Articles Rgarding Importantce Of Minerals And Effects Of Food Depletion

Excerpts From Acres USA Article Archives [Note: symbol  added for emphasis] A Pantheon of Minerals Nature’s Sunken Treasure for Health, Fertility by Charles Walters Readouts from high-priced instruments tell us that ocean water contains 92 elements — give or take a few, depending on location near ocean vents and extraction methods — which appear as the first 92 entries of Mendeleyev’s periodic table…. The point here is that everything on Earth finds its way into the nutritional center of gravity, the ocean. The connection between enzymes and specific minerals has been made in only a few cases. The full inventory of knowledge awaits discovery. For now it is enough to supply a few notes simply to make the point that a shortage or marked imbalance of trace nutrients means malnutrition, bacterial, fungal and viral attack, debilitation and the onset of degenerative metabolic diseases. It is a shortage that best defines our situation. Elsewhere I have discussed the inability of hybrids to pick up trace nutrients even if they are present in the soil. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that too often the traces simply are not there. Soil scientists can test in vain for cobalt, a trace nutrient generally farmed out and totally missing in almost all American soils. Yet cobalt is essential if brucellosis in cattle and undulant fever in human beings is to be prevented. At numbers 23 and 24 of the periodic table, you’ll see vanadium and chromium. These are the keys to enzymes that determine glucose tolerance. A deficiency of chromium has been implicated in low blood sugar, hyperglycemia and finally diabetes. There may be more to the story. Since about the end of World War II, many municipalities have added sodium fluoride in one form or another to the drinking water, this on the theory that it strengthens the apatite in teeth. Fluoride is one of four halogens: fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. Fluorine trumps iodine, for which reason iodine often does not make it to the thyroid, and thyroxin is not produced. Without thyroxin, sugar metabolism

becomes a non-event. This deficit in being able to handle sugar is exacerbated by a sugar overbalance in the diet, which has increased from about five pounds per capita in the 1930s to 135 pounds per capita at the present time. The chromium molecule is required to burn fat, and chromium is simply missing from the soil and food supplements due to unavailability. The chromium molecule is also a demanded element in muscle construction. Both chromium and vanadium function badly as synthetics. They function best when delivered by plant life, especially by grass. Sulfur is a nemesis of cancer. Sharks concentrate ocean sulfur in their bodies, which is why some entrepreneurs offer shark cartilage to consumers. There are problems with all the recognized major nutrients and their tendency to achieve excess status with relevant cures that are worse than the cause. Just the same, it should be pointed out that sulfur protects the myelin sheath over nerve endings. It is thus an insurance policy against multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and even Lou Gherig’s disease. Synthetic sulfur may be toxic, but as it appears in ocean water, it has no side effects and no taste. Sulfur supplements are compounds, always inorganic compounds. The side effects can be devastating. Sulfur as it arrives in grass is organic, totally digestible. Sulfur compounds put on restaurant salads and in wine often cause allergic reactions, as evidenced by ringing perspiration around the collar and on the forehead, even breathing difficulty. The sulfur served up by grass grown on a diet of ocean solids scavenges free radicals, blunts food allergies, assists the liver in producing bile, adjusts pH, and assists in the production of insulin, sugar metabolism. Se, Mendeleyev number 34, is selenium. That short measure of selenium delivered by oceangrown grass may be the lifetime protection against cancer. It’s an antioxidant. It traps unstable molecules and prevents damage. It helps confer immunity to viruses when ingested in nature’s prescribed amount. There is research that suggests protection from neurotoxins. The mechanism has been identified. Selenium is used by the body to construct an enzyme that detoxifies staphs and

builds immunity. Unfortunately, selenium is generally missing in row crop soils except in some Western regions, where it appears in toxic overloads. Selenium is implicated in muscular dystrophy, myalgia, cystic fibrosis, irregular heartbeat, Lou Gherig’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Sudden Death Syndrome and many other abnormalities, sickle cell anemia and cancer included. There’s more, namely, the nature of fat metabolism. The food industry no longer likes butter. It wants shelf life and therefore uses synthetic fats that do not melt at body temperature. This single fact also defines such compounds as rancid fats filled to the brim with free radicals. Selenium is best able to deal with the rancid fats that have come to infect — yes, infect — our diet and its overload of free radicals. We can digress to identify role and function, just the same. Suffice it to say that viruses often inhabit the human system, sheltered from the immune system, often staying on for an opportunity to perform mischief years later. Various viruses and bacteria bow only to minerals that deal with the problem. These minerals have to be organic in the strict meaning of the term. They have to have a carbon passenger, ergo water soluble and of a size that permits transport not only into plants, but into the hiding places perceived to be unreachable by medicines. That trace of silver in ocean water interdicts the activity of a virus that weakens a cell and turns it anaerobic. The cancer cell, for example, is not aerobic and oxygen consuming — it has turned itself anaerobic and finally goes into wild proliferation. The virus isn’t alone in effecting cancer mischief. Parasites figure, as do toxins and pH levels at variance with human requirements. That is why ocean silver and zinc are so effective in preserving health. The law of homeostasis has decreed that these minerals are to be excreted if not required. Move down the periodic table a bit and you’ll encounter copper, number 29. This mineral annihilates all parasites and intestinal worms. Entire texts have been written about parasites, some of them essential, most of them not. According to Hulda Clark, fully 97 or 98 percent of the American

people are loaded with immune system-debasing parasites that take for themselves nutrition basically needed for health. This nutrient is either deficient or missing in the boxed foods sold across grocery store counters. The texts tells us that a copper shortage is often implicated in weight gain, cancer, a raft of allergies, high blood pressure and, yes, weight loss. These little copper-stealing creatures sail in the river of food and defy detection because of their size and metabolic duplicity. The placental barrier saves infants from many distress factors, but it can be breached by an overload of farm chemicals, mercury, atomic fallout and even malnutrition. Research is always indicated, but the promoters of ocean-grown wheat or rye grass are probably well within their mark when they point to copper and the array of minerals in ocean water and ocean-grown grass. Zinc’s association with copper is too well known to permit delay in presenting these few notes. Water, of course, is H2O — hydrogen and oxygen. The mere mention of oxygen suggests ozone and serves up the medical definition that ozone is a poisonous gas with no known medical use. A distinction has to be made: Nature’s ozone, like nature’s oxygen, is pure as the driven snow and both safe and efficacious. Ozone produced by high-voltage machinery is a nitric oxide acid gas. Most commercial machines produce a harmful gas. Ocean water does not create nitrous oxide. This is merely an aside and a warning to those who seek shortcuts via machines, when the real shortcut is daily use of wheat or ryegrass juice, especially juice from plants grown with ocean water. Oxygen is absolutely necessary for digestion. Silver is a trace mineral that rarely finds a plant list, simply because it isn’t there, at least not in soils. Its role in stomping out infections has been recognized by food supplement suppliers and now enjoys a brisk trickle. Organic silver requires a carbon component not generally available in inorganic supplements. Mere mention of one nutrient does not extinguish the requirement for another. The efficacy of silver in combating Candida albicans does not rule out the even better efficiency of raw garlic for the same purpose…. You will note that fluoride is missing from Mendeleyev’s table. Actually, there is no such thing as fluoride. There is a gas called fluorine. Combined with iron, it becomes stanis fluoride, a compound;

combined with sodium, it becomes sodium fluoride. Both are said to assist the apatite crystals in teeth to harden. The idea is bogus and merely a device for unloading a waste product from the aluminum and phosphate industries into the water supply. The ocean does not construct these compounds, and fluoride is not taken up by wheatgrass grown in ocean water. The fluoride touted by dentists is a compound that turns stomach acids into fluoric acid. This particular acid is available in many grocery stores to take out rust stains in clothing. Sodium fluoride cancels out over 100 enzyme functions. The late John Yiamouyiannis attributed up to 50,000 deaths per annum by cancer to this contaminant. The single factor that separates the useful from the useless is carbon. Carbon makes a mineral organic. The inorganic iron in processed foods is not easily assimilated. The worst-case scenario is hemochromostasis, a fatal disease, or iron supplement disease. Much the same is true when inorganic copper gets into the bloodstream, where it causes Wilson’s disease, schizophrenia, the JekyllHyde syndrome, enzyme shutdown and digestive failure. Copper and iron are not copper and iron if they are not organic. People often suffer aneurisms even though tests show they are full of inorganic copper, this because of a copper shortage. Even lead and mercury have their organic forms and arrive as harmless ingredients in plants. As heavy metals, they are among the most ubiquitous nonradioactive contaminants on planet Earth. Mercury in Portland cement and plastics is a hazard. That fog on the car window on a hot day is created by mercury vapor escaping the plastic. It visits degenerative conditions too numerous to mention on mankind, yet mercury and lead are listed as organic elements in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. They are found naturally in plants and animals and ocean water, even though we are loathe to list them. Confusion reigns supreme when human beings doctor themselves with compounds that pretend to supply missing nutrients. Calcium carbonate is a good horrible example. Calcium carbonate is simply one calcium, one carbon, three oxygens — better known as a blackboard chalk. It takes super-big activity to rescue this metabolic contaminant before the system can use the calcium. Usually it doesn’t happen, and the chalk goes down the tube without

any beneficial results. Muscle and leg cramps are a consequence of calcium depletion. Using blackboard chalk for a calcium source delivers osteoporosis. Simply stated, calcium carbonate is inorganic and not water soluble. Suffice it to say that most processed foods such as orange juice, cereals, etc., are loaded with this form of calcium. Ocean calcium is of a different stripe. It is perfect for plant assimilation, a crown jewel in the pantheon of essentials in the soil, the plant and the human being. The business of counting elements — chromium picolanate, for instance — means making a complex molecular compound. This is the modus operandi for creating many health food supplements and all new drugs. The suggestion that the product is delivering an element leaves unstated the fact that side effects and reverse effect are always a legacy and frequently a debilitating consequence. If this connection calls into question copper glutamate, zinc, pecolanate, vanadium picolanate and other complex molecular products, so be it. Blood vessels clogged by calcium are legion, as are triple and quadruple bypass surgeries because of blackboard chalk in the food supply and the absence of organic calcium in food crops. Mere mention of these facts calls into question the recommended daily allowance (RDA). We ask and leave unanswered the question whether tests establishing RDA were accomplished with calcium carbonate or organic calcium! The first element listed in our elemental inventory is H, hydrogen. Ascorbic acid equals hydrogen in a useable form. Too little hydrogen equals scurvy. Hydrogen is antagonistic to oxygen and leaves the latter element developing a shortfall of cellular oxygen. A short digression may be in order. Grind grain, make it into bread, and you invite acidity. Let the grain sprout, then make bread, and the result is more alkalinity, a higher pH. Cooking food tends to lower pH because it destroys enzymes. As pH declines, the ability of the body to absorb nutrients is diminished, leading to deficiency and disease. The pandemic of obesity, now an inescapable fact of American life, is a consequence of low pH in the food supply, among other factors. Viral diseases,

cancer parasites, all gain permission for mischief from low-pH acidosis. Cell division and blood clotting depend on minerals. They keep DNA and RNA activity at the cellular and subcellular level. They make vitamins possible. It is axiomatic that scientists can make vitamins, but they can’t make minerals any more than they can make ocean water. A full complement of minerals makes it possible for the body to self-regulate and self-repair its way out of most afflictions. Linus Pauling, the only person so far to win two unshared Nobel prizes, once pointed out that you can trace every illness, every disease and every infection to some mineral deficiency. Any mineral deficiency always means there are even more mineral deficiencies waiting in the wings. It is equally true that most of the major degenerative diseases have been developed in test animals by withholding or manipulating critical trace minerals. These minerals have been scoured from agricultural sites over the last two centuries just as surely as if they had been vacuumed out of a family room carpet. The shocking absence of cobalt and chromium from New Jersey soils was recorded early last century by George H. Earp-Thomas. The issue of missing trace minerals and their role in plant and animal health consumed the working lifetime of William A. Albrecht at the University of Missouri. It also enriched the archives of Friends of the Land at Louis Bromfield’s Malabar Farm in Ohio. Many of the great professors of the 1930s and 1940s amassed agronomic knowledge right up to 1949, when toxic rescue chemistry became established orthodoxy and agriculture was sent reeling into an uncertain world. There is a mineral called molybdenum. Its function is to expunge waste from the body. Unfortunately, it is generally missing — as though it went down under with beryllium when the asteroid collided with Earth. The only source seems to be ocean water.

Briefly, the anatomy of disease control and reversal of degenerative metabolic diseases is seated in the organic mineral diet and the vitamins controlled and dispensed by nutrients. Thus, magnesium walks hand-in-hand with calcium. They go together like ham and eggs. The lack of one diminishes the role of the other. None of these problems are easily solved with a handful of pills, but all bow to all the minerals in the right form. Magnesium cancels out migraine headaches. This is merely an aside, a hint at the complexity of nature’s demands and a recipe for meeting these demands. The pharmacy pretends to have drugs for asthma, anorexia, neuromuscular problems, depression, tremors, vertigo, organ calcification, etc., all when magnesium is the shortage. There is no need for calcium blockers or the alchemy of synthetic medication. The point here is that there is an absolute shortage of minerals in the food supply. The wheatgrass juice that Ann Wigmore developed seems to be a final benediction and absolution for the transgressors of civilization. There are mysteries in the ocean we hardly dare mention. Consider that 20 percent of the Earth’s surface contains gold, organic gold. There isn’t enough of it to justify setting up an extracting operation, but ocean water has enough of a trace to make a few suggestions. The literature suggests gold’s offering in battling alcohol addiction, natural problems, circulatory problems — indeed a raft of anomalies that could fill this page. Its presence in ocean water is not a curse, rather a gift no less treasured than was that gold delivered by the magi. Gold’s assent in achieving deep sleep is a staple in folk medicine, albeit one ratified by research and modern experience. Platinum also appears on Mendeleyev’s table, at number 78. If anything, the presence of platinum in ocean water is even more fortuitous than its gold content. It figures in dealing with PMS, circulation and cancer. It enhances the ability to sleep and sparks daytime energy. Here again, ocean particle sizes contribute to efficiency as well as balance. These few notes merely hint at the vast complexity contained in energy from the ocean. It has been reported that silver annihilates no less than 650 viruses. It does this because of the valence charge

that surrounds resistant molecules when silver is present and able to assert itself. Even though silver kills viruses and anaerobic bacteria, it never harms the friendly fellows, the aerobic bacteria. It will be noted that the most effective burn ointments are silver-based. Many elements have rated mention in this article. Others bask in silence. We do not know all the answers, or even the questions: Henry Schroeder, in writing The Trace Elements and Man, suggested another 400 years would be required to discern the role of each mineral if the present rate of discovery is maintained. Maynard Murray and Edward Howell calculated equal time for enzymes, knowledge of which is enlarged every day. While we wait, the ocean abides, and ocean-grown grass waits in the wings for those with the wit to use it. Health from the Ocean Deep A New Approach to Holistic Healing with Sea Minerals & Herbs Gerry Amena Twenty-two years ago I was crippled with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. My vertebrae had taken a lot of punishment when I was working in the building industry, using cement. In those days there was no Redi-Mix available to the public. The three vertebrae at the bottom of my spine were completely worn — they were grinding along on each other, all the cartilage was gone. They wanted to fuse them together and I didn’t like that idea, and then sea minerals came on the market for griculture. I bought a 44-gallon drum of it and I started using it on my plants. After three weeks I could see an enormous difference in the plants and then one day I was spraying the tomatoes and imagined them urging me, “Take some, take some!” I get very close contact with my plants, and so I started taking the sea minerals. In three weeks I noticed a difference, after 12 months I went to the doctor again and had another X-ray, and he found all that cartilage between my vertebrae that had been worn away, is now all restored. [This was just plain seawater?] No, sea minerals. They are reduced to 1 percent of the original solution’s weight, most of the salt is taken out, and

the water is evaporated by the sunlight — it takes about three months. One gallon of these sea minerals is equal to the minerals and base elements of 100 gallons of seawater. Very potent, very strong. Most of the salt, which is crystallized on the top layers, is taken out and used as cooking salt and things like that — but those minerals, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s unbelievable…. Ocean water is the richest life sustainable and life enhancing source of ionic — water soluble — minerals, both macro and trace. Just look at the abundance and variety of life forms that it supports! Ocean water is the perfect catalyst for life. Oceanographers and other scientists estimate that there are some 2 to 10 million life forms yet to be discovered. A fetus, the wonder of life, develops in a mother’s uterus, suspended in a solution not unlike ocean water. Blood plasma — the fluid of blood, minus the red cells — is chemically almost identical to ocean water. These similarities are not a coincidence. Ocean water is truly the means for life. [So the trace minerals are what make ocean water so important for nutrition and health?] Yes, and especially the concentration and balance of elements suspended in it. This incredible balance of elements in our oceans is governed by nature and is perfect, and as such, supports life. Waters like the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake contain elements so concentrated that you could count the number of life forms these bodies of water support on one hand. [Then the full range of minerals is essential?] All creatures require a balance of both macro and trace minerals to function. The levels and balance of minerals in man is not governed by nature. The minerals are either present or not in our foods, including the water we drink. The advent of modern agriculture and food processing has led to a severe decline in the levels of vital minerals in our food, causing a deficiency of minerals in our bodily fluids. Even organic food is not exempt from this, as our topsoil now is almost barren of minerals. Our drinking water has also been affected because of water purification and filtering. Although these methods are viable ways of removing harmful pathogens from our water, the processes also remove the already low levels of minerals and trace elements.

In the Beginning Was the Gene Tracking Down the Roles of Trace Nutrients Richard Olree [Ed. Note: This is an EXTREMELY important article and a MUST read!] [Dr. Henry Schroeder in his book Trace Minerals and Man says that unless the pace of discovery is increased, it will take another 400 years before we understand what the role is of all these various trace nutrients on Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table — yet you seem to have discovered every one of them. Can you explain how you did it?] With the sequencing of the human genome, which was done by two separate entities, they’ve basically have got approximately 98 percent of the human genome decoded or deciphered, and they know how these amino acid sequencings are now put together. While studying this, it came to me that through the use of a mineral chart produced in 1926 by Dr. Walter Russell — in which where he had predicted the existence of 22 sub-atomic particles — I had a source of mathematical expression that could be overlaid on the standard genetic chart. [Each of these aminos, when you sequence it, leads you to the key trace nutrient for each of the enzymes, is that correct?] Yes. It came to me that DNA, which is basically four minerals — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, attached to a phosphorus molecule, which is the backbone — have to be arranged and rearranged in such a way that the proteins developed from these basic minerals have the ability to come in contact with every mineral known on the Periodic Table and either utilize it and excrete it, utilize it and store it for future use, or immediate expulsion if it’s not a mineral that the body or the living organism can handle. [Which we’ve always said was under homeostatic control.] That is correct, and homeostatic control has some very narrow limits. When the construct of DNA through messenger iron A is being expressed, for example, these proteins have to take on a threedimensional structure within a gravitational field. The Earth provides the gravitational field, but the amino acids must have certain unique characteristics in terms of electromagnetic energy. Thus, the DNA extracts the various frequencies

from the minerals to allow the DNA construct to have a three-dimensional structure. [Agronomic science has always held that there were certain minerals that were key, or what they called “essential,” but as we examine your standard genetic chart, we find that probably all of the minerals have a role. This leads us to the question — which are the most important?] There are some minerals we use a lot more than others, but any mineral found attached to an amino acid on the new standard genetic chart are important. There are some key ones that you just simply cannot do without. Magnesium would be a good example. If you don’t have magnesium, you can’t make chlorophyll. If you can’t make chlorophyll, you can’t get the bottom of the food chain fired up. When the sun hits the earth and creates the chlorophyll molecule, the center of that molecule is magnesium. Without magnesium you don’t have chlorophyll. Without chlorophyll there isn’t anything else that really can exist other than a few nano-bacteria that live in the bottom of the ocean — they live off of sulfur instead of sunlight as a source of energy. Another key mineral is selenium. Up until 1980 selenium was generally thought of as a toxin. In early research with vitamin E they kept coming up with an “unknown factor.” They knew there was a factor out there that triggered the use of vitamin E and allowed cows with mastitis to become much healthier and their somatic count would come down, but it wasn’t until 1973 that the World Health Organization actually rubberstamped the use of selenium as a vitamin E activator. At that point, only cows were getting selenium supplements — it wasn’t until 1979 or so that selenium hit the scene in the health food stores and people started taking it as a supplement. When it first came out, I already had quite an understanding of it through my study of minerals and subatomic particles — I knew its importance. In fact, I was sometimes accused of poisoning people because they had told their medical doctor that I recommended selenium supplementation. The doctor would look it up in one of the 1960 dictionaries where it was listed as a toxic, hazardous mineral. I was doing my best to doctor people, yet being accused of poisoning them by using something as basic as selenium. Another very important mineral is iodine. Iodine has a tremendous impact on the metabolic rate of all human beings. Any variation of an iodine problem via the thyroid can quickly produce very serious

health effects in any life form — and long-term effects, as well. [What happens if you don’t have selenium in your diet at the appropriate levels?] The symptomatology is not like that of other vitamins and minerals where you can see that a patient is totally deficient. Selenium deficiencies are very subtle: chronic viral infection and dandruff (the hair shampoo Selsun Blue, as in “selenium blue,” uses selenium sulfide as its active ingredient) are examples of a person low on selenium. Fluid on the inner ear is an example of a selenium deficiency. Maintaining adequate selenium levels throughout your life means you probably won’t get cancer. There are tumor-suppressing genes in our bodies that seek out and try to eliminate any cell that mutates during replication, and the chances of having a few mismatched pairs of chromosomes and abnormalities are very great because the body makes over 20 million cells every day to replace dead cells. The tumor-suppressing genes, in particular P53 and P76 and P36, are scanners of our internal environment to make sure that any newly made cell is an exact copy of what it has to replace. When these genes do not do their job and cells that are mutated slip under the radar and get put to work, they’ll eventually turn into cancer cells. The other critically important relationship for selenium is to the mineral we previously spoke of, iodine. Your body cannot make the necessary thyroid hormones using iodine alone. It recruits selenium to do the job, and many people who show “normal” thyroid conditions on a blood sample can have serious thyroid problems strictly from lack of selenium. [What’s the role of fluorine as a halogen-governing iodine? Wouldn’t that inhibit the uptake of iodine?] That’s correct. Iodine and fluorine operate on the same electron valence, except that fluorine is kind of like the mouthy little brother and the baby of the family who wants his way. When he gets his way, it’s usually wrong. The fluorine molecule is attracted to the thyroid, and the body does attempt to utilize the fluorine molecule in the production of thyroxin, but it does it very unsuccessfully and shuts down most of the thyroid’s chemical pathways when fluorine is introduced in excessive levels in iodine deficiency conditions. [How many pathways does fluoride actually inhibit?] As I understand it, there are more than 72

known chemical pathways that get shut off when the administration of fluoride is high enough to interfere with thyroid metabolism. [Which would be at the level of one part per million?] I think that one part per million — which is currently allowable in drinking water — is a crime. I don’t really believe that one part per million is an accurate assessment for total body health. It’s an accurate assessment for the fluoride industry to sell fluoride to water systems — to get rid of the stuff. As we both know, the fluoride that’s used is a byproduct of the phosphorus industry. [We have the danger of radiation gradually drifting out of Iraq because of the metals they’re using in the war. We’re told that this toxic depleted uranium is going clear around the envelope of air over the Earth. What can people do to protect themselves from this excess radiation that we’re experiencing?] The standard way of protecting yourself from a nuclear blast is to make sure you have potassium iodine pills. If the big one goes off, you eat all this potassium iodine and it just drags the radiation right through your system. The backup system to forcefed potassium iodine in severe, acute radioactive poisoning is a mineral called boron. In the entire table of elements, including subatomic particles, there is only one mineral that is capable of accepting and ionizing radiation that never changes the innards or the nucleus of the cell — boron. The protons and the neutrons do not change under any conditions in the boron molecule. Boron can take radiation and release it without upsetting this very delicate balance. That makes it an excellent candidate to have into your system, whether the radiation be from excessive sunlight or spent uranium that’s being ionized and released into the atmosphere. When that mineral is present in your system, your DNA creates a much better buffering system to ward off radiation. Even when chromosome breaks do occur, they are much more easily repaired and maintained by the system. [The chemicals that many people farm with are what they call radiomimetic, meaning they ape the nature of radiation. They are ionized chemicals that have a terrible effect on the human system when

exposed. Would boron be of assistance to people who endure that kind of exposure?] Definitely, we would want to use boron and definitely selenium. Those two minerals are of the utmost importance for DNA maintenance. [What other minerals have you encountered in working out your standard genetic chart?] Some of the lesser-known minerals would include cesium, a much heavier metal than sodium and potassium. When I’ve done sequencing in the ability to make these tumor-suppressing proteins and wake up the body’s immune system, cesium seems to have quite an important role in the production of immuneenhancing protein storage in that genetic code. Using the overlay in comparison to the standard genetic code chart, as I explained earlier, cesium seems to have quite a profound affect on the function of the kidneys, along with sodium. I also believe that if you have enough cesium in your system, it prevents sodium from getting out of control. Many people have to avoid salt because it causes hypertension, but cesium is like the big brother to sodium — it allows it to do its job but helps keep it manageable. When we eat too much table salt — which is a very inorganic form of sodium — we tend to get hardening of the arteries, which drives blood pressure up. This isn’t the case with sodium that’s from an organic source, say from goat whey. [Would cesium lower blood pressure, is that what you’re saying?] Cesium will have a stabilizing affect on the kidneys, and any problems that you have with the kidneys can be lessened. One of my patients was using the cesium Eniva in excess of two years to stabilize some faulty kidney function. The kidneys healed just fine, and she’s been off the cesium now for a year and a half. Another trace mineral, one that I think will be recognized in the next 10 to 15 years as being just as important as selenium, is called yttrium. There’s only one book on it in terms of a database of knowledge — Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium, by Dr. Chaim T. Horovitz. He lays out a very compelling case for taking a look at your yttrium and scandium levels. I had to wrestle with this mineral for a couple of years because when I was developing this biological chart, I thought I’d be able to do my research on yttrium through an Internet search. I was very sadly mistaken — there really wasn’t anything other than two or three articles in the

public medicine library. A very interesting one described some Chinese geneticist who had put a form of yttrium in the water supply of their favorite lab animals — rats, I believe. When they later analyzed these rats, it wasn’t yttrium they found in the body — instead they found much higher concentrations of selenium in the brain, the testicles, the kidney, liver and spleens. I found that to be a very interesting little tidbit of information. On the standard genetic chart we have placed yttrium at the UGA termination code, whereas some geneticists are currently under the impression that the UGA is occupied by selenium. This, I believe, is an inaccurate assessment. Selenium is the only mineral that current geneticists have been able to tie to a standard genetic chart. Our chart has all 64 — the geneticists’ table has only one, and it’s my contention that it might not even be in the right spot, since they haven’t explored this enough yet. [This yttrium administered to the test animals in China — how long did they live?] They didn’t measure lifespan. But the research of Chaim T. Horovitz on scandium and yttrium uncovered that test animals given a daily injection of yttrium in the same location on the belly never produced redness, never produced soreness, never appeared to be sick from it in any way. But they had to wait quite a long time to do full analysis on the lab animals, which lived three times their normal lifespan. One of the findings was that this yttrium wasn’t expelled through the skin or through the lungs — such as, say, trillium with the smell of garlic — it wasn’t expelled through the kidneys, either. All of this yttrium, they discovered, was shuttled to the intestinal tract. I had to wrestle with this finding. If this yttrium is such an important molecule on the standard genetic chart — and it’s an extremely important metal in terms of RNA direction to the cell to make individual proteins. When DNA instructs messengers to copy a piece of some chromosome, to push it out into the cell and make something, there’s always one starting point, and that’s methionine. There are three stopping points called termination codes. The genetic code chart lays out that hydrogen would govern one termination code, sulfur which would govern another termination code, and yttrium governs the third. Since those lab animals lived three times their normal lifespan, it became apparent that the administration of yttrium allowed for more complete DNA expression. When proteins are to be

made and the yttrium’s termination code is called for, or the UGA termination code is called for, but you don’t have yttrium or yttrium byproducts, then this would relate to what’s called incomplete protein synthesis. [Where does this yttrium come to rest?] I like to call this a fishing expedition. I say to myself, “You’ve got to find out what’s in that intestinal tract that would be using this yttrium.” After having a computer program written that would take the protein sequences and reanalyze them and give a quantitative amount of how many times each different mineral from the standard genetic chart is used in a protein sequence, I was able to analyze which genes were needed and what the genes need — which type of minerals and how many. In some of these genetic sequences, yttrium seems to be an extremely, extremely important termination code. I began examining the intestinal tract, and found that there is apparently no such thing as a list of probiotics. You can find a list of all the bacteria that can be killed by an antibiotic, but there is no really workable, concrete “probiotic list.” I looked up the word probiotic on the Internet, and I got a list of all the prominent bacteria. Then I took this list, went into the databases, and found which ones had been genetically sequenced. When I ran these protein sequences through my computer program, I found that most of the bacteria in our stomachs that we call probiotics are hydrogen based. Two of them, however — Bifidobacterium longum and Bifidobacterium bifidum — utilize virtually no hydrogen in their termination codes — instead, they utilize a 95 to 99 percent yttrium-based termination code system. [Does that mean that yttrium is an important factor in maintaining digestion?] More precisely, yttrium is an important factor for maintaining the lifecycle of two of our many probiotics, which are essential to digestion. When we feed ourselves, we chew our food into small bits and pieces. We add saliva to it, and our stomach juices mix it up. We have pancreas juices and bile juices. Finally, all the slurry of food that we’ve thrown all these digestive enzymes at goes into our intestinal tract. All we’re doing is feeding a very large population of very hungry bacteria that live off of our food. These bacteria have a life cycle, respiration, intake and excretion — basically, we absorb our bacteria’s excretion. So although yttrium is not absorbed by the human body

per se, its primary role is to support the right type of bacteria in our intestinal tract. [Isn’t this tantamount to saying that it’s giving a signal, an assist to digestion?] That’s correct, and I would say that if you don’t have the right type of bacteria growing in your system, you can experience selective starvation. [Let’s move off of that particular line of thought for a moment and pick up on degenerative metabolic diseases. Things like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) — what is causing these things and how do the trace nutrients figure in it?] The research that I’ve done started with multiple sclerosis, and if it wasn’t for a dear friend of mine, I might have been still groping in the dark in trying to understand the bacterial action of the intestinal tract in relation to yttrium. My friend is suffering severely from multiple sclerosis. He staggered into my office one day and said, “Richard, read this. You’ve got to talk to this guy.” He showed me a 2002 article written by a geneticist whose research had shown that multiple sclerosis was actually nailed down to just two genes that weren’t working right. In the article he says that although we can stick all the raw ingredients into a test tube, we just can’t get this stuff to wrap around a nerve — and of course demyelination, or the loss of the coating of your nerve, is the hallmark of MS. In the article he had listed the two genes in the human genome that were faulty. I nailed down the protein sequences for these genes, I converted them, and to my surprise the number one termination code that was needed was yttrium. I said to myself, “They’re never going to figure this one out because they don’t know what yttrium is.” After that, I started looking at other genetic sequences. Alzheimer’s got my attention because it’s always in the media. Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease, they all seem to be very closely related. In terms of research, you find

that many of the same broken genes appear in all of these various diseases — it’s just a matter of which combination of genes is broken that determines the type of disease process. When I started running the protein sequences for all of these genes, I found that the most needed termination code in the sequences was always yttrium. As a matter of fact, yttrium always fell in the top 10 (out of 64) minerals in terms of need. The body has a priority system. Yttrium falls on the heart meridian, and any yttrium-based polypeptide or amino acid sequences produced by bacteria in the stomach or the intestinal tract is probably going to be used by the heart or the circulatory system before it can be sent to the brain. [Is it the absence of yttrium, or the presence of something else, or a combination?] I think it’s a combination. Boron is the mineral that controls all the positive three valences (that is, ions with a positive three charge) on the whole chart. Yttrium is a positive three mineral. Our food is saturated with another positive three mineral that also happens to be the third-mostabundant mineral on the crust of this Earth (in some places it’s the fourth), and that’s aluminum. Aluminum has crept into our diet over many years. Aluminum seems to be one of the most overabundant contaminant minerals within our diet. Morton table salt, for example, for many years contained sodium chloride which is salt, sodium silico aluminate, which is another salt. This aluminum source would be sprinkled onto all of your food at three meals each day. In the United States, the third leading cause of disability and death among senior citizens is Alzheimer’s, and I think it’s a direct result of the application of aluminum on their food three times a day. Take into account that aluminum is added to many, many municipality water treatment plants because it makes the water clear and sparkly. Add to that the fact that there’s a society that grew up eating out of aluminum pots and pans, and that the majority of the underarm deodorant that we use as a society is an aluminum-based product. [We also have aluminum in baking soda, don’t we?] Yes, it is. In fact it is very hard

to consume foods that don’t contain some form of aluminum. [Especially processed foods.] Insects won’t eat this processed food because I believe that they can sense the aluminum is there. [They may be smarter than we are in this area.] Aluminum toxicity is a serious problem. The number one contaminant falling from the sky is sulfur, a sulfur trioxide compound that comes out of our cars and our catalytic converters. In the clouds this sulfur trioxide turns to sulfur dioxide, which rains down on the ground, where the sulfuric acid mineral takes aluminum from a solid state — a state in which it’s been locked for millions and millions and millions of years — to a liquid. As a result we have what’s called acidic lakes, and the aluminum gets into the tiniest of life forms. If you’re a crawdad living in a lake, for example, and a blast of liquid aluminum comes into your water supply, the crawdad suffers hypoxia because the nerve from the gills to the brain are neutralized and respiration stops — much like the way your underarm deodorant kills the nerves to your sweat glands. Any living organism from the bottom up that comes into contact with this liquid aluminum suffers a heavy toll on its life process. As with other minerals in the body, an excess of one leads to a deficiency in another — for example, if you increase your potassium, your sodium drops, and vice versa. There’s a see-saw effect with these minerals. The addition of excessive amounts of aluminum into your system will promote the growth of bacteria that require aluminum — and there are many bacteria that do require aluminum. Remember that aluminum is the third- or fourth-most-abundant element in the soil, and one tablespoon of soil has over 10,000 different species of bacteria. Our bellies are growing many of these bacteria, as well, and excess aluminum means overproduction of aluminumbased bacteria and consequently —

yttrium and boron being alternate positive three minerals — the scale tips and it will suppress, if not eliminate, the growth of yttrium-based bacteria. The final result is neurodegenerative disease. [And nursing homes that are warehouses for all kinds of people whose bodies are still fairly good but whose minds are gone.] The circulatory system functions just great, but there’s nobody home because the body has gone into a preservation mode to keep it working — the circulation system. Yet there are not enough of the yttrium-based polypeptides or proteins to spare the brain continuous regeneration, so the brain goes into deterioration. [Before we close this down, maybe you could share a word of information on subatomic particles. Most of us like to think in terms of things that are seen and unseen, yet here are particles that really don’t have a physical presence as we understand it.] Subatomic particles got my interest when I was first introduced to the Walter Russell Periodic Chart in 1977 while attending chiropractic school. I just had a gut feeling that this man was right and that these subatomic particles existed…. He wrote a book called Atomic Suicide? (1955) in which he used his chart that he had developed in 1926. It was his goal to explain to the world what the atomic age meant — what the use of all this radiation was going to do. He tried to explain it to the people who were in cancer institutes using radium and cerium and these extremely heavy metals to try to cure the carbon molecule of its problem. They thought the answer was at the heavy end of the spectrum instead of the light end of the spectrum, and Russell wanted to let people know that when you put leaded gasoline into your tractor, you are then putting lead in the field, and that lead will end up in the food chain. He wanted to stop the proliferation of nuclear power plants and stop the proliferation of the atomic age. He didn’t want to see people annihilate themselves, either on a daily basis or in a sudden mass extinction. He includes his periodic chart that theorized the existence of 22 subatomic particles. As time went by more and more research was done by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at their particle physics laboratory in Chicago, where they discovered their first subatomic particle. That was

in 1984, and then the discoveries just kept occurring. Now they’ve got it nailed down that the smallest particles next to light, or photons, are products called quarks — the smallest individual bits of matter there are. The stuff that holds the quarks together are called gluons. There are various types of quark — there is an up quark, a down quark, a top quark, a bottom quark, even a strange quark. These can double up, giving us a second level of energy, and then they triple up. There’s a single quark system, a double quark system, a triple quark system, until you finally get to the mineral hydrogen. [That’s the first one on the Mendeleyev chart.] Right. But Walter Russell said that there are 22 subatomic elements or minerals lighter than hydrogen. These minerals exist in a magnetic state. For example, there are three subatomic minerals that have a positive two charge. They arise as a result of a ratio of barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium and beryllium in our system, which then creates these magnetic forces that are subatomic. Each of the electron valences that we deal with have a set of minerals that will create a set of subatomic particles. When you vary your ratios of minerals, you vary the ratio of subatomic particles or the use thereof. DNA is the sequence that locks into place all of these minerals that create electromagnetic structure. [That’s the reason that if the chicken gets some sunlight it can lay an egg. In other words, there is energy in that sunlight. There are vitamins in that sunlight. There is food in that sunlight.] That’s right. Now, I look at all this and say, “There’s electromagnetic energy.” Going back to the book written by Chaim T. Horovitz, Scandium and Yttrium in the Biological Process, what I found fascinating was that scandium, which is one of the rarest minerals on Earth, is the 12th most abundant element on the sun. I thought, “My God, all I have to do is go out and get in the sunlight, and I’m going to get my daily dose of scandium!” Well, it turns out that I might have been correct. I went into the public medicine library and found the vitamin D receptors for Homo sapiens, I filtered these protein sequences out, and I concluded that the most important mineral in terms of vitamin D function is scandium.

[Which is a gift of the sun.] Right! Now, do I need to go find a plant with scandium? Maybe under extreme cases of complete sun deprivation for long periods of time you may have to provide a little jump start of some scandium to allow the sunlight to do its job correctly. But under normal conditions, that’s an example of a mineral not necessarily having to be consumed in the traditional sense; instead, it’s provided by the electromagnetic radiation of the sun. [To sum up what we’ve been discussing here, considering our present environment, our present state of the food supply, our present state of nonperformance by the Food and Drug Administration, what would be your assessment of supplements everybody almost universally needs?] I take magnesium and selenium daily. I make sure I get some sunlight. I sometimes consume supplementary fatty omega oils. I sometimes take in some vitamin A. I cook with olive oil every day. And I attempt to get every bit of aluminum out of my life. I try to keep myself and my family away from noxious fumes which can be inhaled and cause damage. A lot of this stuff the body can regulate its own, but there are a few basic metals that it needs in order to do so. I take sea kelp for my iodine once or twice a week — not just one pill, but 10, 15, maybe 20 at one time, just like sitting down and eating a meal full of sea kelp. It’s interesting that the women of Japan, with 10 percent of their diet being sea kelp, have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in the world. Seawater has blessed the earth with all the necessary minerals, we just have to know how to use them. [What is the purpose of the other supplements?] Magnesium and selenium keep the genetic structure flowing. Selenium keeps the viruses out of your system. Selenium keeps your brain working. Selenium keeps your thyroid working. Magnesium keeps the electricity in the heart going. Magnesium keeps your kidneys regulated. Magnesium keeps the arteries from allowing calcium to penetrate into the arteries causing hardening of the arteries. [What keeps the brain secure in its pan up there?] Actually two minerals. Silicon is the glue that holds the brain together, and selenium and magnesium allow the function of calcium to allow the neurons to fire.

[On a scale of one to ten, what is the prospect of getting what you require from the food that you can buy at the supermarket?] Two. You’ve got to know what you’re looking for. The more man has messed with your food supply, the more it has been processed, the worse the supply is going to be. The closer to the ground and the fresher it is, the better — if you could eat only foods that were not cooked, you wouldn’t have to make digestive enzymes. All the vegetables and fruits we eat contain all the digestive enzymes necessary for their digestion. The more man processes the food, the more man has to make the digestive enzymes to extract whatever good the food has to offer. [What do you do about water? We’ve got credentialed scientists running around selling the proposition that it’s absolutely essential we fluoridate the water supply, for example.] I think we established that fluoridation is just ludicrous, almost to the point of mind control, yet most people don’t know it. [Do people know that so many of their pharmaceuticals are fluoride based?] Absolutely not. When I get clientele in, the first thing I do is grab the PDR, the Physician’s Desk Reference. I pop open the page, the first thing I’m looking for is the chemical makeup. They’ve got pretty pictures in there of what the chemical looks like, but I don’t really care — I want to know the actual makeup. Has it got carbon, nitrogen and oxygen? Do they throw a sulfur in? Do they throw phosphorus in? Do they throw fluorine in? What mineral is it they’re using to alter DNA? [Or do they throw aluminum in?] Aluminum sneaks in there most of the time in the form of food coloring. They have all kinds of food colorings added to these preparations, and I’m sure it has a lot to do with the preservation and shelf life of the drugs. Aluminum is snuck into so many things that when you hear this next statement you’re going to have to sit back and wonder why they’re doing this and who’s sleeping at the switch. The day after Halloween my children dump all the candy on a table. They’re trained to look for the food colorings that have aluminum — food colorings that have aluminum always have the word Lake associated with them, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 10 Lake, etc. When we’re done sorting the candy with aluminum-based food coloring, we’re left with only 10 percent of the

candy that I would allow the children to eat. We throw 90 percent of Halloween candy away because it has aluminum in it.

herd of goats in California and found that half the goat herd got the trace elements and half did not. The half of the herd that did not get trace elements ended up with lung disease....

Trace Minerals & Health Reviving a Lost Legacy Gerald Olarsch

[Yet the Food and Drug Administration brought him down, didn’t they?] Yes. Dr. Earp-Thomas proved that electrolytes helped cure cancer. He was very outspoken about it. In those days there were no health food stores, and he mailed his research — in synopsis form — out to doctors across the country. He was pointing out the value of minerals in both stopping and getting rid of cancer. Along came World War II, and everything slowed for a while, but after the war he resumed his research, writings and the mailings to doctors. The FDA came after him and asked him to stop sending this research out. There were a lot of people under the same gun in those days. They used a unique but simple method to bring him down. They took him to Federal District Court in Newark, New Jersey, in 1948.

[The late George H. Earp-Thomas once suggested that almost all degenerative metabolic diseases are a result of either a shortage of, or a marked imbalance of, trace nutrients. Can you elaborate on that insight?] He firmly believed, and later proved, that the human body could not sustain itself unless it had all these nutrients, which are minerals from the earth, in the proper proportion in the body. He proved this, time after time, in tests on all kinds of people. He discovered that, true enough, as his theory originally suggested, the lack of trace elements in the body produced deficiency diseases and predicted that these diseases would in the future be unlike anything the Bible ever described. I believe we have seen this come to pass in our country. [He passed away in the early 1950s, but he suggested that by the end of the 20th century we would begin experiencing all kinds of disease anomalies that we had never heard of before.] That’s right. He was very interested in cancer. It is well documented that he saved many individuals from cancer by the utilization and reintroduction of trace elements into their diets plus the inclusion of wheat grasses. He also developed an acidophilous culture that further took care of the bacteria in the body by creating the proper balance of the right bacteria in the body. He was interested in the acidophilous cultures because around 1910 he spent two years in Paris with Pasteur and he brought back these strains, which he later developed commercially…. [And yet the research that came out of Iowa in the ’30s and ’40s seemed to indicate that our hybrids were not picking up cobalt, for which reason we were having a great deal of brucellosis, Bang’s disease, or what is undulant fever in humans.] Dr. Earp-Thomas knew this long ago. The research he did proved that these ailments were due to things such as the lack of cobalt. I can tell you, to bring this up to date, that relatively recently we took a

[They tried to shut him down through the courts?] It was a long process, but he actually won in court. As he was walking out of the courthouse, coming from the judge’s chambers, along came the FDA representatives. The head guy congratulated Dr. Earp-Thomas on winning his case and said, “I assume that you are going to try to continue to advertise your minerals as a treatment for cancer?” Earp- Thomas answered, “Of course — I won in court, didn’t I?” The FDA representative said to him, “Well, you won in court this time, but can you afford to do that year after year? How much did it cost you?” Earp-Thomas said that it had cost him $100,000 - which is like a million dollars today. The FDA Representative said, “Can you afford to do that every year, Dr. Earp-Thomas?” - and with that they walked out the door, they didn’t even wait for an answer. This kind of broke his back, and EarpThomas died not too many years later, a very disappointed, brokenhearted individual. [His laboratory went up in flames, didn’t it?] Yes. There was a big fire of unknown origin at his laboratory. It happened in the middle of the night when no one was there and much of his research was destroyed at that point. This was around 1949. [One question that occurs to us is this, is cancer the common denominator for all these metabolic disease conditions brought on by trace nutrient

deficiency or imbalance?] I would have to yes, it is the bottom line. In other words, while we may be fighting other diseases, as we get in bad enough shape we develop cancer. The form of cancer is influenced by genetics. [Isn’t there a genetic component in all disease conditions?] Yes. But we can stop it anywhere along the line by taking trace elements, that’s for sure. If the trace elements are not there, then there is all hell to pay sooner or later, whether it starts out as a simple skin rash, or a minor problem with the eyes or lungs, or what have you. . Sea Energy in Agriculture Renewing the Soil with Sea Solids by David Yarrow In the early ages of our planet, water dissolved minerals from crystal bedrock, washing them into a vast ocean. Rain and ice scoured the infant orb’s dense granites and then flowed into streams and rivers, which all ran together into the sea. Minerals in endless flowing solution accumulated in the ocean over many millennia. Sea salt has all the elements needed for life. Over countless years, land has been worn down by wind and water, and elements washed out to sea. Thus, the sea received the enormous chemical richness and balance that once supported life on land. So, when we savor the flavor of food, our fundamental seasoning is salt — the sea its original source. Natural sea salt is a faint gray-green, with soft, complex crystal structures, but today’s table salt is only sodium — pure white cubic crystals of chloride. All other seawater elements have been refined — removed and taken out. Gone is the iron; lost are potassium, calcium and magnesium, as well as more minor minerals and trace elements than we can yet measure. Dr. Maynard Murray was a pioneer in biology, health and agriculture. His lifelong quest taught him that the key to health is a secret in soil, a secret whose source is the sea. A medical scientist, he recognized evidence of an all-encompassing unity for life on Earth. His inspiration came from his study of the ocean….

Pointedly, he wrote, “Americans hold the dubious distinction of being among the sickest of populations in modern society,” adding, “A nation with a drug industry flourishing as well as ours certainly cannot claim good health!” As a university student, Murray had tried to induce cancer in a toad. He was astonished to learn that the amphibian had natural immunity. He sought answers in ocean animals rather than freshwater and land animals. Time and money was spent traveling to study and dissect sea life from South America to the Pribilof Islands. “A cubic foot of seawater sustains many times more living organisms than an equivalent of soil,” he noted. “Seawater is literally alive, especially if its temperature is warm.” Murray sliced open whales and autopsied dolphins and marine mammals searching for organic degeneration, but he saw little sickness in the sea. Ocean animals, he discovered, did not develop the degenerative diseases that plague man: “Looking at ocean life, one is immediately impressed that in this 71 percent of earth’s surface, there is no cancer, hardening of arteries, or arthritis. Disease resistance in sea plants and animals differs remarkably from land animals. Ocean trout don’t develop cancer, while freshwater trout over five years have liver cancer. It’s difficult to find any land species without cancer. All land animals develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals are never diagnosed with this.” Murray noted that aging hardly occurs in the sea. Comparing cells from adult vs. newborn whales showed no evidence of the chemical changes observed in land mammal cells. Some sea denizens seem to never cease growing. Comparing the sizes of land vs. sea turtles reveals the tremendous difference. Murray pondered over what could impart this apparent immunity to sea animals. Was it a nutritional factor? Was it caused by minerals, or some more complex chemical factor? Simple reasoning reveals that minerals in soil leach out with rain and snow, flowing into oceans via streams and rivers — the land’s mineral fertility winds up washing into the seas. Minerals lost from

land accumulated in the sea for millennia. This progression suggests that seawater minerals are key nutrients responsible for the heath of sea life. “Seawater is Earth’s most ancient natural solution,” Murray said, “and, in my opinion, most ideal, physiologically. In the sea, as liquid crystalloid, all Atomic Table elements are in a solution of consistent balance and proportion, available to all sea life.” Murray noticed the elements in seawater are essentially the same as in blood, and very close to the same quantities. This seemed no coincidence, but a true clue to the role of minerals in health. Might mineral deficiency be a significant cause of degenerative disease? If humans get a full menu of minerals, will our physiologic disorders decline? But how could humans assimilate these necessary nutrients? Drinking seawater isn’t possible — humans aren’t designed to ingest minerals as salts, or rocks, for that matter. Our guts can’t absorb elements in raw, naked, ionic forms. Rather, human intestines need minerals to be packaged with sugars, amino acids, fats, oils. “Table salt is the only food we eat that’s inorganic,” Murray noted, “and frankly, it isn’t good for us.” He summed up his thesis: “Ocean waters hold a perfect balance of essential elements required as food for the complex cell groups that make up our bodies.” … Corn, wheat, oats, barley, hay, fruit trees, vegetable crops and other plants were raised using seawater or sea solids. Fields were planted so that an experimental plot using sea solids (applied at 1,000 to 2,200 pounds per acre) was situated beside a control plot using the best commercial method. Crops fertilized with sea solids grew faster, were healthier, and produced far greater growth. Resulting color, disease resistance, taste and yield were outstanding. Animals, wild and domestic, had no trouble determining which crop was better to eat. A walk through one of the fields fertilized with sea solids revealed a glimpse of animal heaven. Rabbits and mice scurried everywhere, yet a control area with standard fertilizers was almost lifeless.

In the 1950s, Murray began assaying crops for nutrients. Consistently, foods grown using sea solids had significantly more minerals (ash content), vitamins (25 percent more vitamin C in tomatoes; 40 percent more vitamin A in carrots) and sugars. [Note: this was in the 1950s – think of the difference today!] .… “From the start,” Murray recorded, “my sea solids experiments produced excellent results. It conclusively proves the proportions of trace minerals and elements present in sea water are optimum for growth and health of both land and sea life.” Growers quickly criticize Murray, insisting that salt will kill plants as quick as any pesticide or poison. This is true of table salt, but Murray found that if sodium is blended with all of the other elements in the same ratios as in seawater, plants aren’t injured — instead, they thrive. Murray learned a key principle: each essential element must be present in certain precise proportions relative to the others…. In Murray’s time, knowledge of trace elements was minimal. Only twenty elements were known to have specific roles in human physiology. Several more were known to benefit plants and animals. Heavy metals were suspected of positive roles. Even poisonous elements (e.g., arsenic) were beneficial if ingested in organic form, and in trace amounts. Only nine trace elements were listed in “Recommended Dietary Allowances,” and few enzymes had their trace elements identified, yet thousands of enzymes were identified. Undoubtedly, many more enzyme and trace element functions remain to be described. So, while Murray could write little on trace elements, he grasped how the least can exert the most influence. An element needed in micrograms or less can have dramatic biologic effects by activating enzymes and hormones. Murray knew that we need all of the elements available, not a few in excess amounts. … Not only were experimental crops superior, but effects on animal physiology and pathology were delightfully amazing.” Feeding experiments with cattle showed greater weight-gain after eating less

experimental feed. Chickens were particularly partial to sea solid-grown feeds; they grew more quickly, hens produced more and larger eggs sooner, and at slaughter their meat was of better quality. Murray wrote, “Chickens, pigs and cattle fed sea solids produce reached maturity sooner than controls, and resisted diseases common to their species better. Experimental pigs carried benefits into a second generation; there were no runts in litters.” Murray’s most astonishing tests were with lab mice: “A first animal experiment was on C3H mice, which get spontaneous cancer of the breast. We hoped sea solids grown food could build resistance to the virus or cancer. “C3H mice were divided in two groups. Controls were fed regular cereal grain, while experimentals were fed cereal grain raised on sea solids-treated soil. “Instead of cancer in 90 percent of controls, experimental animals’ rate dropped to 55 percent. Second generations born to parents fed sea solids food had cancer in only 2 percent of the population!” This single experiment caused Murray to reconsider the conventional causes attributed to this dread disease. He repeated his experiment in variations. Each time, sea solid-fertilized feed seemed to impart resistance, perhaps immunity, to cancer. Murray faced facts compiled in experiment after experiment, and realized that nutrient deficiencies are a key element contributing to degenerative diseases: “My research clearly indicates Americans lack complete physiological chemistry because balanced, essential elements of soil have eroded to the sea; consequently, crops are nutritionally poor, and animals eating these plants are, therefore, nutritionally poor. “Minerals have departed from our soils due to continuous taking of crops and erosion. Most crops require forty elements from the soil. In no case do fertilizers add more than twelve, most add six.” Unlike technicians who see only their own small problem, Murray’s lifelong work with oceans, farmers, hydroponics and medicine gave him a

broad view. He recognized that a new pill won’t resolve the real problem. Only addressing the root source can relieve disease. Murray correctly saw agriculture as the real root cause, and called for changes, not in medicine, but in farming and food processing. [ Note: and this was BEFORE the toxic chemical and pesticide age got into full swing!] … The physician knew little of how bacteria, fungi and microbes affect plant feeding — that roots and soil organisms form intimate communities, wedded together in tight symbiotic dependencies. Actually, the medical doctor saw microbes mostly as unfriendly and dangerous. Nonetheless, Murray’s conclusion states: “Today’s organic farmers realize a giant commercial farmer, specializing in one crop, using only chemical fertilizer, is destroying soil’s ability to produce food. If this continues, soil will be ruined and lost through erosion. To prevent this, and reclaim soil already destroyed, organic farming must be used.” Thus, Murray cast his lot with the tiny minority to challenge the chemical orthodoxy of his times. Like every other small voice of reason, he was ignored in the petrochemical rush to pump up yield with synthetics.