>Terry Chamberlin wrote: >> Dr. Carey Reams stated that our bodies use a tiny >> amount of every mineral (sometimes only a few >> nanograms, sometimes only a few molecules), including >> aluminum and arsenic, but only in the salts state >> (what we call *organic*), not unnatural >> laboratory-created substances.
>Can you explain what is meant by this? The chemistry definition for organic means that it contains carbon, and the marketing definition means that it was raised using natural fertilizers and insecticides. In no case have I ever heard organic having a meaning that has anything to do with whether it is a salt of not. Also many laboratory created substances are salts, and most organic food contains mostly compounds that are NOT salts. Marshall< A discussion of minerals in the form of salts can be complex, since there is more than one type of mineral salt, and more than one application of the word, salt. In chemistry, salt is a general term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. These ions can be inorganic (Cl-) as well as organic (CH3-COO-) and monoatomic (F-) as well as polyatomic ions (SO42-). http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Salt Mineral salts can be organic or inorganic, naturally occurring or human created. We make a nutritional distinction between the iron, for example, that is in a nail and the *organic* iron found in black strap molasses. The iron in the molasses is an iron salt, meaning it is naturally chelated to another, easily assimilated substance (usually an amino acid). Dr. Reams felt that the minerals our bodies needed were found in an organism (plant or animal), not in the ground. The popular use of the word *organic*, usually means unsprayed or exposed to unnatural chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The pure, scientific definition simply indicates the presence of carbon. A practical definition, for nutritional purposes, means something assimilable by an organism such as our bodies. I once read a letter-to-the-editor in Mother Earth magazine in which a man told of the iron-poor soil in his garden. To combat this, he pounded iron nails into the ground all over his garden. By the next year, the nails had all rusted and dissolved into the ground, and his vegetables tested high in iron! The plants had taken the metallic iron from the ground and converted it to organic iron, meaning a form of iron useable by an organism. The iron and other minerals found in a plant are mineral salts, minerals that the plant has naturally chelated to something such as an amino acid. This next site has some basic info on mineral salts, even though the author has a narrow, biased, mainstream, medical perspective on things. http://www.delano.com/Articles/Mineral-forms-compared.html See also: http://www.answers.com/topic/salt for an even broader discussion of salts. Terry Chamberlin __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
