Our food quality has dangerously declined over the past decades and is quite mineral deficient because the soil it is grown in is depleted of minerals. And mineral deficiencies are a big health concern! Even avoiding all processed foods, artificial colors, flavorings, refined sugar, artificial hormones, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides will most likely not be sufficient to meet our nutrient needs fully. Eating a diet of fresh produce, organic proteins, and high-quality fats may still lack key minerals due to a lack of soil quality. That is because there are industrial chemicals (phthalates in plastics is one) and GMOs where our food is grown. This causes damaged and depleted soil. Minerals are elements, and elements are either present or not. The plants can’t create them! If we don’t clean up our soil, our food will continue to have little minerals.
Compared to ancient farming, our crops are not farmed in the same way and we are not paying attention to our soil health. Ancient farmers would carefully replenish the nutrient levels of their fields and pastures with compost, crop rotation, intercropping, and soil rest intervals to maintain soil fertility. But now, chemical-based high nitrogen fertilizers are used to allow crops to continue to grow, but this depletes the soil of essential naturally occurring minerals and pH-balancing microorganisms. In addition, tilling practices (“strip mining”), chemical applications, and poor fertilization techniques rip out and burn up minerals in the soil.
This is quite concerning because it continues to cause significant declines in our soil mineral values worldwide. You may be asking yourself what minerals have to do with being healthy. The short answer here is EVERYTHING.
Fulvic and Humic Acid
Fulvic and humic acid are quite intriguing substances that are critical and beneficial to the health of our bodies. Fulvic and humic are incredibly unique, they work rapidly in the body to replenish your nutrient levels, and that is why it is a primary ingredient for Prue’s protocols.
Fulvic acid is a substance deep within the earth that is extracted in specific regions of the world. These amazingly rich organic minerals are found 200-250 feet underground! Fulvic is formed over thousands of years during the seaweed humification process. As time goes on, this seaweed and other organic components within the earth come together to form Humic acid. Fulvic acid comes from the humic acid found within these Humic shale deposits
Humic acid does its work outside the cell. Its job is to prevent viruses and toxins from attaching, reduce inflammation, fight malignant cell growth, and reverse many severe conditions by turning on physiological switches in the body that regulate disease. It does a massive service to the gut and works from the gut out into the rest of the body.
Fulvic acid does its work inside the cell. It is extracted from Humic acids. Fulvic acid is a much smaller molecule than humic acid, and it works uniquely in the body. Fulvic acid is a small molecule that can carry 60 times its weight, which means it can be loaded with nutritional elements and make a small exchange of nutrients into the cell while carrying out waste.
Prue describes fulvic acid as the body’s mailman and garbage man rolled into one because this smart nutrient knows your body’s needs and routes. As fulvic acid delivers the beneficial compounds into a cell, it also exchanges them for cellular waste that it picks up and removes from your system.
Humic acid is magical too and another deep earth mineral-rich compound that is a naturally occurring combination of organic substances created from seaweed that existed thousands of years ago. In the stomach, humic acid helps process foods and attack foreign invaders and toxins. It also removes toxins in the gut before they ever enter the cells, allowing the immune system to function at its best! This is how it can offer anti-inflammatory effects.
Importance of Fulvic and Humic Acid
One of the primary obstacles to supplement effectiveness and health is making nutrients available to your body and ensuring they are absorbed. Fulvic acid bonds to micro-nutrients and acts as a delivery system that helps the nutrients penetrate cell membranes, allowing vitamins and minerals to be absorbed by the cells and organs where they are needed. This is especially important during a detox because your body needs strength from good nutrition to get rid of toxins in your system efficiently. Fulvic and humic acid are the go-to supplement for detox and nutrient supplementation.
Fulvic acid is excellent at correcting mineral deficiencies. It would be great to get it naturally through our foods, but with the lack of minerals in our soil because of current industrial farming practices—it is not readily available. That being said, we can no longer get this substance from our food. These minerals are no longer in our food chain as topsoil that used to be 3 feet thick worldwide is now only 6 inches thick. You can’t have optimal health without adequate food, but fulvic and humic acid can help fill the gap. In today’s world, supplements are necessary, most importantly fulvic acid. Fulvic and humic acids are substances humans and plants need for nutrient assimilation, healthy cells, and detoxification.
Benefits of humic acid:
- Enhances sleep
- Supports the body during chronic illness
- Fights viruses
- Supports vision health
Benefits of fulvic acid:
- Enhanced ATP (cellular energy) production
- Enhanced nutrition
- Improved immune support
- Increased circulation
- Enhanced detoxification
- Helps revitalize enzyme systems
- Hormone balance
- Stimulates metabolism
- Detoxifies, chelates, and neutralizes pollutants and toxins
- Enhances beneficial microbes
- Lessens free radical damage
fulvic acid as the body’s mailman and garbage man rolled into one. As fulvic delivers beneficial compounds into a cell, it also picks up cellular waste and removes it from your system.