When it comes to minerals, most folks, even the so-called experts, don’t really understand where the best forms come from. The kind of minerals your body can actually use are very different from the ones dug up from rocks and soil. There’s a world of difference between colloidal minerals and inorganic minerals, and that difference can mean the line between health and toxicity.
Most commercial supplements on store shelves are made from minerals that come straight out of the ground. These are called metallic or inorganic minerals. They carry a positive electrical charge and can be seen under a 200-power microscope. The problem is, your body isn’t designed to absorb metallic minerals efficiently. In fact, too many of them can build up in your system and become waste material that the body tries to eliminate.
Think about it like this: you wouldn’t chew on a rock to get your daily calcium, yet that’s pretty much what happens when you take rock-based supplements. The minerals might look the same on paper, but they don’t act the same once they’re inside your body. The human digestive system simply doesn’t have the machinery to convert inorganic minerals into the living, bioavailable forms found in plants.
Colloidal Minerals: From Plants, for People
Now, minerals that come from plants are different. The minerals in plants start out in the soil and rocks, sure, but through the process of photosynthesis, the plant converts them into a new form that’s bioavailable, meaning the human body can actually use them.
That’s what we call colloidal minerals. They come from ancient plant life, often found in deposits of humic shale, which is basically prehistoric vegetation turned into a rich, concentrated mineral source over millions of years.
Colloidal minerals have a negative electrical charge, which makes them stay suspended in liquid rather than settling or dissolving. They are so tiny that even a 1000-power microscope can’t always detect them. Because of this extreme smallness, down to one-hundred-thousandth of an inch, they are able to easily move through cell walls and into your body’s tissues, where they can do the most good.
Dr. Frederick S. Macy, Dr. Patrick Flanagan, and chemist David Graham were among the first to bring attention to colloidal chemistry and its benefits. According to their research, colloidal minerals are basically non-toxic because of their plant-based origins and their negative charge.
Dr. Macy once made a remarkable demonstration about iodine. He explained that drinking just a few grams of free iodine could kill a person. Then, holding up a cup of colloidal iodine, which contained the same iodine in colloidal form, enough to kill 300 men if it were in its raw state, he drank it right there. Why? Because in colloidal form, it was not only harmless but beneficial.
The same principle holds true for other elements that might otherwise be poisonous. When in colloidal form, even something like arsenic can act differently in the body, completely safe when plant-based and properly balanced.
Dr. Flanagan’s book Elixir of the Ageless goes even deeper, describing colloids as “the twilight zone of matter.” These are the smallest possible particles of any element that still keep their identity. They range in size from 0.01 to 10 microns, so small that the most powerful microscopes can’t see the smallest ones.
Flanagan also said one teaspoon of colloidal minerals can have a surface area of over 127 acres, that’s billions of tiny, electrically charged mineral particles ready to nourish your cells. That’s what makes them so powerful and easy for the body to absorb.
An article in Healthy Living once said it best: “The body does need minerals in the organic form. Organic minerals are absorbable by body tissues and become energy catalysts for the cells.”
The key point here is that only plants can make inorganic minerals from the soil into organic, colloidal minerals that our bodies can use. If a person were starving and tried to live on soil alone, they would die of malnutrition, even though the soil contains every mineral known to science. That’s because the body can’t absorb inorganic minerals. Only plants can take the raw stuff of Earth and turn it into living, bioavailable nutrition.
Modern farming and food processing have stripped much of our soil and our food of natural mineral content. Even if you eat fruits and vegetables every day, you may still be short on trace minerals that your body needs for energy, nerve function, and healing.
That’s why high-quality colloidal mineral supplements, made from plant-based humic shale rather than rock, are so important. These living minerals replenish what’s missing from today’s diets and support the body’s natural ability to heal and thrive.
When people switch from metallic, rock-based supplements to true colloidal minerals, they often notice better energy, improved digestion, and clearer thinking. That’s the body saying, “Thank you, I can finally use what you’re giving me.”
Here’s the Deal
- Inorganic (metallic) minerals = rock-based, positive charge, poorly absorbed, sometimes toxic.
- Colloidal (plant-based) minerals = organic, negative charge, fully absorbable, beneficial.
- Only plants can convert inorganic minerals into a form the human body can use.
- Colloidal chemistry, as explained by Dr. Macy, Dr. Flanagan, and David Graham, shows how vital these trace minerals are to maintaining life and energy.
If we want to stay healthy, we have to get our minerals from the same place Nature intended, from plants, not rocks.
Now you can easily understand why that drug store multivitamin is relatively inexpensive.