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WHY WE NEED ALL THE MINERALS AND TRACE ELEMENTS

It is interesting to note that the famous environmentalist, Rachel Carson, recognized the importance of protecting the ocean and these delicate inland seas. In the Sea Around Us, she wrote:

“…Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal – each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water. This is our inheritance from the day, untold millions of years ago, when a remote ancestor, having progressed from the one-celled to the many-celled stage, first developed a circulatory system in which the fluid was merely the water of the sea. In the same way, our lime-hardened skeletons are a heritage from the calcium-rich ocean of Cambrian time. Even the protoplasm that streams within each cell of our bodies has the chemical structure impressed upon living matter when the first simple creatures were brought forth in the ancient sea ….”