Fulvic Colloidal Minerals Safe and Effective

• Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia (version 8.01) states that: "The Colloidal State lies somewhere between a solution and a suspension." Colloidal minerals from humic shale are among the smallest crystalline particles known to exist, and are neither a suspension nor a solution. This gives these colloids some special properties that larger size colloids do not exhibit. Colloids larger than 0.005 microns have difficulty moving though plant and animal membranes. These colloids are hydrophobic in nature, meaning they have an inherent resistance to interaction with water. Examples in nature include: carbonates, sulfides, phosphates, framework silicates, aluminum, iron oxides, phyllosilicates, and some clays.
  
  
• Techniques that supply some information about colloids are: Laser light scattering, field-flow fractionation, ultra filtration and chemical analysis. When analyzed in the laboratory for mineral content fulvic colloidal mineral liquids are treated as a solution posting the results in milligrams per liter (mg/l) of dissolved solids (not suspended solids). In short, colloids on the smaller end of the spectrum behave like solutions while colloids on the larger end of the spectrum behave like a suspension.
  
  
• The statement "Colloidal minerals are not bio-available" is true when discussing hydrophobic minerals such as calcium carbonate, zinc oxide, or magnesium phosphates. These minerals are poorly utilized due to the lack of fulvic acid. They require a chemical reaction caused by the body's enzymes and hydrochloric acid before they can be of any value to the body's cells. Since fulvic minerals extracted from humic/fulvic shale are chelated by fulvic acids. The statement "Colloids do not diffuse easily through plant or animal membranes" is not accurate. The conclusion that colloids cannot pass through membranes of vegetable and animal matter is based solely on studies and experiments done with inorganic colloids. Chemical colloids are much larger in particle size than naturally occurring mineral colloids, and where not chelated in nature by fulvic acids!
  
  
• Plants take minerals from the earth in ionic and colloidal form via their membranes. Studies conducted using colloidal trace minerals as a folial spray produced dramatic results in the health and growth rate of various plants. It should be emphasized that all living cells, including those in plant life, contain minerals in the fulvic colloidal form, not the ionic form. It is a scientific fact that these minerals lend themselves easily to absorption. It can therefore be concluded that fulvic shale colloids of plant origin are also easily absorbed! When these mineral molecules are chelated by fulvic acid it makes no difference if they are ionic or colloidal in structure.
  
  
• Fulvic colloids extracted from fulvic shale are 0.005 microns in diameter with particles as small as 0.001 microns in diameter. This diversity in size gives these fulvic mineral colloids and ions some fascinating properties. The smallest aggregates easily pass through the cell membranes of tissue they contact, while others lend themselves to ionic reactions or reaction with enzymes in the digestive tract. This prepares them for secondary chelation in the bloodstream. This secondary process rechelates some minerals with orotic acids, which then targets the specific mineral to specific areas in the body and cells. All ionic minerals (single molecule), eventually form colloidal aggregates (more than one molecule) since all human, animal, and plant cells contain minerals in their fulvic colloidal form. Since colloids have more than one molecule per particle, they lend themselves easily to a variety of biochemical reactions. It's the small particle size and the hydrophilic nature of fulvic minerals that makes this possible.
  
  
• Fulvic colloids containing numerous molecules per particle are often smaller than other minerals that contain only one molecule. One example of this is a mineral chemically bound to an amino acid, which is commonly known as an amino acid chelate. Proteins and all minerals chelated with protein are large molecules. Most fulvic colloidal mineral particles contain several groups of molecules that are smaller than a single protein molecule. Even an amino acid chelated tablet is liquefied, micronized with hydrochloric acid, and an enzyme, before it is reduced to the molecular form. Try to dissolve an amino acid chelated mineral tablet, or powder, in water if you doubt this. It cannot be done!
  
  
• Producers of these mineral products are quick to point out that fulvic colloidal minerals contain toxic elements and therefore should be avoided. These companies fail to realize that all mineral products contain minute amounts of toxic elements, especially lead. These elements are NOT in the hydrophilic, fulvic colloidal form. For instance, arsenic is contained in the earth's crust in 5.5 parts per million and is also routinely found in earth extracted minerals, colloidal or otherwise.
  
  
• Fulvic colloidal/ionic mineral products contain trace amounts of aluminum, lead, and arsenic with aluminum usually being the most abundant. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust. All plant life contains some aluminum in a hydrophilic fulvic colloidal form. Naturally occurring aluminum silicate found in humic matter is nontoxic, and essential for the development of normal healthy plants. Only metallic aluminum (such as that found in deodorants and cooking pans), may have adverse effects.
  
  
• There is a definite difference between colloidal plant derived aluminum and the aluminum found in cooking pans. All plants convert metallic mineral ions into fulvic colloidal/ionic minerals, which are micronized to extremely small particle sizes. It is this chelating by fulvic acids, the micronization process, and photosynthesis that creates a fulvic colloidal mineral that is perfectly utilized by other biological systems. All fulvic colloidal minerals from plants are non-toxic in reasonable dosage. If one where to drink even 2 grains of iodine in it's free non-colloidal form, it could end your life. But take the same amount of iodine in its plant derived, fulvic, colloidal form, and it becomes beneficial not harmful. This is also true for plant derived lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum etc.
  
  
• Fulvic colloidal/ionic minerals also contain trace amounts of lead that appears in 15 ppm of the earth's crust. Ground-water commonly consumed as drinking water also contains minute levels of lead. All mineral tablets, including amino acid chelates, are derived from the hydrophobic rock minerals such as calcium carbonate or zinc oxide. These minerals are ionized and then chemically bound to an amino acid molecule. Most consumers are unaware that all limestone and other rock minerals contain trace amounts of lead and other heavy metals and no fulvic acids!
  
  
• Mineral analyses are expressed in mg/l, that is the equivalent to parts per million (ppm). Note that virtually all mineral products contain aluminum, lead, and arsenic. Plants have been absorbing these elements for millions of years with no apparent negative outcome. For example: According to the Agronomy Handbook, bananas, beans, and many other plant foods contain over 100 ppm (approximately 100 mg/l) aluminum per serving Humans have also been ingesting minute quantities of these same elements since the earliest time of existence. The average diet contains 35 mcg cadmium, 40 mcg of arsenic, 150 mcg of lead, and over 100 mg (ppm) of aluminum daily. There is also evidence to suggest that these elements may actually be essential for cellular function, provided that they are bound to fulvic acids. For example: when goats where deprived completely of arsenic they where no longer able to lactate. Studies have also been conducted with other elements with similar results.
  
  
• Understand that safe ingestion of any mineral depends on dosage and form. Therefore, when using any trace mineral product, the consumer should remember that these are trace mineral supplements not macro-mineral supplements. Only small quantities are needed on a daily basis. Taking a few drops of any fulvic concentrate, or an ounce of fulvic colloidal mineral water, presents no danger of heavy metal poisoning. All naturally derived fulvic colloidal/ionic minerals, have trace amounts of minerals and elements, exceeding those products claiming to be very low in, or free of, aluminum, arsenic, lead, etc., These products tend to be more diluted, using various chemical methods for removal of "undesirable" elements, with virtually no mineral or trace element content! Using chemicals to remove these elements from the fulvic shale breaks down the delicate fulvic acid bonds creating an inferior product!