Mineral balance – focus on health
Three essential pillars form the basis of life – oxygen, water and minerals.
While breathing supplies the body with oxygen and drinking provides fluid, minerals enter the body primarily through food intake.
The consequences of conventional soil cultivation
As already mentioned, minerals must be absorbed primarily through food, as they cannot be produced by the body itself.
However, this is becoming increasingly difficult due to the constant growth of industrial food production.
Since 1945, more and more active substances – or chemical fertilisers – have been used in soil cultivation.
This type of cultivation promotes the rapid growth of crops at the expense of quality.
Here are a few examples that illustrate this point:
- High levels of potassium cause magnesium deficiency
- High levels of nitrogen cause symptoms of copper deficiency
- High levels of phosphate prevent the absorption of iron, copper and zinc
In other words, it should come as no surprise that nutrition may contain too little magnesium, for example. This is because the depleted soil cannot transmit it sufficiently. 1
Adding minerals in the right balance starts with the soil.
The function of minerals
A wide range of minerals have so far been discovered. Even though many remain hidden to this day, one thing is clear:
Minerals are vital for the bodies of humans and animals.
They are responsible for the body's smooth metabolic process and also for the development of bones, cells, body tissues and teeth.
It is therefore extremely important to provide the body with a constant supply of vital minerals. However, they also need to be in a very specific ratio to each other in order to ensure a mineral balance.
This is the only way to ensure that certain elements do not interfere with or displace each other.
For instance:
- Excess calcium produces a deficit in zinc
- Excess manganese produces a deficit in magnesium
- Excess zinc produces a deficit of copper and iron1
All minerals should also be considered and consumed as a whole to avoid toxic reactions.
Lack of minerals, lack of balance
The body suffers from a lack of balance when it is provided with too much or too little of certain minerals.
In particular, the acid-base balance may fall out of equilibrium.
However, the body wants to establish balance at all times to maintain metabolic processes in the body.
If it can no longer ensure this balance due to a lack of minerals, it begins to plunder its own mineral reserves in bones, hair, skin and teeth.
The result of this scavenging can include a weakening of the immune system, a reduction in vitality, an increased feeling of discomfort and a deterioration of fitness.
In short: a reduced quality of life.
The goal – mineral balance
There are more than 100 elements in our periodic table. All of them together, in the right proportion, form the basis of life.
The minerals that are essential for the body can also be found here.
In order for the body to function properly, these minerals must be present in the right amounts in relation to each other to achieve mineral balance.
Alkaline minerals, which are supplied through a balanced nutrition, are therefore of particular importance for balance.
The natural enzymes contained in food enable the body to regulate, excrete and balance unwanted or excess substances independently.
A varied and balanced diet therefore prevents the body from becoming over-acidified and brings it back into balance.
Mineral balance with Reico
As we all know, soil cultivation with chemical fertilisers plays a large part in a lack of minerals in diets.
Nevertheless, the body must still continue to be optimally equipped with minerals.
That is why food supplements are key.
At Reico, we have dealt intensively with how we can combine the essential minerals for the body with each other in a very specific form – and do so with high availability and purely organic.
The findings from over 30 years of scientific research on the fundamentals of the natural cycle of minerals and trace elements have been on our side.
The result is our unique algae mixture.
It contains various types of marine algae and thus naturally reproduces all essential minerals and trace elements.
For a better quality of life and mineral balance.
1 Excerpt, Erhard Henning, "Geheimnisse der fruchtbaren Böden", 2021, p. 170–171