Spring Clean Your Body: How Minerals Support Natural Detox
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Can minerals help with heavy metal detoxification?
Yes! Minerals are a great choice for detoxing heavy metals.
Minerals play an essential role in your liver and kidney function. They enhance your body’s built-in detox pathways, which can help flush toxic compounds like heavy metals from your system.
Plant-based minerals are even better for detox because they contain humic and fulvic complexes. These compounds actively bind to heavy metals, pulling them from your cells and deactivating them.
There’s a lot of false information about detoxing. Let’s talk about the actual science of detoxing, and how minerals can help you strengthen your body’s natural detox processes.
Minerals Support Your Liver and Kidney Function
Your body has two built-in detoxifiers: your liver and your kidneys.
Both of these organs work together to filter out toxins and eliminate them from your body.
Detox organ
Function
Liver
Removes toxins as they pass through your gut.
Breaks down drugs, alcohol, and toxins into less harmful byproducts.
Deactivates pesticides, heavy metals, and other toxins you ingest from food or drink.
Kidneys
Filters nearly 200 liters of blood a day, removing circulating toxins and waste.
Finishes what the liver started—binds broken-down toxins from the liver and excretes them from the body as waste.
Important for catching and removing stored toxins the liver has missed.
Your liver and kidneys are a powerful pair when it comes to protecting your body from toxins, and for most people, they’re enough to keep your toxic load low without any extra help.
However, your liver and kidneys need help to function at their best. Because they handle toxins all day, they need high levels of certain minerals to protect them from damage.
A 2024 study found that selenium is essential for liver function. Selenium is a powerful antioxidant, and many organs use it as a first defense against stress or damage. People with low selenium were more likely to have poor liver function, while high selenium led to more powerful liver function. [*]
Another 2024 study found that selenium helps maintain strong kidney function. [*] Low selenium is a risk factor for chronic kidney disease, which happens when your kidneys gradually accumulate damage from constant toxin exposure. People with high selenium were much more likely to have healthy, effective kidneys.
Magnesium supports both the liver [*] and kidneys [*] during periods of high toxin exposure. It helps prevent damage and activates repair mechanisms, keeping both detox organs functional even when they’re under stress.
Some minerals also increase your body’s capacity for detox.
Calcium, potassium, and copper increase your liver’s detox capacity. [*] They activate the enzymes your liver uses to break down toxic chemicals like pesticides and mold toxins.
Sodium and potassiumare fundamental to filtering toxins in your kidneys. Your kidneys filter out toxins by changing internal pressure, pushing through nutrients and blood while holding back larger molecules, like toxins. [*] They do this by using sodium and potassium, altering levels of the two to change local blood pressure. An imbalance in your sodium:potassium ratio will compromise the detox ability of your kidneys.
Your liver and kidneys are powerful enough to handle normal levels of toxin exposure—as long as you provide them with the right nutrients. You want to make sure you’re getting enough minerals to keep your detox organs running strong.
Humic and Fulvic Minerals: For More Powerful Detox
Your liver and kidneys are great on their own, but if you have a higher toxic load, you may need extra detox support. For example, you may have lived in a house with black mold, or you may be in a city with lots of heavy metal-based air pollution.
In these cases, one of your best options is to take minerals enhanced with humic and fulvic substances.
Humic and fulvic are derived from humate—a black, crystalline, mineral-rich substance found in deep soil. Humate forms over thousands of years, as plant matter breaks down and deposits its nutrients into the earth.
If you take humate-rich soil and purify it, you end up with a liquid rich in minerals, humic, and fulvic,. That’s how we make BEAM Minerals—and it’s one of the best things you can use to detox naturally.
Humic and fulvic substances are gentle, yet powerful detoxifiers. They’re strong adsorbents, which means they bind to and deactivate a variety of toxins, from mold to heavy metals to pesticides. They’re 7-10 times more adsorbent than activated charcoal or bentonite clay, making them two of the most powerful natural options if you want to detox. [*]
Research shows that humic and fulvic substances are good for detoxing:
Heavy metals. A study from 2014 found that humic and fulvic bind and deactivate most heavy metals, including lead, arsenic, and cadmium. [*]
Mold and mycotoxins. Humic and fulvic adsorb black mold spores, as well as the mycotoxins they produce. Doctors use humic and fulvic for human mold poisoning. [*] Farmers use them as well, to remove mold from livestock feed. [*]
Pesticides. Several studies have found that humic and fulvic rapidly detoxify pesticides. They’re particularly good at binding to glyphosate, the most widely used pesticide in the world. [*][*][*]
Persistent organic pollutants. Humic substance helps break down and remove polychlorinated biphenyls. These highly toxic manufacturing pollutants are common in both air and water. They build up in fat cells, where they disrupt your hormones and cause chronic inflammation. Persistent organic pollutants are notoriously difficult to remove. Humic and fulvic substances are two of the best ways to detox them. [*]
Humic and fulvic are potent detoxifiers. They work in synergy with minerals, removing hard-to-reach toxins while also supporting your natural detox pathways.
Mineral Detox Vs. Chelation Therapy
The best part is that humic and fulvic minerals are gentle, but effective. They work the same way as chelation therapy, which many consider the gold standard for detox. Both approaches bind and remove stored toxins from your cells.
The difference is that chelation therapy is both faster and harsher. It comes with intense side effects and requires medical supervision. Because chelation therapy removes toxins so quickly, it carries risks like kidney damage and heart problems. It also stresses healthy cells and triggers widespread inflammation, which often means a difficult recovery period after you detox.
Humic and fulvic minerals provide a more gradual approach. Instead of rapidly dumping bound toxins into your bloodstream, they gently pull them out and expel them over multiple days (or weeks, if you have a high toxic load).
Both approaches help you detox—but the mineral-based approach is a more measured option.
Detox Better with Minerals
BEAM Minerals are perfect for detox support. Our liquid formula contains every essential mineral your liver and kidneys need to flush toxins from your system.
It also contains humic and fulvic substances, providing a two-pronged approach to detox. While minerals support your natural detox pathways, humic and fulvic bind to stubborn toxins like heavy metals, pulling them from your cells and deactivating them permanently.
As a result, BEAM Minerals are good for both general daily detox and more intense toxic loads.
They’re also simple to use. Many detox protocols require injections or have unpleasant side effects. With BEAM Minerals, all you do is take two shots of liquid each morning. They taste like water and provide gentle, effective daily detox.
Our liquid minerals can help you get rid of toxins for good—so you feel your best, every day.
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
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