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Strengthen Your Immune System with Plant-Based Minerals
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Did you know minerals strengthen your immune system?
Minerals like zinc and selenium are essential for immune function. Deficiencies can make it hard to fight off illness—especially helpful during winter months, when short days and icy weather cause your immune function to slow down.
Getting more minerals is a simple way to boost your immune system. Here’s a look at the best minerals to support immunity.
How Do Minerals Support Immune Function?
Several minerals support your immune system.
A 2023 review in the Journal of Immunology Research found that you need five different minerals to maintain good immune function: [ * ]
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Zinc balances your inflammatory response, turning it on when you need to fight off pathogens, then shutting it off quickly to prevent chronic inflammation.
- Copper is a partner to zinc. The two work opposite each other to keep your inflammatory response healthy.
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Magnesium boosts innate immunity—your body’s built-in, general defense against illness and infection. If magnesium is low, your overall immunity decreases.
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Iron provides energy for immune cells during active infection, giving them the fuel they need to kill bacteria and get rid of illness faster.
- Selenium improves adaptive immunity—your ability to defend against specific bacteria and viruses after a first encounter, so they can’t make you sick again in the future.
If you’re deficient in any of these minerals, your immune function will weaken. [ * ] You’ll get sick more often, and you’ll take longer to fight off infections.
Minerals are also important for autoimmunity. Deficiencies in zinc and selenium can contribute to autoimmune problems, like arthritis and thyroid disorders. [ * ][ * ] Without these minerals, your immune system can’t regulate itself properly, and may begin attacking your own cells.
If you’re dealing with autoimmune issues, consider taking a mineral supplement. Replenishing your mineral stores can help support a balanced immune response.
You Need Extra Minerals for Cold and Flu Season
Minerals are especially important during winter. Cold weather and shorter days both lower your immunity, increasing your chances of illness.
Your nose contains a lot of immune cells. They live in the mucus in your nasal passages, guarding against bacteria and viruses you breathe in. That’s why you get stuffed up when you’re sick—your immune system increases mucus production to block invading pathogens.
In warm weather, nasal immunity works well. But when it’s cold outside, the air contains less moisture. Your nasal passages dry out, making it easier for cold and flu viruses to get past your defenses and infect you. [ * ]
Winter also causes a decrease in your vitamin D production. Your skin cells need sunlight to make vitamin D. During the shorter, darker days of winter, vitamin D levels drop. [ * ] You need vitamin D to absorb several essential minerals: [ * ]
Zinc
Copper
Magnesium
Iron
Selenium
These are the exact minerals your body uses for immunity. That’s why vitamin D deficiency is a strong predictor of illness and autoimmune disease. [ * ]
At the same time, you need minerals to convert vitamin D to its active form. [ * ] This leads to a vicious circle where low vitamin D makes you mineral-deficient, which lowers vitamin D, which makes you more mineral-deficient, and so on.
During winter, take both a full-spectrum mineral supplement and vitamin D. They work together to keep you healthy throughout the colder months.
Boost Your Immunity with Plant-Based Minerals
Mineral replenishment is a simple, natural way to support your immune system.
At BEAM Minerals, we make immune support easy. Our plant-based, liquid mineral replenishment delivers every essential mineral you need, in the right ratios, with the most effective absorption, so you feel the difference!
All you do is take a shot of mineral-rich liquid each morning. It tastes like water and provides instant immune support.
During cold and flu season, we also recommend Respra-Lytes™. It’s a sinus-opening misting spray that combines immune-boosting minerals with essential oils like eucalyptus and rosemary. It’s perfect for keeping your sinuses clear throughout winter.
Don’t let illness get the best of you this year. Support your immune system with BEAM Minerals.
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FAQs
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.
