Zinc is an essential trace mineral found in the body in larger amounts than any other trace mineral, 1.8 grams, except iron, 5 grams. It has been recognized as essential to humans in 1960s when deficiency cases were first recognized. The mineral is absorbed throughout the small intestine mostly in the jejunum and absorption is [...]
Magnesium is an essential mineral that accounts only for 0.05 percent of the body’s total weight. Approximately 70 percent of the mineral is located in the bones and the rest in soft tissues such as muscles and in body fluids. Magnesium, like calcium is a cation (divalent). It is heavily involved in many metabolic processes [...]
Calcium is the most abundant of all the minerals in the human body. While every cell need calcium 99% of calcium is used in the structure of bones and teeth. It represents more than 40% of all the minerals in the body or the equivalent of 1.2kg. For proper function calcium needs the presence of [...]
Mineral nutrients are non-carbon nutrients or inorganic. These nutrients are present either as cations ( positively charged) or anions (negatively charged). Cations are derivable from metallic elements, including calcium, potassium, magnesium,iron, copper, cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum (molybdate), zinc, sodium and selenium (selenate).
Nonmetal elements give anions: chlorine ( [...]
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