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“Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering-an image of death.” We really don’t know who first said this, maybe Buddha, but it is so true that many may have said it.
No one knows for sure what the purpose of each or all of the 92 minerals in our blood is. We do know what some do, and we know that there are some minerals that do not function unless others are present. If it were possible to test each and every mineral with and without the other minerals, it would take years to find out the purpose of each one. The simple solution is to just make sure our body has these minerals available in a quantity that is not too large as to cause toxic effects, but sufficient to produce a healthy life. Because it is almost impossible to duplicate the minerals in the proper balance and then allow our body to absorb them in a natural manner, our conclusion would be to do it naturally. That would be through healthy food.
As we mentioned in the first chapter, our food probably is depleted or lacking in many trace minerals. Our farmers have improved their production greatly. In the 50’s, when I was growing up on a farm, 40 bushels of corn per acre was a normal yield. My brother, who farms the same land, harvested 200 bushels per acre in 2021. Some of the corn my father grew would have been fed to hogs, chickens, dairy and beef cattle and would have returned to the land in the manure they produced. All of the corn raised by my brother will be removed and sold to be utilized elsewhere. Corn today will have less trace minerals because farmers today only replace 3, and at the most, a couple more minerals as fertilizer.
“The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has documented that the trace mineral and ultra-trace mineral content of the worn out farm soils in the USA have undergone very pronounced depletion. As a consequence, the USDA has also documented that the mineral content of food crops and fodder grown on these soils, has undergone severe decline. For example, according to USDA compiled statistics from 1914 to 1992, a period of eighty years, the mineral content of the average apple has declined severely… calcium has declined by 48%, phosphorus 85%, iron 96%, potassium 2%, and magnesium 83%”. 11
Dr. Murray, who I referred to in the first chapter, spent 38 years experimenting with using sea water as a fertilizer. During the end of his career, he moved to Florida and raised tomatoes and other vegetables in a greenhouse, hydroponically. This involves raising crops with their roots in small rocks and then flooding these roots with a water solution containing fertilizer on a regular basis to keep the roots moist. Dr. Murray used seawater for his fertilizer (one teaspoon of seawater per gallon of water solution). He only added nitrogen which is not in seawater. He showed that high value crops could be grown using seawater as fertilizer.
While studying to become a Doctor, Dr. Murray became interested in animals in the sea. He noticed that cancer and disease were absent from sea animals. During the first 20 years of his practice, he worked with local Midwest farmers to use seawater as a fertilizer on soil. The U.S. Navy supplied him with tank loads of seawater which he spread on the soil that crops were grown on. From this land he grew crops. Some were fruits and vegetables and others were grains which he fed animals in controlled experiments.
Many thought that he applied an excess of sea water and under common understanding at that time, would cause the soil to become sterile and not grow anything. Natural occurring examples have been noted. There have been tsunamis, (tsunamis are generated from large shallow earthquakes causing large waves of seawater to flow miles inland over islands and other coastal areas), where in the following years, record crops were grown on the land inundated by water. The large amounts of water spread ocean minerals over the land. Abundant crops were grown on these coastal lands for several years after they had been flooded with seawater.
His experiments yielded fruits and vegetables with less diseases. The grains fed to animals yielded increased meat gain as well as earlier maturity. Of note were his laboratory experiments. From his book Sea Energy Agriculture:
"Pg. 51 Spraque Dolly Rats:
Rats were obtained and were divided into groups of 25 control and 25 experimental. The control rats were fed controlled food while the experimental rats received the sea solids fertilized food.”
“Both the control and experimental groups were injected with cancer (Jensen Carcino-Sarcoma) which has been shown to be a 100 percent killer."
"All of the rats fed on the control diet died within 21 days of cancer. Nine of the rats that were fed the experimental diet died of cancer within 40 days; sixteen lived five months until they were sacrificed; there was no cancer "takes" in the sixteen out of twenty-five survivors that were fed experimental food." 2
I know that the first thought from some of the readers will be, “A cure for Cancer!” No! No! NO! This is an experiment on animals with an injected cancer. The Dr. almost begged for other scientists to duplicate his findings. All legitimate experiments need to be duplicated and must show similar results. Tests on animals are only the beginning. Tests on humans may take years to make sure no one is endangered. Does it call for more tests? Yes! As a final comment on this test, It did not take into account how or why people get cancer, a subject the Dr. would not have had access to because of the changes in our society since his death. A subject we will address in later chapters.
There were a couple of other experiments that I want to bring to your attention. One has to do with wild animals and their innate ability to know what to eat. I have over the years seen examples of people feeding squirrels and livestock different samples of corn. Usually, they would use a Hybrid seed corn (commercially strains of corn crossed to produced certain traits), a GMO seed corn (a genetically modified organism injected into a variety) or an Open Pollinated seed corn (a naturally occurring variety that has not been tinkered with by industry). These experiments would show wild animals choosing the Open Pollinated varieties before going to hybrid or GMO varieties. Dr. Murray ran the following experiment using minerals:
"Observations … Sheep ignored a field of untreated hay to get to a ten foot square patch of treated hay, … Cattle and sheep would nuzzle through the corn to pick out the experimental stalks,… A taste difference was also noted in garden vegetables. Onions and radishes were sweeter than the control vegetables. There was also a difference in the taste of lettuce, green beans and carrots. In apples and grapes, vitamin A and Vitamin C were found in greater quantity in the experimental crop. The experimental grapes were higher in sugar content... “ 2 IBID.
Another experiment was with pigs. One note, the 180 lbs. was just short of the 200 lb. weight that hogs were raised to before sending them to market at this time. So, this size was the result of a 6-month experiment.
Pg. 49
“Pigs; One sow and six pigs raised on corn and oats grown on land fertilized with complete sea solids were unusually uniform in size, showed no tendency to "root" and were easily contained in a small fenced area.”
“When they reached approximately 180 pounds, they were taken off this feed and given ‘control corn’ and oats. They immediately began excessive rooting and, by the end of the third day, they were extremely nervous and broke out of the pen on two occasions.”
“On the fourth day they were put back on sea solids grown feed and were calm by evening. Thereafter, they were easily contained in the pen and, again, showed very little rooting tendency.” 2 IBID.
For those who have not farmed, pigs at a fairly young age will have a ring (similar to nose rings in human fashion today), installed in their nose to prevent them from rooting. My guess is that they are rooting for minerals in the soil. The other factor about pigs is the need for a ‘hog tight’ fence. There are three types of farm fencing. Electric which is composed of one or two electrified wire, barbed wire which consists of two or three strands of wire with sharp barb that repel animals and hog tight fence which consists of wire that looks like four-inch squares. If the steel wire mesh is stretched between substantial posts, a hog will not be able to go through to the other side. The wire must be maintained tight and there can be no opening below the fence for the hog to get their noses through as they are so stout, they can destroy a fence. Evidently the minerals had something to do with their emotions or temperament. There are some mental problems in humans that we now treat with minerals.
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References, Notes, Additional Readings:
1 Immutines™ Everything soluble, given enough time, eventually ends up in the sea.
2 Sea Energy by Maynard Murray M.D.
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