> I don't think I have ever seen potassium expressed as an "amino acid complex", and never found potassium listed under amino acids. >
Minerals are frequently combined with amino acids its called Chelating to make them more assimilable. This is because the minerals they are putting in the supplement are metallic minerals, not organic. Organic minerals such as those found in plants do not need to be chelated. Chelating minerals increases the assimilation of them, but not to the same level as is already present in plant-based minerals. Its just that getting minerals from the ground is much cheaper and easier (you can do it with a shovel) than extracting them from plants. When you see a supplement with chelated minerals, you know the minerals are not organic. To make it worse, simply by mixing an amino acid in with the mineral not chelating it, which is a molecular joining, but just mixing them together a mineral can be called chelated. One indication of the type of mineral that is in a supplement is, how many tablets do you take? The old One-a-day supplement is purely a metallic mineral, like sucking on an iron nail to get your iron. Minerals from a plant source take up more space, so you will need to take 6 10 tablets/capsules per day to get the same amount of minerals as what is printed on the label of a metallic mineral supplement. One-a-day tablets are as effective as swallowing BBs or pebbles to get your mineral needs met. In fact, if you swallowed pebbles from the ground, you might actually get more minerals. Here is a quote from the mineral article, Nutrition in a Nutshell: If you were deficient in iron, you wouldn't expect that sucking on an iron nail all day would help, would you? The reason for this, of course, is because the iron nail won't dissolve in your mouth (or be assimilated inside your body). How about if you ground the nail up into powder and put it in capsules? Again, this would not help because you would, in effect, only have millions of tiny iron nails in your stomach, which still would not dissolve or be assimilated in your body. The reason for this is because the iron nail is made of metallic iron, just like digging a chunk of iron ore out of the ground. But I once read a letter-to-the-editor in Mother Earth magazine in which a man discussed the iron-poor soil in his garden. To resolve this, he pounded iron nails into the ground all over his garden. By the next year, the nails had all rusted and dissolved into the ground, and his vegetables tested high in iron! The plants had taken the metallic iron from the ground and converted it to organic iron, meaning a form of iron useable by an organism. Terry Chamberlin Metabolic Solutions Institute RR1 314 Carleton Rd Lawrencetown, NS B0S 1M0 902-825-0560 voice 413-826-7641 fax service msi...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
