Minerals & Amino Acids: Secrets To Boosting Libido

Caroline Alan

Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to our conversation.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

When I think of minerals, I think of vitamins and minerals. That’s as far as my conversation goes. I’m looking forward to educating not only our audience but myself on minerals, but I’m going to back it up. How did you even get involved with minerals in the first place?

Caroline Alan

Yes, it’s pretty interesting. About 11 years ago, I was sitting in a bathtub with a bad sinus infection, and that had been going on for like six to eight weeks. I get incredible headaches every day. I was very ill, and I had a washcloth on my face. I was in a lot of pain. I was trying to work a fifty-hour job and take care of my kids at the same time. in the corporate world. I said to myself, Something has to change. Very soon after that, I met my now-business partner, Dan Howard, and he suggested that I try taking these plant-based minerals. They were liquid—little cups of liquid. I was like, sure. I’ll try anything that can help me. I was, of course, going to a naturopath. I had lots of problems in my mouth as well, with inflammation, gingivitis, and bone loss in my teeth. I had flatlined adrenals at that time. I’ve been working as a naturopath for a couple of years. I had all sorts of other issues with my gut, elimination issues, and, of course, energy. You can only imagine how it was to try and work a challenging job and have constant sinus problems. I started taking these minerals, and it was amazing what happened. I didn’t notice a huge difference initially, but I went to my dentist after two months, and she looked at my mouth and exclaimed, “Oh my gosh, what’s different?” Suddenly, your mouth is different. The tissue looks healthy, and I was like, “I don’t know. It might be these minerals.” She just said, “Keep taking them.” Then, about four months later, I went to my naturopath, and I had done my adrenal test. At my previous meeting, she had wanted me to take hydrocortisone. I was not going to do that because I had flatlined my adrenals. It had no adrenal function. She opened the book, and she was like, “Oh my gosh.” She turned the chart around and showed me that my adrenal function was one-third of the way up the chart with a natural sawtooth pattern and proper curve that you need for natural biorhythms, etc.

She was just like, “This is amazing. What are you doing?: Because she knew I didn’t want to take the hydrocortisone. I said, “I don’t know but I think it might be these minerals.” Over about six to eight months, all these chronic conditions that I was dealing with—the elimination, the bloating, the discomfort in my gut, all sorts of my mouth—these sinus infections just got it all resolved. The adrenals all resolved just naturally. I did nothing different. The only thing I’ll say that did happen naturally is that, though I’m not a sugar craver, I have eaten a lot of fruit in my life. I’m not like a candy person. But I did eat a lot of fruit, and I found myself just not being interested in fruit the way I had been. I might sit down in the past and eat half a pound of grapes, and I’d sit down and have five or six grapes. I’d be like, “, okay, that’s all I wanted.” My choices and my food choices did change, but it happened naturally. I wasn’t trying to change my diet. I’m generally a very healthy eater. I’ve just been interested, but I’ve had lots of problems. I had been gluten-free at this time already for seven or eight years. I had to deal with other issues over time. As a result of that, I started doing research. I’m not like you as a practitioner. I’m not a scientist. I’m not an expert. I wasn’t an expert in any field. I came into it with an open mind and a huge curiosity about how these little cups of liquid could make such a difference in my health. I ended up studying molecular biology, biochemistry, and cellular biology. I studied plants, plant decomposition, soil composition, and how soils become what they are. Of course, humic and fulvic, which we’re going to talk about, are plant-based minerals, where they came from, and what they do. But I learned a huge amount about mineral depletion, why we’re depleted, mineral replenishment, and how it works in the body. I had many huge AHAs I was like, “We have to do this business. People have to know about this.” That was, and that’s how it happened.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Now I’m curious because, in the world of health and wellness, the minerals don’t get enough information. What is it about minerals? Specifically, you mentioned Humic and Fulvic. I’m like, all right, I know of them, but that’s about as far as my knowledge goes.

Caroline Alan

Well, the interesting thing is that mineral depletion is a huge issue. If you think about something like probiotics, we all know about probiotics now. But ten or 15 years ago, nobody heard about them. Maybe the few fringy health nuts did. Nobody talked about the gut microbiome, and nobody knew how central to health the healthiness of your gut microbiome was. This is where we are. We’re right on the vanguard of health with minerals, with the conversation about minerals. That’s what I’m on a mission to do: bring up that conversation. I call it mineral myth-busting. There is a lot of misinformation about minerals, and then there is a huge lack of information about minerals and how central and national they are to health. There is a term for mineral depletion. It’s called hidden hunger. There are some interesting terms. What does a hungry cell crave? A hungry cell needs minerals. We’re going to talk about why. But when you’re craving salt or sugar, these things are mineral depletions. These come from an intelligent, integral lot lacking in minerals. I didn’t say that very well. But you understand.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Yes.

Caroline Alan

What I found when I started looking into depletion is, well, why are we all depleted? Well, first of all, here’s the thing. You cannot get enough minerals from the foods you eat. It’s a sad fact that the foods that we’re eating today do not have the nutritional content that they did when our parents were growing up. That’s simply because if you take plants and grow them in soil over and over again, the structure of that plant is developed by pulling the minerals from the soil. It’s just that’s the way it works. Getting things like nitrates, general compost, and other things back into the soil is one thing. But to get minerals of the kind that work with plants to replenish minerals is a very hard thing. It’s been an issue since the 1930s, when they had like a congressional summit about this, and nothing’s been done since then. We’re all dealing with this fact. Our food supply is lacking minerals. To exacerbate this, we’re all drinking filtered water in bottles or from filtration systems in our homes. This has no minerals. I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I didn’t have any friends who were coming off the soccer fields with cramps. But lots of parents have this issue now where their kids are coming off the fields crying because they’re all drinking bottled, and filtered water. As women who are dealing with our health, we’ll talk about why minerals are foundational. But I know I talk on and on, and I have much to say.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Now and then I’m connecting it to something in general, like just for health. But any time our body is under stress, which is a stressor, when we’re missing key nutrients, some of the first things that are going to go are going to be sex, drive, and reproduction. There is going to be a direct correlation with that. We’re seeing a rise in infertility, and we’re seeing a rise in people with low libido. because that’s like the extra the body gets rid of the extra stuff so that it can use all its resources for healing and for being healthy. that always gets put to the side. I am like, all right, the mineral depletion and sex drive and reproductive are going to go hand-in-hand too.

Caroline Alan

Because of all the stress that we’re dealing with in the world, think about the adrenal gland, which is about cortisol. The interesting thing is, does the adrenal gland store minerals?

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

I did not know that.

Caroline Alan

Yes. When you’re depleted of minerals, one of the first places that get hit is the adrenal gland. Now that you’re struggling to create the adrenaline, the cortisol, which supports you every time you get up off the couch, that’s cortisol working on some level. Very high levels, of course, are when you’re in a stress response, but it also uses up minerals. That’s the other side of it: we’re using more minerals because we have more cortisol in our bodies now because of the stress. But one of the things I want to talk about is this hidden hunger that creates stress. If you think about how you feel when you’re hungry, you feel—I call it hangry. We all call that an edge. It’s like a little, and that is all of your 37 trillion cells saying, “I don’t have what I need.” The nervous system is literally on edge like this. That creates more cortisol responses because it can’t get the energy from the natural operations of generating ATP inside the cell. It says, “Well, we’re going to have to use some cortisol to get this person off the couch.” Instead, what we want to do is provide mineral support for our cells so that we can generate the energy naturally in our body without overutilizing this cortisol energy, which is from the adrenals. When you think about it, let’s talk about how minerals work, because it’s interesting. Let’s say we’re all depleted.

What’s the effect? The way I like to reframe this for people is to think about your body. We tend to think of our bodies as having a heart, a lung, a kidney, skin, reproductive systems, hormonal systems, and cardiovascular systems. When we have a problem with our body, we think we have a problem with our vaginal health. I have a problem with my hormones. I have a problem with energy. I have a problem with anxiety. Now, here’s the thing, because I had all those issues, and the thing that tied them together was a lack of minerals. When I provided minerals in a very full-spectrum, bioavailable format, all of those chronic symptoms naturally took care of themselves. I changed nothing. I’m not going to say that. I don’t say minerals heal anything, but they provide the co-factor. Imagine 37 trillion cells, and inside a cell, you have this amazing energy-generating unit called the mitochondria. The mitochondria in your cells are responsible for producing all of the energy in your body. What fuels your mitochondria are two things: minerals and amino acids. Those two things are amino acids. Amino acids: Your body makes a lot of sense you have to bring in, but it makes no minerals, and you have to ingest them. When you have low minerals, what happens is that these mitochondria can only generate a fraction of the energy that your body needs for normal function. Then the body says, Well, “I don’t need hair. Hair is not critical. Let’s let the hair go. Oh, I don’t need nails or fingernails. Let’s let those go. All the skin. Your skin’s important, but it doesn’t have to look great.” Then slowly, over time, all these struggle to gain homeostasis like a natural balance. then slowly you end up with these chronic issues that slowly turn into all of these, ultimately to illness and disease. Think about it: 37 trillion cells. because scientists say that probably most humans, modern humans, have about 40% of the minerals; if you eat well of the minerals that you need in your body, it’s less than that. But I’ve rounded up to 40%. If you’re in a room right now, take the light that’s in the room and just dim it down to 40%. That’s how your body is operating. Think about that.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

That is crazy. I know. I’m sitting here going; I’m going to get some minerals right now.

Caroline Alan

Well, all right. who knew?  No one’s talking about this. No one’s talking about it. This is how we’re all operating. That’s how I was operating at this low level. because I already have some; I have autoimmune; I have some others; I’ve had mild exposure; I’ve had some real hits to my system. I had a gluten intolerance for many years. I have a body that doesn’t detox very well. I had big issues. It hit me harder than it might have. It might hit some people, but over time it hits everyone, and it’s happening younger and younger. Women who have painful periods should think about that. Unless you have fibroids or endometriosis, chances are that’s mineral depletion. I’ve had many people who start taking our minerals, and all of their pain for periods disappears. What a great thing!

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Then you were telling me before we even started talking about the effect of minerals, on vaginal health too, that I had not heard. I was like, Oh, this is fascinating.

Caroline Alan

It’s such an interesting thing that vaginal tissue ages, and aging women begin to get there. There is a certain way your OBGYN can look inside your vagina and see the tissue and how healthy, young, and vibrant it is. Not to speak of my vagina on national or whatever, but my OBGYN is always surprised. She’s like the tissue is healthy. Part of that is zinc, one of the important minerals for vaginal health. Now, the problem is that just taking zinc doesn’t necessarily work because you have to get that zinc inside the cells. If you think about your tissue, all of it is made of cells. It’s one thing to get minerals into your bloodstream, and it’s another thing to get them into the tissue where they can support the healthy, thriving, lubricated tissue that you want in that location. This is the thing. We’re all depleted of minerals. All of your cells require minerals. You have to get them by ingesting them. The next piece of the conversation is about how we replenish, and that’s the question I have for you. Like, have you ever learned about how minerals are replenished in the body? You’re a doctor, right?

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

They are. They skip over that part in medical school. The answer in medical school was,” Oh, just take a multivitamin or just eat healthy.” But we know that, as you said, we like our foods that do not contain them. The multivitamins are probably not in the form that we need them.

Caroline Alan

Exactly. That’s another piece of it. But let’s just keep on minerals because vitamins are a whole other conversation, though I will say that what we’re going to learn about mineral replenishment applies to all other supplements you’re taking. The thing that happened when I started looking at how minerals were replenished was that my mineral supply was replenished by taking these plant-based minerals. I had to understand how the replenishment system works. What I realize is that most people think about the replenishment system in the body, like we think about a car, like, I need hormones put in hormones, I need minerals, I need being easy and put in magnesium. I need potassium, I need put it, and most people do tests for, like, if you need hormones, your doctor says you need this much and it’s a prescription drug, but with minerals, that’s not the case. Someone says, Oh, you’re cramping; take magnesium, or you’re not sleeping; take magnesium. That is not the right thing to do. You don’t have a tank for that. You can get magnesium that you can fill up, potassium, or calcium. You need to get calcium into your bones.

Of course, fill up the tank. I should take calcium, but there is a lot of information out there about how that doesn’t work well and can cause other issues. I started learning about the replenishment system, and it was huge. Aha.  It all relates to this buzzword that we’ve heard about called bioavailability. When you look at labels, people are like, “Oh, it’s bioavailable,” whatever. You’re like, “Okay, cool. What does that mean?” Here’s the thing. Bioavailability has three stages, and one of the things that’s important to understand about minerals is that they have to go through all three stages. The first is digestion. We think we all understand digestion, right? You take food; it goes into your stomach; it digests in your gut; and that has broken down. Here’s a thing about most minerals that we take and what they’re made of most of them are made from rocks, shells, and bones. How well does your body break down those? Not very well.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

I’m sitting here thinking of a plate of rock shells of bones and eating.

Caroline Alan

Right, and even though they’re broken down into powder form, they have to be broken down way further. They have to be broken down into what we call their ionic components. The smallest molecular size. It’s not until that point that they can even be available for absorption through the lining of your gut. Most of those rock shells and bones, powders, flavored drinks, and electrolyte drinks that we take never get broken down. They say in the U.S. we have the most expensive urine because most of it just gets eliminated. But let’s say some small portion; it’s about 10 to 12% of what you put in that’s in the form of rock shells and bones in a pill, powder, or flavor drink form. It gets absorbed interestingly. The lining of your gut is lined with these finger-like structures that look like fingers. Each one of those structures is lined with something called epithelial cells. Each one of those cells is lined with these receptor sites. Now, when I first started reading about it, I was like, “Okay, cool. You have all these receptor sites, and all this stuff gets broken down in your gut. It just lands in one of these, like catcher’s mitts.” Here’s some magnesium; here’s some potassium; whatever. But guess what? Each one of those receptor sites is specific to a specific element. You have a lot of receptors for what we call our macrominerals, like magnesium, potassium, calcium, and sodium.

But you have a smaller number of important receptors for things you wouldn’t take a pill for, like molybdenum. Have you ever even heard of that or phosphorus or copper? I’m sure you have, but a lot of people have never heard of phosphorus or copper. These are super-important minerals that you need in your diet. They need to get absorbed. You do have these; you have a catcher’s mitt. like in your gut for specific elements. Once that magnesium hits that catcher’s mitt, it’s able to be absorbed into your bloodstream. You break down maybe ten or 12% of those minerals, and then a smaller amount gets absorbed based on the health of the lining of your gut, because aren’t we all dealing with a lot of what we call gut dysbiosis, leaky gut, or people with IBS, SIBO, or other inflammation issues in their gut? That, by the way, is often related to glyphosate exposure and the whole other conversation. But now let’s say you’ve gotten those minerals absorbed into your bloodstream. That’s only the second stage of the three stages of bioavailability. The final stage is that all those minerals have to get into your cells. Now, once again, the cell wall has receptors, and certain receptors have to be able to take a particular element through the cell wall. It requires a receptor. Most of us, even if we do take very bioavailable forms of minerals and they’re broken down well in the gut and our gut lining is healthy, get them absorbed into our bloodstream. Most of us don’t have very effective intercellular transport. Most of that mineral substance doesn’t get into the cell for energy generation. Isn’t that amazing?

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

This whole thing is fascinating to me. I’m like, this is cool.

Caroline Alan

It is. I feel like if people hear this, they’ll start to realize how important minerals are. The beautiful thing about this is that you can be left with this, like, “Oh my gosh, this is too complex. This is too hard. I don’t even know what molybdenum is or copper. I don’t know where I’d get it or how I would get it.” Like all this is in, “How do I do this? Guess what? Mother Nature provided in technology? Think about it. You’re a set of cellular systems that evolved from the Earth, and Mother Earth wanted cellular systems to thrive. What evolved? What evolved were systems to support nutrient uptake into the cells and intracellular and full-system detoxification. These tools and this technology are called plant-based mineral substances. It’s called Humic and Fulvic.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

That’s where I was trying to make it. I was trying to skip ahead. Where do Humic and Fulvic come into this?

Caroline Alan

This technology is being utilized every time you look outside your window, at your plants, or in your office. If you or your room where you have any plants in your house, they are all using humic and fulvic substances as mineral replenishment. If you have a plant that’s not healthy, just get our minerals, put a little bit of it on the plant, and watch it for three weeks. You’ll be amazed sometimes. In just a few days, you’ll be amazed at what happens to that plant. It’s cool to watch; that’s the next piece. Where does that leave you? I know I just talk on and on.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Now I listen to you for hours. This is great. How do the humic and fulvic now help with the minerals?

Caroline Alan

Let me talk about where they come from. Humic and fulvic substances exist, but when it comes to our mineral products, imagine an entire rainforest that decomposed over millennia. This rainforest existed back when the dinosaurs lived. and we had a cataclysmic event; a big meteor hit the earth, and it created a sh*tstorm on the earth. Pardon my language, and it in that whole rainforest died. Then, over millennia, it decomposed. During that decomposition process, there was a mineral substance called humic, and what you make is a black, very crystalline, incredibly rich substance. It exists about 12 to 15 feet below the earth. It’s completely pure. It’s never had any contact with modern pollutants. It has all of the minerals that your body needs in the ratios that your body utilizes and is made of. When you look at the back label of most minerals, even supplements that have multiple electrolytes or minerals, those are lab-formulated based on somebody in a lab who said they have these minimum daily requirements and all of that, which, by the way, is completely ludicrous in and isn’t. It’s that car mentality. Instead, these plant-based minerals are already naturally formed and formulated the way your cellular systems are naturally in need of minerals. Isn’t that right? There is already a cool thing. This humic material has two molecules in it, one is called fulvic and the other is called humic. They both carry with them the full spectrum of minerals that your body needs. Again, formulated in the ratios that your body utilizes and is made of. They all have amazing capacities. Let’s talk about the fulvic first.

The fulvic is an intercellular transporter. It’s the word for it in science: flavonoid. We’ve all heard of that word, and sometimes you see it on your website. But what is a flavonoid? It’s an intercellular transporter; it carries nutrients and minerals into the cell, and it also carries biowaste and toxins out of the cell. Now, not all flavonoids can do this. The fulvic flavonoid molecule is the only molecule on earth that they know of that can change its polarity. What it does is carry with it all of these nutrients. Because it has a very strong electrical charge, things cling to it and carry 60 times its weight of minerals and nutrients into the cell, and then it changes its polarity and those things drop off inside the cell. Now they’re available to that mitochondria for energy generation in the body, all of that mineral and nutritional content. Okay, now what clings to it? Biowaste, heavy metals, free radicals, and things like toxins like glyphosate, nanoplastics, dioxins, and p-fas carry them out of the cell, then change their polarity again, and those things drop off inside the bloodstream. I’m going to give everyone an image to remember this. You’ve got it. Let’s say you’re in a room and there’s a guy out in the hall. He’s got a big backpack, and he fills it with all the good stuff and all the nutrition you need for the day. He brings it in, and he dumps it out on your desk. Now you’ve got it available, and you can take it when you want it.

How you want it, whenever. Then he goes around your trash can and fills it up with all the trash in the room—all the stuff you have lying around that you don’t need or don’t want. He carries it out of the room and then dumps it out there into the trash can. That’s how the full version works. It’s an intercellular transporter nutrient, and it incredibly enhances nutrient uptake in the system, not only of the mineral content that’s part of its molecule but of all the other nutritional content that you’re taking in through your mouth. If you’re eating or you’re drinking water, a lot of us are drinking a lot of water, and we’re irrigating instead of hydrating. This creates the opportunity for hydration by getting that water into your tissues. Again, cells and tissues are synonymous. Getting that water into your cells, where your tissues, your face, and the skin can plump out and look healthy and vibrant, or your vagina, is an example. This intracellular transporter is phenomenal. What an incredible technology, and your body has evolved to utilize it. Put it in, and your body knows exactly what to do with it. All bodies, all cellular systems, whether you’re a plant, whether you’re a dog or a cat or a human or an elephant, any cellular, any set of cellular systems—now you’ve dumped all that. The fulvic has taken the toxins out of your cell and dropped them into the bloodstream. Now, we have this other thing called the humic. It also carries with it a full spectrum of minerals that can become available. The beneficial minerals become available for you to use in the body. But imagine it like a Velcro ball. It’s very, very sticky on the outside because it’s one of the strongest electrolytes known to man. It has an incredible amount of surface area, and things stick to it.

Free radicals go through your bloodstream. It just gathers free radicals. It’s thousands of times more effective as an antioxidant than any other superfood mix or antioxidant that you can have in your system. It gathers only general biowaste and chelates heavy metals. It’s one of the most effective heavy metal chelators and binders that they know of, as well as other biowaste and toxins, and it gathers those. It also remediated glyphosate, which is important because we’re all dealing with glyphosate exposure, but what it does is gather that molecule, build a film around it, and then start breaking it down. No longer can it have its negative effects on your system. At a certain point, this Velcro ball gets heavy at a molecular weight; it falls out of the solution, and it carries all of those negative elements out of your body. It does that through every elimination channel, which is important. If you’ve ever dealt with any detoxification protocols, people often say, “Oh, you can’t do it until certain channels are open.” But the beautiful thing about humic is that it uses every channel that includes your tears, your snot, your saliva, your sweat, your breath, your entire skin, and just rubbing your skin and your hands together. That’s a detoxification channel; of course, your feces and your urine are all of the channels. What it does is we do these detox protocols, but this is much better because it’s a gentle detoxification that happens continually all the time.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Fascinating.

Caroline Alan

Isn’t it? You’ve got this technology that Mother Nature designed for mineral replenishment. It includes all of the minerals you need and provides the delivery system for them into the cells, as well as detoxification for your tissues as well as your whole system. How cool is that? I don’t think any scientific lab could do any better than that. Any formulated supplement that you take, they don’t do it. I say most people have what I call a supplement graveyard. The cupboard at my home is filled with pills, capsules, liquids, and whatever powders you didn’t take. You’re like, “I don’t notice any difference. I don’t want to do this anymore.” It goes in the cupboard; that’s because they don’t work. Then we get to our liquid products. You can get humic and fulvic in powdered form. It’s much more effective than other mineral supplements. One of the things I want to clarify is that people often ask about the difference between plant-based minerals and salt-water minerals. Different people have different minerals that come from salt-based electrolytes or salt minerals like trace minerals. Humic and fulvic only occur in the decomposition of freshwater plants. You have to use them; they have to come from freshwater plant-based minerals. Just in case people are wondering about that, the thing that’s cool about our minerals is that they are ionic. Remember when I said about those ionic components that things have to be broken down to their ionic components to be available for those catcher’s mitts in your gut? These are already in that state. They’re already there in that form. When you drink them, they are immediately available for absorption. They require no digestion at all. and the fulvic of our products absorb directly through the tissue of your mouth, your throat, and your esophagus. By the time it hits your stomach, your body’s already utilizing some of the minerals that are in the products. That’s why they work. That’s why people come back and come back, and they just say, I never want to live without these because they feel a difference. then maybe after a few months, “I feel great. Maybe I don’t need these anymore.” They stop, and then a few weeks later they go. Whoa, that was the mineral. They come back.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

This is fascinating. Already, I have liked all these plans. I’m like, all right, I’m going to be taking them. My kids are going to be taking them, and my dogs are going to be taking them. I’m going to use them like my garden never grows, and since I started gardening, 

Caroline Alan

We had originally planned to do some plant minerals for people’s gardens. We haven’t gotten there yet just because we have much on our plate right now. But it is because everything starts with the soil. If people have their backyard organic gardens, that’s great. That’s, of course, much better. But it’s possible that the water you’re using to irrigate your plants could have glyphosate. Some small amount of glyphosate, or something you could be getting just from the air, is up on the table, running off onto your land from your neighbor, who’s using the glyphosate to kill their driveway, and just growing those plants in that same soil over and over. If you can get the minerals back, we’ve shown that we use them. We did a study with some people who do microgreens, and they showed that using our minerals increased the output of their microgreens by one-third to 30%. It’s huge. We also have pet minerals now. People can try those. Those are available. Maybe I should tell people about the products so they can know where they can find them.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Yes, definitely. Tell us about them.

Caroline Alan

Our main flagship products are these two products. One is called an Electrolyze, and the other is called a Micro-boost. We’ll talk about Electrolyze first. Electrolyze is the only fulvic supplement; we’ve extracted the fulvic out of the humic. Humic does include some fulvic. We’ve extracted it. The beautiful thing about fulvic is that, because it’s such a small molecule, it absorbs directly through any tissue. I’m going to tell anybody that if they’re using other electrolyte supplements, salt-based electrolyte supplements, I’m going to challenge them to stop using those and just use Electrolyze as their electrolyte supplement. They will notice a huge increase in feeling hydrated and feeling the energy boost that they want to feel from their salt-based electrolytes. One of the things people don’t know about salt-based electrolytes is that salt is great for acute electrolyte imbalances. If you’re about to pass out or if you have heatstroke, take some salt. But it’s not healthy for the body on an ongoing basis to use salt as an electrolyte replenishment, and I know I’m flying in the face of many other people who are talking about using salt and brands, etc.

I’m sorry, it’s not healthy. It irritates the bladder, the lining of the bladder, and the kidney, which ends up making you lose more water and creating other discomforts in the body. Athletes who use a lot of salt-based electrolytes know what I’m talking about. This solves the issue because it gives you the full spectrum of electrolytes plus all the other minerals that you need for energy generation, all in this incredibly bioavailable form. The thing about it is that when you drink it, there is no digestion required. You immediately get the replenishment; it starts happening immediately. This is a daily amount; if you’re taking both products, you just take a cup per day. But you can excuse this with your kids by re-mineralizing the filtered water you’re putting in their water bottles. Just put an extra splash of this into their water bottle. You can’t get enough electrolytes. No one ever has any challenging responses to it or anything. This is just something you can use like any other electrolyte replenishment, like for re-mineralizing water. The other product, called Micro-boost, is a humic product. It’s dark-colored. Both products taste like water, and they’re very easy to use regularly.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

I’ve tried them, and they didn’t taste like anything.

Caroline Alan

Which is amazing. Imagine if you take zinc and you take electrolytes, and maybe your doctor told you you need chromium or selenium, or maybe you take calcium because you’re worried about your bones, and maybe you take potassium. You are not required to take any of them. Like you take a half cup full of electrolytes and microboost today and you’ve got it all and you’ve got it in the proper ratios. The other thing that happens when you start trying to replenish minerals like your body’s car is that you create an imbalance in the gut. Taking what I call megadose mineral supplements measured in milligrams is not helpful to the system. It exacerbates things. I work with athletes, and one of the things that happens with aging athletes who’ve taken a lot of magnesium to fuel their performance is that they end up with osteopenia and osteoporosis. That’s because when you put a huge bolus of magnesium into your gut, your body tries to balance that with calcium and potassium, but mostly calcium. It can pull the calcium out of your bones when you do that over a long period. I know lots of people are using magnesium for sleep, and I understand people are struggling to sleep, but I’m going to recommend people consider trying our minerals for two months. Slowly titrate off your magnesium for sleep, and you’ll find that you’re sleeping fine because the nervous system starts to calm down and you create a natural balance.

When you’re putting these megadose minerals in your gut, you’re constantly creating more work for your body to try and create balance. The humic supplement—the one thing I’m going to tell people about Micro-Boost—is that if you have an autoimmune disease, if you have had Lyme disease, if you’ve had mold exposure, if you are just a very sensitive person to anything and you tend to get rashes, hives, or any of the other what we call Herxheimer responses, sometimes humic can create that. I’m one of those people, and this is how I take my microboost. I put it in my glass of water, and I just drink it through the day. I get none of these things. Now, those symptoms are just your body detoxing. It’s exciting to get rid of stuff. Let’s go. We can get rid of it now. Let’s do it all now, and it can create different symptoms for people. There is a great article on our website about it. If anybody can go to BEAM Minerals and just search for Herx in the search bar, you’ll find that article. These are easy to take. They’re great for kids—incredible for kids. Kids are even more susceptible to glyphosate-toxin exposure and toxicity. because their bodies are smaller and they are developing. It’s important to get these minerals into their diet.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Oh, my goodness. Caroline, this has been amazing. I learned a lot in this session, and I want to thank you very much for being here. Thank you for being a sponsor of the summit, and I know you said where we can find more about this, but just one more time because, you guys, you’re going to want to make sure you write this down and go check out this website.

Caroline Alan

Yes, our website is beamminerals.com, which has two M’s in the middle, and yes, that’s it. Go to beamminerals.com and check us out; we have lots of products specifically for women, or we have a complete women’s mineral support kit that’s great. It has all the different tools that you can use for different things that are specific to women. Yes, we have a whole microsite; if you just click, if you go to the website and click on women, you’ll get more about the conversation, about some of the issues that women face, and there are some other podcasts and things.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Yes. Oh, and before we go, I know we’ve been focusing on women just now. What can men expect from this, too?

Caroline Alan

Yes, funny, because historically we haven’t had a men’s section of our website. We’re about to launch a men’s section. I want people to know we don’t want to leave the men out. What I’m going to tell you, as a man, is that it’s going to support libido as well. It’s going to support, as you’re aging, your hormonal balance with testosterone. The thing you have to understand is that all of the biosynthesis—that is, the hormonal development and processing—requires mitochondrial energy. particularly in terms of longevity for men, but also the issue of weight gain as women are getting older. Remember that those chronic cravings for chips or sweets are your cells saying I’m hungry. If you start feeding your cells, you will start to feel different. You’ll begin to naturally make different choices. I know men have major sleep issues that are associated with many things. We could do a whole thing just on that. If you’re interested in performance as an athlete, these are all things in which the cornerstone of thriving in these areas is mineral replenishment.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

This has been jam-packed. This has been awesome. Thank you so much once again, Caroline, for being with us today. I appreciate it.

Caroline Alan

Thank you very much for listening to me. And Betsy, I want you to know how much I appreciate your work around the world. I know I came up to you at a National Association of Nutrition Professionals Conference because I wanted to meet you after hearing your talk a few years ago. I’m impressed with the work you’re doing to support women and talk about things that don’t often get brought up in the mainstream. I greatly appreciate you.

Betsy Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished) 

Awesome. Thank you. Once again.  Stick around because we have more coming up.