Let's talk about one of my top 5 supplements!!! Mineral Essence™ Balanced, Full-Spectrum
Ionic Mineral Complex We are going to break everything down bite by bite, so this will be a
long post. I promise it will be worth it!!! You have been warned, Here is a PDF of this file, feel free to share and edit as needed.
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Mineral Essence is a daily liquid trace mineral supplement that combines the benefits of minerals with premium essential oils of Lemon, Cinnamon, and Peppermint. It provides 70 essential ionic minerals, which are the most fully and quickly absorbed form of minerals available.
According to two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling: “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”
Trace minerals are essential for our overall health & vitality. The body requires nearly two-thirds of all the elements currently known to man to support optimal health, strong heart, cognitive function, and performance. Keeping these minerals in balance is a complex, yet incredibly vital task.
Our cells NEED every single trace mineral!
Here are just a few examples:
Iron is the most abundant trace element in the human body. It is important in red blood cell formation, energy, and healthy cognitive function.
Zinc is a trace mineral that has antioxidant properties and helps support your healthy STRONG heart. It keeps your veins and arteries soft and flexible. It supports vasodilation at the receptor level. More than 300 enzymes require Zinc for their catalytic action.
Copper is another trace mineral that your heart loves!! It is the third most abundant essential trace element in the human body. We need it in small amounts to keep your healthy heart pumping and strong.
Calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium >>> These minerals are important to maintain proper heart rhythm. Sodium and potassium work together to support the heart muscles to contract and relax.
Selenium helps maintain your wonderful cardiovascular health & a healthy immune system! It is necessary for normal growth and development.
Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in the body, after calcium and phosphorus. Sulfur helps to maintain the flexibility of the vascular system.
WOW!!! That is only 9 of the 70 we are getting!!!
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What are minerals?
Minerals are elements—the very same elements on the periodic table inside a high school chemistry book like chromium, magnesium, iron, zinc, and so on. They are the elements that comprise the entire universe, this earth, and everything on it, including you.
Your body is fearfully & wonderfully formed from these same elements. It is important to constantly replenish your body with the elements it uses every day.
You have amazing chemical and electrical processes happening in your body every single moment. These reactions can only function if your balance of minerals is continually being supplied to your system. Iron for your blood, sulfur for your muscles, calcium for your bones, and so many other elements in balanced trace amounts for your body to function properly.
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What does ionic mean?
An ion is a mineral or element that has a positive or negative charge. On the molecular level, that means the element has either too many or too few electrons. This unstable ionic state allows the element to bond with water, making it possible for the body to absorb it. In this state, an element has specific positive or negative electrical signatures that cause a beautiful balance. The body can then facilitate changes to move nutrients to the areas that need them.
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What Are Trace Minerals & WHY are they missing?
Think about things like silver, gold & platinum, or even copper & titanium; all of those are minerals or elements. Did you know that those elements and many others—in very small, balanced trace amounts—are critical to your health?
Traditionally, eating fish, grains, fruits, and vegetables grown in nutrient-rich soil has supplied a full spectrum of ionic minerals. Sadly, those trace minerals are no longer as plentiful in the foods we eat.
Unfortunately, in today’s world, nutrient-rich soil is becoming increasingly rare. Aggressive modern farming techniques have depleted those amazing trace minerals.
Crazy, fertilizers are applied to farms and fields where minerals have been depleted. However man-made fertilizers provide only enough minerals to support basic plant life. Typically, they only add 4 minerals to the soil: Calcium, Boron, Phosphorus & Magnesium. Numerous trace minerals essential to human life don’t get replenished.
Over time, those precious trace minerals have been washed into the oceans & a few surviving inland seas such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, these trace minerals are found in their proper proportions—the same basic proportions that are found in the healthy human body.
Today, these life-sustaining sea waters contain all the minerals and elements necessary to support human life. Most importantly, these minerals and elements are ionic and in perfect balance—prime for being absorbed into the cells of your body.
Every second of every day your body relies on ionic minerals and trace minerals to conduct and generate billions of tiny electrical impulses. Without these impulses, not a single muscle, including your heart, would be able to function. Your brain would not function, and the cells would not be able to use osmosis to balance your water pressure and absorb nutrients.
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Experts estimate that 90 percent of Americans suffer from mineral imbalance and deficiency. If you are one of them—whether because of frequent exercise, stress, or a diet of overly refined, nutrient-poor foods—your body will attempt to correct the situation in futility, usually resulting in food cravings, muscle cramps, and general fatigue.
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Where do we source our Ionic Trace Minerals??
You can’t simply buy 72 different trace minerals, dump them in a bottle & hope you get the perfect blend. Young Living goes to the source. The Great Salt Lake is the world’s oldest inland sea & has been collecting and concentrating minerals and trace elements from the surrounding Rocky Mountains for a long time. It contains over 72 ionic minerals and trace elements in precisely the same proportion as the human body.
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So, what exactly is in the Mineral Essence Bottle???
Honey & Royal Jelly
Royal Jelly allows the queen bee to live for around 5 years. Worker bees live for around 45 days. That is incredible.
Works with your healthy immune system.
Amazing for your cardiovascular system.
Support healthy blood pressure & cholesterol.
Supports normal histamine reaction.
Royal jelly contains acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that regulates the messages that are sent from cell to cell.
Supports healthy memory.
Royal Jelly helps with sugar cravings & supports a balanced feeling after meals.
Contains zinc, iron, calcium, manganese, potassium, and sodium salts and small amounts of flavonoids, polyphenols, and vitamins (biotin, folic acid, inositol, niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamine, and vitamin E)
Source of natural antioxidants; Flavonoids & Polyphenols and balances the effects of normal oxidative stress. Royal jelly is a scavenger of free radicals.
Increases Superoxide dismutase (SOD) an enzyme found in all living cells.
Contains amino acids (proteins) such as lysine, proline, cystine, aspartic acid, valine, glutamic acid, serine, glycine, cysteine, threonine, alanine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, hydroxyproline, leucine-isoleucine, and glutamine.
Balances normal concentration of the brain neurotransmitters GABA, dopamine, and serotonin.
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Magnesium:
According to the National Institutes of Health, magnesium is crucial for every cell in your body. It is used for energy production and plays a crucial role in the enzymatic reactions that drive your heart and brain. In other words, magnesium supports hundreds of chemical reactions or processes in your body, including regulating muscle and nerve function, and blood sugar levels, as well as making protein, bone, and DNA.
Magnesium maintains your healthy blood pressure,
It supports your healthy heartbeat & healthy cholesterol.
Magnesium helps you to relax and sleep.
The good news is that the RDA is only 310 – 420 mg a day. The mineral is found in abundance in vegetables, especially dark leafy greens like spinach, kale, and collard greens. Another great source is whole grains and beans.
Almonds (80 mg per 1 oz serving)
Pumpkin Seeds (156 mg per 1 oz serving)
Dark chocolate (43 mg per 1 oz serving)
Black Beans (60 mg per 1/2 cup serving)
Leafy Greens (78 mg per 1/2 cup serving)
The bad news, when we are under stress or sweat, we lose a lot of magnesium. This could be one of those “puzzle” pieces.
Mineral Essence gives you a whopping 350 mg of Magnesium per serving!!!
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What else is in the bottle >>> 72 Trace minerals in perfect balance!
Magnesium, Chloride, Potassium, Sulfate, Sodium, Boron, Bromide, Calcium, Carbonate, Silicon, Nitrogen, Selenium, Phosphorus, Iodine, Chromium, Iron, Manganese, Titanium, Zinc, Nickel, Tungsten, Tin, Silver, Vanadium, Gold, lithium, plus so many more minerals found in seawater. JUST TO NAME A FEW
Understand, it is all about the balance. Let’s take lithium for example. Lithium is found in cereals, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, lemons, apples, and many other foods. It is a trace element that our brain loves.
In trace amounts it is calming to the mind & neuroprotective.
Lithium shields neurons from biological stress and toxins.
Neurogenesis: Lithium enhances the growth of new neurons, leading to an increased number of neurons and brain volume.
Lithium is also a prescription drug that is used in very high doses to treat mania which is part of bipolar disorder. Understand that the tiny, tiny amount you would get in Mineral Essence would NEVER replace a prescription. I only share that information, so you understand that we don’t remove any of the trace minerals. Each one in its natural state balances another one or flips a switch if that helps.
The same thing happens when people see the word fluoride in the 72 trace minerals & think NOPE, not me. But in its natural state with ALL the checks and balances, we need that tiny, tiny amount for our bones, your spine needs it in combination with other minerals. It is so powerful for teeth that our ionic trace minerals are in our Thieves Dentarome Plus Toothpaste! YEP, because they continue to protect your teeth after you brush them. It helps with remineralization.
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>>> Remember, man, can take a good thing and MESS it up!!!! When we get those trace minerals in balance, everything else starts to come into balance.
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Last thing in the bottle: Sodium
I want to cover this for those of you on a salt restriction. Please note that although Mineral Essence has a salty flavor, it only contains 10mg of sodium.
Salt or Sodium It’s a common misconception that "sodium" and "salt" are the same thing; in fact, the words are often used interchangeably. However, understanding the difference between the two could affect how you manage the nutritional quality of your diet.
"Salt" refers to the crystal-like chemical compound sodium chloride, while "sodium" refers to the dietary mineral sodium.
Table salt is a combination of the mineral elements sodium and chloride. Broken down by weight, sodium only makes up approximately 40% of table salt. It is bleached and has all the minerals removed so they can sell them individually. ZERO balance.
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The function of Sodium
The role of sodium in overall health is to help cells and organs function properly by regulating blood pressure, supporting muscular contraction, and keeping nerve impulses running smoothly.
It’s one of the electrolytes responsible for maintaining healthy fluid balance in the body & keeps your healthy heart beating.
Too much or too little sodium can cause some of those bodily processes to malfunction. If sodium levels get too high, the body will signal the kidneys to get rid of the excess. If levels dip too low, you may show signs of a condition called hyponatremia which is low levels of sodium in the blood. Symptoms are similar to those caused by dehydration, which affects many systems including your brain. Symptoms may include mental changes, tiredness, headache, nausea, vomiting, muscle spasms, and seizures severe cases, loss of consciousness.
Even though sodium is essential for keeping your body functioning the body does not produce its own—it is only acquired from food. Celery and beets are two vegetables with high sodium content. One beet serving can have up to 65 mg of sodium, a large celery stalk can contain up to 70 mg of sodium and 100 gm of spinach can have up to 80 mg of sodium. Other sodium-rich vegetables are carrots, radishes, cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage.
Guidelines for Americans recommend adults limit sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg per day—that's equal to ONLY about 1 teaspoon of table salt. How many whole foods would you need to eat to achieve that 2.300mg of sodium?? How about processed foods?? Understand that sodium is necessary to life, it is all about quality and quantity.
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So, with the soil depleted, what can you do to stay strong & healthy??
Start with whole foods.
Make sure you’re getting enough minerals in your diet.
Eat local & organic when you can.
Choose less processed foods.
Use Celtic Sea Salt.
Eat from the rainbow.
In addition, take Mineral Essence, NingXia Red & Master Formula to fill in the missing puzzle pieces.
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How do you use Mineral Essence™ Balanced, Full-Spectrum Ionic Mineral Complex?
Shake well & refrigerate after opening.
Take 5 half-droppers (1 ml each) twice a day or as needed as a mineral supplement.
You can even rub it on topically or add it to bath water or lotions. YES, your skin will absorb some of the minerals, but internal gives you maximum absorption.
I add mine to my Red Drink with NingXia Red, Daily Prebiotic Fiber, AminoWise, Inner Beauty Collagen, Sulfurzyme, and Iodine >>> it is just a bunch of goodness!!!!
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I would encourage you to grab your Mineral Essence & plan on using it every day for a month! Let’s see how you feel after taking it twice a day for 30 days!!! You will need 3 bottles to take it 2 times a day. You can take it straight or in your NingXia Red.