A Partial List of the 72+ Trace Elements in Seafood

January 26, 2003

http://www.truehealth.org/atrclist.html

[ I have not yet been able to find a complete trace element analysis of seafood

- or of human tissue - and do not know if such an analysis exists. ]

Our daily food, as produced by our modern agriculture, contains:

3 - major nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium - or N-B-K);

6 - minor nutrients (calcium, chloride, magnesium, iron, sodium, sulphur) and

5 - trace elements as monitored and maintained in agricultural soils

(boron, copper, manganese, molybdenum, zinc) and

3 - trace elements as added at other stages of our nutrition

(iodine in table salt; cobalt in salt licks for cattle & sheep; and selenium in

fortified chicken feed)

- for a total of 8 (!) nutritional trace elements.

All of the above vital nutrients are generally available in adequate amounts in

today's agriculturally grown food products. However, since cobalt and selenium

are added to livestock feed, rather than to the soil, pure vegetarians are at

some risk of cobalt and selenium deficiencies.

However, all living things need more than 72 (!) biological trace elements - as

found throughout nature and in all 'wild' plant and animal life - for the normal

function of their metabolism, reproductive and immune systems. Today, the only

readily available food which still contains the complete natural range of the

72+ biological trace elements is seafood.

Further, and although the trace element zinc is routinely monitored and

maintained in agricultural soils, there are very strong indications (a sharp

rise of birth defects in new-borns) that we do not get enough zinc in our daily

food.

Trace elements - also called trace minerals - occur in the soil, and are needed

for the normal function of all plant and animal metabolic, reproductive and

immune systems in miniscule traces; hence the name trace elements. One part per

million, and often less, is typical of the amounts needed.

Although far from complete, the following is the most extensive list of

biological trace elements as found in a representative cross-section of seafood,

which I have been able to find. They are listed here in their amounts (in parts

per million), their status of recognition by the biomedical and agricultural

sciences, and their availability in our agriculturally produced food.

Note - Dec. 1998: Very recent research indicates that we need somewhere around

72 trace elements for our health and well being - and surprisingly, even

micro-miniscule traces of the 'heavy' elements, among them lead, mercury,

cadmium, asf. However, we are getting far too much of the heavy metals already

through industrial and chemical pollution.

The following list has been made for a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels at

" medium " font size and lines up ( one line per element and description)

perfectly in both Netscape and IE browsers. If it does not line up at one line

per element and description in your browser or at your resolution and font size,

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Biological Trace Elements In Seafood

Trace Element

(Ag) silver

(Al) aluminum

(Au) gold

(B) boron

(Ba) barium

(Be) beryllium

(Bi) bismuth

(Br) bromine

(Cb) niobium

(Cd) cadmium

(Ce) cerium

(Co) cobalt

(Cr) chromium

(Cs) caesium

(Cu) copper

(Fe) iron

(Ga) gallium

(Ge) germanium

(Hg) mercury

(I) iodine

(Id) indium

(Ir) iridium

(La) lanthanum

(Li) lithium

(Mg) magnesium

(Mn) manganese

(Mo) molybdenum

(Ni) nickel

(Os) osmium

(Pb) lead

(Pd) palladium

(Pl) platinum

(Ra) radium

(Rb) rubidium

(Sb) antimony

(Se) selenium

(Si) silicon

(Sn) tin

(Sr) strontium

(Te) tellurium

(Th) thorium

(Ti) titanium

(Tl) thallium

(V) vanadium

(W) tungsten

(Zn) zinc

(Zr) zirconium

Amount

..000004

..193000

..000006

..019400

..001276

..000750

..016000

6.70000

..014000

..005200

2.70000

..001227

..024000

..074600

..000635

..089560

..001400

..000005

..000190

..062400

..001500

ultra trace

..000019

..000007

..213000

..123500

..001592

..003500

ultra trace

..000014

ultra trace

..000005

..000142

..000043

..164200

..000006

..074876

ultra trace

..000012

..000293

..000531

..000033

..003516

..000001

Status & nutritional availability in our agriculturally grown foods