This lack of knowledge has caused the health of the world to deteriorate significantly during the last several hundred years. Minerals are the basic element for every object on earth, including those which live, reproduce and die. During the life cycle, minerals are required in abundance, on a continual basis, or life is less than complete. 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 from the soils that produce our foods.
Soils provide the minerals necessary for plant development.
Plants serve as food for the animals which 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. They are actually the foundation of our bio-chemical life.