Mineral of Miracles

The Beginning Dr. Hagglund goes on to describe how the depleted land gets re-fertilized (usually with synthetic chemicals) every year to produce green crops, but that a “green crop”, while necessary for production of good-looking, salable produce, doesn’t mean the produce contains sufficient minerals and trace minerals to keep us healthy.

Senate document 264, 74th Congress, 2nd Session, states, “Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins.” The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us - no matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health...”.

However, there are segments of the world’s population that live to an old age and die healthy.

Although sounding like an oxymoron, barring accident, we are designed to live until the end of our personal biological clock and then die, not of disease or nutritionally derived degenerative conditions, but of deterioration of natural body function.

In an article on longevity, Approaching Immortality, well known author Dr. Ronald Klatz points out that there are several cultures in the world with people who enjoy long productive lives. Those who live the longest and are the most productive include the Vilcabamas of the Andes of Ecuador, the Bilcabambas of the Andes of Peru, the Abkhasians of the eastern shores of the Black Sea in the Caucus Mountains, the Hunzas in the Himalayas in Asia, and the Okinawans of Okinawa, Japan.

These people are all relatively free from diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, mental illness, etc. Typically, these people live a healthy life, often over 100 years.

Although scattered around the world, these distinct cultures share several common factors that contribute to their health and longevity. These include lack of stress, plenty of sleep, hard physical work, diets high in complex carbohydrates (as opposed to simple sugars and white flour) but low in fat and meat, and unique water sources containing large amounts of ionic calcium and other minerals.

The Vilcabambas, Bilcabambas, Abkhasians and Hunzas live at altitudes around 7000 feet. Living in high mountains indicate that they mostly get their water from melting glaciers. This means their crop growing soils are constantly being replenished with nutrients and minerals from floods and glacial melts. The soils of the Okinawans are replenished by the physical break down of mineral rich corals which make up their island.

These people all drink from natural spring wells rich in minerals, especially calcium and magnesium.

This type of water, which also provides water for their crops, is so white with minerals it is often called “the Milk of the Mountains” (or “Glacial Milk”). In Japan it is called “the Milk of the Ocean” or “Coral Milk”.

In 1979, a British journalist from the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS went to the island of Tokunoshima, north of Okinawa off the coast of Japan, to interview the world’s oldest documented living person. He found Mr. Izumi, 115 years old at the time, to be in exceptionally good health. This