Minerals (1)

Minerals Your Body Cannot Manufacture

Vitamins are organic compounds that can sometimes be synthesised from precursors. Minerals are elemental - your body cannot create them at all, so every milligram has to come from diet or supplementation. This makes mineral status entirely dependent on intake and absorption.

What's in This Collection

• Pumpkin Seed Oil Gummies - provide zinc, a mineral involved in over three hundred enzymatic reactions, including immune cell function, wound healing and the DHT pathway relevant to hair retention.
• Magnesium Bisglycinate Gummies - chelated magnesium for evening calm, muscle relaxation and nervous system support.
• Grass-fed beef organ products - supply iron in the heme form found in animal tissue, which is absorbed considerably more efficiently than the non-heme iron in plant foods.

Absorption Is the Real Issue

Mineral deficiency is often a problem of absorption rather than intake. Phytates in grains and legumes bind minerals and block uptake; zinc and copper compete for the same transporters, so high doses of one can induce deficiency in the other; and heme iron from animal tissue is absorbed two to three times more efficiently than plant iron. This is why form matters as much as quantity.

Our Approach

We use chelated or food-matrix minerals wherever possible - bisglycinate for magnesium, food-bound iron from organ tissue - because these forms work with your absorption pathways rather than against them.