MINERAL FUNCTIONS & DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS

As outlined by Dr. Joel Wallach in his booklet “A Dire Warning”

ANTIMONY

  • Effective against blood flukes

BISMUTH

  • Ulcers result from lack of bismuth and a bacteria Helicobacter pylori

BORON

  • Aids efficient calcium and magnesium use
  • Essential for bone metabolism
  • Proper endocrine function
  • Reduces calcium loss from bones (Osteoporosis)

CALCIUM

  • High protein diets increases demands for calcium

Deficiency:

  • Arthritis
  • Back pain (Sciatica, disc problems)
  • Bell’s Palsy
  • Bone spurs
  • Brittle fingernails
  • Calcium deposits
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Delusions
  • Depression
  • Eczema
  • High blood Pressure
  • Hyperactivity
  • Hypertension
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Kidney stones
  • Limb numbness
  • Muscle cramps / spasms/ twitches
  • Nervousness
  • Neuromuscular excitability
  • Osteomalacia (Failure to mineralize the protein bone matrix)
  • Osteoporosis (Dowagers hump, spontaneous fractures, Kyphosis)
  • Panic attacks
  • Periodontal disease, Receding gums
  • PMS
  • Rickets
  • Retarded growth
  • Tetany
  • Tooth decay

CESIUM

  • Cancer aid (Caesium enters a cancer cell and produces an alkaline condition.)

CHROMIUM

Deficiency:

  • ADD /ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Aortic cholesterol plaque
  • Coronary blood vessel disease
  • Depression/Manic depression
  • Diabetes (also Vanadium)
  • Elevated blood cholesterol and blood triglycerides
  • Fatigue
  • Hyperactivity
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar (vanadium & copper also)
  • Infertility and decreased sperm count
  • Learning disabilities
  • Negative nitrogen balance (body lean mass/protein loss)
  • Prediabetes (vanadium also)
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Retarded growth
  • Shortened life span

COBALT

Deficiency:

  • Anaemia
  • Anorexia
  • Emaciation, listless, pale mucus membranes
  • Essential part of vitamin b12 (growth & nerve system function)

COPPER

Deficiency:

  • Alopecia (Hair loss)
  • Anemia
  • Aneurysms
  • Arthritis
  • Cerebral palsy &hypoplasia
  • Explosive outbursts
  • Depression
  • Dermatosis
  • Diarrhea
  • Dry brittle hair
  • Fatigue
  • Fragile bones
  • Hernias
  • High blood cholesterol
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypo or hyper thyroid
  • Ptosis (sagging tissue)
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Learning disabilities
  • Liver cirrhosis
  • Ruptured vertebral disc problems
  • Low blood pressure
  • Respiratory disease
  • Swachman’s Syndrome
  • Varicose Veins
  • White or grey hair

GERANIUM

  • Aid in oxygen utilization
  • Enhances immune system function
  • Highly efficient electrical impulse initiator

Deficiency:

  • Arthritis
  • Cancer
  • Low energy
  • Osteoporosis

GOLD

  • Reduces active joint inflammation

IODINE

  • Copper needed to utilize iodine
  • Needed for thyroid function

Deficiency:

  • Col intolerance
  • Brittle nails
  • Bulging eyes
  • Constipation
  • Depression
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Elevation blood cholesterol
  • Excessive sweating
  • Fatigue
  • Frequent bowel movements
  • Goiter
  • Hair loss
  • Hand tremors
  • Heat intolerance
  • Heavy periods or less than 28 day cycles
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Increased appetite
  • Irritability
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Insomnia
  • Light periods and longer than 28 day cycles
  • Low basal body temperature
  • Low sex drive
  • Muscle aches and pains
  • Muscle cramps
  • Muscle weakness
  • Nervousness
  • Over-active thyroid
  • Poor memory
  • Puffy face
  • Rapid pulse
  • Under-active thyroid
  • Weight gain or loss

LITHIUM

Deficiency:

  • ADD
  • Depression
  • Infertility
  • Lithium deficiency aggravated by high sugar consumption
  • Manic depression
  • Rage and fits
  • Reduced growth rate
  • Shortened life span

MAGNESIUM

Deficiency:

  • Anxiety
  • Asthma
  • Anorexia
  • Birth defects
  • Calcification of small arteries
  • Confusion
  • Depression
  • Growth failures
  • Hyperactivity
  • Hypotension
  • Hypothermia
  • Insomnia
  • Irritably
  • Menstrual pains
  • Migraines
  • Muscle pains/tremors/weakness
  • Nervousness/neuromuscular irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Seizures
  • SIDS
  • Tachycardia/palpitations
  • Tetany convulsions
  • Vertigo

MANGANESE

Deficiency:

  • Asthma
  • Ataxia
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Chondromalacia
  • Convulsions
  • Dizziness
  • Hearing loss
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Infertility
  • Loss of sex drive
  • Pancreatic atrophy
  • Poor cartilage formation
  • Carpal tunnel
  • Slow growth rates
  • Still births/miscarriages
  • Tinnitus

MOLYBDENIUM

  • Essential as a metalloenzyme of several enzyme systems

NICKEL

Deficiency:

  • Anemia
  • Delayed puberty
  • Depressed oxidative ability of the liver
  • Dermatitis
  • High newborn mortality
  • poor zinc absorption
  • rough/dry hair on animals

PHOSPHORUS

Deficiency:

  • Anorexia
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Bone pain
  • Dyspnea (shortness of breath)
  • Fatigue
  • Irritability
  • Numbness
  • Paraesthesia (feeling abnormal sensations like pins and needles/tingling)
  • Pica (eating abnormal things not food)
  • Tremulousness
  • Weakness
  • Weight loss

 

POTASSIUM

Deficiency:

  • Acne
  • Arrhythmia
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Constipation
  • Depression
  • ECG changes
  • Edema
  • Fatigue
  • Glucose intolerance
  • Growth retardation
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hyperreflexia
  • Hypotension
  • Insomnia
  • Mental apathy
  • Muscular weakness
  • Nervousness
  • Palpitations
  • Polydipsia
  • Proteinuria
  • Respiratory distress
  • Salt retention
  • Tachycardia (rapid heart rate)
  • Xerosis (dry skin/membrane)

PRASEODYMIUM

  • Enhances normal cell growth

SAMARIUM (in animals)

  • Cancer prevention properties

Deficiency:

  • Hearing loss
  • Male pattern baldness
  • Poor growth

SELENIUM

  • Effective anti-oxidant

Deficiency:

  • Age spots or liver spots
  • ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Anemia
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Cataracts
  • Cancer risk
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Fatigue
  • Growth retardation
  • Heart palpitation
  • High infant mortality
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Impaired immunity
  • Infertility
  • Myocardial fibrosis
  • Liver cirrhosis
  • Low birth weight
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Myalgia
  • Pancreatitis
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Scoliosis
  • Sterility in males
  • SIDS
  • Sickle cell anemia

SILICA

  • Increases collagen in growing bones

Deficiency:

  • Brittle nails and hair
  • Poor calcium utilization
  • Poor skin

SILICA

  • Anti-bacterial/fungal/viral
  • Kills over 650 disease causing organisms
  • Systemic disinfectant & immune support
  • Subdues inflammation & promotes healing

STRONTIUM

  • Essential trace element
  • Can replace calcium in many organisms including man

SULFUR

  • Important mineral used in several amino acids with the body
  • Involved in functions of haemoglobin, insulin hormone, adrenal hormones, enzymes and antibodies

Deficiency:

  • Degeneration of cartilage, ligaments and tendons
  • Lupus
  • Several collagen diseases
  • Sick cell anemia

VANADIUM

  • Aids in glucose oxidation and transport
  • Anti-cancer properties
  • Decreases cholesterol production
  • Enhances insulin effectiveness
  • Increases effectiveness of heart muscle contraction

Deficiency:

  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Diabetes
  • Elevated cholesterol and triglycerides
  • Hypoglycaemia
  • Increased infant mortality
  • Infertility
  • Obesity
  • Slow growth

ZINC

Deficiency associated with congenital birth defects:

  • Cleft lip and cleft palate
  • Clubbed limbs
  • Down’s syndrome
  • Heart and lung defects
  • Hiatal hernia & umbilical hernia
  • Small or absent eyes
  • Spina bifida
  • Webbed toes or fingers
  • Urogenital defects

Deficiency:

  • Acne
  • Acrodermatitis enteropathica
  • Alopecia
  • Anemia
  • Anorexia and/or bulimia
  • Apathy
  • Birth defects
  • Bad body odours
  • Brittle nails
  • Depression
  • Diarrhea
  • Enlarged prostate
  • Eczema
  • Fatigue
  • Frizzy hair
  • High infant mortality
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypogeusia (loss of taste)
  • Infertility
  • Impaired wound healing
  • Impotence
  • Irritability
  • Loss of sense of smell
  • Malabsorption
  • Memory loss
  • Paranoia
  • Pica
  • Poor growth
  • Sexual immaturity (remain in pre-puberty state)
  • Sterility
  • Weak immune function
  • White spots on nails