Remineralisation: The Foundations of Health

Georgia Gibbs, Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine 

Let me give you a little context of how I arrived here, talking about minerals with you.

I spent years going from practitioner to practitioner & restrictive yoyo diets on the quest to balance my hormones and relieve chronic debilitating symptoms. What I learnt was I was chasing an uphill problem instead of addressing the root cause.

The Journey

I started working with clients as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and heard all the same stories, “I’ve tried everything, every supplement and medication and I’m still fatigued, dealing with hormone imbalance, fertility issues, skin issues and mental-emotional problems.” 

The truth is, herbs & supplements are great but you can’t out supplement a body lacking fundamental and foundational resources.

So, I took a deep dive into the ‘foundational medicine’ world, the idea of addressing the body from the ground up and discovered the importance of minerals. We all know minerals are essential and to take electrolytes if you’ve had too much sun but beyond that they’re ignored, which I now know is completely bananas. 

Minerals: The spark plug of your cells

Your minerals are the deepest foundations of your health and like the earth, the soil is only as potent for growth as the minerals within it. Think of your minerals as your body's fertilizer without them, soil just becomes dirt. 

Minerals are the ‘spark plugs of the cell,’ if we go to the very root of how our body creates energy, maintains homeostasis, supports our metabolism and overall cellular function it all starts with minerals. Minerals serve as cofactors for enzymes, which are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions, they’re literally the spark plugs of the cell, when they’re out of balance everything up stream like hormone balance, memory, digestive function, mood & energy levels *like a domino effect* become out of balance too.

Macrominerals

• Calcium
• Phosphorus
• Magnesium
• Sodium
• Potassium
• Chloride
• Sulfur

Microminerals

• Iron
• Zinc
• Copper
• Manganese
• Iodine
• Selenium
• Chromium
• Molybdenum

Why is our generation the most mineral depleted in history?

• Modern farming
• Mineral deficient soils
• Hormonal birth control
• Nutrient deplete diets
• Heavy metal exposures
• Certain medications like antacids & diuretic
• Taking the wrong supplements
• Rebuild your minerals, like your ancestors

Our ancestors knew the importance of minerals, they may not have had the language to articulate this but the highest value foods were the foods richest in minerals. Bone broth, bone marrow, resins, organ meats, seaweed & wild foraged plants are the richest sources of minerals on our earth and they’re also the most sacred foods to our ancestors.

Marrow, mother earths multi-nutrient

If you look into marrow within eastern medicine you’ll see it explained as “essential life essence,” a powerful longevity food prized for its ability to restore health and vitality.

Today we know why it’s more relevant than ever, because this ancestral food is rich in nutrients that are devoid in the modern diet. 

Bioavailable fat soluble nutrients such as Vitamin A, Vitamin K2 & Vitamin E, not only are these nutrients hard to come by they are powerfully anti aging and pro your metabolic health. Aging is truly just a metabolic decline, fertility decreases with age because of this metabolic decline, to restore your metabolism is to restore your vitality, more on this in another blog soon. 

Not to mention quite literally every trace mineral you need to function at your best, add bone broth to the mix and you have a powerful combination and some not so serious concentrated nutrition too. 

Think of Best Of The Bone as your daily multi-nutrient in a cup. Restore your vitality, address the foundation of your health & remineralise your body.