Colloidal Minerals!
What makes our minerals so great, and so unique  Vs   a $10/bottle at the health food store?

There are 3 ways to get minerals for our bodies:

1) Metallic mineral, ancient sea beds & ground up rocks and soils.
-Classed as hydrophobic - not water soluble, hard to dissolve
-Positive Electric charge.
-Less than 8% absorbable (i.e. Let's assume that you wanted to take 100 mg of a specific mineral each day. If you are using a metallic mineral supplement, it is possible that only 8%, or 8 mg would be available for your body to use.)
-This is what is found in most grocery store supplements.

     Metallic minerals are found in their pure elemental form or as salts such as sodium chloride and zinc sulfate. They are the most commonly used form in nutritional supplements, especially for the essential minerals, because larger amounts are indicated. They are generally the least expensive form of minerals but their primary disadvantage is that their degree of absorption is the least of all three forms. Although they have their place, metallic minerals do not represent the full spectrum of all the trace minerals that are known to be of value in human nutrition.

2) Chelated Mineral. A metallic mineral wrapped with a protein or amino acid.
- 40%-50% absorbable

     Chelated minerals are the next step up the ladder in so far as the body's ability to assimilate. The term "chelate" originates from a Greek word that means "claw". In this process, be it either in the laboratory or in nature itself, a metallic mineral is "chelated" with an amino acid. The amino acid actually surrounds the metallic mineral like a claw and thereby helps to solubilize it, making the "mineral chelate" more bioavailable or useful to the body. Examples of chelated minerals are the magnesium aspartate (magnesium chelated with the natural aspartic acid) and chromium picolinate (chromium chelated with picolinic acid). In many cases, chelated minerals are about 40% more efficient in regards to absorption and assimilation into the body than metallic minerals.

3) Plant Derived hydrophilic colloidal mineral. Originate from the earth through the root of a plant.
-Up to 98% absorable, Negative electric charge
-Hydrophilic - easy to dissolve without digestion.
-Generally 200 - 2,000 times smaller than metallic minerals.
-Some minerals no larger than .0000001 micron (able to absorbed readily into the bloodstream)

     Colloidal minerals are those that occur in nature in the colloid state. That is, they are minute particles that either are or can be easily dispersed in a medium such as water. In that they are made up of such small particles, there is a major increase in surface area giving them greater exposure to the liquid or solvent they are to be distributed in. This results in increased solubility, bioavailability, absorption, and usefulness to the body. Plant-derived colloidal minerals provide the best of all forms of minerals not only because of this increased solubility but also because they are associated with natural plant tissue. This gives them all the advantages of chelated and metallic minerals and more!