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A Pantheon of Minerals
Nature’s Sunken Treasure for Health, Fertility
by Charles Walters
Readouts from high-priced instruments tell us that
ocean water contains 92 elements — give or take a
few, depending on location near ocean vents and
extraction methods — which appear as the first 92
entries of Mendeleyev’s periodic table….
The point here is that everything on Earth finds its
way into the nutritional center of gravity, the ocean.
The connection between enzymes and specific
minerals has been made in only a few cases. The
full inventory of knowledge awaits discovery.
For now it is enough to supply a few notes simply
to make the point that a shortage or marked
imbalance of trace nutrients means malnutrition,
bacterial, fungal and viral attack, debilitation and
the onset of degenerative metabolic diseases.
It is a shortage that best defines our situation.
Elsewhere I have discussed the inability of hybrids
to pick up trace nutrients even if they are present in
the soil. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that
too often the traces simply are not there. Soil
scientists can test in vain for cobalt, a trace nutrient
generally farmed out and totally missing in almost
all American soils. Yet cobalt is essential if
brucellosis in cattle and undulant fever in human
beings is to be prevented. At numbers 23 and 24 of
the periodic table, you’ll see vanadium and
chromium. These are the keys to enzymes that
determine glucose tolerance. A deficiency of
chromium has been implicated in low blood sugar,
hyperglycemia and finally diabetes. There may be
more to the story. Since about the end of World War
II, many municipalities have added sodium
fluoride in one form or another to the drinking
water, this on the theory that it strengthens the
apatite in teeth. Fluoride is one of four halogens:
fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. Fluorine
trumps iodine, for which reason iodine often does
not make it to the thyroid, and thyroxin is not
produced. Without thyroxin, sugar metabolism
becomes a non-event. This deficit in being able to
handle sugar is exacerbated by a sugar overbalance
in the diet, which has increased from about five
pounds per capita in the 1930s to 135 pounds per
capita at the present time.
The chromium molecule is required to burn fat, and
chromium is simply missing from the soil and food
supplements due to unavailability. The chromium
molecule is also a demanded element in muscle
construction. Both chromium and vanadium
function badly as synthetics. They function best
when delivered by plant life, especially by grass.
Sulfur is a nemesis of cancer. Sharks concentrate
ocean sulfur in their bodies, which is why some
entrepreneurs offer shark cartilage to consumers.
There are problems with all the recognized major
nutrients and their tendency to achieve excess status
with relevant cures that are worse than the cause.
Just the same, it should be pointed out that sulfur
protects the myelin sheath over nerve endings. It is
thus an insurance policy against multiple sclerosis,
Parkinson’s disease and even Lou Gherig’s disease.
Synthetic sulfur may be toxic, but as it appears in
ocean water, it has no side effects and no taste.
Sulfur supplements are compounds, always
inorganic compounds. The side effects can be
devastating. Sulfur as it arrives in grass is organic,
totally digestible. Sulfur compounds put on
restaurant salads and in wine often cause allergic
reactions, as evidenced by ringing perspiration
around the collar and on the forehead, even
breathing difficulty. The sulfur served up by grass
grown on a diet of ocean solids scavenges free
radicals, blunts food allergies, assists the liver in
producing bile, adjusts pH, and assists in the
production of insulin, sugar metabolism.
Se, Mendeleyev number 34, is selenium.
That short measure of selenium delivered by ocean-
grown grass may be the lifetime protection against
cancer. It’s an antioxidant. It traps unstable
molecules and prevents damage. It helps confer
immunity to viruses when ingested in nature’s
prescribed amount. There is research that suggests
protection from neurotoxins. The mechanism has
been identified. Selenium is used by the body to
construct an enzyme that detoxifies staphs and
builds immunity. Unfortunately, selenium is
generally missing in row crop soils except in some
Western regions, where it appears in toxic
overloads.
Selenium is implicated in muscular dystrophy,
myalgia, cystic fibrosis, irregular heartbeat, Lou
Gherig’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s
disease, Sudden Death Syndrome and many other
abnormalities, sickle cell anemia and cancer
included. There’s more, namely, the nature of fat
metabolism. The food industry no longer likes
butter. It wants shelf life and therefore uses
synthetic fats that do not melt at body temperature.
This single fact also defines such compounds as
rancid fats filled to the brim with free radicals.
Selenium is best able to deal with the rancid fats
that have come to infect — yes, infect — our diet
and its overload of free radicals.
We can digress to identify role and function, just the
same. Suffice it to say that viruses often inhabit the
human system, sheltered from the immune system,
often staying on for an opportunity to perform
mischief years later. Various viruses and bacteria
bow only to minerals that deal with the problem.
These minerals have to be organic in the strict
meaning of the term. They have to have a carbon
passenger, ergo water soluble and of a size
that permits transport not only into plants, but into
the hiding places perceived to be unreachable by
medicines.
That trace of silver in ocean water interdicts the
activity of a virus that weakens a cell and turns it
anaerobic. The cancer cell, for example, is not
aerobic and oxygen consuming — it has turned
itself anaerobic and finally goes into wild
proliferation. The virus isn’t alone in effecting
cancer mischief. Parasites figure, as do toxins and
pH levels at variance with human requirements.
That is why ocean silver and zinc are so effective in
preserving health. The law of homeostasis has
decreed that these minerals are to be excreted if not
required.
Move down the periodic table a bit and you’ll
encounter copper, number 29. This mineral
annihilates all parasites and intestinal worms. Entire
texts have been written about parasites, some of
them essential, most of them not. According to
Hulda Clark, fully 97 or 98 percent of the American
people are loaded with immune system-debasing
parasites that take for themselves nutrition basically
needed for health. This nutrient is either deficient or
missing in the boxed foods sold across grocery store
counters. The texts tells us that a copper shortage is
often implicated in weight gain, cancer, a raft of
allergies, high blood pressure and, yes, weight loss.
These little copper-stealing creatures sail in the river
of food and defy detection because of their size and
metabolic duplicity. The placental barrier saves
infants from many distress factors, but it can be
breached by an overload of farm chemicals,
mercury, atomic fallout and even malnutrition.
Research is always indicated, but the promoters of
ocean-grown wheat or rye grass are probably well
within their mark when they point to copper and the
array of minerals in ocean water and ocean-grown
grass.
Zinc’s association with copper is too well known to
permit delay in presenting these few notes. Water, of
course, is H2O — hydrogen and oxygen. The mere
mention of oxygen suggests ozone and serves up the
medical definition that ozone is a poisonous gas
with no known medical use. A distinction has to be
made: Nature’s ozone, like nature’s oxygen, is pure
as the driven snow and both safe and efficacious.
Ozone produced by high-voltage machinery is a
nitric oxide acid gas. Most commercial machines
produce a harmful gas. Ocean water does not create
nitrous oxide. This is merely an aside and a warning
to those who seek shortcuts via machines, when the
real shortcut is daily use of wheat or ryegrass juice,
especially juice from plants grown with ocean
water. Oxygen is absolutely necessary for digestion.
Silver is a trace mineral that rarely finds a plant list,
simply because it isn’t there, at least not in soils. Its
role in stomping out infections has been recognized
by food supplement suppliers and now enjoys a
brisk trickle. Organic silver requires a carbon
component not generally available in inorganic
supplements. Mere mention of one nutrient does not
extinguish the requirement for another. The efficacy
of silver in combating Candida albicans does not
rule out the even better efficiency of raw garlic for
the same purpose….
You will note that fluoride is missing from
Mendeleyev’s table. Actually, there is no such thing
as fluoride. There is a gas called fluorine. Combined
with iron, it becomes stanis fluoride, a compound;
combined with sodium, it becomes sodium fluoride.
Both are said to assist the apatite crystals in teeth to
harden. The idea is bogus and merely a device for
unloading a waste product from the aluminum and
phosphate industries into the water supply. The
ocean does not construct these compounds, and
fluoride is not taken up by wheatgrass grown in
ocean water. The fluoride touted by dentists is a
compound that turns stomach acids into fluoric acid.
This particular acid is available in many grocery
stores to take out rust stains in clothing. Sodium
fluoride cancels out over 100 enzyme functions.
The late John Yiamouyiannis attributed up to 50,000
deaths per annum by cancer to this contaminant.
The single factor that separates the useful from the
useless is carbon. Carbon makes a mineral organic.
The inorganic iron in processed foods is not easily
assimilated. The worst-case scenario is
hemochromostasis, a fatal disease, or iron
supplement disease. Much the same is true when
inorganic copper gets into the bloodstream, where it
causes Wilson’s disease, schizophrenia, the Jekyll-
Hyde syndrome, enzyme shutdown and digestive
failure. Copper and iron are not copper and iron if
they are not organic. People often suffer aneurisms
even though tests show they are full of inorganic
copper, this because of a copper shortage.
Even lead and mercury have their organic forms and
arrive as harmless ingredients in plants. As heavy
metals, they are among the most ubiquitous
nonradioactive contaminants on planet Earth.
Mercury in Portland cement and plastics is a hazard.
That fog on the car window on a hot day is created
by mercury vapor escaping the plastic. It visits
degenerative conditions too numerous to mention
on mankind, yet mercury and lead are listed as
organic elements in the CRC Handbook of
Chemistry and Physics. They are found naturally in
plants and animals and ocean water, even though we
are loathe to list them.
Confusion reigns supreme when human beings
doctor themselves with compounds that pretend to
supply missing nutrients. Calcium carbonate is a
good horrible example. Calcium carbonate is simply
one calcium, one carbon, three oxygens — better
known as a blackboard chalk. It takes super-big
activity to rescue this metabolic contaminant before
the system can use the calcium. Usually it doesn’t
happen, and the chalk goes down the tube without
any beneficial results. Muscle and leg cramps are a
consequence of calcium depletion. Using
blackboard chalk for a calcium source delivers
osteoporosis. Simply stated, calcium carbonate is
inorganic and not water soluble. Suffice it to say
that most processed foods such as orange juice,
cereals, etc., are loaded with this form of calcium.
Ocean calcium is of a different stripe. It is perfect
for plant assimilation, a crown jewel in the pantheon
of essentials in the soil, the plant and the human
being.
The business of counting elements — chromium
picolanate, for instance — means making a complex
molecular compound. This is the modus operandi
for creating many health food supplements and all
new drugs. The suggestion that the product is
delivering an element leaves unstated the fact that
side effects and reverse effect are always a legacy
and frequently a debilitating consequence.
If this connection calls into question copper
glutamate, zinc, pecolanate, vanadium picolanate
and other complex molecular products, so be it.
Blood vessels clogged by calcium are legion, as are
triple and quadruple bypass surgeries because of
blackboard chalk in the food supply and the absence
of organic calcium in food crops.
Mere mention of these facts calls into question the
recommended daily allowance (RDA). We ask and
leave unanswered the question whether tests
establishing RDA were accomplished with calcium
carbonate or organic calcium!
The first element listed in our elemental inventory is
H, hydrogen. Ascorbic acid equals hydrogen in a
useable form. Too little hydrogen equals scurvy.
Hydrogen is antagonistic to oxygen and leaves the
latter element developing a shortfall of cellular
oxygen.
A short digression may be in order. Grind grain,
make it into bread, and you invite acidity. Let the
grain sprout, then make bread, and the result is more
alkalinity, a higher pH. Cooking food tends to
lower pH because it destroys enzymes. As pH
declines, the ability of the body to absorb nutrients
is diminished, leading to deficiency and disease.
The pandemic of obesity, now an inescapable fact of
American life, is a consequence of low pH in the
food supply, among other factors. Viral diseases,
cancer parasites, all gain permission for mischief
from low-pH acidosis.
Cell division and blood clotting depend on
minerals. They keep DNA and RNA activity at the
cellular and subcellular level. They make vitamins
possible. It is axiomatic that scientists can make
vitamins, but they can’t make minerals any more
than they can make ocean water.
A full complement of minerals makes it possible
for the body to self-regulate and self-repair its way
out of most afflictions.
Linus Pauling, the only person so far to win two
unshared Nobel prizes, once pointed out that you
can trace every illness, every disease and every
infection to some mineral deficiency. Any mineral
deficiency always means there are even more
mineral deficiencies waiting in the wings. It is
equally true that most of the major degenerative
diseases have been developed in test animals by
withholding or manipulating critical trace minerals.
These minerals have been scoured from
agricultural sites over the last two centuries just as
surely as if they had been vacuumed out of a family
room carpet.
The shocking absence of cobalt and chromium from
New Jersey soils was recorded early last century by
George H. Earp-Thomas. The issue of missing trace
minerals and their role in plant and animal health
consumed the working lifetime of William A.
Albrecht at the University of Missouri. It also
enriched the archives of Friends of the Land at
Louis Bromfield’s Malabar Farm in Ohio. Many of
the great professors of the 1930s and 1940s amassed
agronomic knowledge right up to 1949, when toxic
rescue chemistry became established orthodoxy and
agriculture was sent reeling into an uncertain
world.
There is a mineral called molybdenum. Its function
is to expunge waste from the body. Unfortunately, it
is generally missing — as though it went down
under with beryllium when the asteroid collided
with Earth. The only source seems to be ocean
water.
Briefly, the anatomy of disease control and
reversal of degenerative metabolic diseases is seated
in the organic mineral diet and the vitamins
controlled and dispensed by nutrients.
Thus, magnesium walks hand-in-hand with calcium.
They go together like ham and eggs. The lack of
one diminishes the role of the other.
None of these problems are easily solved with a
handful of pills, but all bow to all the minerals in
the right form. Magnesium cancels out migraine
headaches. This is merely an aside, a hint at the
complexity of nature’s demands and a recipe for
meeting these demands. The pharmacy pretends to
have drugs for asthma, anorexia, neuromuscular
problems, depression, tremors, vertigo, organ
calcification, etc., all when magnesium is the
shortage. There is no need for calcium blockers or
the alchemy of synthetic medication. The point
here is that there is an absolute shortage of minerals
in the food supply. The wheatgrass juice that Ann
Wigmore developed seems to be a final benediction
and absolution for the transgressors of civilization.
There are mysteries in the ocean we hardly dare
mention. Consider that 20 percent of the Earth’s
surface contains gold, organic gold. There isn’t
enough of it to justify setting up an extracting
operation, but ocean water has enough of a trace to
make a few suggestions. The literature suggests
gold’s offering in battling alcohol addiction, natural
problems, circulatory problems — indeed a raft of
anomalies that could fill this page. Its presence in
ocean water is not a curse, rather a gift no less
treasured than was that gold delivered by the magi.
Gold’s assent in achieving deep sleep is a staple in
folk medicine, albeit one ratified by research and
modern experience.
Platinum also appears on Mendeleyev’s table, at
number 78. If anything, the presence of platinum in
ocean water is even more fortuitous than its gold
content. It figures in dealing with PMS, circulation
and cancer. It enhances the ability to sleep and
sparks daytime energy. Here again, ocean particle
sizes contribute to efficiency as well as balance.
These few notes merely hint at the vast complexity
contained in energy from the ocean. It has been
reported that silver annihilates no less than 650
viruses. It does this because of the valence charge
that surrounds resistant molecules when silver is
present and able to assert itself. Even though silver
kills viruses and anaerobic bacteria, it never harms
the friendly fellows, the aerobic bacteria. It will be
noted that the most effective burn ointments are
silver-based.
Many elements have rated mention in this article.
Others bask in silence. We do not know all the
answers, or even the questions: Henry Schroeder, in
writing The Trace Elements and Man, suggested
another 400 years would be required to discern the
role of each mineral if the present rate of discovery
is maintained. Maynard Murray and Edward Howell
calculated equal time for enzymes, knowledge of
which is enlarged every day.
While we wait, the ocean abides, and ocean-grown
grass waits in the wings for those with the wit to use
it.
Health from the Ocean Deep
A New Approach to Holistic Healing with Sea
Minerals & Herbs
Gerry Amena
Twenty-two years ago I was crippled with
rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. My vertebrae had
taken a lot of punishment when I was working in
the building industry, using cement. In those days
there was no Redi-Mix available to the public. The
three vertebrae at the bottom of my spine were
completely worn — they were grinding along on
each other, all the cartilage was gone. They wanted
to fuse them together and I didn’t like that idea, and
then sea minerals came on the market for griculture.
I bought a 44-gallon drum of it and I started using it
on my plants. After three weeks I could see an
enormous difference in the plants and then one day I
was spraying the tomatoes and imagined them
urging me, “Take some, take some!” I get very close
contact with my plants, and so I started taking the
sea minerals. In three weeks I noticed a difference,
after 12 months I went to the doctor again and had
another X-ray, and he found all that cartilage
between my vertebrae that had been worn away, is
now all restored.
[This was just plain seawater?] No, sea minerals.
They are reduced to 1 percent of the original
solution’s weight, most of the salt is taken out, and
the water is evaporated by the sunlight — it takes
about three months. One gallon of these sea
minerals is equal to the minerals and base elements
of 100 gallons of seawater. Very potent, very strong.
Most of the salt, which is crystallized on the top
layers, is taken out and used as cooking salt and
things like that — but those minerals, I’ve never
seen anything like it. It’s unbelievable….
Ocean water is the richest life sustainable and life
enhancing source of ionic — water soluble —
minerals, both macro and trace. Just look at the
abundance and variety of life forms that it supports!
Ocean water is the perfect catalyst for life.
Oceanographers and other scientists estimate that
there are some 2 to 10 million life forms yet to be
discovered. A fetus, the wonder of life, develops in
a mother’s uterus, suspended in a solution not
unlike ocean water. Blood plasma — the fluid of
blood, minus the red cells — is chemically almost
identical to ocean water. These similarities are not a
coincidence. Ocean water is truly the means for life.
[So the trace minerals are what make ocean water so
important for nutrition and health?] Yes, and
especially the concentration and balance of
elements suspended in it. This incredible balance of
elements in our oceans is governed by nature and is
perfect, and as such, supports life. Waters like the
Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake contain elements
so concentrated that you could count the number of
life forms these bodies of water support on one
hand.
[Then the full range of minerals is essential?] All
creatures require a balance of both macro and trace
minerals to function. The levels and balance of
minerals in man is not governed by nature. The
minerals are either present or not in our foods,
including the water we drink. The advent of modern
agriculture and food processing has led to a severe
decline in the levels of vital minerals in our food,
causing a deficiency of minerals in our bodily
fluids. Even organic food is not exempt from this, as
our topsoil now is almost barren of minerals. Our
drinking water has also been affected because of
water purification and filtering. Although these
methods are viable ways of removing harmful
pathogens from our water, the processes also
remove the already low levels of minerals and trace
elements.
In the Beginning Was the Gene
Tracking Down the Roles of Trace Nutrients
Richard Olree
[Ed. Note: This is an EXTREMELY important
article and a MUST read!]
[Dr. Henry Schroeder in his book Trace Minerals
and Man says that unless the pace of discovery is
increased, it will take another 400 years before we
understand what the role is of all these various trace
nutrients on Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table — yet
you seem to have discovered every one of them.
Can you explain how you did it?] With the
sequencing of the human genome, which was done
by two separate entities, they’ve basically have got
approximately 98 percent of the human genome
decoded or deciphered, and they know how these
amino acid sequencings are now put together. While
studying this, it came to me that through the use of a
mineral chart produced in 1926 by Dr. Walter
Russell — in which where he had predicted the
existence of 22 sub-atomic particles — I had a
source of mathematical expression that could be
overlaid on the standard genetic chart.
[Each of these aminos, when you sequence it, leads
you to the key trace nutrient for each of the
enzymes, is that correct?] Yes. It came to me that
DNA, which is basically four minerals — carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, attached to a
phosphorus molecule, which is the backbone —
have to be arranged and rearranged in such a way
that the proteins developed from these basic
minerals have the ability to come in contact with
every mineral known on the Periodic Table and
either utilize it and excrete it, utilize it and store it
for future use, or immediate expulsion if it’s not a
mineral that the body or the living organism can
handle.
[Which we’ve always said was under homeostatic
control.] That is correct, and homeostatic control
has some very narrow limits. When the construct of
DNA through messenger iron A is being expressed,
for example, these proteins have to take on a three-
dimensional structure within a gravitational field.
The Earth provides the gravitational field, but the
amino acids must have certain unique
characteristics in terms of electromagnetic energy.
Thus, the DNA extracts the various frequencies
from the minerals to allow the DNA construct to
have a three-dimensional structure.
[Agronomic science has always held that there were
certain minerals that were key, or what they called
“essential,” but as we examine your standard
genetic chart, we find that probably all of the
minerals have a role. This leads us to the question
— which are the most important?] There are some
minerals we use a lot more than others, but any
mineral found attached to an amino acid on the new
standard genetic chart are important. There are
some key ones that you just simply cannot do
without. Magnesium would be a good example. If
you don’t have magnesium, you can’t make
chlorophyll. If you can’t make chlorophyll, you
can’t get the bottom of the food chain fired up.
When the sun hits the earth and creates the
chlorophyll molecule, the center of that molecule is
magnesium. Without magnesium you don’t have
chlorophyll. Without chlorophyll there isn’t
anything else that really can exist other than a few
nano-bacteria that live in the bottom of the ocean —
they live off of sulfur instead of sunlight as a source
of energy. Another key mineral is selenium. Up until
1980 selenium was generally thought of as a toxin.
In early research with vitamin E they kept coming
up with an “unknown factor.” They knew there was
a factor out there that triggered the use of vitamin E
and allowed cows with mastitis to become much
healthier and their somatic count would come down,
but it wasn’t until 1973 that the World Health
Organization actually rubberstamped the use of
selenium as a vitamin E activator. At that point, only
cows were getting selenium supplements — it
wasn’t until 1979 or so that selenium hit the scene
in the health food stores and people started taking it
as a supplement. When it first came out, I already
had quite an understanding of it through my study
of minerals and subatomic particles — I knew its
importance. In fact, I was sometimes accused of
poisoning people because they had told their
medical doctor that I recommended selenium
supplementation. The doctor would look it up in one
of the 1960 dictionaries where it was listed as a
toxic, hazardous mineral. I was doing my best to
doctor people, yet being accused of poisoning them
by using something as basic as selenium. Another
very important mineral is iodine. Iodine has a
tremendous impact on the metabolic rate of all
human beings. Any variation of an iodine problem
via the thyroid can quickly produce very serious
health effects in any life form — and long-term
effects, as well.
[What happens if you don’t have selenium in your
diet at the appropriate levels?] The symptomatology
is not like that of other vitamins and minerals where
you can see that a patient is totally deficient.
Selenium deficiencies are very subtle: chronic viral
infection and dandruff (the hair shampoo Selsun
Blue, as in “selenium blue,” uses selenium sulfide
as its active ingredient) are examples of a person
low on selenium. Fluid on the inner ear is an
example of a selenium deficiency. Maintaining
adequate selenium levels throughout your life
means you probably won’t get cancer. There are
tumor-suppressing genes in our bodies that seek out
and try to eliminate any cell that mutates during
replication, and the chances of having a few
mismatched pairs of chromosomes and
abnormalities are very great because the body
makes over 20 million cells every day to replace
dead cells. The tumor-suppressing genes, in
particular P53 and P76 and P36, are scanners of our
internal environment to make sure that any newly
made cell is an exact copy of what it has to replace.
When these genes do not do their job and cells that
are mutated slip under the radar and get put to work,
they’ll eventually turn into cancer cells. The other
critically important relationship for selenium is to
the mineral we previously spoke of, iodine. Your
body cannot make the necessary thyroid hormones
using iodine alone. It recruits selenium to do the
job, and many people who show “normal” thyroid
conditions on a blood sample can have serious
thyroid problems strictly from lack of selenium.
[What’s the role of fluorine as a halogen-governing
iodine? Wouldn’t that inhibit the uptake of iodine?]
That’s correct. Iodine and fluorine operate on the
same electron valence, except that fluorine is kind
of like the mouthy little brother and the baby of the
family who wants his way. When he gets his way,
it’s usually wrong. The fluorine molecule is
attracted to the thyroid, and the body does attempt
to utilize the fluorine molecule in the production of
thyroxin, but it does it very unsuccessfully and shuts
down most of the thyroid’s chemical pathways
when fluorine is introduced in excessive levels in
iodine deficiency conditions.
[How many pathways does fluoride actually
inhibit?] As I understand it, there are more than 72
known chemical pathways that get shut off when
the administration of fluoride is high enough to
interfere with thyroid metabolism.
[Which would be at the level of one part
per million?] I think that one part per
million — which is currently allowable in
drinking water — is a crime. I don’t really
believe that one part per million is an
accurate assessment for total body
health. It’s an accurate assessment for
the fluoride industry to sell fluoride to
water systems — to get rid of the stuff.
As we both know, the fluoride that’s used
is a byproduct of the phosphorus
industry.
[We have the danger of radiation gradually drifting
out of Iraq because of the metals they’re using in
the war. We’re told that this toxic depleted uranium
is going clear around the envelope of air over the
Earth. What can people do to protect themselves
from this excess radiation that we’re experiencing?]
The standard way of protecting yourself from a
nuclear blast is to make sure you have potassium
iodine pills. If the big one goes off, you eat all this
potassium iodine and it just drags the radiation right
through your system. The backup system to force-
fed potassium iodine in severe, acute radioactive
poisoning is a mineral called boron. In the entire
table of elements, including subatomic particles,
there is only one mineral that is capable of
accepting and ionizing radiation that never changes
the innards or the nucleus of the cell — boron. The
protons and the neutrons do not change under any
conditions in the boron molecule. Boron can take
radiation and release it without upsetting this very
delicate balance. That makes it an excellent
candidate to have into your system, whether the
radiation be from excessive sunlight or spent
uranium that’s being ionized and released into the
atmosphere. When that mineral is present in your
system, your DNA creates a much better buffering
system to ward off radiation. Even when
chromosome breaks do occur, they are much more
easily repaired and maintained by the system.
[The chemicals that many people farm with are
what they call radiomimetic, meaning they ape the
nature of radiation. They are ionized chemicals that
have a terrible effect on the human system when
exposed. Would boron be of assistance to people
who endure that kind of exposure?] Definitely, we
would want to use boron and definitely selenium.
Those two minerals are of the utmost importance
for DNA maintenance.
[What other minerals have you encountered in
working out your standard genetic chart?] Some of
the lesser-known minerals would include cesium, a
much heavier metal than sodium and potassium.
When I’ve done sequencing in the ability to make
these tumor-suppressing proteins and wake up the
body’s immune system, cesium seems to have quite
an important role in the production of immune-
enhancing protein storage in that genetic code.
Using the overlay in comparison to the standard
genetic code chart, as I explained earlier, cesium
seems to have quite a profound affect on the
function of the kidneys, along with sodium. I also
believe that if you have enough cesium in your
system, it prevents sodium from getting out of
control. Many people have to avoid salt because it
causes hypertension, but cesium is like the big
brother to sodium — it allows it to do its job but
helps keep it manageable. When we eat too much
table salt — which is a very inorganic form of
sodium — we tend to get hardening of the arteries,
which drives blood pressure up. This isn’t the case
with sodium that’s from an organic source, say from
goat whey.
[Would cesium lower blood pressure, is that what
you’re saying?] Cesium will have a stabilizing
affect on the kidneys, and any problems that you
have with the kidneys can be lessened. One of my
patients was using the cesium Eniva in excess of
two years to stabilize some faulty kidney function.
The kidneys healed just fine, and she’s been off the
cesium now for a year and a half. Another trace
mineral, one that I think will be recognized in the
next 10 to 15 years as being just as important as
selenium, is called yttrium. There’s only one book
on it in terms of a database of knowledge —
Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium, by Dr.
Chaim T. Horovitz. He lays out a very compelling
case for taking a look at your yttrium and scandium
levels. I had to wrestle with this mineral for a
couple of years because when I was developing this
biological chart, I thought I’d be able to do my
research on yttrium through an Internet search. I
was very sadly mistaken — there really wasn’t
anything other than two or three articles in the
public medicine library. A very interesting one
described some Chinese geneticist who had put a
form of yttrium in the water supply of their favorite
lab animals — rats, I believe. When they later
analyzed these rats, it wasn’t yttrium they found in
the body — instead they found much higher
concentrations of selenium in the brain, the testicles,
the kidney, liver and spleens. I found that to be a
very interesting little tidbit of information.
On the standard genetic chart we have placed
yttrium at the UGA termination code, whereas some
geneticists are currently under the impression that
the UGA is occupied by selenium. This, I believe, is
an inaccurate assessment. Selenium is the only
mineral that current geneticists have been able to tie
to a standard genetic chart. Our chart has all 64 —
the geneticists’ table has only one, and it’s my
contention that it might not even be in the right spot,
since they haven’t explored this enough yet.
[This yttrium administered to the test animals in
China — how long did they live?] They didn’t
measure lifespan. But the research of Chaim T.
Horovitz on scandium and yttrium uncovered that
test animals given a daily injection of yttrium in the
same location on the belly never produced redness,
never produced soreness, never appeared to be sick
from it in any way. But they had to wait quite a long
time to do full analysis on the lab animals, which
lived three times their normal lifespan. One of the
findings was that this yttrium wasn’t expelled
through the skin or through the lungs — such as,
say, trillium with the smell of garlic — it wasn’t
expelled through the kidneys, either. All of this
yttrium, they discovered, was shuttled to the
intestinal tract. I had to wrestle with this finding. If
this yttrium is such an important molecule on the
standard genetic chart — and it’s an extremely
important metal in terms of RNA direction to the
cell to make individual proteins. When DNA
instructs messengers to copy a piece of some
chromosome, to push it out into the cell and make
something, there’s always one starting point, and
that’s methionine. There are three stopping points
called termination codes. The genetic code chart
lays out that hydrogen would govern one
termination code, sulfur which would govern
another termination code, and yttrium governs the
third. Since those lab animals lived three times their
normal lifespan, it became apparent that the
administration of yttrium allowed for more
complete DNA expression. When proteins are to be
made and the yttrium’s termination code is called
for, or the UGA termination code is called for, but
you don’t have yttrium or yttrium byproducts, then
this would relate to what’s called incomplete protein
synthesis.
[Where does this yttrium come to rest?] I like to call
this a fishing expedition. I say to myself, “You’ve
got to find out what’s in that intestinal tract that
would be using this yttrium.” After having a
computer program written that would take the
protein sequences and reanalyze them and give a
quantitative amount of how many times each
different mineral from the standard genetic chart is
used in a protein sequence, I was able to analyze
which genes were needed and what the genes need
— which type of minerals and how many. In some
of these genetic sequences, yttrium seems to be an
extremely, extremely important termination code. I
began examining the intestinal tract, and found that
there is apparently no such thing as a list of
probiotics. You can find a list of all the bacteria that
can be killed by an antibiotic, but there is no really
workable, concrete “probiotic list.” I looked up the
word probiotic on the Internet, and I got a list of all
the prominent bacteria. Then I took this list, went
into the databases, and found which ones had been
genetically sequenced. When I ran these protein
sequences through my computer program, I found
that most of the bacteria in our stomachs that we
call probiotics are hydrogen based. Two of them,
however — Bifidobacterium longum and
Bifidobacterium bifidum — utilize virtually no
hydrogen in their termination codes — instead, they
utilize a 95 to 99 percent yttrium-based termination
code system.
[Does that mean that yttrium is an important factor
in maintaining digestion?] More precisely, yttrium
is an important factor for maintaining the lifecycle
of two of our many probiotics, which are essential
to digestion. When we feed ourselves, we chew our
food into small bits and pieces. We add saliva to it,
and our stomach juices mix it up. We have pancreas
juices and bile juices. Finally, all the slurry of food
that we’ve thrown all these digestive enzymes at
goes into our intestinal tract. All we’re doing is
feeding a very large population of very hungry
bacteria that live off of our food. These bacteria
have a life cycle, respiration, intake and excretion
— basically, we absorb our bacteria’s excretion. So
although yttrium is not absorbed by the human body
per se, its primary role is to support the right type of
bacteria in our intestinal tract.
[Isn’t this tantamount to saying that it’s giving a
signal, an assist to digestion?] That’s correct, and I
would say that if you don’t have the right type of
bacteria growing in your system, you can
experience selective starvation.
[Let’s move off of that particular line of thought for
a moment and pick up on degenerative metabolic
diseases. Things like Parkinson’s disease,
Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) — what
is causing these things and how do the trace
nutrients figure in it?] The research that I’ve
done started with multiple sclerosis, and
if it wasn’t for a dear friend of mine, I
might have been still groping in the dark
in trying to understand the bacterial
action of the intestinal tract in relation to
yttrium.
My friend is suffering severely from
multiple sclerosis. He staggered into my
office one day and said, “Richard, read
this. You’ve got to talk to this guy.” He
showed me a 2002 article written by a
geneticist whose research had shown
that multiple sclerosis was actually nailed
down to just two genes that weren’t
working right. In the article he says that
although we can stick all the raw
ingredients into a test tube, we just can’t
get this stuff to wrap around a nerve —
and of course demyelination, or the loss
of the coating of your nerve, is the
hallmark of
MS. In the article he had listed the two
genes in the human genome that were
faulty. I nailed down the protein
sequences for these genes, I converted
them, and to my surprise the number
one termination code that was needed
was yttrium. I said to myself, “They’re
never going to figure this one out
because they don’t know what yttrium
is.” After that, I started looking at other
genetic sequences. Alzheimer’s got my
attention because it’s always in the
media. Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s
disease, they all seem to be very closely
related. In terms of research, you find
that many of the same broken genes
appear in all of these various diseases —
it’s just a matter of which combination of
genes is broken that determines the type
of disease process. When I started
running the protein sequences for all of
these genes, I found that the most
needed termination code in the
sequences was always yttrium. As a
matter of fact, yttrium always fell in the
top 10 (out of 64) minerals in terms of
need. The body has a priority system.
Yttrium falls on the heart meridian, and
any yttrium-based polypeptide or amino
acid sequences produced by bacteria in
the stomach or the intestinal tract is
probably going to be used by the heart or
the circulatory system before it can be
sent to the brain.
[Is it the absence of yttrium, or the presence of
something else, or a combination?] I think it’s a
combination. Boron is the mineral that controls all
the positive three valences (that is, ions with a
positive three charge) on the whole chart. Yttrium is
a positive three mineral. Our food is saturated with
another positive three mineral that also happens to
be the third-mostabundant mineral on the crust of
this Earth (in some places it’s the fourth), and that’s
aluminum. Aluminum has crept into our diet over
many years. Aluminum seems to be one of the most
overabundant contaminant minerals within our diet.
Morton table salt, for example, for many years
contained sodium chloride which is salt, sodium
silico aluminate, which is another salt. This
aluminum source would be sprinkled onto all of
your food at three meals each day. In the United
States, the third leading cause of disability and
death among senior citizens is Alzheimer’s, and I
think it’s a direct result of the application of
aluminum on their food three times a day. Take into
account that aluminum is added to many, many
municipality water treatment plants because it
makes the water clear and sparkly. Add to that the
fact that there’s a society that grew up eating out of
aluminum pots and pans, and that the majority of
the underarm deodorant that we use as a society is
an aluminum-based product.
[We also have aluminum in baking soda,
don’t we?] Yes, it is. In fact it is very hard
to consume foods that don’t contain
some form of aluminum.
[Especially processed foods.] Insects won’t eat this
processed food because I believe that they can sense
the aluminum is there.
[They may be smarter than we are in this
area.] Aluminum toxicity is a serious
problem. The number one contaminant
falling from the sky is sulfur, a sulfur
trioxide compound that comes out of our
cars and our catalytic converters. In the
clouds this sulfur trioxide turns to sulfur
dioxide, which rains down on the ground,
where the sulfuric acid mineral takes
aluminum from a solid state — a state in
which it’s been locked for millions and
millions and millions of years — to a
liquid. As a result we have what’s called
acidic lakes, and the aluminum gets into
the tiniest of life forms. If you’re a
crawdad living in a lake, for example, and
a blast of liquid aluminum comes into
your water supply, the crawdad suffers
hypoxia because the nerve from the gills
to the brain are neutralized and
respiration stops — much like the way
your underarm deodorant kills the nerves
to your sweat glands. Any living organism
from the bottom up that comes into
contact with this liquid aluminum suffers
a heavy toll on its life process. As with
other minerals in the body, an excess of
one leads to a deficiency in another — for
example, if you increase your potassium,
your sodium drops, and vice versa.
There’s a see-saw effect with these
minerals. The addition of excessive
amounts of aluminum into your system
will promote the growth of bacteria that
require aluminum — and there are many
bacteria that do require aluminum.
Remember that aluminum is the third- or
fourth-most-abundant element in the soil,
and one tablespoon of soil has over
10,000 different species of bacteria. Our
bellies are growing many of these
bacteria, as well, and excess aluminum
means overproduction of aluminum-
based bacteria and consequently —
yttrium and boron being alternate
positive three minerals — the scale tips
and it will suppress, if not eliminate, the
growth of yttrium-based bacteria. The
final result is neurodegenerative disease.
[And nursing homes that are warehouses for all
kinds of people whose bodies are still fairly good
but whose minds are gone.] The circulatory system
functions just great, but there’s nobody home
because the body has gone into a preservation mode
to keep it working — the circulation system. Yet
there are not enough of the yttrium-based
polypeptides or proteins to spare the brain
continuous regeneration, so the brain goes into
deterioration.
[Before we close this down, maybe you could share
a word of information on subatomic particles. Most
of us like to think in terms of things that are seen
and unseen, yet here are particles that really don’t
have a physical presence as we understand it.]
Subatomic particles got my interest when I was first
introduced to the Walter Russell Periodic Chart in
1977 while attending chiropractic school. I just had
a gut feeling that this man was right and that these
subatomic particles existed….
He wrote a book called Atomic Suicide? (1955) in
which he used his chart that he had developed in
1926. It was his goal to explain to the world what
the atomic age meant — what the use of all this
radiation was going to do. He tried to explain it to
the people who were in cancer institutes using
radium and cerium and these extremely heavy
metals to try to cure the carbon molecule of its
problem. They thought the answer was at the heavy
end of the spectrum instead of the light end of the
spectrum, and Russell wanted to let people know
that when you put leaded gasoline into your tractor,
you are then putting lead in the field, and that lead
will end up in the food chain. He wanted to stop the
proliferation of nuclear power plants and stop the
proliferation of the atomic age. He didn’t want to
see people annihilate themselves, either on a daily
basis or in a sudden mass extinction. He includes
his periodic chart that theorized the existence of 22
subatomic particles. As time went by more and
more research was done by CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, at their particle
physics laboratory in Chicago, where they
discovered their first subatomic particle. That was
in 1984, and then the discoveries just kept
occurring.
Now they’ve got it nailed down that the smallest
particles next to light, or photons, are products
called quarks — the smallest individual bits of
matter there are. The stuff that holds the quarks
together are called gluons. There are various types
of quark — there is an up quark, a down quark, a
top quark, a bottom quark, even a strange quark.
These can double up, giving us a second level of
energy, and then they triple up. There’s a single
quark system, a double quark system, a triple quark
system, until you finally get to the mineral
hydrogen.
[That’s the first one on the Mendeleyev chart.]
Right. But Walter Russell said that there are 22
subatomic elements or minerals lighter than
hydrogen. These minerals exist in a magnetic state.
For example, there are three subatomic minerals
that have a positive two charge. They arise as a
result of a ratio of barium, strontium, calcium,
magnesium and beryllium in our system, which then
creates these magnetic forces that are subatomic.
Each of the electron valences that we deal with have
a set of minerals that will create a set of subatomic
particles. When you vary your ratios of minerals,
you vary the ratio of subatomic particles or the use
thereof. DNA is the sequence that locks into place
all of these minerals that create electromagnetic
structure.
[That’s the reason that if the chicken gets some
sunlight it can lay an egg. In other words, there is
energy in that sunlight. There are vitamins in that
sunlight. There is food in that sunlight.] That’s right.
Now, I look at all this and say, “There’s
electromagnetic energy.” Going back to the book
written by Chaim T. Horovitz, Scandium and
Yttrium in the Biological Process, what I found
fascinating was that scandium, which is one of the
rarest minerals on Earth, is the 12th most abundant
element on the sun. I thought, “My God, all I have
to do is go out and get in the sunlight, and I’m going
to get my daily dose of scandium!” Well, it turns out
that I might have been correct. I went into the public
medicine library and found the vitamin D receptors
for Homo sapiens, I filtered these protein sequences
out, and I concluded that the most important mineral
in terms of vitamin D function is scandium.
[Which is a gift of the sun.] Right! Now, do I need
to go find a plant with scandium? Maybe under
extreme cases of complete sun deprivation for long
periods of time you may have to provide a little
jump start of some scandium to allow the sunlight to
do its job correctly. But under normal conditions,
that’s an example of a mineral not necessarily
having to be consumed in the traditional sense;
instead, it’s provided by the electromagnetic
radiation of the sun.
[To sum up what we’ve been discussing here,
considering our present environment, our present
state of the food supply, our present state of
nonperformance by the Food and Drug
Administration, what would be your assessment of
supplements everybody almost universally needs?] I
take magnesium and selenium daily. I make sure I
get some sunlight. I sometimes consume
supplementary fatty omega oils. I sometimes take in
some vitamin A. I cook with olive oil every day.
And I attempt to get every bit of aluminum out of
my life. I try to keep myself and my family away
from noxious fumes which can be inhaled and cause
damage. A lot of this stuff the body can regulate its
own, but there are a few basic metals that it needs in
order to do so. I take sea kelp for my iodine once or
twice a week — not just one pill, but 10, 15, maybe
20 at one time, just like sitting down and eating a
meal full of sea kelp. It’s interesting that the women
of Japan, with 10 percent of their diet being sea
kelp, have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in
the world. Seawater has blessed the earth with all
the necessary minerals, we just have to know how
to use them.
[What is the purpose of the other supplements?]
Magnesium and selenium keep the genetic structure
flowing. Selenium keeps the viruses out of your
system. Selenium keeps your brain working.
Selenium keeps your thyroid working.
Magnesium keeps the electricity in the heart going.
Magnesium keeps your kidneys regulated.
Magnesium keeps the arteries from allowing
calcium to penetrate into the arteries causing
hardening of the arteries.
[What keeps the brain secure in its pan up there?]
Actually two minerals. Silicon is the glue that holds
the brain together, and selenium and magnesium
allow the function of calcium to allow the neurons
to fire.
[On a scale of one to ten, what is the prospect of
getting what you require from the food that you can
buy at the supermarket?] Two. You’ve got to know
what you’re looking for. The more man has messed
with your food supply, the more it has been
processed, the worse the supply is going to be. The
closer to the ground and the fresher it is, the better
— if you could eat only foods that were not cooked,
you wouldn’t have to make digestive enzymes. All
the vegetables and fruits we eat contain all the
digestive enzymes necessary for their digestion. The
more man processes the food, the more man has to
make the digestive enzymes to extract whatever
good the food has to offer.
[What do you do about water? We’ve got
credentialed scientists running around selling the
proposition that it’s absolutely essential we
fluoridate the water supply, for example.] I think we
established that fluoridation is just ludicrous, almost
to the point of mind control, yet most people don’t
know it.
[Do people know that so many of their
pharmaceuticals are fluoride based?] Absolutely
not. When I get clientele in, the first thing I do is
grab the PDR, the Physician’s Desk Reference. I pop
open the page, the first thing I’m looking for is the
chemical makeup. They’ve got pretty pictures in
there of what the chemical looks like, but I don’t
really care — I want to know the actual makeup.
Has it got carbon, nitrogen and oxygen? Do they
throw a sulfur in? Do they throw phosphorus in? Do
they throw fluorine in? What mineral is it they’re
using to alter DNA?
[Or do they throw aluminum in?] Aluminum sneaks
in there most of the time in the form of food
coloring. They have all kinds of food colorings
added to these preparations, and I’m sure it has a lot
to do with the preservation and shelf life of the
drugs. Aluminum is snuck into so many things that
when you hear this next statement you’re going to
have to sit back and wonder why they’re doing this
and who’s sleeping at the switch. The day after
Halloween my children dump all the candy on a
table. They’re trained to look for the food colorings
that have aluminum — food colorings that have
aluminum always have the word Lake associated
with them, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 10 Lake, etc. When
we’re done sorting the candy with aluminum-based
food coloring, we’re left with only 10 percent of the
candy that I would allow the children to eat. We
throw 90 percent of Halloween candy away because
it has aluminum in it.
Trace Minerals & Health
Reviving a Lost Legacy
Gerald Olarsch
[The late George H. Earp-Thomas once suggested
that almost all degenerative metabolic diseases are a
result of either a shortage of, or a marked imbalance
of, trace nutrients. Can you elaborate on that
insight?] He firmly believed, and later proved, that
the human body could not sustain itself unless it had
all these nutrients, which are minerals from the
earth, in the proper proportion in the body. He
proved this, time after time, in tests on all kinds of
people. He discovered that, true enough, as his
theory originally suggested, the lack of trace
elements in the body produced deficiency diseases
and predicted that these diseases would in the future
be unlike anything the Bible ever described. I
believe we have seen this come to pass in our
country.
[He passed away in the early 1950s, but he
suggested that by the end of the 20th century we
would begin experiencing all kinds of disease
anomalies that we had never heard of before.]
That’s right. He was very interested in cancer. It is
well documented that he saved many individuals
from cancer by the utilization and reintroduction of
trace elements into their diets plus the inclusion of
wheat grasses. He also developed an acidophilous
culture that further took care of the bacteria in the
body by creating the proper balance of the right
bacteria in the body. He was interested in the
acidophilous cultures because around 1910 he spent
two years in Paris with Pasteur and he brought back
these strains, which he later developed
commercially….
[And yet the research that came out of Iowa in the
’30s and ’40s seemed to indicate that our hybrids
were not picking up cobalt, for which reason we
were having a great deal of brucellosis, Bang’s
disease, or what is undulant fever in humans.] Dr.
Earp-Thomas knew this long ago. The research he
did proved that these ailments were due to things
such as the lack of cobalt. I can tell you, to bring
this up to date, that relatively recently we took a
herd of goats in California and found that half the
goat herd got the trace elements and half did not.
The half of the herd that did not get trace elements
ended up with lung disease....
[Yet the Food and Drug Administration brought him
down, didn’t they?] Yes. Dr. Earp-Thomas proved
that electrolytes helped cure cancer. He was very
outspoken about it. In those days there were no
health food stores, and he mailed his research — in
synopsis form — out to doctors across the country.
He was pointing out the value of minerals in both
stopping and getting rid of cancer. Along came
World War II, and everything slowed for a while,
but after the war he resumed his research, writings
and the mailings to doctors. The FDA came after
him and asked him to stop sending this research out.
There were a lot of people under the same gun in
those days. They used a unique but simple method
to bring him down. They took him to Federal
District Court in Newark, New Jersey, in 1948.
[They tried to shut him down through the courts?] It
was a long process, but he actually won in court. As
he was walking out of the courthouse, coming from
the judge’s chambers, along came the FDA
representatives. The head guy congratulated Dr.
Earp-Thomas on winning his case and said, “I
assume that you are going to try to continue to
advertise your minerals as a treatment for cancer?”
Earp- Thomas answered, “Of course — I won in
court, didn’t I?” The FDA representative said to
him, “Well, you won in court this time, but can you
afford to do that year after year? How much did it
cost you?” Earp-Thomas said that it had cost him
$100,000 - which is like a million dollars today. The
FDA Representative said, “Can you afford to do that
every year, Dr. Earp-Thomas?” - and with that they
walked out the door, they didn’t even wait for an
answer. This kind of broke his back, and Earp-
Thomas died not too many years later, a very
disappointed, brokenhearted individual.
[His laboratory went up in flames, didn’t it?] Yes.
There was a big fire of unknown origin at his
laboratory. It happened in the middle of the night
when no one was there and much of his research
was destroyed at that point. This was around 1949.
[One question that occurs to us is this, is cancer the
common denominator for all these metabolic
disease conditions brought on by trace nutrient
deficiency or imbalance?] I would have to yes, it is
the bottom line. In other words, while we may be
fighting other diseases, as we get in bad enough
shape we develop cancer. The form of cancer is
influenced by genetics.
[Isn’t there a genetic component in all disease
conditions?] Yes. But we can stop it anywhere
along the line by taking trace elements, that’s for
sure. If the trace elements are not there, then there is
all hell to pay sooner or later, whether it starts out as
a simple skin rash, or a minor problem with the eyes
or lungs, or what have you.
. sustains many times more living organisms than an
Sea Energy in Agriculture
Renewing the Soil with Sea Solids
by David Yarrow
In the early ages of our planet, water dissolved
minerals from crystal bedrock, washing them into a
vast ocean. Rain and ice scoured the infant orb’s
dense granites and then flowed into streams and
rivers, which all ran together into the sea.
Minerals in endless flowing solution accumulated in
the ocean over many millennia.
Sea salt has all the elements needed for life. Over
countless years, land has been worn down by wind
and water, and elements washed out to sea. Thus,
the sea received the enormous chemical richness
and balance that once supported life on land.
So, when we savor the flavor of food, our
fundamental seasoning is salt — the sea its original
source. Natural sea salt is a faint gray-green, with
soft, complex crystal structures, but today’s table
salt is only sodium — pure white cubic crystals of
chloride. All other seawater elements have been
refined — removed and taken out. Gone is the iron;
lost are potassium, calcium and magnesium, as well
as more minor minerals and trace elements than we
can yet measure.
Dr. Maynard Murray was a pioneer in biology,
health and agriculture. His lifelong quest taught him
that the key to health is a secret in soil, a secret
whose source is the sea. A medical scientist, he
recognized evidence of an all-encompassing unity
for life on Earth. His inspiration came from his
study of the ocean….
Pointedly, he wrote, “Americans hold the dubious
distinction of being among the sickest of
populations in modern society,” adding, “A nation
with a drug industry flourishing as well as ours
certainly cannot claim good health!”
As a university student, Murray had tried to induce
cancer in a toad. He was astonished to learn that the
amphibian had natural immunity. He sought
answers in ocean animals rather than freshwater and
land animals. Time and money was spent traveling
to study and dissect sea life from South America to
the Pribilof Islands. “A cubic foot of seawater
equivalent of soil,” he noted. “Seawater is literally
alive, especially if its temperature is warm.”
Murray sliced open whales and autopsied
dolphins and marine mammals searching for
organic degeneration, but he saw little sickness in
the sea.
Ocean animals, he discovered, did not develop the
degenerative diseases that plague man: “Looking at
ocean life, one is immediately impressed that in this
71 percent of earth’s surface, there is no cancer,
hardening of arteries, or arthritis. Disease resistance
in sea plants and animals differs remarkably from
land animals. Ocean trout don’t develop cancer,
while freshwater trout over five years have liver
cancer. It’s difficult to find any land species without
cancer. All land animals develop arteriosclerosis,
yet sea animals are never diagnosed with this.”
Murray noted that aging hardly occurs in the sea.
Comparing cells from adult vs. newborn whales
showed no evidence of the chemical changes
observed in land mammal cells. Some sea denizens
seem to never cease growing. Comparing the sizes
of land vs. sea turtles reveals the tremendous
difference.
Murray pondered over what could impart this
apparent immunity to sea animals. Was it a
nutritional factor? Was it caused by minerals, or
some more complex chemical factor?
Simple reasoning reveals that minerals in soil leach
out with rain and snow, flowing into oceans via
streams and rivers — the land’s mineral fertility
winds up washing into the seas. Minerals lost from
land accumulated in the sea for millennia. This
progression suggests that seawater minerals are key
nutrients responsible for the heath of sea life.
“Seawater is Earth’s most ancient natural solution,”
Murray said, “and, in my opinion, most ideal,
physiologically. In the sea, as liquid crystalloid,
all Atomic Table elements are in a solution of
consistent balance and proportion, available to all
sea life.”
Murray noticed the elements in seawater are
essentially the same as in blood, and very close to
the same quantities. This seemed no coincidence,
but a true clue to the role of minerals in health.
Might mineral deficiency be a significant cause of
degenerative disease? If humans get a full menu of
minerals, will our physiologic disorders decline?
But how could humans assimilate these necessary
nutrients? Drinking seawater isn’t possible —
humans aren’t designed to ingest minerals as salts,
or rocks, for that matter. Our guts can’t absorb
elements in raw, naked, ionic forms. Rather, human
intestines need minerals to be packaged with sugars,
amino acids, fats, oils.
“Table salt is the only food we eat that’s inorganic,”
Murray noted, “and frankly, it isn’t good for us.” He
summed up his thesis: “Ocean waters hold a perfect
balance of essential elements required as food for
the complex cell groups that make up our bodies.”
… Corn, wheat, oats, barley, hay, fruit trees,
vegetable crops and other plants were raised using
seawater or sea solids. Fields were planted so that
an experimental plot using sea solids (applied at
1,000 to 2,200 pounds per acre) was situated beside
a control plot using the best commercial method.
Crops fertilized with sea solids grew faster, were
healthier, and produced far greater growth.
Resulting color, disease resistance, taste and yield
were outstanding.
Animals, wild and domestic, had no trouble
determining which crop was better to eat. A walk
through one of the fields fertilized with sea solids
revealed a glimpse of animal heaven. Rabbits and
mice scurried everywhere, yet a control area with
standard fertilizers was almost lifeless.
In the 1950s, Murray began assaying crops for
nutrients. Consistently, foods grown using sea solids
had significantly more minerals (ash content),
vitamins (25 percent more vitamin C in tomatoes;
40 percent more vitamin A in carrots) and sugars.
[Note: this was in the 1950s – think of the
difference today!]
.… “From the start,” Murray recorded, “my sea
solids experiments produced excellent results. It
conclusively proves the proportions of trace
minerals and elements present in sea water are
optimum for growth and health of both land and sea
life.”
Growers quickly criticize Murray, insisting that salt
will kill plants as quick as any pesticide or poison.
This is true of table salt, but Murray found that if
sodium is blended with all of the other elements in
the same ratios as in seawater, plants aren’t injured
— instead, they thrive.
Murray learned a key principle: each essential
element must be present in certain precise
proportions relative to the others….
In Murray’s time, knowledge of trace elements was
minimal. Only twenty elements were known to have
specific roles in human physiology. Several more
were known to benefit plants and animals. Heavy
metals were suspected of positive roles.
Even poisonous elements (e.g., arsenic) were
beneficial if ingested in organic form, and in trace
amounts. Only nine trace elements were listed in
“Recommended Dietary Allowances,” and few
enzymes had their trace elements identified, yet
thousands of enzymes were identified. Undoubtedly,
many more enzyme and trace element functions
remain to be described.
So, while Murray could write little on trace
elements, he grasped how the least can exert the
most influence. An element needed in micrograms
or less can have dramatic biologic effects by
activating enzymes and hormones. Murray knew
that we need all of the elements available, not a few
in excess amounts.
… Not only were experimental crops superior, but
effects on animal physiology and pathology were
delightfully amazing.” Feeding experiments with
cattle showed greater weight-gain after eating less
experimental feed. Chickens were particularly
partial to sea solid-grown feeds; they grew more
quickly, hens produced more and larger eggs sooner,
and at slaughter their meat was of better quality.
Murray wrote, “Chickens, pigs and cattle fed sea
solids produce reached maturity sooner than
controls, and resisted diseases common to their
species better. Experimental pigs carried benefits
into a second generation; there were no runts in
litters.”
Murray’s most astonishing tests were with lab mice:
“A first animal experiment was on C3H mice, which
get spontaneous cancer of the breast. We hoped sea
solids grown food could build resistance to the virus
or cancer.
“C3H mice were divided in two groups. Controls
were fed regular cereal grain, while experimentals
were fed cereal grain raised on sea solids-treated
soil.
“Instead of cancer in 90 percent of controls,
experimental animals’ rate dropped to 55 percent.
Second generations born to parents fed sea solids
food had cancer in only 2 percent of the
population!”
This single experiment caused Murray to reconsider
the conventional causes attributed to this dread
disease. He repeated his experiment in variations.
Each time, sea solid-fertilized feed seemed to
impart resistance, perhaps immunity, to cancer.
broad view. He recognized that a new pill won’t
resolve the real problem. Only addressing the root
source can relieve disease. Murray correctly saw
agriculture as the real root cause, and called for
changes, not in medicine, but in farming and food
processing. [ Note: and this was BEFORE the toxic
chemical and pesticide age got into full swing!]
… The physician knew little of how bacteria, fungi
and microbes affect plant feeding — that roots and
soil organisms form intimate communities, wedded
together in tight symbiotic dependencies. Actually,
the medical doctor saw microbes mostly as
unfriendly and dangerous.
Nonetheless, Murray’s conclusion states: “Today’s
organic farmers realize a giant commercial farmer,
specializing in one crop, using only chemical
fertilizer, is destroying soil’s ability to produce
food. If this continues, soil will be ruined and lost
through erosion. To prevent this, and reclaim soil
already destroyed, organic farming must be used.”
Thus, Murray cast his lot with the tiny minority to
challenge the chemical orthodoxy of his times. Like
every other small voice of reason, he was ignored in
the petrochemical rush to pump up yield with
synthetics.

Murray faced facts compiled in experiment after

experiment, and realized that nutrient deficiencies
are a key element contributing to degenerative
diseases: “My research clearly indicates
Americans lack complete physiological chemistry
because balanced, essential elements of soil have
eroded to the sea; consequently, crops are
nutritionally poor, and animals eating these plants
are, therefore, nutritionally poor.

“Minerals have departed from our soils due to

continuous taking of crops and erosion. Most crops
require forty elements from the soil. In no case do
fertilizers add more than twelve, most add six.”

Unlike technicians who see only their own small

problem, Murray’s lifelong work with oceans,
farmers, hydroponics and medicine gave him a