MEDI-FILE REPORT - UPDATES ON NATURAL SUPER-NUTRITION

TRACE MINERALS - A VITAL KEY IN HUMAN HEALTH

The USDA PSNL research identified Selenium (Se) deficient areas in the North West Pacific Coast, along Great Lakes lands and the Atlantic Coast and all of Florida. This map was used by researchers to demonstrate a strong inverse correlation between the Se content of soils and forages and the incidence of lung, breast, rectal, bladder, oesophageal and cervical cancer in animals. This correlates with human studies linking Se plus vitamin E deficiency with lung, skin, and gastrointestinal cancers in humans.

The most recognised Se deficiency disease in humans is Keshan disease, a cardiomyopathy affecting mostly women and young children. This was also found by soil sampling/epidemiology. Other conditions associated with low Se status include: alcoholic cirrhosis, muscular dystrophy, infertility, muscular degeneration and diabetic neuropathy.

In the US agricultural trials regulatory approved use of Selenium additives reversed the situation and save the areas many millions of dollars per year. To combat this and similar deficiencies work has been done to produce plants that will take up and release larger amounts of specific minerals and other nutrients. This has been for commercial purposes as well as human and livestock health; the American Soybean Association estimated that an increase of 1% in Methionine in soybeans would add $375,000,000 to the value of the domestic soybean market. (Methionine is used, along with Choline and the herb Silimarin (St. Mary's thistle), in most of the widely-used complimentary medicine formulas for enhancing liver metabolism).

But this type of genetic engineering has many pitfalls. The essential synergism of nutrients, and their often mutual preferential linking sites to cell walls, requires a delicate balance and tipping the scales in favour of one nutrient can have disastrous effects. For instance, excessive Se (which is considered to begin around only 2000 µg daily) significantly reduces iron absorption, so it is possible that the animals in the USDA Se trials could next be having problems with anaemia or some other, as yet unknown, side-effect of tinkering with Nature's balance; for instance, Vitamin A (plus C & K) is affected by high Se levels - and Vitamin A is essential in protein and glycogen metabolism, some hormone synthesis and cell membrane repair.

The Se story can be applied to any or all the essential micro-nutrients - with many individual characteristic nuances. Manganese (Mn), for instance has long been known as the structural trace element - affecting skeleton, posture, and connective tissues. Mn can also affect reproduction and birthing. Defective ovulation, ovarian and testicular degeneration and increased infant mortality are associated with Mn deficiency.

If agricultural practices were changed to increase Mn levels in deficient areas - then it is possible that Iron (Fe) levels would become toxic through excess retention, a side-affect of too much Mn. The antagonists and synergists among all of the hundreds of nutrients, when humanly engineered in the laboratory or soil and plant science, could indeed produce worms - a whole can of them!

SIMPLE ANSWER? "PREHISTORIC PLANT MINERALS" ACCORDING TO TWO NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEES

Many physicians and naturopaths in the emerging field of complimentary medicine recognise that complete and lasting patient recovery can only occur when cellular and extra-cellular nutritional status is optimised. But how do we control the value of the patient's diet and, more importantly - uptake of nutrients? The answer is - we can't. For most patients, diet changes head the list in non-compliance.

But now, according to both German, American and Dutch doctors and scientists it is possible - from a laboratory and clinically tested unique source, to add a completely balanced, total trace element natural liquid as part of the daily intake. This liquid is derived from a 1.5 square mile pre-historic plant life deposit in central Utah, USA.

The controlled laboratory trial performed by Dr Popp, and clinical trials in Germany plus testimonies from daily experience of users over a period of 70 years have shown that only tiny amounts of these concentrated trace elements (TM'S) can often make most significant changes in all kinds of morbidity.

These findings should not surprise us. TM research has jumped in a quantum leap in the last 30 years. Only seven TM's had been found to be essential by 1953. By 1971 the number had risen to ten (Cu, Mn, Zn, Co, Mo, Se, Chr, Sn, I, and Vanadium) - today sports laboratories test sportsmen for 38! And, according to the work of America biophysicist Dr Carey A. Reams, there are still another 46 necessary to maintain life. Moreover by 1972, even the ultra-trace elements were showing to be essential in vital physiological function. Strontium, in depleted Sr diets, was found to adversely affect bone strength (but high levels associate with malignancy). In 1988 boron, thought to be essential to plants only, was discovered to markedly increase serum levels of estrogen (17B estradiol) in post-menopausal women.

These research findings raise the complex question of dosage. Nature has the answer.

WATCH FOR VARIATION IN THE VIABILITY OF COLLOIDS

Currently there are two types of Plant Trace Mineral products marketed. Firstly, the organic plant sourced variety from humic shales in Utah; and secondly, inorganic colloidal minerals from soils and clays from various sources.

The first has been acted upon by photosynthesis and fulvic acid in its plant source and carries a negative charge - it is therefore ionised and chelated by the fulvic acid. The second mixture of plain inorganic plus chelated inorganic colloid material with a positive charge.

The intestinal wall has an extra-cellular charge which is positive (except at neutral pH - which very rarely occurs.) The negatively charged plant sourced colloids therefore absorb maximally - which one would expect from a plant eating humanoid. Some organic colloidal suppliers dilute heavily, so look for specific gravity of >2.5 product.

From Colloidal Minerals - Facts and Myths
by Steven E. Whiting Ph.D.,
Institute of Nutritional Science, San Diego, USA.

THE FASCINATING STORY BEHIND THE UTAH COLLOIDS

Hundreds of years before European settlement of North America, the Piute Indians of Central Utah journeyed to a sacred spring known for its extraordinary healing powers.

In 1920 an ailing rancher named Thomas Clark was led to this spring by one of the few remaining Indian elders. Soon after drinking the water he underwent an amazing recovery. Encouraged by this result he determined to unlock the secret of his mysterious healing spring. He followed the spring back to its source and found that the water flowed through an unusual deposit of material laid under 25 foot of sandstone.

The material was later determined to be the elemental remains of an ancient rain forest, uniquely encapsulated for what was believed to be 70 million years ago "The Senonian Period".

When analysed, the deposit was found to contain over 70 different minerals and trace minerals in a human physiological balance. But it has been the subsequent research into the nature of these elements that has shown the most exciting results. For these essential minerals are colloidal and plant sourced - therefore negatively charged.

THE WORK OF DR MURRAY MAYNARD B.Sc. M.D. Uni. of Cincinnati

Convinced that faulty nutrition was the basis for much disease, Dr Maynard spent 40 years using the trace elements of sea-water (which have a very similar ratio to Clark mine colloids) to produce crops. From this food he ran various trials.

A significant result was found in a control study with C3H mice, whose females nearly always develop breast cancer.

Group (i) - 200, 2 month old mice fed with mineral colloidal raised food lived healthily to 16 months and were sacrificed - no cancer found. They produced 10 litters.

Group (ii) - 200, 2 month mice fed on standard chow. All dead in 8 months and 7 days, of cancer. They produced 2 - 3 litters.

THE NATURE OF PLANT DERIVED MINERALS IN SUSPENSION (COLLOIDAL FORM)

Colloidal elements move in a pre-physical realm on the borders of physics and chemistry. Too small in mass to be weighed, they escape the effects of gravity and can even pass through glass. This interface between the seen and unseen is impelled in a continuous swirl by what are called Brownian forces, so that a true colloidal solution will never settle.

Their negative charge makes them immediately accessible to the intestinal cell biology and far superior to any other form of mineral enhancement. This negative charge also enables the colloids to chelate toxic chemicals and heavy metals.

CLINICAL RESULTS WITH COLLOIDS

This ability to detoxify has been demonstrated time and again in clinical settings.

Dr. Michael Zimmerman, Chief of Staff of the Specialised Clinic for Chronic Illnesses and Therapy Resistant Patients, in Berlingen, Germany had the Plant Derived Minerals tested in his clinical studies. He said "Since we can practically eliminate dietary influences in our fasting patients, we can really draw conclusions as to the results and effects of any medical treatment in a very clear way. We are able to observe that the LifeSPRINGS Mineral Formula enhances the depoisoning ability of the organism in a very positive way. It activates and speeds the healing process, especially in chronic illnesses."

In my own practice over 30 years I have seldom come across such useful nutritional tools as colloidal trace minerals. In 1989, I found results that precisely confirmed those of Dr Zimmerman.

While working in our residential Clinic specialising in chronic and non-responding disease, I was using the trace-mineral liquid to help detoxify chemically compromised patients in a trial program initiated by the well-known Australian environmental specialist, Dr Mark Donohue. In this trial, blood samples were sent to a Texas laboratory. The results of the first 38 Australian samples showed them to be on average up to 1000% higher in environmental chemicals than a US citizen.

One of my patients was the worst case in this sample. She had suffered with debilitating fatigue, oedema, and myalgia for years. We had done everything known to help, with only a small improvement. During the night following the first use of Plant Derived Minerals, she micturated frequently through the entire night, and on waking found herself free of pain and her oedemic legs and ankles returned to normal. This was a remarkable outcome. After several weeks of use she experienced a major rash under one arm lasting for two weeks, which "smelled embarrassingly" of chemicals. When the rash cleared she had a further symptom improvements. It was obvious that chemical chelation took place, and further tests proved this.

European doctors and naturopaths have been using Plant Derived Colloids for some six years. Two of these, Dr Gottfried Lange MD and associate Dr Martin Keymer, specialise in toxicology. Their work has shed light on the rapid results often reported in using plant colloidal minerals. In February 1996 Dr Lange held seminars in the USA on his studies in vascular-to-cell nutrient transfer. He explained that nutrients do not have a simple blood-to-cell transfer, but must pass through connective tissue to cell site. Often, in morbid states, this tissue is contaminated with pollutants causing poor or even nil transfer of nutrients. They had found that colloidal minerals have an unusual ability to "flush-out" connective tissue, especially the mesenchyme.

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE (Testimonies - most in Affidavits)

This type of evidence is not usually reported in The Medi-file Report, however, some of these cases can only be described as amazing and should be on record. Repeated results over periods of time = scientific proof.