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Got Food Cravings? Your Body Might Be Starving For Minerals
Cravings are often nutrient deficiencies in disguise. Researchers call it “hidden hunger”: you can eat enough calories, but if you aren’t meeting your mineral needs, you’ll still feel hungry and experience food cravings. [*] The reason is that several minerals regulate hunger signaling, and if you aren’t getting enough of them you’ll struggle to feel satisfied, no matter how much food you eat.
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Got Food Cravings? Your Body Might Be Starving For Minerals
Cravings are often nutrient deficiencies in disguise. Researchers call it “hidden hunger”: you can eat enough calories, but if you aren’t meeting your mineral needs, you’ll still feel hungry and experience food cravings. [*] The reason is that several minerals regulate hunger signaling, and if you aren’t getting enough of them you’ll struggle to feel satisfied, no matter how much food you eat.
April 22, 2025
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Balancing Electrolytes: Key to Adrenal Support and Stress Management
Feeling constantly stressed or fatigued? You might be overlooking a crucial aspect of your health: electrolyte balance. Maintaining the right levels of electrolytes—especially minerals like sodium, potassium, and magnesium—is essential for adrenal function and effective stress management.
April 17, 2025
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Are Mineral Deficiencies Making Your Allergies Worse?
Springtime is often a relief after a long winter—but spring can also mean seasonal allergies. As flowers, trees, grasses, and other plants begin to grow again, airborne pollen levels increase. For a lot of people, that means sneezing, itching, asthma, watery eyes, and even hives as a result of spring allergies.
April 08, 2025
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Beat Stress Naturally with Mineral Support
Stress is a natural reaction to life’s challenges, and in the short term, it can actually be good for you. But when you’re stressed out daily for weeks or months, it takes a major toll on your health. This type of persistent stress is called chronic stress, and it could be from work, illness, relationships, past trauma, or any other source.
April 03, 2025
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Electrolyze™ vs. Salt-Based Electrolytes
If you work out regularly, it’s a good idea to take electrolytes. They’re the minerals that keep you hydrated and allow your muscles to function smoothly. Replenishing electrolytes enhances strength and muscle recovery, and is also good for preventing daytime fatigue.
March 31, 2025
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Tummy Troubles? How Minerals Improve Your Pet's Digestion
A lot of pets get digestive issues as they age. In fact, digestive problems are the most common health issue in older dogs, [*] and nearly 40% of older cats have reduced ability to digest protein and fat. [*]
March 25, 2025
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Restoring Nutrition: Upgrade Your Recipes with a Mineral Boost
Our food is less nutritious than it used to be. Thanks to commercial farming, most of today’s crops are bred to increase yield—the total amount of food farmers produce—without a matching increase in nutrients. As a result, modern produce is “watered down”—it has less nutrient density than it did 50 years ago.
March 16, 2025
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Mother Nature’s Janitor: Humic Mineral Complexes
Humic complexes (also called humic substances) are one of the most powerful natural detoxifiers in the world. They’re strong adsorbents, which means they grab onto toxins and pull them out of your body. You can use humic to remove a variety of hard-to-reach compounds, from mold to heavy metals to pesticides.
March 13, 2025
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Aging Gracefully: The Benefits of Minerals for Longevity
Did you know your mineral needs increase with age? People over 45 are at a higher risk of mineral deficiencies, [*][*] in part because you absorb fewer nutrients from food as you get older. [*]
March 11, 2025
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What Is Bioavailability?
We talk a lot about how BEAM Minerals are close to 100% bioavailable. But what does that actually mean? Here’s a quick guide to bioavailability and why it matters for supplements.
March 01, 2025
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What Are Colloidal Vs. Ionized Trace Minerals?
If you’re shopping for a trace mineral supplement, you’ll likely come across two types: colloidal and ionized. What’s the difference between the two? And which one is better?
February 24, 2025
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Intercellular Transport: How Fulvic Complexes Help You Absorb Minerals Better
Why do BEAM Minerals absorb so well? What sets them apart from the average mineral supplement? One of the big things is bioavailability—how quickly and completely you absorb the minerals you take.
February 12, 2025
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The Hidden Hunger: A Worldwide Epidemic
A 2022 study by the CDC found that virtually everyone has at least one mineral deficiency. [*] And it’s not just the United States: in industrialized countries worldwide, almost nobody meets their basic mineral requirements. More than 2 billion people in the developed world are considered severely mineral-deficient, [*] and mineral deficiencies account for about 10% of child deaths across the globe. [*]
January 08, 2025
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Recharge and Thrive: The Power of Minerals for a Healthy, Energized Year
The New Year is a good time to start a few healthy habits—and one of the best (and easiest!) additions to your day is a full-spectrum mineral supplement. According to the latest CDC research, 97% of American adults don’t get enough minerals [*]—which is a shame, because starting a mineral routine takes almost no effort. It’s 30 seconds out of your day and the payoff is huge for your wellbeing.
January 05, 2025
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Jumpstart Your Health Goals with Mineral Support
Are you setting any health goals this year? A lot of us do: whether it’s consistent exercise, more sleep, better diet, or something else, about 40% of people make health resolutions each year. [*]
January 01, 2025
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Survive The Holidays: Detox and Stay Energized with Minerals
The holidays are a time to celebrate. For many of us, that means alcohol, rich food, extra dessert, and a little more wear and tear on the body than usual. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. There’s more to life than perfect health, and sometimes it’s worthwhile to indulge a bit. But if you want to feel good while you’re indulging, minerals can help.
December 18, 2024
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The Difference Between Macro and Micro Minerals
The human body needs more than 70 different minerals to function. You can split them into two groups: macrominerals and microminerals. While they serve different functions, both macro and microminerals are important. Here’s a quick look at what each group does, and why you need both to function at your best.
December 12, 2024
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Holiday Travel Survival Kit: Stay Energized and Balanced On-the-Go
The holiday season is a stressful time. Travel, indulgent food, alcohol, in-laws—the holidays take a greater toll on your body than any other time of year. There’s also a good chance you’ll come back from the holidays ill. Cold and flu incidence increases dramatically in winter, and research shows airports and family gatherings are major vectors for illness. [*] And even if you evade sickness, you’ll likely return home feeling more depleted than rested.
November 25, 2024
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Feed Your Microbiome with Minerals
Minerals are one of the most overlooked contributors to a healthy gut. They help feed and support your microbiome, nurturing good bacteria and discouraging damaging bacteria.
November 18, 2024
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The Pros and Cons of Fasted Workouts for Men
Fasted workouts are a popular way to get in shape quickly. They’re great for burning fat and can increase your focus in the gym—but they’re also taxing on your body and may limit your performance, depending on the kind of workout you do.
November 11, 2024
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Stay Hydrated While Fasting: How Minerals Help
Intermittent fasting is a great way to lose weight, lower inflammation, enhance your brain function, and more. But if you’re going to fast multiple times per week, it’s important that you do it right. While fasting is undeniably good for you, there are a couple fasting mistakes many people make that put significant stress on the body.
November 06, 2024
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Minerals for PMS and Menstrual Cramps
Cramps can range from mildly uncomfortable to devastating, and PMS often comes with bloating, fatigue, headaches, and more. PMS isn’t just physical, either: a lot of women report anxiety, low mood, brain fog, trouble sleeping, and other mental symptoms that accompany pain and cramping.
October 29, 2024
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What Are Electrolytes and Why Do You Need Them?
Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electric charge in your body. They’re most famous with regards to hydration—getting enough electrolytes is essential to staying hydrated—but they’re also important for baseline cellular function.
October 25, 2024
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Salt-Based Vs. Plant-Based Electrolytes: Which Is Better?
Most electrolyte drinks and powders use salt-based electrolytes: minerals that are bound to oppositely charged substances to form a neutral, stable compound. Salt-based minerals are inexpensive and easy to produce, which makes them popular with the vast majority of electrolyte producers. But mineral salts also have several downsides that make them an ineffective choice for replenishing electrolytes.
October 14, 2024
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Mastering Menopause with Plant-Based Minerals
Menopause is the largest hormonal shift in a woman’s life. It usually happens between ages 45 and 55, and while it’s a natural part of aging, it’s a difficult time for a lot of women. During menopause your estrogen and progesterone production drops by more than 90%. That can come with a lot of side effects, from hot flashes, night sweats, and insomnia to muscle pain and mood swings.
October 04, 2024
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Fasting 101: Increase Your Fasting Success With Minerals
Intermittent fasting is a great tool for improving your health—and you can make it even better with minerals. Fasting involves going most of the day without food, then having all your calories within a condensed “eating window.” Research shows that fasting is good for brain function, longevity, inflammation, and even sleep.
October 01, 2024
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Microminerals: Your Body Needs Them
While these rarer minerals are only present in small amounts, most of them play essential, specialized roles in your body. They’re important for metabolism, cardiovascular health, brain function, and hormone production, and not getting enough of them can have a bigger effect on your daily performance than you might expect.
September 30, 2024
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Are You Underfueling? Minerals and Hair Loss
Mineral deficiencies can present in a variety of ways—fatigue, trouble sleeping, muscle cramps, even dental problems or joint pain. One common presentation is hair loss. Minerals play a huge role in both hair structure and follicle health. If you notice your hair thinning or falling out, or your hair becomes unusually dry or brittle, you may not be getting enough of a few essential minerals.
September 24, 2024
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Hashimoto’s and Minerals: Supporting Your Thyroid
If you’re dealing with thyroid issues, minerals can be a huge help. Your thyroid is one of the most mineral-intensive organs in your body. It uses a huge amount of minerals in the production and distribution of thyroid hormones.
September 16, 2024
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BEAM Minerals: Sourcing & Sustainability
Our supplements are derived from humate, a mineral-rich component of ancient rainforest soil. Humate forms over millions of years, as freshwater plants decompose and deposit their nutrients into the soil. Over time, the minerals in those plants aggregate into a black crystalline substance. That substance is humate, and it’s one of the most mineral-dense materials in the world.
August 26, 2024
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Fight Inflammation with Phytonutrients
Phytonutrients are unique substances that come from plants. They’re good for you in a few different ways, but their most powerful feature is their ability to fight chronic inflammation.
August 26, 2024
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The Healing Power of Minerals in Addiction Recovery
This blog dives into the impact of substance use on your body's essential minerals and offers a simple, effective path to replenishment. Keep reading if you’re on a sobriety journey and are seeking to restore health and well-being.
August 21, 2024
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Minerals: The Ultimate Support for OMAD (One Meal A Day)
One meal a day (OMAD) fasting is just what its name suggests: you eat one big meal each day and fast the rest of the time. OMAD is a popular form of fasting. It’s great for weight loss and has a variety of other benefits ranging from decreased inflammation to better brain function.
August 21, 2024
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Minerals and Mitochondria
Menopause is the largest hormonal shift in a woman’s life. It usually happens between ages 45 and 55, and while it’s a natural part of aging, it’s a difficult time for a lot of women. During menopause your estrogen and progesterone production drops by more than 90%. That can come with a lot of side effects, from hot flashes, night sweats, and insomnia to muscle pain and mood swings.
August 21, 2024
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Mineral Balance: Why To Avoid High-Dose Single Minerals
If you’ve used mineral supplements before, there’s a good chance you took high doses of a single mineral—magnesium, calcium, zinc, and so on. It seems like a good idea: if you’re low in something, you can just take a lot of it to replenish your stores, the same way you’d refill the gas tank of your car.
August 21, 2024
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The Power of Minerals: Supporting Autoimmune Conditions
Autoimmunity is taxing on your system, particularly in the case of thyroid conditions like hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The stress it causes can lead you to deplete your body’s mineral stores more quickly, which may worsen fatigue, pain, trouble sleeping, and other issues common in autoimmune conditions.
August 21, 2024
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Humic Healing: The Secret Weapon to Support Natural Detoxification
Explore the benefits of humic substances for detoxifying your body and enhancing mineral intake in our latest blog. Experience the profound effects of Micro-BOOST for a daily dose of wellness that's as easy as drinking water.
August 19, 2024
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How Full-Spectrum Minerals Benefit Neurodiverse Brains
Not surprisingly, minerals are essential to healthy cognition. They affect your mood, [*] focus, [*] memory, and more. If you’re neurodiverse, minerals become even more important for your brain. Research shows that mineral deficiencies impact a variety of brain challenges, including ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety.
August 06, 2024
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5 Things to Know About Electrolytes for Young Athletes
As the months get warmer a lot of our kids are playing sports outside. It’s more important than ever to keep your children hydrated—and that means more than just water. Here are five quick things to know about hydration for young athletes.
August 02, 2024
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Kids and Brain Fog: How Minerals Can Help
Mineral deficiencies can have an impact on schoolwork, mood, and even long-term cognitive development. Fortunately, low minerals are easy to correct.
July 31, 2024
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Replenish and Revitalize: Plant-Based Minerals for IBD
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes a number of digestive problems, the most common of which are irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ulcerative colitis, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and Crohn’s disease. If you live with IBD you know how devastating it can be. Constant pain, embarrassment, fear of eating or drinking things that will upset your gut—IBD is a difficult burden to bear.
July 22, 2024
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Boost Your Dental Health with Plant-Based Minerals
Good dental health is about more than just brushing. Your teeth and gums need a variety of minerals to function properly—and if you don’t get enough nutrients, you increase your risk of cavities, inflammation, and more.
July 16, 2024
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Rethinking Mineral RDAs: Personalized Nutrition for Better Health
Most people don't realize that Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) are often too low to meet individual mineral needs, especially considering factors like genetics, lifestyle, and current health status. This blog explores why RDAs may be insufficient and how personalized mineral intake can enhance overall health and well-being.
July 10, 2024
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Summer Hydration: How Electrolytes Keep Your Family Energized
Summer hydration is vital for your family’s health, and electrolytes play a key role in keeping everyone energized and hydrated. Learn how minerals help prevent dehydration, enhance performance, and ensure well-being for both adults and kids in hot weather. Discover the best ways to replenish electrolytes and keep your family hydrated this summer.
June 26, 2024
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Making Minerals Simple
Discover how BEAM Minerals simplifies achieving mineral balance with our hassle-free liquid supplement, eliminating the need for frequent testing and complex routines. Learn how daily doses restore all essential minerals efficiently, enhancing your health without the common absorption issues found in traditional supplements.
June 06, 2024
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Re-Energize Your Day with Insta-Lytes™
Electrolytes are crucial for hydration and muscle function, but many supplements fall short. Insta-Lytes™ provides rapid electrolyte replenishment through a convenient spray. Ideal for athletes and those with muscle cramps, it ensures quick hydration and enhanced performance.
June 06, 2024
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Mineral Deficiencies in Cats: What Every Cat Owner Needs to Know
Learn why cats are especially prone to mineral deficiencies and how supplementation can support their overall health. Discover signs of mineral deficiencies and the importance of a nutritionally complete diet for your feline friend.
June 04, 2024
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Bite into Health: Minerals for Your Dog's Dental Hygiene
Learn how mineral deficiencies in pet food can cause dental issues in dogs. Identify signs of tooth problems and understand the importance of minerals like calcium and magnesium for dental health. Discover the benefits of a full-spectrum mineral supplement to ensure your dog’s teeth stay strong and healthy.
June 04, 2024
