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A chemically inorganic mineral has a chemical composition without carbon, are the mineral found in rocks and clays and have a positive electromagnetic charge.

A chemically organic mineral has a chemical composition with carbon and has a negative electromagnetic charge. It is plants and their unique chemistry that are responsible for the conversion of a minerals electromagnetic charge from positive to negative. A growing plant converts the inorganic minerals from the soils to a bio-useful organic mineral for humans.

There are essential bio-electrical life-supporting properties in organic minerals due to this negative electromagnetic charge which inorganic minerals do not possess. This is because the human intestinal wall has a positive charge (except in the rare case when the body pH is neutral, with a pH 7). Our body fluids are, at any moment in time, at various points in the body, either a pH of more than 7 (alkaline) or a pH of less than 7 (acidic). As mentioned above, when the pH is anything other than 7 (neutral), all living cells produce an electro-chemical gradient which has a positive charge on the outside of the cell.

Thus, the reason for lower absorption percentage for inorganic minerals when compared with organic minerals can now be understood. Due to the fact that like charges repel one another, the positive charges of both the intestinal wall and inorganic minerals substantially impedes absorption. However, because opposite charges attract, the negative charge of organic minerals are attracted to the normally positive intestinal wall and this unfailingly results in a higher absorption percentage.

Human physiology has a biological affinity for organic minerals, those primarily derived from dietary plant food. When an organic mineral enters the stomach it must attach itself to a specific protein-molecule (chelation) in order to be absorbed. Once chelation is accomplished, the mineral can gains access to the tissue sites where it is needed. Without a healthy organic mineral balance inside and outside the cells of muscle, blood, and bone substructures, the body will began to spasm, twitch and cramp.

Due to their positively electromagnetic charge, inorganic minerals (also known as metallic or elemental minerals) as has been well established, are the poorest absorbed minerals with probably at best less than forty percent, and more likely less than twenty percent absorption.

While current marketing hype infer that colloidal minerals are somehow special, the term colloidal, alone, does not make the mineral bio-available nor does it solely guarantee that the mineral is from a source that is synergistic with the human body makeup.

As defined by the study of physical chemistry, a colloid is a substance made up of a system of particles in the size range of about 10^-7 cm to 5 ×10^-5 cm and which particles are dispersed in a continuous medium (gaseous, liquid, or solid) whose properties depend on the large specific surface area. The particles can be molecules like proteins or other aggregates but the particles are of such small size that when dispersed in a medium such as water, they remain in suspension indefinitely rather than sinking.

In simpler terms, a colloid is a suspension of particles of a specific size in a medium such as water and colloid particles by definition do not dissolve and become part of the solution, but are suspended in the carrying medium.

Despite colloidal minerals being of such a small size, particle size is not the only factor in the body′s ability to assimilate the minerals as most colloid substances are poorly bio-available, meaning the particles are still too large to be intestinally absorbed whole, but must be dissolved further to be absorbed into the cell.

Still, particle size is a factor because the smaller a particle is, the smaller it′s surface area is and it is upon this surface area that the body chemistry must act so as to process the particle in order for the nutrients in it to be biologically useful.

Further, mineral absorption is also likely affected for the better or worse by a variety of additionsl factors such as a person′s age, physical condition, overall state of health, and the condition of their digestive system.

Thus, when it comes to the bio-availability of a colloidal mineral, the primary determining factor of the absorbability has nothing to do with it being small in size or suspended in a medium but appropriately is about whether it is inorganic or organic.

As defined by the study of physical chemistry, a chelate is a chemical compound containing a ligand molecule (a chelator, typically organic) bonded to a central atom (usually metal atom, the mineral) at two or more points in order to form a closed chain bond. This process of combining minerals with a chelator is called Chelation.

Thus when the chelate is formed, the metal atoms are forced to go wherever the chelator goes. Chelators are treated as desirable molecules by the recognition systems in the cell walls and therefore given entry into the cell.

A chelate (or chelated) minerals is likely absorbed at a 50 or higher percentage depending on the specific chelator used in the chelate process.

Chemical compounding of minerals can be done with a large variety of chelators. Some manufacturers use fructose or other substances to compound their minerals but the best chelator molecule for compounding minerals are amino acids, simply because amino acids are both needed and used by the body, thus also making them readily absorbed. Too, using amino acids as the chelator in the compound performs a pre-acidification of the mineral which lowers the mineral pH to between 3.0 and 4.0 and further decreases the amount of processing necessary for the body to perform. Remember, chelation is a step the body uses to process food in the stomach.

Thus, since the burden of acidification does not rest entirely with the body chemistry the absorption of amino acid chelated minerals is very high when compared to chelated minerals using other chelator molecules.

Thus, the best mineral supplements are those that are organic and chelated with amino acids. This can be either in a solid or liquid form.

Minerals are a critical part of our diet. They make up almost 70% of the total nutrients our bodies require. Three types of minerals are readily available. These are: Metallic (inorganic or elemental) minerals, chelated minerals, and organic colloidal or ionic minerals.

Any form of processing nature’s foods (such as pasteurization, cooking and adding preservatives) breaks the bonds between the food components as well as destroying the enzymes. Raw foods have active enzymes and thus directly assist the production of life processes in the body.

Read the labels from products you are currently using. Be sure they are free from the following commonly used, inexpensive, but highly allergenic fillers, lubricants, binders and/or other manufacturing excipients: Stearic acid, BHT/BHA, Methyl or propylparabens, Benzoates, Sucrose, Lactose, Dextrin, Maltodextrin, Zein, Shellac (glaze), Carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, Croscarmellose sodium, Povidone, Polacrilin, Talc, Solvents, Food-based carriers, Hydrogenated oils, Mono and diglycerid, Plasticizers.