Land-Based Minerals:
Many vitamins are present in our food, whereas the minerals have drastically diminished.  Minerals, in sufficient quantities, are no longer in our food because they are no longer in the soil.  The land is being over-farmed year after year.  Our soils are not given the opportunity to rest, and only a select few minerals are replaced in the soil via fertilizer.  Costs are so high that farmers can't afford to use organic fertilizers.  Furthermore, pesticides disrupt and destroy the ecology of soil organisms, and modern food processing removes much of the mineral content of our food.  And remember, only 3% to 8% is absorbed by the human gut.  Accordingly, the many life-giving trace minerals that are so important to our overall health have become almost extinct in our daily diets.  Thus, the door is opened to the aging process and the opportunity for disease.

Deep Sea Minerals:
Deep-sea minerals have been incorporated into living cellular structures with the help of phytoplankton, algae, and diatoms, which are then released in a bioactive ionic form.  These represent the most bioavailable and ultimate form of minerals that can be absorbed by living organisms (humans).  The trace minerals that are in Kona Deep Sea Minerals come from 2,000 feet below the ocean surface in the "zone of regeneration" off the Kona coast of Hawaii.  Unlike land-based and colloidal minerals, Kona Deep Sea Minerals is free of toxic heavy metals, environmental pollutants and radiation.  Because the Kona Deep Sea Minerals product is made up of trace minerals that have been predigested by plankton, they are extremely bioavailable.  There are two other factors that make this product unique:  first, the trace minerals in Kona Deep Sea Minerals are ionized; second, the mineral levels found in Kona Deep Sea Minerals are almost identical to the mineral levels in human blood serum and in a pH similar to human blood.

Plants may look the same, but they now have far fewer minerals.

Heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium have a number of harmful effects on the body.  As they related to minerals, they can tie up binding sites on cells so essential minerals can't get in.  This is like putting a broken key into a lock... it not only doesn't open the door, but prevents a good key from being used.

Vitamins VS. Minerals

Vitamins are important, but not as important as minerals.  Minerals help vitamins work more efficiently in our body.  They help our body's biochemical reactions work up to 1,000,000 times faster!  If the human body is low on vitamins, it can still utilize some of it minerals.  However, if the body is lacking in minerals, then vitamins become useless to the body.  Your body needs at least dozens of nutrients per day, two-thirds of which are minerals.  Although minerals make up only 4-5% of total body weight, they are essential for human metabolism.  Minerals participate in nearly every one of the thousands of biochemical processes that occur in the body.  They are involved in responses of the nervous system and muscles, the absorption and secretions of the body's fluids, and the maintenance of a delicate water balance within the body.  Our bones and teeth have high mineral contents which accounts for their hardness and rigidity.  Like vitamins, minerals must also be supplied by dietary means as we are unable to synthesize them in our body.

Despite the fact that minerals are necessary for virtually all body functions, most of the U.S. population is fixated on vitamin intake.  As a result, most Americans are deficient in the essential minerals.

The Issue of
Balance

While it is important to have a sufficient amount of each mineral, it is just as important to have minerals in balance.  If this is not done, it is possible to have a relative deficiency of a certain mineral if a related mineral is given in excess.

"Mineral balance, not quantity, is a key factor in providing optimal nutrition to our body."

Dr. Mark Drucker, M.D.
The Center for Advanced Medicine

MORE AND MORE, SCIENCE IS LINKING MINERAL DEFICIENCY WITH A MULTITUDE OF CHRONIC DEBILITATING DISEASES AND ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR.

Mineral balance, not quantity, is a key factor in providing optimal nutrition to our body.  Think of a factory assembly line.  If the product requires 7 bolts and 8 nuts, but there are only 12 bolts and 3 nuts available, then the item can't be made properly even though there are 15 parts needed and 15 parts available.  It's the same with our body.  If we do not have all the minerals needed in the correct amounts, cells don't get replenished and minerals go wasted.

When minerals and trace minerals are inadequately supplied to the body, mineral substitution occurs... and the end result of mineral substitution can be billions of molecules that are not built right - and therefore don't function quite right.  In addition, the tissues with these incorrect minerals appear to the immune system as foreign... and this can be the beginning of autoimmune disease and other health problems.

In factory production, the final product can only be as good as the raw materials used to make it.  If insufficient or inferior raw materials are used, an inferior product will result - one which will not function optimally, or break or wear out sooner.  The raw materials for manufacturing cellular products and for the manufacture and upkeep of the cells themselves come from the nutrients we take into our bodies.  Contrary to what some may think, these nutrients (amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals) are all needed by every cell in the body.  While nutrients don't heal in the strict sense of the word, a lack of quality nutrients can make you sick.

The 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association cited a 6-year study of 1,300 patients, which demonstrated that the risk of all kinds of cancer was 40% lower in those receiving the mineral selenium.  The greatest declines in the death rate were noted in the most deadly cancers, including lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer.  Additionally, the rate of cancer deaths among patients who took selenium supplements was 50% lower than among patients who did not receive the supplement.  Selenium deficiency has also been linked to an increased risk of death in AIDS patients, according to a study at the University of Miami.

Other studies have demonstrated that selenium supplements may help reduce the risk of developing cataracts and of experiencing macular degeneration.* In regard to abnormal behavior, a study at the University of California at Irvine revealed that many of the psychopaths and sociopaths in our prison system are consistently deficient in copper and zinc.*

Bioavailability
for Your Body

Most minerals in our diet are present in plant or animal tissue and must be digested and released in a form that is bioavailable - a form that can be utilized by the body.  Minerals, regardless of their source, are only useful and can only function if they can be absorbed from the gut into the blood stream, and ultimately be available for use or storage in specific tissues.  Unfortunately, minerals are becoming more and more depleted from our food sources, and even if they are present, they may not be readily bioavailable.  In fact, most dietary minerals found in plants are poorly absorbed by the body.  For example, iron present in spinach and other vegetables is marginally bioavailable and only 3% to 8% is absorbed from the human gut.

Unlike plant source minerals and inorganic minerals from soil or mineral deposits, deep sea minerals have been incorporated into living cellular structures with the help of phytoplankton, algae and diatoms which are then released in a bioactive ionic form.  These represent the most bioavailable and ultimate form of minerals which can be absorbed by living organisms (humans).  Studies recently performed at the University of California at San Diego by a leading physiologist confirm and reinforce Kona Deep Sea Minerals bioavailability.

"Bioavailable minerals from the sea, are easier for the body to assimilate and use.  So, we went 2,000 feet deep off the Kona coast in the Pacific Ocean to find the cleanest water in the world.  This water hasn't seen the surface for over 2,000 years!  As a result, it is free of heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead."

In Conclusion...
No More Confusion!

Minerals are more important than vitamins, and the best source of minerals are sea plants.  The Kona Deep Sea Minerals product represents everything a mineral supplement should be and is supported by a bioavailability study carried out at the University of California San Diego by a leading physiologist.  Kona Deep Sea Minerals is all the nutrition and life the sea has to offer!