In the past, life was simple. Eating was also simple. Most people grew their own food or purchased food grown close to home. Eating in this manner, they didn’t have to give much thought to their nutrition as long as they ate a good variety of healthful foods. Since fast food, manufactured snack foods, and other processed foods weren’t invented yet, they didn’t have to worry about foreign chemicals in their bodies. In today’s technological world, there are even more chemicals to worry about than just food chemicals. We also need to be concerned with the chemicals in the containers. As a result, people are much more concerned with educating themselves to learn how to counteract the problems caused by unnatural chemicals. Companies are popping up to provide solutions to these problems. Two of these products are liquid zeolite and ellagic acid. These two products serve two very different purposes.
First we will look at zeolite. Zeolite is a natural mineral found close to volcanoes. This mineral has a unique structure that allows its use as an internal filter. Contrary to what you might think, the best form of this product is in liquid form. This liquid is not just a solution of a fine powder of zeolite and water. It is specially processed into a suspended solution of humic and fulvic acids, producing an easy-to-consume supplement. But what does this suspended mineral do? It acts as a filter to remove the poisons that life in the modern world puts into our bodies. These poisons include the heavy metals mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and more. Other poisons removed by zeolite include pesticides, herbicides, free radicals, PCB’s, and others. As you can see, this is a list of substances that we don’t want in our bodies where they can compromise our health. We want them gone. We want our bodies to be as clean as those of our ancestors.
Second we will consider ellagic acid. You’ve probably never heard of this supplement, either, but you’ve most surely been consuming it all of your life. It is a naturally occurring substance in many of the foods that you normally consume as part of your healthy diet. Ellagic acid is a naturally occurring polyphenolic found in 46 different fruits and nuts such as blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, and cranberries. As delicious as each of these fruits is, you can eat only so much. To get the full benefit, you may want to take it in a concentrated supplement form. But what is its purpose? The benefits of ellagic acid may surprise you. This is all extremely complex, but the claims for this supplement are that they protect the body from cancer. According to some studies, ellagic acid actually kills cancer cells. Others claim that it keeps cancer cells from spreading. Certainly, prudence would tell you not to rely solely on a dietary supplement for a cancer cure. It should only be used for this purpose as part of the scientifically accepted treatment prescribed by a doctor who specialized in the treatment of this disease.