Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA The word selenium comes from the Greek word, “selene”, which literally means “moon.” The wisdom of naming this element after the Gre...
By Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA Is chromium deficiency associated with atherosclerosis? Tissues of humans who have died of heart issues have been found to have l...
Alexander G. Schauss, PhD AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA The word “manganese” comes from the Latin word, “magnes”, meaning magnet. For many years manganese fueled the industrial revolution b...
Alexander G. Schauss, PhD AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA Boron is a light trace element that is turning out to be essential to human health and behavior. The word boron has its origin in the...
Minerals and Human Health - The Rationale For Optimal And Balanced Trace Element Levels
by Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D. Introduction There are 92 elements found in nature, and an additional 22 theoretical and/or observed elements. In addition, there are hundreds of isotopes of the elem...
Sara Parent, N.D. Research Associate Kathleen Jade, N.D. Research Associate Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN Senior Director of Research Electrolytes are the charged substances that result when a sa...
Utah's Sea Minerals - Topical Application
By Dr. Chris Meletis N. D. Minerals provide a bounty of healing properties that have scientifically validated their use for topical applications. These applications have been shown to have powerful...
Trace Minerals and PH, It's Simply A Matter Of Health
By Dr. Chris Meletis N. D. The human body contains a massive amount of ongoing chemical reactions. The majority of these processes occur within our cells, the smallest building blocks of our bodies...
By Dr. Chris Meletis N. D. An increasingly large amount of disease today may be attributable to deficiencies in the supply of trace minerals in our diets.1 How can this be the case when the availab...