Minerals are nutrients that exist in the body and in food in organic and inorganic combinations. Approximately seventeen minerals are essential in human nutrition. Although only 4 or 5 percent of the human body weight is mineral matter, minerals are vital to overall mental and physical well being. All tissues and internal fluids of living things contain varying quantities of minerals. Minerals are constituents of the bones, teeth, soft tissues, muscles, blood, and nerve cells. They are important factors in maintaining physiological processes, strengthening skeletal structures, and preserving the vigor of the heart and brain as well as all muscle and nerve systems.
Minerals, just like vitamins, act as catalysts for many biological reactions within the human body, including muscle response, the transmission of messages through the nervous system, digestion, and metabolism or utilization of nutrients in foods. They are also very important in the production of hormones.
Minerals help to maintain the delicate water balance essential to the proper functioning of mental and physical processes. They keep blood and tissue fluids from becoming either too acid or too alkaline and permit other nutrients to pass into the bloodstream. They also help draw chemical substances in and out of the cells and aid in the creation of antibodies. All of the minerals needed by the human body must be supplied in the diet or through supplementation, as the body cannot synthesize them.
GUARDIAN contains 13 different minerals from many naturally occurring sources, primarily herbs. Additionally, Cell Salts, Dandelion Root, Parsley Root, Red Beet Root, Tristar and Wheatgrass have been added to this formulation in a proprietary blend to assist in accomplishing the desired effects.
