If you suffer with depression, or if you’re ill or if your libido is getting in the way of happy dancing – your mineral intake is going to be very important!
Here’s some ways of increasing your intake of minerals:
Seaweed – No other group of plants contain more minerals and nutrients than seaweed and I PROMISE you, the family won’t even know seaweed is in there unless you tell them – it just adds a lovely richness of flavor. I put in about a teaspoon of wakame flakes into just every liquid meal for two people – soups, casseroles, spaghetti sauces and the like. My young grandson calls it “Nanna’s secret ingredient” and I notice the lack of flavor if I’ve forgotten it. Seaweed has 57 minerals and trace elements, which effect everything from our body’s ability to heal itself, to brain operation to libido to hormones (mood), optimum thyroid operation, to all aspects of mental, emotional and physical well-being.
Here’s an article from Deepak Chopra on all the types of seaweed and their differences.
Tissue salts are very gentle and yet powerful ways of bringing the body back into balance with minerals and they’re inexpensive. They’ll often come up when I’m doing a healing session on a person or animal. Here’s a link to an informative article on the use of Tissue Salts, sometimes called Cell Salts. They are available in most pharmacies these days. They’ll last for years if you keep contaminants out of the bottle – i.e. tip the tablets back and forth in the lid until you have the two tablets you require and ONLY THEN tip them into your hand. That way you keep the contents fresh.
Salt – I started to see people salt deficient about 15 years ago in my healing practice. Muscle cramps, fatigue, muscle weakness, confusion, restlessness and irritability can be symptoms of someone who needs salt. It’s only the chemical salt that’s bad for you. Live salt, like Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt or Sea Salt that is processed without chemicals and heat is full of minerals and actually good for you.
Foods and food herbs and spices are wonderful sources of minerals and you rarely need to go beyond them. However, we are bombarded by this food is “good” and this food is “bad” and what’s even worse the scientific community are constantly changing things from one list to the other as they discover that previous advice was incorrect. The answer is to listen to your own body and find the food that “dances on your tongue” and is reflected in your vitality. I’m throwing in this link from Deepak Chopra so you can think about the benefits to the earth at the same time.
https://www.deepakchopra.com/articles/a-renewed-planet-starts-with-food/