What Are the Main Functions of Minerals in the Body?

Minerals are important for your body to stay healthy. Your body uses minerals for many different jobs, including keeping your bones, muscles, heart, and brain working properly. Minerals are also important for making enzymes and hormones. Minerals play important roles in maintaining blood pressure, fluid & electrolyte balance, and bone health; making new cells; delivering oxygen to cells; and contributing to normal muscle and nerve functioning. Minerals are widely distributed in foods, with specific minerals being found in certain foods.

Minerals are broken into two categories:

Macrominerals: Your body requires larger amounts to reap the benefits. They include calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride and sulfur.
Trace Minerals: Just a small amount will make a big difference in your health. They include iron, manganese, copper, iodine, zinc, cobalt, fluoride and selenium.

Energy Production

You require oxygen to produce energy that is necessary for every bodily function and process. Red blood cells or erythrocytes, carry oxygen to each of your infinite cells, where it is used to generate energy. Red blood cells contain a heme or iron component that binds to oxygen so that it can be transported. Without the iron molecules, oxygen could not be attached to the blood cells and the body would not be able to produce the energy necessary for life. Iron is an essential mineral, and failing to get enough from your diet can lead to a condition called anemia, which causes weakness and fatigue. This mineral is primarily found in the blood, and it is also stored in your liver, spleen, bone marrow and muscles.

Bone and Tooth Health

Your skeleton provides motility, protection and support for the body. It also stores minerals and other nutrients. Though they appear hard and unyielding, your bones are actually constantly being reabsorbed and reformed by your body. Several minerals make up the lattice architecture of your bones. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in your body and is found in your bones and blood. Along with the minerals phosphorus and magnesium, calcium gives your bones strength and density. This mineral also builds and maintains strong, healthy teeth. Calcium deficiency due to poor nutrition or illness can lead to osteoporosis, a condition in which the bones become brittle and less dense, increasing the risk of fractures.

Nerve and Muscle Function

Potassium is found in bananas, dates, tomatoes, green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits and legumes such as lentils. This nutrient is important to keep muscles and the nervous system functioning normally. Potassium helps to maintain the correct water balance in the cells of your nerves and muscles. Without this essential mineral, your nerves could not generate an impulse to signal your body to move, and the muscles in your heart, organs and body would not be able to contract and flex.

Immune Health

Some minerals such as calcium are needed in large quantities, while others such as zinc are only needed in trace amounts. Zinc is an essential mineral that is important for keeping your immune system strong and helps your body fight infections, heal wounds and repair cells. Selenium is also needed in small amounts for immune health. A deficiency of selenium has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and even some types of cancers.

The Health Benefits of Herbs:

Spices and herbs have been in use for centuries both for culinary and medicinal purposes. Spices not only enhance the flavor, aroma, and color of food and beverages, but they can also protect from acute and chronic diseases.

More Americans are considering the use of spices and herbs for medicinal and therapeutic/remedy use, especially for various chronic conditions. There is now ample evidence that spices and herbs possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumorigenic, anticarcinogenic, and glucose- and cholesterol-lowering activities as well as properties that affect cognition and mood. Research over the past decade has reported on the diverse range of health properties that they possess via their bioactive constituents, including sulfur-containing compounds, tannins, alkaloids, phenolic diterpenes, and vitamins, especially flavonoids and polyphenols.

The true power of herbs lies in their wealth of protective polyphenols, which are plant compounds with potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. Piles of studies show that polyphenols in herbs help combat such diseases as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and more. Polyphenols are anti-microbial, so they can help protect us from harmful bacteria as well.

Sea Moss & Bladderwrack:

It’s Electrik offers a variety of herb and mineral formulas that provide overall nutrition for the body, as well as wellness and healing properties for a variety of ailments. Two of our most powerful products are essential to providing the body with sufficient minerals that are necessary for boosting the immune system, and reducing inflammation. Our sea moss gel, and sea moss and bladderwrack capsules are the perfect option for anyone looking for a natural equivalent of a multi-vitamin.

The sea moss gel is beneficial because it’s consistency also aids with digestion, can be mixed into foods and liquids, and even used on skin!

The bladderwrack and sea moss capsules provides a powerhouse multi-vitamin that contains 92 out of the 102 minerals that the body needs, as well as provides relief for arthritis, joint pain, heartburn, blood cleansing, constipation, bronchitis, emphysema, urinary tract disorders, anxiety, and much more!

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