| Minerals are as important as vitamins when it | | | | regulate muscle tone and activity (including |
| comes to overall health and well-being. Since | | | | organ muscles like the heart, stomach, liver, |
| all enzymatic activities in the body require | | | | etc.)Minerals act as catalysts for many |
| minerals, your body wouldn't be able to use | | | | biological reactions within the body, |
| vitamins and other nutrients without them. | | | | including muscle response, the transmission |
| Calcium, Magnesium, Chromium, Iron, Selenium | | | | of messages through the nervous system, the |
| and Zinc are just a few of the numerous | | | | production of hormones, digestion, and the |
| minerals essential to continued health.For | | | | utilization of nutrients in foods.Minerals |
| years the supplement market has been | | | | are primarily stored in bone and muscle |
| dominated by vitamins, but vitamins and amino | | | | tissue so toxicity is a possibility. Toxicity |
| acids are useless without minerals because | | | | risks increase when one isolated mineral is |
| all enzyme activities involve minerals. | | | | ingested without any supportive cofactor |
| Minerals for healthy bones, organs, and | | | | nutrients. Such situations of mineral |
| tissue minerals are needed to maintain the | | | | toxicity are quite rare, because toxic levels |
| delicate cellular fluid balance, to form bone | | | | accumulate only if massive overdoses persist |
| and blood cells, to provide for | | | | for a prolonged period of time. |
| electrochemical nerve activity, and to | | | | |