DWQA QuestionsCategory: Divine GuidanceA viewer asks: “Are the dual claims made for Terramin Ionic Mineral Supplement justified, that it 1. Naturally supplements with 50 plus macro, micro and trace mineral nutrients, and, 2. Internal detoxification – removes toxins, heavy metals, and cleanses digestive tract?”
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
This is a helpful supplement and does have the claims made for it. It is not the very best of approaches but is better than the average supplement in the range of constituents, and the particular composition as well keeps things in a normal range rather than large excess which tends to be a weakness in some approaches. It is not always the case that more is better. This is particularly true of trace mineral exposure. Humans are optimized for their environment in many ways and with a "normal" (you would call "primitive") lifestyle living off the land, the wide variety of materials ingested to maintain life under typical circumstances would guarantee a more even and low-level exposure to the variety of chemical substances in food and water of natural sources, so excess exposure to anything in particular would be unlikely. These perspectives tend to be distorted in thinking by humans wanting to make a sales pitch to help people with current problems with diet because so many are living in an unnatural way far removed from nature and there needs to be a hook, a sales point, to entice the purchaser. Exaggerating the breadth of coverage and benefits is commonplace, but so is exaggerating the need for high levels of many substances which need only be present in trace amounts to give the body what it needs. So this is the strength of the substance you mention, that it is taking a natural material and not creating a manmade aggregate of substances at arbitrary exaggerated multiples of likely daily exposure under normal circumstances to promote it being better. So we concur this is a very useful adjunct for health maintenance.