Ocean Minerals
Using Diluted Seawater as an Agricultural Fertilizer
Repeatedly cultivated soil that is not regenerated becomes depleted. In the US and around the world, conventional agricultural practices have exhausted and depleted the soil. Typical fertilization methods add 3-6 minerals, however, plants need dozens of minerals for optimum growth and health. Organic farming uses composted plant matter for fertilization, which is a big improvement. However, if the plants you are composting are deficient because of depleted soils, then even organic produce will be mineral deficient. Tests show that this is the case. It is rare for plants to realize their genetic potential and uptake the minerals they are capable of utilizing, because a lack of availability of minerals in the soil. Compost is highly variable in the minerals it makes available to the plants. Two different plants of the same variety in the same garden often have very different mineral profiles, simply because of the variability of the minerals that were available to them.
What if there was a way to give plants all the minerals they need in a form they can most easily absorb? What if the method did not require any chemical fertilizer? Seawater is such a solution. It contains all 90 minerals in a consistent, homogenous form.
The Missing Link for Optimum Health
“You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment, ultimately, to a mineral deficiency.” Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel prizes.
If the soils are deficient in minerals and consequently we are deficient in minerals, why not just take mineral supplements? Unfortunately, the minerals in most supplements are not in a form that can be easily utilized by the body. Minerals must be very small—angstrom-sized –in order to be utilized at the intracellular level. Larger sized minerals can be absorbed into the blood but cannot get into the cells where they are needed. These larger minerals are then deposited in various tissues where they can build up and become toxic. Your tissues can be filled with minerals while your cells are still mineral deficient. Paradoxically, one of the best ways to pull accumulated minerals out of your tissues is to provide the same minerals in angstrom size. Plants break down minerals to the angstrom size. They are the building blocks for the more than 75,000 different enzymes needed for optimal functioning. A highly mineralized body is more disease resistant and ages more slowly.
Research on the Use of Ocean Minerals for Crop Fertilization
Controlled studies show that plants grown with ocean minerals are much more disease resistant and higher yielding than those grown without. In an experiment with peach trees, all were sprayed with curly leaf virus. Half the trees were given ocean minerals and half were not. The seawatered trees did not get the virus and had normal yield. The control trees all got the virus, had sharply reduced yields and died after 3 years.
Even more exciting, research with animals fed food grown with ocean minerals show that they have a dramatic increase in resistance to disease. In a study with mice that are bred to get cancer, when they are fed food grown with ocean minerals, the decrease in debilitation rates is between 55% and 97%–a very significant impact. Similar results were obtained with animal experiments attempting to find the effect of this food on leucosis and arthritis. Chickens, pigs and cattle fed food grown with sea minerals matured faster and resisted diseases better than the controlled. The experiment with pigs showed that they carried the health benefits into the second generation.
It appears that sea creatures have less disease than land animals. All land animals develop arteriosclerosis, but sea animals have never been diagnosed as arteriosclerotic. Cancer is never found in sea trout, yet freshwater trout typically develop cancer of the liver around age five. There does not seem to be chronic disease in sea creatures, but among land animals, chronic disease is common.
In summary, plants grown with sea minerals are more disease resistant and have a higher yield. Animals fed food grown with sea minerals are larger, mature faster and are more resistant to disease.
For more information on the research that has been done on the effects of growing crops with ocean minerals see Sea Energy Agriculture by Maynard Murray.