Macro and micro miracles
Macro- and micro-miracles
In this tab, you will find information about the 44 essential minerals required by the human body.
Here you will learn about their biological functions, complex interactions with each other, the body’s need for them, signs of deficiency and excess, ways to correct imbalances, main food sources, as well as medicinal plants that contain one or another mineral element and its role in plant life.
Here you will learn about their biological functions, complex interactions with each other, the body’s need for them, signs of deficiency and excess, ways to correct imbalances, main food sources, as well as medicinal plants that contain one or another mineral element and its role in plant life.
It would seem that minerals have no energy value, unlike proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. However, human life is impossible without them. Just as with a lack of essential nutrients or vitamins, a deficiency of minerals in the human body causes specific disorders that lead to characteristic diseases. In addition, without mineral elements, the main substances from food simply will not be properly absorbed by the body.
All mineral elements, depending on their role in the human body, are divided into:
- biogenic, which make up the substance of living organisms (there are 4 of them) – nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon;
- structural, which are structural units for the formation of various tissues, components of enzyme systems, vitamins, and hormones (there are 7 of them) – potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorus, and chlorine;
- essential or vital for the body in microquantities (there are 15 of them) – boron, vanadium, iron, iodine, cobalt, silicon, lithium, manganese, copper, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, fluorine, chromium, zinc;
- conditionally essential, the question of whose vital necessity remains open, despite the availability of a large amount of data confirming their essentiality for the body – bromine, arsenic;
- probably essential, data on the vital necessity of which is currently insignificant – aluminum, gallium, cadmium, rubidium, lead;
- toxic – aluminum, beryllium, cadmium, arsenic, lead, antimony, thallium;
- others.
Among the mineral elements that affect metabolic processes, macro-, micro-, and ultra-microelements are distinguished, depending on their concentration in the human body and the required daily intake.
You can read more about macroelements and their role in the human body here.
You can learn about the role of microelements in the human body here.
You can learn more about ultramicroelements (= nanoelements) in the human body here.
You can learn about the role of microelements in the human body here.
You can learn more about ultramicroelements (= nanoelements) in the human body here.