| The health benefits of coral calcium were discovered | | | | the same. |
| in 1979, when a British journalist representing the | | | | For example, calcium needs vitamin D to be present |
| Guinness Book of records traveled to Okinawa to | | | | before it can be used by the body to strengthen |
| talk to Shigechiyo Izumi, who at 115 years old was at | | | | bone structure. There are many other such |
| the time the world's oldest documented living human | | | | interactions involving vitamins and minerals, and |
| being. Not only was the journalist impressed and | | | | without chelation (the rendering of large organic |
| surprised at how healthy such an old man was, but | | | | molecules to a soluble form by combining them with |
| he also found that good health to be shared by the | | | | metal ions) many of the essential biochemical |
| majority of Okinawa's aged residents. | | | | processes of life would be impossible. Coral calcium |
| After his report was filed on his return to England, a | | | | contains all the minerals found in your body, and in |
| team of researchers were sent to the island to | | | | very similar proportions, so that you are able to use |
| make further investigations in the phenomenon. They | | | | it to maintain that all important synergism and not |
| found that the key to their longevity was the water | | | | throw the mineral balance of your body out of |
| they were drinking. The water of Okinawa appeared | | | | balance. This is very easy to do if you take individual |
| unique, and coral calcium was discovered. | | | | mineral supplements. |
| It was not only the calcium, of course, that made | | | | However, there is still more to come from this |
| such as difference but the whole mineral balance of | | | | remarkable substance. It is also rich in antioxidants |
| the water. Okinawa is formed of coral reefs built up | | | | that spell death for free radicals. Free radicals can't |
| over millennia, and rainwater filters down through the | | | | really die, because they are not living entities but |
| coral collecting minerals and other nutrients on its | | | | molecules that have a free electron, and free |
| way. This water is both alkaline, with a pH of 8.6, and | | | | electrons like to pair up with other electrons. Free |
| closely resembles the natural mineral composition, not | | | | radicals are therefore very aggressive when near any |
| only of the human skeleton but also of body fluids | | | | body cell from which they can rob an electron, and |
| such as blood plasma and amniotic fluid. It seemed | | | | that, unfortunately, destroys the cell. |
| the ideal stuff to bottle, and there are now over 4 | | | | Not only that but they also oxidize molecules from |
| million users of coral calcium in Japan alone. | | | | which they take the electron, and if that is a low |
| The commercial use of Sango coral, as it is called, is | | | | density lipoprotein, or LDL, that happens to be |
| controlled by the Japanese government, and living | | | | carrying some cholesterol to one of your arteries |
| coral is left untouched: only the dead coral sand lying | | | | that needs a bit of repair work, then it will cause the |
| on the ocean bed is used. The sand is collected and | | | | LDL to deposit the cholesterol immediately and form |
| cleaned, and then pulverized and the calcium and all | | | | plaques that constrict and narrow your arteries. That |
| the rest of the minerals it contains are easily | | | | is called atherosclerosis and it can kill you or give you |
| absorbed by the body. | | | | a stroke. Cholesterol is essential for good health, but |
| It is this ease of absorption that renders coral calcium | | | | once the free radicals get to work you are better |
| so useful. Most minerals find it difficult to pass from | | | | without it. |
| the intestine to the bloodstream, but this is not a | | | | However, Sango coral contains substances that |
| problem for the minerals in Sango coral. Because they | | | | prevent the free radicals from oxidizing other |
| do not come from inorganic mined minerals, but from | | | | substances, and in so doing destroy them. That's |
| natural organic sources, they are present in a very | | | | what antioxidants do. They prevent free radicals |
| bio-available form and are readily absorbed into the | | | | from oxidizing other molecules and creating all sorts |
| bloodstream. It not only contains the common | | | | of havoc with your health. Excessive amounts of |
| minerals calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and | | | | free radicals have been associated with over 80 |
| so on, but also many trace elements that are | | | | different conditions, and one of the benefits of coral |
| essential for life. Not only that, however, but they | | | | calcium is that it is one of the most powerful |
| also contain antioxidants to help prevent the | | | | antioxidants known. |
| oxidative stress caused by free radicals, and also at a | | | | It is not only the mineral content and antioxidant |
| pH that allows the minerals to become naturally ionic | | | | properties of coral calcium that are of benefit to the |
| very readily. | | | | human body, but also its pH. The various fluids of |
| It is this ionic form of each mineral that permits it to | | | | your body are maintained at a specific pH, which is a |
| be so readily available to your system. This was a | | | | measurement of the acidity or alkalinity of a fluid. |
| major discovery at the time, since the form that | | | | This should be slightly alkaline without being caustic. If |
| inorganic minerals generally come in had been a | | | | your body fluids are too acidic it becomes difficult for |
| problem prior to this to the extent that only 10% | | | | you to absorb minerals and vitamins, and it is |
| was absorbed by the body. In comparison, 95% of | | | | essential for you maintain a balance of from around |
| the coral calcium and other minerals are able to be | | | | 6.4 to 7.0 Any lower than that and you will find it |
| easily absorbed since they are in an ionized form - an | | | | difficult to sleep and you will feel listless with no |
| even higher absorbency than colloidal minerals allow. | | | | energy. |
| Why are minerals so important and how can they | | | | You can measure the pH of your body by testing |
| possible lead to such an effect on the elderly of | | | | your urine with pH strips available at any pharmacy. |
| Okinawa? In fact minerals are very important | | | | Coral calcium can be used to maintain a good pH level |
| components of human metabolism and biochemistry. | | | | that allows your body to absorb the nutrients it |
| Most believe vitamins to be significantly more | | | | needs, and keep you feeling not only well, but young |
| important to human health than minerals, but this is | | | | and sprightly just like Shigechiyo Izumi did at 115 |
| not the case. Many vitamins are useless without the | | | | years old. |
| synergistic effect of minerals, and the reverse is also | | | | |