T. J. Clark Gallon Legendary Phytogenic Mineral Formula, developed from plant-source minerals specifically to supplement the balance of the body's natural chemical production. This time-tested, health renewing mineral formula contains up to 70 of the 94 naturally occurring elements, including all of the essential minerals, in trace amounts. * Trace minerals are so important that the lack of trace minerals quite possibly is the primary cause of disease within Western culture today. ** Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain the necessary minerals from food because of mineral-deficient soils that are common throughout the world today. It only takes 10 years of intensive farming to exhaust the minerals in any tract of land. The depletion of necessary nutrients by cooking and processing living foods adds to the difficulty in obtaining vital minerals and vitamins from our food. ** Some of the possible benefits of supplementing with our plant-source trace minerals are that it: * aids absorption of vitamins provides balance helps to build and maintain a healthy body can increase flow of vital energy non-toxic enhances our other dietary supplements for maximum bio-availability Individually, trace minerals have been found to be beneficial for a number of health needs, such as: ** building bones and muscle tissue, stimulating the nervous system, also essential for the proper utilization of calcium (boron) regulating the breakdown of sugar and carbohydrates (chromium) helps form red blood cells and maintain nerve tissue (cobalt) strengthening bones and teeth (fluoride) regulating the thyroid (iodine) stimulates a healthy immune system (iron) fighting cancer cells (manganese) essential for protein synthesis and a healthy nervous system (molybdenum) destroying free radicals with vitamin E (selenium) antibiotic capabilities (sulfur) helping wounds heal, production of white blood cells (zinc) Together, the plant derived trace minerals not only provide the benefits of each individual element, but they work together to provide the proper balance in our systems.* **Source: Some of the above information was taken from the articles "Minding our Minerals" written by Mark Crawford and "The Healing Miracle of Green Food" written by David Sandoval.