.)
Human Mother's Milk, Goat's Milk, Seafood, Kelp, Dulse, Nutritional
Yeasts, Whole Grains and Organic Veggies are rich food sources of the
beneficial organic calcium fluoride form. The ratio of "bad"
fluoride to "good" fluoride in our bodies has increased dramatically
over the last 100 years.
Germanium
Germanium is abundant in soil, yet poorly taken up by most plants. Among
the popular healing foods, Garlic, Ginseng, Chlorella, Barley, Nutritional
Yeast, Spirulina, Aloe and Medicinal Mushrooms are dozens of times richer
in Germanium. On a cellular level, Germanium is a catalyst in oxygen utilization
and immune function
Gold
Traces of Gold are available in sea vegetables such as Kelp and Dulse.
Supplemental Gold is sometimes used to relieve joint pain. (Iridesca provides
a trace.)
Iodine
Iodine is essential for humans. Soil and diets are seriously deficient.
Supplementation is essential to assure a calm disposition, proper thyroid
function, energy production, burning of fat, normal mental functions and
healthy skin, hair and nails. People wisely avoiding table salt in their
diets are particularly vulnerable to iodine deficiency.
Airborne radioactive iodine is a deadly toxin produced by nuclear power
plants and was the primary toxin released at Chernobyl. Generous food
sources of non-radioactive iodine such as Seafoods, Kelp and Special Nutritional
Yeast help prevent uptake of radioactive iodine. (Iridesca provides 130%
of the RDA.)
Iridium
The biological values of Iridium, and other members of the platinum
group of elements, are just now beginning to be realized thanks to breakthroughs
in high-temp chemical analysis techniques. Monatomic forms of Iridium,
and its twin Rhodium, are now thought by some researchers to account for
some 5% or more of the dry weight of the brain. They apparently perform
essential tasks as superconductors in a sort of nutrient-of-consciousness
role. The monatomic form of these minerals are thought to be the secret
of European alchemists, Indian holy men, and Hebrew and Egyptian priests.
Their "white powder of gold" or "vibhuti" is an Iridium-rich
mineral ash used to achieve states of super-consciousness.
Iridium is scarce in soils, except certain volcanic soils and those
near ancient, major meteor strikes. The utilizable monatomic form of Iridium
is even scarcer. Exceptional sources of Iridium in the necessary form
include Aloe Vera grown on volcanic Caribbean soil, Grapes, Watercress,
Burdock Herb, Sorrel Leaf and Turkish Rhubarb Root. The legendary healing
nature of these plants (all found in Iridesca) hints to an overall health
tonic benefit with Iridium, and especially to its relationship with the
immune system (health and longevity).
Iron
Iron is essential to health and several body systems, though way oversold
by iron tonic manufacturers. Now fallen to some disfavor as a supplement,
since it seems to antagonize vitamin E (an essential antioxidant) thus
doing as much harm as good in any excessive amounts. A good diet contains
just enough, and that is exactly what you want and not very much more.
A well crafted daily supplement should probably contain no more than 30%
of the RDA, and best in a plant complexed form. Raisins and cherries are
especially rich sources.
Lithium
Lithium is the least common recognized nutrient in the body, and not
readily available in the diet, though drinking water does contain minute
amounts. Lithium can disrupt herpes-type viruses. Lithium is regarded
as a mineral contributing to a calm and considerate manner. Apparently
most diets are only just barely at adequate levels. Some researchers have
noted a correlation between the low-lithium content of city water in certain
cities and their higher than average rate of violent crimes. In his book
"Love, Sex and Nutrition," Dr. Bernard Jensen mentions Lithium
from the Sea Vegetable Dulse, as a source of composure lending to romantic
mood.
Magnesium
Magnesium is an essential mineral for bones, teeth, metabolic enzymes,
muscle activity, regulation of body temperature, and assimilation and
utilization of Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Sodium. Fresh Green
Vegetables, Seafoods, Soybeans, Special Nutritional Yeasts, Seeds, Apples
and Whole Grains are rich sources.
Most Americans are marginally deficient in Magnesium. Crude mineral
Magnesium is poorly absorbed and utilized. Plant-complexed forms are superior
but quite bulky to supplement. Including green vegetables in your daily
diet is by far your best option.
Manganese
An activator of numerous enzymes including those involved in utilization
of biotin, thiamine and vitamin C. Often lacking in soil and diet, then
further depleted by food processing. Supplementation is advisable.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is an essential part of an enzyme needed to convert fat to
energy. It is also involved in Iron metabolism and tooth enamel. Supermarket
diets can easily be low in Molybdenum even to the point of contributing
to impotence. While soil Molybdenum has continued to decline, functional
impotence of college age men in America has risen 400% from 1 in 20 in
1955, to around 1 in 5 today. Cats fed Molybdenum deficient school lunch
diets, lost their sexual differentiation within a few generations and
became unable to reproduce. Green Leafy Veggies, Special Nutritional Yeasts
and Whole Grains are dietary sources.
Nickel
Nickel is important for longevity due to its role as a stabilizer of
RNA and DNA. It is connected to fat and carbohydrate metabolism. It is
an activator of certain enzymes and supportive of healthy cellular membranes.
Nickel is regarded as essential in tiny, plant-complexed amounts. Nickel
can potentially be a problem in cruder forms or as industrial toxins.
Form and correct potency are critical to optimum utilization of nickel.
Osmium & Palladium
These are members of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be useful
in that context. See Iridium for comments.
Phosphorus
The body's second most abundant mineral, it is widely essential
to virtually every process in the body. For example, it is necessary for
utilization of Niacin and Riboflavin, and for nucleoproteins during cell
division. It is also essential for bones, teeth and proper functioning
of nerves.
Phosphorus is particularly useful in the phospholipids of lecithin to
balance cellular and blood acidity and to help break up and transport
cholesterol and fats. The brain and nerves are composed primarily of phospholipids
indicating a clear, proven connection to mental stamina and intelligence.
Useful quantities of phosphorus are bulky and not optimally employed as
an isolate supplement.
Food sources of phosphorus are best. Lecithin, Nutritional Yeast, Eggs
and Whole Grains are primary sources. While phosphorus is generally plentiful
in the diet, delivery of phosphorus in the phospholipid form as in these
foods seems especially beneficial to the brain, heart and circulation,
longevity, youthfulness and health in general.
Platinum
Platinum is a member of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be
useful in that context. See Iridium for comments.
Potassium
Potassium is the essential mineral necessary for regulating the tidal
flow of fluids in and out of the cells. Without sufficient potassium,
the balance is disrupted and health suffers by every measure. Potassium
is involved in carbohydrate to energy conversions and storage.
It is involved in enzymes and in protein synthesis. It is critical for
the heart, muscles, kidneys and oxygenation of the brain.
Potassium is bulky and not optimally delivered as an isolate crude mineral
supplement. It takes a handful of potassium supplement pills to be equivalent
to the Potassium of a good diet. Potassium is best delivered in a good
diet including Green Leafy Vegetables, Oranges, Fruit Juice, Bananas and
Potatoes.
Rubidium
Rubidium is a rarely mentioned life-supporting mineral. It is shown
to be a transporter of other minerals into the cell, especially some of
those minerals most deficient in cancerous cells. While it is not regarded
as a cancer cure, some researchers are starting to seriously study its
role in cancer prevention.
Rhodium & Ruthenium
Members of the Platinum group of elements. Traces may be useful in that
context. See Iridium for comments.
Selenium
Selenium is a key element for longevity. It is not reliably available
in soils or in the diet. Chemical fertilizers block uptake of selenium
by plants. Selenium is essential for its abilities as an antioxidant and
synergist to Vitamin E. Selenium is a key player in the production of
foundational hormones. It helps keep arteries clean and flowing.
Selenium supports energy production and oxygen delivery. Researchers
have noted a correlation between poor cellular oxygenation and cancer,
and between low dietary Selenium and increased cancer rates, and between
optimum dietary Selenium and reduced cancer rates. Studies have also related
low Selenium to an increase in crib death.
Large amounts of Selenium are lost in semen, thus men typically need
more Selenium than do women.
Selenium should never be taken in excessive amounts (700+ mg) for extended
periods. A responsibly crafted supplement will provide Selenium in reasonable
potencies and in the less toxic forms. Grains, Nutritional Yeasts, Seafoods
and Dairy products are food sources. Excessive Selenium intake slows assimilation
of Fluoride.
Silicon
In 1878, Louis Pasteur declared that In the future, Silica would become
an optimal therapeutic agent. In 1939, Nobel Prize winner, Professor Adolf
Butenant found Silica to be essential to human life. In 1972, Columbia
University scientists confirmed that Silica must be continuously supplied
from food sources, yet there is still no official RDA for Silica forthcoming.
Silicon is never found alone in nature. Silicon dioxide or Silica, is
comprised of Silicon and Oxygen. This is the form found in plant fibers.
Food processing strips away fibers. Much of the little Silica that is
left remains locked-up in fibers and is poorly assimilated.
Algae, Special Nutritional Yeasts, Oats, Barley, Whole Wheat and the
herb Nettles (all found in Iridesca) deliver approximately 100 times the
Silica of other foods.
Silica is important for utilization of several other nutrients including
vitamins B-6, C, D, K and Folic Acid as well as the minerals Boron, Copper,
Fluorine, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Strontium, and Zinc.
New research is showing Silica is every bit as important to bone health
as Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Boron and Strontium. Researchers in
Germany have noted a correlation between higher than average levels of
Silica intake and reduced rates of cancer. Silica is synergistic with
Vitamin C and Bioflavonoids (including Pycnogenols and Bilberry) for collagen
production and the protection of beautiful radiant skin. According to
Klaus Kaufman, a leading Silica researcher, Silica is the most important
antioxidant.
The level of body declines with age, falling to only 7% as much in a
50 year old with heart disease as he had at a healthy age 10.
Silver
The direct benefits of silver for human nutrition remain elusive. However,
while nontoxic to humans, silver does seem to be disruptive to bacteria,
creating an environment less inviting to them.
Sodium
Sodium is generally abundant in nearly any diet as a component of most
foods and as salt (sodium chloride). Sodium supplementation is not desirable
on a daily basis and it is too bulky to be practical in a plant complexed
supplement form. Dietary sources are more than sufficient, except in salt
restricted diets in combination with excessive perspiration situations,
where addition of a little salt to food and beverages quickly remedies
the deficiency.
Strontium
Though virtually unheard of as a nutrient, Strontium exists in substantial
amounts in healthy bones and teeth. In a 1959 Mayo Clinic study, 85% of
osteoporosis sufferers who increased Strontium in their diets reported
a marked reduction of pain.
Early research indicates Strontium to be a protector of life-energy
production within the cell. Despite its proven safety and important benefits,
research and supplementation of Strontium has been inexplicably neglected.
Sulfur
Sulfur is regarded as nature's "beauty mineral" because
of its role in young, healthy-looking skin and glossy hair. Sulfur is
an integral component of protein. It is assumed that a diet with sufficient
protein automatically delivers sufficient sulfur. It may not be so simple.
Sulfur is also involved in functions outside of its structural protein
- Cellular respiration, life-energy and oxygen utilization, to name a
few. Thus supplementation may be useful.
Sulfur is found in insulin and is synergistic with B vitamins and lipoic
acid for metabolism and nerves. Some forms of arthritis may be indicators
of Sulfur deficiency Sulfur may also be useful in making the body undesirable
to worms and parasites. Colloidal supplements can contain 29 times the
sulfur as the typical diet. However, an excessive intake of crude sulfur
may also result in toxicity.
Tin
Tin was only recently identified as essential, but its precise function
remains elusive. Scientists noted a 24% to 59% acceleration in growth
when tin was supplied to baby rats on tin-deprived diets. This hints of
some very important role for Tin and a possible relationship to growth
hormone. Thus, Tin may be a player in our struggle to trade fat for muscle.
Dietary intake of tin has been sharply reduced over the past 20 years.
Supplementation is desirable.
Vanadium
Vanadium has an essential relationship to Iron metabolism, red blood
cell growth and health of bones, teeth and cartilage. Vanadium supplementation
has been known to lower cholesterol.
Dietary Vanadium has been on the decline due to food processing and
because It is not replaced in soils. Vegetable oils are the one remaining
significant source, yet ironically everyone is cutting back on fats to
lower their cholesterol. Fish, Organic Whole Grains, Special Nutritional
Yeast, Dulse and Kelp are also notable sources of Vanadium.
Zinc
Zinc is one of the most obviously essential trace elements. Zinc is
necessary for insulin and for 25 enzymes involved in digestion and metabolism,
and for utilization of B vitamins.
Zinc is intimate to synthesis of DNA, longevity, reproduction, the immune
system, a healthy circulatory system (synergistic with Copper and Vanadium).
Zinc helps the body eliminate excess cholesterol. Zinc supports a more
rapid rate of healing and even has a role in night vision. Zinc?s benefits
are all encompassing.
The industrial toxin cadmium is antagonistic to Zinc. Your Zinc is severely
under attack since your body contains approximately 700 times as much
cadmium in this industrial age as in people in ancient times - and since
the Zinc content of soils, and the utilizable-plant-complex form of Zinc,
has been declining.
Zinc mineral isolate supplements are not ideal for the delicate system
of nutrient assimilation and can result in undesirable reversals of
benefit at levels only double or triple the RDA. The plant-complex
form is far preferable, better utilized and excesses are easily disposed.
Organic Whole Grains, Special Nutritional Yeasts and Pumpkin Seeds are
meaningful food sources of Zinc in the most desirable food-complex form.
Consistent inclusion of these foods and supplementation of plant-life-complexed
zinc is essential for optimal health and longevity - and especially for
the prostate gland.
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