Dietary supplements may not be for everyone, but they could have a role to play in your life. As we become more concerned about our nutritional well-being, we are
understandably worried about whether we are getting proper nourishment from the food that we eat.

Not only do our busy and stressful lifestyles prevent us from eating well, but even the food in our markets and supermarket shelves may no longer be the healthiest sources of nutrients.

Due to these reasons, it is no wonder that I hear the question; Do I need supplements? so often. Dietary supplements may not be for everyone, but they could have a role to play in your life, depending on the quality of food that you eat every day.

Here are a few reasons that supplements may be necessary for you.

Quality of soil and crops

The idea of dietary supplements is to make up for nutrient deficiencies in our diet often deficiencies of micronutrients, like vitamins and minerals, instead of macronutrients, which are quite abundant in our food.

It took almost 20 years to develop such a great health giving product which combines the functionality of adding minerals and trace elements to our diet for daily use.

(Food Supplement) O’shea minerals are a highly concentrated rich source of soluble minerals and trace elements extracted /derived from pristine waters in remote areas of the oceans in Australia.

How are the minerals made?
100% Engineered by Nature.

This minerals and trace elements together with ocean deep water are extracted from Pristine waters located off THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, Then collected in Specially designed ponds. This water is allowed to slowly concentrate, utilizing, the forces of solar evaporation and  precipitation to 1% of its original solution's weight and most of the sodium chloride (salt) removed. 

A dense solution rich in minerals, both macro and trace slowly develops, immersing a broad spectrum of essential  minerals and trace minerals, often missing from our food. At this point excess levels of Sodium in CRYSTALLINE forms on the top layers, then they are gently removed from the solution.

The solution is then transferred to another pond where it is allowed to concentrate even further, prior to being transferred to the last solar concentration pond.

After many months of solar concentration, dense solution rich in all manner and yet remarkably low in sodium (approximately 2%) is formed. This superior mineral rich Anti-microbial and anti-bacterial solution is then tanked and shipped to the facility where it under goes a unique  proprietary process to ensure its efficacy and suitability for human consumption.

Throughout this long process the solution is constantly monitored and samples are repeatedly collected for analytical testing in an Accredited Laboratory to ensure that the  purity, consistency and concentration of minerals in this Natural Product is within an acceptable range.

These trace elements help to restore depleted electrolytes and assist the body with its own  natural ability to promote balance. Minerals are the building blocks of the body and are critical to protecting and maintaining health especially good health.

O’shea  91+ Natural minerals are 100% Ocean derived, ionic liquid mineral solution.. This means that it is already dissolved, making these rich, macro and trace elements Bio – available and easily absorbed by the body.

This incredible 100% NATURAL OCEAN Derived liquid mineral Supplement is natural balanced and Naturally Processed by solar evaporation and gravity.

Ocean has the perfect catalyst for life.

Blood Plasma - the fluid of blood, minus the red cells is chemically almost identical to ocean water complete with minerals and trace elements. (98 percent identical) Ocean water is truly the means for life. The trace minerals are what make ocean water so important for nutrition and health which is governed by nature and is perfect, and as such, supports life.

All creatures require a balance of both macro and trace minerals to function. The levels and balance of minerals in us 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 body fluids.

O’shea  mineral replaces the mineral deficiency in our soil. Even organic food is not exempted from this, as our top soil now is almost barren of minerals. The overuse of land, along with the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticide has left vast tracts of land sterile (empty). 

In order for soil to be healthy and to be able to pass on essential nutrients it must be a “subterranean”  biological maze of life, bacteria, worms and other organisms, and of Course "minerals" Until the issue of modern farming techniques is addressed and reverse, the only way we can be assured that we are getting all the minerals our body requires to maintain health, is by taking a high quality natural Trace Minerals Product like O’shea  Natural Minerals.

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Vitamins and minerals cannot be made in our body, therefore we have to obtain them from the food that we eat.

Plant foods, such as vegetables, fruits, legumes and grains, are one of the main sources of minerals, as plants absorb minerals from the soil that they are grown in.

But did you know that even if you eat plenty of plant foods, you may not be getting as much minerals as you think you should?

This is because our soil is becoming increasingly depleted of minerals, due to the land being used repeatedly for agriculture.

When plants are grown over and over again in the same soil, the mineral content of the soil decreases over time much like a well that becomes empty after you keep drinking the water from it.

As a result, most agricultural soils today are low in zinc, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, calcium and magnesium. Research shows that this can lead to up to a 75% decrease in the trace minerals in plant foods.

To make matters worse, the intensive form of farming taking place today has further reduced the level of nutrients in crops. High yield crops contain less nutrients because the crops are competing for nutrients from a finite amount of soil.

For instance, wheat farmers today plant 10 times the amount of wheat on the same land, compared to the amount grown 100 years ago. As a result, today’s wheat consists of only 6% protein, half of the 12-14% level from a century ago.

You can counteract this problem by eating organic fruits and vegetables as much as possible. Organic farmers practise crop rotation to reduce the likelihood of soil depletion, although this does not completely prevent soil depletion.
 

Modern fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides

Before modern fertilisers came into the picture, farmers would use manure to encourage crops to grow better. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case as manure has been replaced by superphosphate fertilisers, which contain mainly nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.

Modern fertilisers are used for the purpose of stimulating crops to grow, but as they do not contain trace minerals that are vital for health, they do not serve to enrich the crops.

The use of pesticides and herbicides further deteriorates the soil content, as they kill the microorganisms living in the soil that make minerals and other nutrients available to plants.

As we ingest traces of these pesticides when we eat plant foods, our bodies need more nutrients to remove these toxins. This places a heavy toll on the body, which is already deprived of micronutrients.

Food transportation and processing

When was the last time you ate fresh produce, harvested just hours or days before it reached your dining table? Chances are, it was so long ago that you don’t remember anymore.

As much of our produce today is imported, the food often takes days or weeks from the time it is harvested until it reaches our supermarkets or markets.

Many vitamins are unstable and are easily destroyed when exposed to environmental factors like heat and light. Therefore, by the time the food is handled, packaged, transported by airplane, train or truck and unpacked on our shelves, it has lost a lot of its nutritional value.

Similarly, food processing causes a lot of nutrients to be lost, particularly minerals.

We consume a lot of refined, processed, canned and frozen food today for convenience and economic reasons, but they are far less nutritious than fresh and natural food.

The process of refining wheat to make white flour removes 80% of magnesium, 70-80% of zinc, 87% of chromium, 88% of manganese and 50% of cobalt.

Making polished rice causes 75% of zinc and chromium to be lost, while making white sugar from sugar cane causes 99% of magnesium and 93% of chromium to be lost.

The use of food additives, such as artificial flavours, colours,
conditioners, stabilisers and preservatives, can also deplete the body of nutrients.

Unhealthy lifestyle

One of the biggest reasons that many of us do not meet our daily nutrient requirements in the right proportion is that we lead very unhealthy lifestyles.

We often skip meals and then binge on one heavy meal to make up for it, or make poor food choices that do not provide the variety of nutrients we need.

If you get through the day on coffee, soft drinks, instant noodles, doughnuts and chocolates, you are certainly deprived of a lot of important nutrients.

High stress levels will also deplete nutrients, including calcium, magnesium and zinc. Stress also overstimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which causes poor digestion and weak absorption of nutrients.

Finally, as we age, it is inevitable that our bodies will produce fewer enzymes that are needed to properly digest the food that we eat. That is why older people tend to be vulnerable to nutrient deficiencies.

Supplementing a healthy diet

Supplements came by their name because they were meant to complement or enhance the daily diet, not replace it. Fundamentally, you still need to eat a healthy, balanced diet consisting of a variety of foods.

However, supplements will come in useful if the fruits, vegetables and plant foods that you eat are of poor quality (due to depleted soil, as explained above) and cannot provide an optimum amount of nutrients.

You may also need supplements if you are going through a particularly stressful period and your body needs a helping hand to meet its nutrient requirements and balance the hormone levels.

If you are pregnant, lactating, elderly, vegetarian or have a chronic illness, you are likely to have special nutritional needs which may not be met by your diet alone.

However, you cannot rely on supplements forever. They are useful to help you get through a tough period and bring your body back to balance, but you have to be able to maintain good nutritional health through natural means.

Get advice from a dietitian or pharmacist before purchasing dietary supplements, so that you do not overdose on nutrients or consume poor quality or even toxic products.--This article - By DR NOR ASHIKIN MOKHTAR. Datuk Dr Nor Ashikin Mokhtar is a consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist (FRCOG, UK). For further info visit www.primanora.com