Q: What is the truth about colloidal minerals and is T.J. Clark Minerals and why do you use their Polyfloramin as your source of minerals in the Perfect Vitamin, Glandular Therapy and Internal Cleansing System?
A: We require almost all known nutrients and colloidal minerals are included. Some minerals and vitamins are not considered essential because the body can make them or get by without them. I can get by without my glasses despite not being able to see worth a damn. I include Polyfloramin because these plant based nutrients from T.J. Clark interact with the other components in each product assuring a synergy that allows for better assimilation...
This article is in regards to Colloidal Minerals, Trace Nutrients, Polyfloramin, T.J. Clark, Joel Wallach, Quack Watch and Human Nutrition... All based upon my very own first hand observations and a lifetime of experience...
T.J. Clark Minerals: THE TRUTH
I ran across a website where the guy who runs it loves to bash alternative health care, chiropractic procedures, and anything else that is good in the world. But I noticed he never mentioned a word (or ‘didn’t mention one word’) about quackery amongst conventional doctors, or the tens of thousands of deaths each year from prescription drug mistakes and interactions, nor the botched surgeries that scar and cripple people for life.
There are a handful of deaths each year that could be attributed to supplements, usually supplements containing pharmaceutical agents, not natural nutrients. For the year I checked into before writing this, there were over 100,000 deaths attributed to prescription meds and medical mistakes. Yet in his supposed spirit of "public service" old Mr. Quack Watch hasn't found time to mention any of that. While I am sure he will want to attack me as he has others for speaking out, here goes.
Part One: The Truth About Mineral Supplements
Watch ANYONE calling themselves a research scientist... That just means they go to the library, read magazines and watch a lot of the Discovery Channel.... They probably believe in aliens and witches too... Let me clarify this attack upon what I know to be a wonderful product, trace minerals.
Colloidal mineral detractors would like you to believe that mineral deficiency is not a widespread cause of disease. They are attempting to down play the benefits of products supposedly just leached from shale and not gathered from plant based sources like in the Emery Coal Field of central Utah. The attackers use propaganda which they think makes them look like consumer awareness advocates when in fact, they are either blatantly lying to you or foolishly mistaken.
The health benefits of trace minerals came to our attention when Chief Soaring Eagle, an elder Paiute medicine man, told an ailing cattle rancher, Thomas Jefferson Clark, about a healing stream. The miracle waters were well known to the local natives who had benefited from them for hundreds of years but it was when Clark used them that history changed.
Clark drank from the 'holy water' that day and quickly recovered from his malady. Intrigued, he followed the stream back to its source of organic-rich shales. By 1931 after several years of experiments, he bottled and sold his rich tonic known as "colloidal minerals.” As word spread, a minor legend was born.
Light Energy Productions has recorded an account of Clark's story and while I admit the production is made to help sell products, the fact remains; the minerals did him and many others a lot of good. And while the tape was created using the industry's conventional "artistic license," the historical record is accurate. Like every Hollywood production, not everyone will be entertained and very little does entertain our medical detractors.
According to an article in Self magazine, the present-day Paiutes have never heard of either Chief Soaring Eagle or the renowned healing powers of their ancestral waters. This could very well be true. I personally do not know of any modern day Paiutes myself nor know many relatives, even city leaders, from my own community that far back either. I also highly doubt Self (a Joe Weider magazine) sent anyone to the reservation to find out either. Another note is that again, detractors will say anything to prevent losing your attention.
Part Two: Colloidal Mineral Mysteries
Joe Weider doesn't want you to think minerals are good unless HE personally is profiting, and in this case he isn't. That's been his game for years. The best exercise equipment made for a gym ever came from Nautilus and Arthur Jones. Weider so hated Jones for his discoveries that he had his staff attack Jones in print for years. Jones resides on a property the size of a zoo with a Noah's Ark supply of different creatures, an airport, and fortress Joe still envies I bet. Detractors they are, what works still works....
The most celebrated colloidal mineral promoter is Joel D. Wallach, DVM, ND, who says that Americans desperately need whatever minerals he currently promotes. Wallach has a long history of involvement in dubious health care schemes, such laetrile treatment for cancer, as well as chelation and hydrogen peroxide therapies for coronary artery disease. This has made a good thing like minerals look bad at times.
His widely distributed "Dead Doctors Don't Lie!" audiotape says erosion and unwise farming methods have led to mineral depleted soils and mineral-deficient plants, livestock, and people - this is true. Look at us... And the alarming fact is that food now being raised on acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals is starving us no matter how much of them we eat. Sure, it's always better to have spinach than french fries but we are not doing anything to replace what is missing from the foods we consume naturally.
Making matters worse, no man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables or meats to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health because the foods we have access to have a fraction of what they used to in them. Laboratory tests have proven that the fruit, vegetables, grains, eggs, and even the milk and meats of today are not what they were a few generations ago. Vitamins may be there, but minerals…
Our leading authorities say that 99% of the American people are deficient in these minerals [and that was from the 74th Congress, 2nd Session, in 1936]! Detractors say colloidal mineral promoters quoted a baseless opinion piece that originally appeared in the June 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine that was placed into the Congressional record by a Florida senator. I ask you, why were they discussing minerals at all if it weren't due to their deficiencies?
Most Americans really are slowly starving to death or dying faster from mineral deficiency. Look at your saggy and lumpy skin and tell me that isn't true. Look at your Iceberg lettuce and tell me you think it is healthier than a darker and more nutrient dense vegetable like spinach. But you like Iceberg lettuce? Come on! Be for real!
Another thing detractors like to point out is that multilevel distributors buy their products from T.J. Clark & Co.'s Daddy Dearest 1-9/Blackhawk Mine, which again, started it all in the late 1920s. Clark is the source of "BHI Lifeminerals," "Toddy," "Golden Minerals," and other product lines, and our detractor says Clark even leases approximately 20 acres of land not to mention has established major overseas distributorships.