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An estimated 90% of Americans are mineral deficient.

Why It's Important

Modern agricultural practices have stripped the Earth's soil of these essential minerals, making them harder to obtain through food alone.

Think of ionic trace minerals as the energy-bunny nutrients that support optimal cardiovascular, nervous system and cognitive functioning.

Even minor deficiencies can impact your ability to absorb and use nutrients.

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Although sodium gets a bad rap for cardiovascular health, you shouldn’t avoid it entirely. Your body needs it to function. Instead, focus on choosing better sources of sodium that aren’t processed or manufactured.

Why It's Important

Sodium maintains fluid balance through osmosis. Without proper amounts, you’re either losing more water than you can take in (dehydration), or consuming more water than your body can get rid of (hypervolemia). Both are bad.

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Chloride combines with hydrogen in your stomach to make hydrochloric acid, a powerful enzyme responsible for the breakdown of proteins and the absorption of minerals and vitamin B12.

Why It's Important

Chloride is one of three principle electrolytes and plays a key role in keeping your fluids balanced. Without enough chloride in your body, you won’t be able to properly balance your fluids.

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Potassium is one of three principal electrolytes and is the third most abundant mineral in our bodies.

Why It's Important

Potassium plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining optimal fluid balance. Cells in our body require proper water balance to function properly, which is where potassium’s hydrating properties really shine.

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Every tissue in your body needs vitamin B1 to function. Your body doesn’t produce this essential B vitamin on its own.

Why It's Important

Vitamin B1 is a key component to helping electrolytes flow in and out of cells. It also supports proper functioning of your nervous system, muscles and major organs like your brain, heart and stomach.

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In just 3.4fl oz of natural blood orange juice, you can get 40% of your recommended daily dose of Vitamin C.

Why It's Important

One blood orange has the antioxidant quenching capacity of 2kg of navel oranges, making it great at fighting free radicals responsible for heart disease, degenerative diseases and aging.

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Over 50% of Americans are magnesium deficient. Even with a health diet, you may not be getting enough of it.

Why It's Important

Magnesium helps the intracellular transport of sodium and potassium throughout your cells, meaning you’ll get more out of your electrolytes with it in your diet. Every cell in your body needs it to function. More than 300 nerve impulses enzymatic reactions require magnesium as a cofactor.

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Vitamin B5 is necessary for making blood cells, making it one of the most important vitamins to sustain human life.

Why It's Important

You need vitamin B5 to synthesize and metabolize fats, proteins and coenzyme A. Coenzyme A converts foods into fatty acids and cholesterol and is needed to deliver chemical messages inside our cells. Your liver needs coenzyme A to metabolize drugs and toxins safely.

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B6 is often lacking in the American diet. Your body doesn’t produce Vitamin B6 on its own, so you need to get it from food or supplements.

Why It's Important

You need vitamin B6 to create the neurotransmitters that regulate emotions like serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). It also decreases high blood levels of homocysteine, which is linked to depression.

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Typically, each star-shaped fruit has 8 points. It’s known for its culinary applications and medicinal properties.

Why It's Important

Star Anise is rich in flavonoids and polyphenols. Some of its health-promoting compounds make it a powerful antioxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial.

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It tends to make you full, so you may reduce the chance of overeating, and is linked to weight loss and lower cholesterol levels.

Why It's Important

Medicinally, acacia treats chronic illnesses like diabetes, IBS and obesity. It’s a prebiotic used to remove toxins from the body and promote good gut bacteria in your intestines.

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Limited but promising studies show rosemary helps prevent brain aging. It may protect against damage and improve recovery from a stroke.

Why It's Important

Rosemary is a rich source of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds that improve your immune system and circulation. These properties fight free radicals.

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Why It's Important

Green Tea is renown for being lush with antioxidants. Specifically, the antioxidant ECGC has neuro-protective properties that shield brain cells from oxidative stress and promote memory retention and improved task performance. Green Tea extract is linked to weight loss, boosted liver function, performance recovery and healthier skin. The antioxidant ECGC is also being studied for its anti-cancer properties.

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L-Theanine is only found naturally in green and black teas and specific mushrooms.

Why It's Important

Promotes a calm, attentive wakefulness through enhanced alpha brain waver activity and increased synthesis of GABA. Consumption mitigates the mental and physical negative effects from stress. L-Theanine changes how your body metabolizes caffeine for a seemingly gentler, long-lasting energy boost.

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Our bodies need Vitamin C to produce collagen, a protein that helps wounds heal.

Why It's Important

Free radicals are unstable molecules that form when our bodies convert food into energy. We are also exposed to free radicals from cigarettes, air pollution, UV sunlight, and other environmental hazards. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps protect our cells from harm caused by free radicals. It’s one of the best nutrients for helping fight off infections and giving our immune systems a boost when we need it most.

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Only a handful of foods in nature naturally contain Vitamin D. Most food and beverage products that contain Vitamin D, like milk, are fortified with it.

Why It's Important

Think of Vitamin D as an equalizer for the immune system, especially helping our immune systems stay balanced during the cold and flu season. If our immune systems have too much stimulation, autoimmune diseases can set in. With too little immune system activity, infections are more likely. In people that have low levels of vitamin D, both of these extremes have been shown to be more prevalent. In 2009, the National Institute of Health stated that low Vitamin D levels are associated with frequent colds and influenza.

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Consuming Zinc supplements within 24 hours after cold symptoms appear may reduce how long the symptoms last and could make symptoms less severe.

Why It's Important

Zinc signals what type of immune cells should be produced to support the healing process. During the first stage of healing after injury or infection, we need zinc to bring in specialized immune cells called neutrophils and macrophages. These cells are our first line of defense and will help get rid of foreign substances and clean up cellular debris.

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Ginger has been used for thousands of years to treat colds, nausea, arthritis, migraines, and hypertension. During the 13th and 14th century, you could buy a sheep by paying with one pound of ginger.

Why It's Important

Within Ginger is Gingerol, a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound with strong immune building properties. Ginger can stimulate the immune system to kill viruses. It's antibacterial properties even offers benefits against some drug-resistant bacteria, studies show.

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Elderberries are the fruit of the Sambucus tree. Native Americans and European herbalists have long used elderberries for their supposed range of health benefits.

Why It's Important

Elderberries are packed with antioxidants and vitamins, making it a common supplement people reach for when feeling under the weather. Consumption helps reduce inflammation, reduce stress and may protect your heart.

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Echinacea comes from the Greek word “echinos”, which translates to sea urchin. It's commonly referred to as a sea urchin flower because of its appearance.

Why It's Important

Echinacea can increase the number of white blood cells in our bodies, which are needed to fight infections. The main active parts of Echinacea include alkylamides, caffeic acid derivatives and polysaccharides, which account for its antiviral, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties.

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Every tissue in your body needs B vitamins to function. Your body doesn’t produce them on its own.

Why It's Important

B vitamins are key component to helping electrolytes flow in and out of cells. They support proper functioning of your nervous system, muscles and major organs like your brain, heart and stomach. B vitamins are a naturally energy boost.

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Based on studies of the potential roles of Vitamin A in reversing tumor development and boosting immune function, it has been suggested that Vitamin A might help reduce cancer risk.

Why It's Important

Vitamin A is known as an anti-inflammatory vitamin and has regulatory roles in cellular immune responses and humoral immune processes. It's crucial to a mechanism that occurs in the digestive system and leads to immune tolerance across the entire gut lining which is the crutch of good health. The gut is where many people first lose immune tolerance. Vitamin A has exhibited a therapeutic effect in the treatment of various infectious diseases.

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Vitamin E is found in nature in eight different forms: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Alpha tocopherol is the main type of Vitamin E within our bodies and thus referred to as the most important of all the different forms.

Why It's Important

Vitamin E is a primary defense factor preventing oxidative damage and protecting cell membranes. As a powerful antioxidant, it helps cells fight off infection by neutralizing harmful free radicals - molecules that can damage cells and may contribute to chronic diseases. When consumed with Vitamin C, studies show Vitamin D3 further reduces oxidative stress.