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There is a list of 84 elements that seems to pop up repeatedly in the ingredient lists of "natural" mineral products, supplements, pills, and the like. Even, it turns out, in salt. Here then is the list of minerals claimed to be found in all-natural organic Himalayan Sea Salt :


hydrogen, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluoride, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chloride, calcium, scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium, arsenic, selenium, bromine, rubidium, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, ruthenium, rhodium palladium, silver, cadmium, indium, tin, antimony, tellurium, iodine, cesium, barium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, astatine, francium, radium, actinium, thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium and plutonium.


Marie....shocking to me.

Interesting stuff Marie. Honestly there are metals in everything these days, even in our veggies because of soil toxicity. Everywhere you look there are toxic metals leaking their way in so its impossible to avoid them. It's sad, but unfortunately the state of our world now. We can avoid obvious sources of contamination- like cooking with aluminum foil, using anti perspirants, not drinking tap water etc, but no matter what we're going to get the bad metals. Best thing to do is to keep the body in good shape, feed it the best quality food and water, and have faith in our bodies' detox systems. Even though we are dealing with health issues, our bodies ARE still detoxing constantly. If not we'd be dead :)
I think overly obsessing over exposure leads to more stress, which doesn't help at all. At some point, we just have to get on with it and live :)

Hey Marie,

On the surface it looks like all these salts contain traces of metals. It used to bother me until i read about colloidal minerals.

Even the most purest waters and salt deposits on earth have metals in them - when you look at their safety data sheets they always have a ppm reading of mercury, alu etc.

The colloidal world of minerals apparently is a different way the body uses such metals instead of insoluble particles which are often the cause of metal toxicity and associated problems.

I highly recommend the book 'Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements' by Marie-France Muller M.D

It's a fab book by a very well informed MD who's approach is integrative.
In it she lists the healing properties of all colloidal elements, including arsenic, mercury, and aluminium!
In it's colloidal form, apparently they are non-toxic and excess is easily flushed from the body.

In that book she recommends highly the pink himalayan salt...for they are the oldest deposits of salt from the earliest, cleanest oceans of earth.

For aluminium she writes:

"* Warning! We are discussing only trace elements. While minerals and metals are not at all toxic taken in the form of trace elements, some minerals and metals are extremely toxic when taken in measurable doses"

" Aluminium - Indicated for Insomnia, Memory problems, and mental disorders.
Alu. in colloidal form is one of the elements found in abundance in soil and plants. It is a trace elements that has a significant presence in the brain, whose functioning it appears to regulate. A substance with a transformational effect on the body's internal cellular environment, a deficiency of this mineral is generally betrayed by difficulties in concentration and memorization, slow learning, a sate of nervousness, and insomnia.
It also acts as an inhibitor of certain enzymes. It's levels in the body is about 1mg per kg in most tissue. Aluminium is an essential element of human hutrition in its colloidal form. It forms an important combination with lithium."

"Indicated for use in the treatment of:
*Minor insomnia in adults and children older than 6 yrs old.
*Atony of all kinds including cerebral
*Memory difficulties in the elderly
*Intellectual deficiencies and mental disorders
*Slow intellectual development in children with Downs Syndrome
*After-effects of vaccinal encephalitis
*Children's minor problems adapting to school.


This book completely shocked me, as she also lists benefits of other elements which we are lead to believe are toxic.

Then i thought of the old remedies used before moderns pharma - many were of elements - including metals. Silver for bacterial and viral infections for instance.

I think its a case, as always, of the FORM of the element. Just like it is possible to buy cheap, useless synthetic vitamins which do nothing for the body but clog the liver and make it work harder, it is also possible to buy crap magnesium, selenium, manganese supplements which are not colloidal, and are all metals and do damage when high doses are taken.
Mercury from Amalgams is not colloidal, and does huge amounts of damage. Aluminium in many products is not colloidal form, is insoluble and can't be used by the body creating toxicity.

So-called home-made 'Colloidal' silver made with plain table salt , as we know, creates silver chloride which gets stuck in the body, causes toxicity and changes pigmentation of the skin.
Yet true Colloidal Silver there are thousands of testimonies of wonderful cures.

She suggests to make a sole from the himalayan salt - keep diluting the salt in a litre of water - preferably 'live' water like spring water. Keep dissolving salt into it to make it super salty..until no more salt will dissolve.

Each day take a teaspoon of this mixture and add to a large glass of water in the morning to get the colloidal form of all those elements you listed.

As Faith says - it's easy to get stressed by finding these things out - but it's essential to know the TYPE of element you're taking-in....avoid alu deodorant but enjoy colloidal salt mined from oceans that existed before man decided to dump toxic sludge into the oceans!

On a cosmic holistic level, the ratio of water on earth equates to the ratio of water in the human body. The water mineral content of the oceans is also similar to the human body. The entire earth is made up of elements...as are we. For us to exclude some and not others in the quest for health, would eventually lead to a mis-match of our original physiological make-up...thus creating ill-health.