What Are Angstrom Minerals?

Eating a diet rich in essential minerals is critical to good health. Taking mineral supplements is the only way to make up for mineral deficiencies not addressed with diet, and angstrom minerals are designed to be absorbed and utilized better than other supplemental forms.

Facts

• Named for Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874), an angstrom is a unit of measurement equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter.

Function

• Due to their extremely small size, angstrom minerals are able to pass directly through cell walls. This makes them the most efficient form of mineral supplementation.

Features

• Angstrom minerals are one thousand times smaller than traditional mineral supplements, which are normally colloidal in nature.

Benefits

• Angstrom minerals are 100 percent absorbable by the body and require no digestion. They're also water-soluble, meaning they won't remain in the body and cause potential toxicity like other forms of mineral supplementation.

History

• The National Institutes of Health first began studying angstrom minerals during the 1950s.