For years the supplement market has been dominated by vitamins, but vitamins and amino acids are useless without minerals because all enzyme activities involve minerals. Minerals are needed to maintain the delicate cellular fluid balance, to form bone and blood cells, to provide for electrochemical nerve activity, and to regulate muscle tone and activity (including organ muscles like the heart, stomach, liver, etc.) Minerals are primarily stored in bone and muscle tissue so toxicity is a slight possibility. Toxicity risks increase when one isolated mineral is ingested without any supportive cofactor nutrients. Such situations of mineral toxicity are quite rare, because toxic levels accumulate only if massive overdoses persist for a prolonged period of time. Otherwise unused minerals are naturally passed out of the body through elimination.

In almost every chemistry textbook one can find a copy of the "Periodic Table of the Elements." This table shows each known element's particular physical characteristics. Scientific study of these elements has discovered that many of them are absolutely essential to life on this planet.

In 1927 Sir Robert McCarrison said:
"....we often forget the most fundamental of all rules for the physician, that the right kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of health and the wrong kind of food the most important single factor in the promotion of disease."

A number of factors have been associated with the occurrence of a deficiencies of minerals in humans: Deficiency in the soil, water and plants; mineral imbalances; processing of water or soil; and, inadequate dietary intake. There is a significant body of evidence that shows minerals by themselves and in proper balance to one another are of huge biochemical and nutritional importance. To understand the concept of "biochemical individuality" (Roger Williams, Ph.D., first published in 1956) we have to get away from the assumption that every person utilizes and absorbs minerals the same way.

The absorption of minerals is dependent on so many different factors, not the least of which is age, adequacy of stomach acid output, balanced bowel flora, lack of intestinal illnesses such as worms and parasites, and dietary fiber intake. It is also believed that high and low levels of carcinogenic toxins combined with with inadequate Acidic hydration within the body will inhibit the efficient uptake of life giving minerals into the cells. This inevitably creates acidosis and toxicosis leading to numerous undesirable future conditions.   

Through geophysical forces, mixing of the earth's crust with water can provide virtually every mineral our body requires to maintain health. This explains why noted nutritionists, Ruth L. Pike and Myrtle L. Brown stated in Nutrition: An Integrated Approach (John Wiley &Sons), 1984, p.197) that: "Water is compatible with more substances than any known solvent, and therefore it is an ideal medium for transporting nutrients in the cells and for the chemical reactions of cellular metabolism to take place."

It is interesting to note that the famous environmentalist, Rachael Carson, recognized the importance of protecting the ocean and these delicate inland seas. In the Sea Around Us, she wrote: ". . .Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal - each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water. This is our inheritance from the day, untold millions of years ago, when a remote ancestor, having progressed from the one-celled to the many celled stage, first developed a circulatory system in which the fluid was merely the water of the sea".