What Is So Unique About Ionic Minerals?

The following is an excerpt from a lecture presentation delivered by Parris Kidd, Ph.D. on November 5, 1996 at Mineral Resources International's facilities in Ogden, Utah.
 

What do ionized mineral really do and who needs them? Some of the greatest minds in science, biology and clinical research have shown very clearly through their research that easily ionizable forms of minerals are the ones that the body is able to selectively absorb and utilize. Ionic minerals easily come apart in a watery environment and become either positively charged or negatively charged. The body is very discriminatory. The body knows when it needs minerals in greater amounts and when that happens, the body reaches out for those minerals. The density of the transporter proteins goes up on the intestinal cell surface and the body is actually looking for those minerals.

Now those transporters bind those minerals tightly but they need to be ionized. The transporter picks up an ionized form [of the mineral], binds it and immediately pulls it in and then it goes into the bloodstream and goes where it is needed. Whatever the charge of a mineral, it still needs to get through a dense, negative charge on the surface of the intestinal cell and it may be that negative charge is designed to keep out certain undesirable agents including undesirable minerals. Transporters have such a high affinity that once an ionized form of a mineral can get into the region, the transporter will pick it up.

People who claim that colloids are 98 percent absorbed and that ionized minerals are only 8 to 10 percent absorbed even in the most healthy people haven't looked at the literature or are purposely misrepresenting the literature because the literature quite clearly shows the proven essential minerals are absorbed in their ionic forms from ranges from 20 to 90 percent depending on how hungry their system for the mineral at that time.
 

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