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The Many Benefits And Uses Of Sea Minerals

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Thursday, November 29, 2007 by: Mike Donkers
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We humans are design
ed to take in trace elements. How does it work? Plants feed off of
minerals in the soil. They will take up only those minerals they need for their growth and development.
The plants digest these minerals by adding a carbon atom. When we consume these plant
s we eat
whatever mineral traces they still contain (trace elements) plus the carbon atom. The minerals find their
way into our system and we breathe out the carbon. Plants in turn use carbon as oxygen. This is simple
carbon chemistry and it’s how we form
a natural cycle with
nature
and plants.
While the full dose of
minerals
may be good for the plant it’s not good for human consumption because carbon
chemistry is not part of our digestive process. Though
sea salt
contains no less than 84 elements it’s
nevertheless a bad idea to put sea
salt
directly in or over your food. Instead, it’s better to eat plants that contain
lot
s of trace elements. Doctors who put people on a salt
-
free diet never tell their patients not to eat a celery
stick. Yet a celery stick contains roughly the same amount of salt you would normally put in your food. This is
because the celery uses carbon che
mistry to predigest the various salts. Besides sodium chloride (
table salt
)
there are other mineral salts, among which contain magnesium, calcium and
potassium
. These are all
completely harmless for human consumption provided they have been predigested by plants, not when taken
directly in the form of s
ea salt.
I can’t think of a better argument for growing plants in mineral
-
rich soils. Modern
agriculture
is based on the
NPK method, referring to Ni
trogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K). Commercially grown vegetables
and fruits available in supermarkets may look nice from the outside but they are grown with only three
elements. What’s worse, these elements are also synthetic, i.e. scientific ap
proximations of the real thing.
Compare that to the natural, organic and mineral
-
rich compost used in organic or, better still, bio
-
dynamic
farming
and you’l
l see why
crops
grown in this way are favorable. Though recognizing the superior flavors
people are not always willing to pay for them. But which would you rathe
r pay with, your wallet or your health?
Besides, you save a lot of cash if you buy these products directly from local farms or
farmers
markets.
One way of t
aking in trace elements in animal form is by consuming meat and dairy from ruminants (cows,
sheep, goats) that graze on mineral
-
rich pastures lush with grass and clover. Once again this means organic or
bio
-
dynamic meat. I don’t suppose I have to tell you
about the miserable and unhealthy circumstances in which
animals are kept in the intensive farming industry. Don’t forget all that pain, stress and suffering, as well as
hormones, antibiotics and
pesticides
will be on your plate when you choose to buy the cheaper meats. Once
again the question arises, would you rather pay with your wallet or your health? Healthy animals eat
omega
-
3
and mineral
-
rich grass and not grain pellets and hay. Contrary to humans, ruminants are in fact able to eat sea
salt directly and digest it with their four stomachs. A little bit
of sea salt through their feed won’t harm them, in
fact it’s good for them. By consuming grass
-
fed meat and dairy we can also get trace elements in this way.
To summarize, people are better off not taking minerals in their full dose. It is often believed
that sea salt is
healthy to use in meals and table salt isn’t. This is a half
-
truth. It should be blatantly obvious that isolating only
one of 84 elements in sea salt to make table salt is as mad as making white flour from the starch in grains and
not usin
g the germ and bran. Nature works with synergy and complex, organic wholes. Refining is the stuff of
scientists stuck in mechanistic and reductionist thought
–
it may seem intelligent but in reality it’s short
-
sighted.
What is more refined, the total packa
ge as offered by nature or playing God by using just one compound?
In that sense, unrefined sea salt is certainly healthier than table salt, because it contains all the minerals and
trace elements. However,
sodium
chloride is toxic and drives up our
blood pressure
. It’s part of sea salt in its
natur
al form and doesn’t cease to be toxic just because it’s in sea salt. The bacteria in our digestive system are
able to handle small amounts of sea salt but that’s not to say sea salt doesn’t affect our blood pressure. It’s better
to consume mineral salts th
rough the products of plants and animals that use these salts as food. In its original
state sea salt is inorganic. Only when it literally passes through an organism does it become organic and truly fit
for human consumption.
Sea minerals and cereal grass
es
Grass is a great crop. Just look at the muscular build of grazers such as horses, cows, sheep and goats. Grass is
truly unique in that it takes up 100% of all minerals in the soil. Grass is able to grow on next to nothing and on
everything. Sea
water
contains 92 elements, sea salt contains 84. Give your grass these elements and minerals
and they will happily take them.
Upon germination most grains form a fas
t
-
growing grass. Cereal grasses such as
wheat grass
, rye grass, barley
grass and oat grass are the healthiest. They can be easily and quickly grown.
They grow even faster on sea
minerals. Because of the salts they also use water more efficiently and therefore need less water to grow. Cereal
grasses can be grown both indoors and outdoors, with soil or without it.
Cereal grasses have a large content of
important
vitamins
, such as pro
-
vitamin A (beta carotene), vitamin B
complex (including B17), vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin K. These vitamins are all i
n organic form. Name
any other food that has this combination of vitamins and minerals! Cereal grasses contain huge quantities of
chlorophyll
. Chloro
phyll is the blood of the plant and is therefore instantly recognized and processed by our
blood, thus (re)vitalizing it.
Cereal grasses are rich in healthy
omega
-
3 fatty acids
. This is why grains are much healthier in their vegetative
state. Once grains get past the grass stage the omega
-
3
fatty acids
change into omega
-
6 fatty acids, the complex
sugars
turn into simple sugars (starch), and proteins called gluten form. Young cereal gras
ses have much more
life energy than the adult plant.
Omega
-
3 fatty acids reduce inflammation and are sadly lacking in our bread and grain culture. Through massive
consumption of cheaply available polyunsaturated fats such as sunflower oil and corn oil ins
tead of healthier
monounsaturated fats and
saturated fats
like olive oil, coconut oil and grass
-
fed butter, we get way too much
omega
-
6 and not
enough omega
-
3. By consuming grass
-
fed meat and dairy or by directly consuming juiced
cereal grasses we can restore this balance and maintain our health.
And not just our health, this goes for the grazers’ health too. Weston Price was a dentist from Clev
eland who
traveled around the world looking for indigenous populations who lived in perfect harmony with nature and ate
no western foods such as white bread, white rice,
sugar
, jam, canned foods, etc. He noticed these people not
only sported fantastic teeth and jaws (without brushing their teeth!) but their overall physical and mental
constitution was unsurpassed.
He took the lessons he learned from the natives t
o the U.S. and wrote
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
in
1939. In this book he speaks highly of young and fast
-
growing cereal grasses. He describes experiments done
with farm animals and concluded that cereal grasses led to unlimited health for the anim
als and with it their
meat and dairy. Price ranks wheat and rye grass among the top cereal grasses. He also mentioned the minerals
in cereal grasses as a key factor and identified vitamins and chlorophyll as important ingredients. We now know
that enzymes
and
amino acids
are also part of the picture.
Like minerals, enzymes and amino acids are activators. They are necessary for the absorption of vitami
ns and
proteins. Enzymes are sensitive to heating, however. Because cereal grasses are offered raw to animals and, as a
juice, to people, both man and animal can benefit from the richness of enzymes and amino acids contained in
cereal grasses.
Cereal gras
s is concentrated
nutrition
and should therefore be regarded as a superfood. Some health benefits of
this grass: cleanses the liver and intestines, purif
ies the blood, stabilizes blood sugar levels, chelates heavy
metals, stimulates hair growth, boosts the immune system and self
-
healing. The great thing is, you don’t need
much of it. A few glasses of juice a day will make your feeling of hunger go away. Th
e grass helps you lose
weight with whole nutrition and you can last longer on it than vegetable or fruit juices when fasting.
But you don’t need to fast to reap the benefits of cereal grasses. Just take 4 ounces of ocean
-
grown wheat grass
juice a day as a
food supplement. If you want to grow cereal grasses either in soil or hydroponically and you
have a TDS meter and concentrated ocean water, use a dilution of 2000 ppm (parts per million). If you don’t
have a TDS meter but you do have unrefined, good quali
ty sea salt simply dissolve a level teaspoon of sea salt
or Himalaya salt into a quart of water. That’s how little you need.
Sea minerals and agriculture
The idea of using diluted sea water as
fertilizer
for soil and plants came from a doctor named Maynard
Murray. He describes the method in his book
Sea Energy Agriculture
(1976), which details 40 years of
research into ocean farming. You can get this b
ook through acresusa.com:
http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?prodid=768&catid=27&pcid=2
Read also Acres USA founder Charles Walters’ book on this subject:
http://www.acresusa.com/boo
ks/closeup.asp?prodid=1317&catid=27&pcid=2
As a young doctor Murray developed an interest in life in the sea. He wondered why plant and animal life was
free from disease in the sea and why land life, including humans, was not. He also found that life in
a healthy
sea environment did not have cell degeneration in the form of aging and that sea life reached twice the size and
age of life on land. He soon discovered that it must be the minerals in the sea. All of the earth’s minerals are
concentrated in sea
water.
Murray had some connections with the Navy and had samples taken from all of the world’s seas. Analyses
showed that all sea water contains the exact same minerals in the exact same proportions. 92 of them have been
identified so far by science (ther
e’s more) and sea water contains all of them in the proper balance. Murray
figured that if sea water contains all of the planet’s minerals and covers 70% of the earth’s surface it should be
possible to recycle sea water on the 30% land mass we live on and
fertilize land crops and soils with it.
His theory was that the minerals in the sea originally came from land and were washed into the sea through
rainfall and snow. Underwater volcano eruptions are also responsible for minerals in the sea. By using sea
m
inerals as a fertilizer you’re using the natural balance of minerals in sea water and performing agriculture in
perfect harmony with nature. The sea contains an infinite source of minerals and rainfall and snow eventually
cause them to wash back out to the
sea. You are therefore not depleting the oceans while at the same time
preserving land soil for depletion. Think also of the life energy and information you are giving to the soil.
Maynard Murray’s book isn’t called
Sea Energy Agriculture
for nothing.
He
had the Navy ship sea water inland in large tank trucks. Friendly farmers willing to partake in his
experiments donated entire acres of land. After fertilization with diluted sea water the crops showed tremendous
growth, they could be harvested sooner, th
ey were of exceptional quality and disease
-
free. Pesticides weren’t
necessary as the job of insects is to clean up only the weaker crops
–
which is saying something about modern
commercial NPK methods which only deplete soils of minerals and trace elements
.