In the absence of minerals, vitamins have no function. We may be looking frantically for health in the wrong direction.
Vitamins play their part, of course, but the minerals liberate the vitamins to do their work.
Linda Clark, MA . Trace minerals can literally mean the difference between buoyant good health and serious disease. They are absolutely vital to our health and well being, though our daily requirements for them are some times thousands of times smaller than for the major minerals. Herbert H. Boyington and Mark McCarty Trace minerals, though little known or understood by most people, are just as important as the more well-known minerals such as iron and calcium. All play a vital role in the digestion and assimilation of essential nutrients needed for the proper functioning of the entire body.