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Over thirty-six years ago, Farley Merril Anderson, the founder
of Mineral Resourses International in the USA, read a series of
newspaper articles written by Dr. George W. Crane announcing
such headlines as "The Ocean’s 44 Antidotes for Deficiency
Ailments" and "Trace Chemicals Essential to the Body."
These articles piqued his interest with information about the
amazing results people were receiving from drinking a little bit
of sea water each day. This led him to research the Great Salt
Lake, an inland sea located near his home. He found that the
Great Salt Lake not only had the same minerals and balance
discussed by George Crane, but that it was 6 to 10 times more
concentrated than regular sea water without high levels of
sodium and other hard metals.
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| The Great
Salt Lake
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Because of MRI's current research and commitment to producing
the highest quality products on the market, it plans to continue
its unparalleled growth into the future. Not a single bottle of
product leaves MRI's facility unless it is confidently backed up
with a guarantee of quality. This guarantee is made possible
today from the minerals found in the Great Salt Lake.
The Great Salt Lake contains a rich abundance of minerals and
trace elements that have been balanced by nature and highly
assimilable because of their ionic form. These body-balanced,
full spectrum minerals are the very minerals South Africans need
to curb our growing mineral deficiencies.
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| Satellite
photo of the the Great Salt Lake, 125km North to South
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 For
millions of years, every sprouting seed and towering tree has
dissolved minerals to ionic form and raised them from the depths
of the soil where they could easily be washed away by water. To
add to this problem, aggressive farming has further depleted the
soils. Furthermore, many fertilizers and pesticides bind trace
minerals in the soil so that fewer minerals are absorbed by
fruits and vegetables.
Dr. U. Aswathanarayana states "Soil erosion leads to the
depletion of essential nutrient elements in crops grown in
depleted soils. When people consume a diet derived from such
crops, the intake of essential elements becomes inadequate. This
leads to the impairment of the relevant physiological functions,
and causes disease."
The importance of minerals in the soil and their effects on
human health are not new concepts.
Dr. Alexis Carrel, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in
1912, states,
"Soil is the basis of all human life and our only hope for a
healthy world.... All of life will be either healthy or
unhealthy according to the fertility of the soil. Minerals in
the soil control the metabolism of cells in plant, animal and
man....* Diseases are created chiefly by destroying the harmony
reigning among mineral substances present in infinitesimal
amounts in air, water and food, but most importantly in the
soil." * Even the American Medical Association recognizes the
importance of minerals in our diet. “Variations in the
distribution of certain minerals in the environment are known to
have an effect on health."
 The
lack of minerals in our soil is evidenced through the need for
constant fertilization. Plants need nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen,
chlorine, carbon, boron, sulphur, potassium, magnesium,
phosphorous, iron, zinc, copper manganese, and molybdenum, some
of which are commonly replaced through fertilizers to provide
maximum crops through minimum investment.
However, humans are known to additionally need calcium, sodium,
fluorine, bromine, chromium, iodine, silicon, selenium,
beryllium, lithium, cobalt, vanadium and nickel, which would not
necessarily be replaced through fertilization of plants.
This continual cycle of soil depletion and minor replacement of
minerals through fertilization in conjunction with a diet of
processed foods has left many westerners deficient in minerals
and trace minerals.
This does not need to be the case. To discover where the
minerals have disappeared, we need to follow the water cycle. As
water goes through the constant cycle from evaporation to
precipitation, minerals are transported through rivers and
streams where it is then collected in the seas thereby creating
a natural equilibrium.
Today, MRI harvests minerals and trace minerals from the Great
Salt Lake, a uniquely rich and pure desert sea. These minerals
are the basis for each of their unique products and help provide
a strong foundation for balanced supplementation.
Keeping minerals in proper balance throughout the body while
providing all of them in sufficient quantities needed for
optimal health is complex. This is further complicated when
using a bullet approach based on the latest research that finds
specific deficiencies and then supplements the diet with just
that particular nutrient: The complexity of the mineral
imbalance problem is apparent. It is apparent that our
understanding of the mechanisms of mineral imbalances is
fragmentary. New inter-relationships are constantly being
discovered. We are presently recognizing and correcting only a
small fraction of the mineral imbalance problems plaguing
animals and man.
Imbalanced interactions cause many problems when we consistently
consume single processed or refined minerals that are out of
proportion with the other minerals and trace minerals. This is
particularly evident when it comes to the most commonly refined
mineral that South Africans take into their diet, sodium
chloride (table salt) and it’s effects on hypertension:
Clearly, nutrients function interactively both in the body and
in their impact on blood pressure regulation. Whenever the
consumption of a single nutrient is significantly altered, an
entirely new dietary pattern is created. Nutrients occur in
clusters in the diet and may therefore act ynergistically to
alter physiologic variables such as blood pressure.
These relationships can, however, have an equally profound
benefit on human health when minerals are consumed in proper
ratios. Certain minerals and trace elements, when found in
proper balance, can serve additional non-classical roles such as
acting as antioxidants. Minerals and trace elements can also
help each other in the process of assimilation and add
additional safety buffers for minerals that have the potential
of being toxic to human health.
Within the blood stream, lymphatic fluid, cells and
extracellular fluid, minerals and trace elements can be found
completely dissociated into solution , which can also be called
electrolyte or ionic form. In this state, they all have specific
positive or negative electrical signatures that cause a dynamic
equilibrium to take place. The body can use minor changes in
this equilibrium to create proper osmotic pressure and move
nutrients to the areas that need them most and create electrical
impulses that run the entire nervous system.
This same equilibrium can also be found in the seas around the
world where minerals and trace minerals have collected and
concentrated in liquid ionic form for millions of years. It is
astounding to realize that the dynamic equilibrium that takes
place with liquid ionic minerals and trace elements has created
the same basic balance in sea water that is found in healthy
blood plasma and lymphatic fluid.
Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where Mineral Resources International
harvest Low Sodium ConcenTrace® Ionic Trace Mineral Drops, is
ten times more concentrated than sea water, and the largest body
of concentrated sea water in the world and is particularly rich
in certain minerals and trace minerals like magnesium, selenium,
lithium, and boron which are vitally important to human health.
"The Great Salt Lake [has] concentrated many of the same
minerals found in the sea through geothermal and evaporative
processes. These natural sources of the elements can provide a
rich source of minerals compatible to human physiological
needs." 1
"Because of it’s high concentration, the dynamic equilibrium has
caused the Great Salt Lake to be uniquely low in certain toxic,
heavy metals: ... The total soluble concentrations of heavy
metals in the water are extremely low. The heavy metals in the
lake, along with clays, organic materials and carbonates, are
precipitating to the sediments and deep brines where anaerobic
conditions and sulfide formed by sulfate reducing bacteria
immobilize the metals. The lake thus avoids accumulation of
heavy metals and is nontoxic and self-cleansing."
MRI's harvesting pans - The Great Salt Lake
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 water pressure and absorb nutrients. In
fact, “many vital body processes depend on the movement of ions
across cell membranes. Recent research indicates that minerals
may play a significant role against a variety of degenerative
diseases and processes.* They may also prevent and reduce injury
from environmental pollutants and enhance the ability to work
and learn. They can also protect the body from the effects of
toxic minerals. |
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