So when that supply is depleted, the body suffers. Many people take vitamin supplements with out realizing that vitamins cannot do their work unless minerals are also present. Major minerals are required in amounts greater than 100mg per day, while others are referred to as trace minerals. Our government acknowledges twelve or thirteen minerals necessary for average health and that another eight or ten are possibly needed. One reason many have been overlooked is that they just aren't available in the soils that produce our foods.
Soils provide the minerals necessary for plant development.
Plants serve as food for the animals that assimilate them. Then we eat the meat. At least 84 minerals have been isolated from human tissues, and at least 60 are known to function in metabolic reactions. What is happening today is an awakening as to the importance of minerals in total health. Minerals Advantage is a liquid extract of about 65 trace and major minerals from vegetation deposits derived from plant life that lived thousands of years ago.