Minerals are important for health. They support digestion and replace electrolytes lost through sweating or diarrhea and protect against toxic contamination.

We can obtain the necessary minerals from our daily food, if it is balanced, with more fruits and vegetables.

One of the major factors that contribute to a mineral imbalance in the body is because of us that eating unhealthy (refined carbohydrates, alcohol, fats).

Minerals fulfill many roles in the body. They are useful in stimulating growth and regulating body processes.

Minerals are working in teams or against each other. Some minerals are in competition, regarding absorption, so minerals intake  can cause a deficiency of another mineral in the body.

Minerals are essential to body growth. They should be regularly provided to body  because it eliminates them with the same regularity.

Chromium is an important mineral in the synthesis of cholesterol. Chromium can be obtained from natural sources such as: cabbage, corn oil, mollusks, crustaceans, grains, wheat germ and meat.

This mineral also helps in the growth process. Some herbs have in their composition chrome:

- tansy (Achillea millefolium);
- liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra);
- clover (Trifolium).

Minerals are chemical elements which must replace the minerals naturally eliminated through: perspiration, urine or bleeding.

Magnesium as calcium and phosphorus helps in bones forming. This is found mainly in oil-bearing plants (olive, walnut, peanuts), bananas, chestnuts, cabbage, dried legumes, oat flakes citrus, almonds, figs, corn, apple.

Magnesium helps in protein synthesis, regulating heartbeat, and helping in building muscles, and normal functioning of nerves.

This mineral may be found also in animal products: kidney, egg yolk and liver.