Fulvic - An Overview

And What About Less Expensive Mineral “Concentrates”?

Beware of fulvic concentrates where you add water to make several bottles of fulvic from one tiny bottle of “fulvic concentrate”.   We liken those concentrates to "selling a used tea bag".    

Here's a simple analogy.  When you make a cup of tea, the first steeping is where you get your best cup of tea, right?  If you re-use that tea bag, all the good flavor has already been extracted...but what if you found that extreme high heat and the use of some harsh chemicals could synthetically force out anything still remaining in the used tea leaves? 

With this sub-standard processing, organic fulvic is destroyed.  But now you have a concentrate...it's highly acidic, contains virtually no living fulvic, has dangerous chemical residues, and now must be flavored and sweetened to cover all this up - and it's ready to sell to unknowing consumers.  The price is right, and if you don't know what a difference all natural processing makes, then these concentrates appear to be a very "good deal".   

To give you a better understanding of where Vital Earth's high quality fulvic comes from, and why we don’t sell concentrates (and probably never will) let us explain our precision extraction process.  

The gentle Vital Earth extraction process
Here's how Vital Earth extracts fulvic to create a 100% "fulvic in solution" product:  
At the end of a very lengthy, proprietary extraction procedure, using nothing but cold, double reverse osmosis, non-chlorinated, magnetically purified water, 80% of the nutrients from the original humic source, which includes a high concentration of fulvic, become suspended in solution in a large vat. 

This "suspended" mineral-rich fulvic solution is then siphoned off the top of the vat, it continues through another series of filtering stages, further isolating the fulvic through each stage, and then, the final product is at last bottled in its purest form.   What are customers are getting is 100% fulvic carefully extracted from the rich humic source material.

The dregs in the bottom of the vat still contain a few nutrients.  Because this is fantastic for plants, we give ours to farmers to put on their fields.  Unfortunately, some manufacturers sell this byproduct to consumers, calling it a “concentrate”.  As we said, we think it's kind of like selling someone a used tea bag.  All the most valuable nutrients have already been extracted.   

Another way to get a concentrate is to dehydrate a fulvic solution…which entails high heat processing.  High heat kills fulvic, just as it does other natural substances.  The only value to be obtained from the product is from whatever minimal amount of fulvic that may have survived the high heat dehydration process.  Not very good odds…

How to spot acidic minerals

• Is the product flavored and sweetened?
• An unnaturally high mineral count indicates the minerals have been synthetically separated from the fulvic 

(see the section on Body Acidity, below, for an explanation of the acid/alkaline pH range)

Body acidity and pH

PH is how acidity and alkalinity are measured.  The scale ranges from 14.0 pH, which is top of the alkaline scale, down to 7.0 pH being neutral, and on down the scale with 0.0 pH being the bottom of the acidic side of the scale.   

Over acidity in the body makes you susceptible to many diseases, and weakens all the systems of the body.  It is a condition that many people find difficult to control, so the last thing they want is a product that contributes toward that unhealthy condition.

There are many liquid minerals on the market today that are highly acidic, with an acid pH in the range of 2.0 pH to 4.0 pH, because of their processing techniques.  Also, when chemicals are used unhealthy toxic chemical residues remain in the product and are ingested.  The end product must be flavored and sweetened to mask the vile taste. 

Here’s a quick and general reference of the various effects of acid/alkaline pH levels in the body:

This chart refers to body acidity levels, not the pH level of products.  The pH level of a product can affect the pH level of the body which is why it is important to beware of chemically induced acidic pH levels in products.

As you can see, maintaining the proper acid/alkaline levels in the body is essential to good health.  (Please read our acid/alkaline articleto learn the symptoms of over acidity, how to test for it, and some solutions for lowering body acidity).

What is Fulvic’s purpose within the body

Fulvic’s function is to balance and energize all cell life and biological properties it comes in contact with. If you can restore individual cells to their normal chemical balance and electrical potential, then you have given those cells life. What if the newly energized cells belong to a liver, a heart, or the thyroid? Those organs could have the potential to function at peak performance.

Scientists believe disease is rampant today because people are so deficient in fulvic and the minerals, trace elements, and nutrients it contains.   Fulvic “complexes and dissolves” the substances it comes in contact with. They are absorbed by the fulvic electrolyte, and become bio-chemically reactive, mobile, and readily absorbable by the body.   In simple terms, fulvic changes nutrients to a form that makes them ready to be fully absorbed by living cells.

     Some of the many other functions of Fulvic are:

•      Fulvic increases absorption of oxygen

•      Fulvic changes the pattern of metabolism of carbohydrates and intensifies the metabolism of proteins

•      Fulvic regulates and tremendously boosts immune system function

•      Fulvic greatly enhances enzyme development and reactions in cells

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Why You Need Fulvic Each and Every Day

Most people don’t think about what their body requires to function in peak form, day after day. Unfortunately, if you’re relying solely on a healthy diet as a means of achieving this, you may be heading for disaster. 

Researchers have known for years that at least 90 nutrients are needed to maintain optimum health.  These nutrients include a minimum of 60-84 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 amino acids and 3 essential fatty acids.  No matter what conditions plants are grown in, good or bad, they will manufacture vitamins, and those vitamins will be available for humans and animals.  Minerals are a different story.  

Whether a plant contains the sufficient amount of fulvic minerals depends on the quality and quantity of minerals in the soil.  Minerals must be supplied to the plant from the soil they're grown in.  If the minerals are not in the soil, they won’t be in the plant.  (And remember, vitamins can only be absorbed by the body if minerals are present to create the reactions that enable them to be activated by the body.)

How does the body use fulvic?

When you eat food have you ever thought about where the nutrients actually go, and how that food fuels your body?  Food fuels the body because it fuels the cells.  Once fulvic absorbs and then prepares nutrients for utilization by the body, it then delivers them directly into living cells. Fulvic is literally feeding nutrients to all the vital processes of your body. 

So you can see how important it is for all the proper functions to happen that allow that the biggest percentage of that fuel to actually reach the cells.  The whole process of feeding the cells is supercharged by fulvic.  That is fulvic’s main job; Fulvic makes all nutrients more absorbable.

Fulvic and weight loss

Although not advertised as a weight loss product, a great side benefit is that many people lose excess weight when they start taking fulvic.  Body weight balances naturally because fulvic helps correct chemical and hormonal imbalances, assists the proper metabolism of food, and diminishes mineral deficiency cravings. 

When these changes occur, spikes in blood sugar are lessened, and nutrient deficiencies are being corrected so the desire for more calories is diminished, along with cravings for foods that immediately convert to sugar in the body such as breads, pastas, and sweets as much.

Fulvic and carbohydrates

Fulvic changes the way the body processes the sugars and starches that we call simple, refined carbohydrates.  Where possible, it converts these substances to energy and escorts the excess out of the body, instead of causing them to be stored as fat.  It also intensifies the metabolism of proteins, and has been shown to stimulate the immune system.

Fulvic makes cells more receptive to receiving nutrients

It conditions cell membranes and makes them more permeable, so nutrients can more easily enter the cell.  This permeability also allows toxic waste to leave the cells more readily.  Fulvic makes cells healthier…full of nutrients and free of toxins.

Fulvic is a powerful “transporter”

It is so powerful that it transports many times its weight in energized nutrients.   One single fulvic molecule is capable of carrying 60 or more nutrients, minerals and trace elements into the cells.  And since fulvic makes cell walls more permeable, more nutrients are able to enter the cells when fulvic is present.

Fulvic increases absorption of oxygen and decreases acidity

Low blood oxygen leads to blood acidity.  Excess body acidity is associated with virtually all degenerative diseases, including cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, kidney stones, tooth decay, sleep disturbances, depression, diabetes, and more.  The act of breathing does not guarantee high levels of oxygen in the blood.   Fulvic quickly destroys acid in body fluids, and increases the body’s ability to absorb oxygen. 

Fulvic improves enzyme development

Enzymes are responsible for over 300 complex reactions in the body and are connected to every organ in the body.  They are also the life force behind the absorption of vitamins and minerals.

Whenever you put anything in your mouth, the taste buds quickly analyze its composition and trigger the appropriate digestive enzyme needed to break down that particular substance.  

A lesson on free radicals

What is a free radical?  They have to do with atoms.  All atoms have a ring around them composed of many electrons.  Each electron ideally has a “buddy”, making the atom very stable.  

Free radicals are created when an electron loses its buddy and is no longer in a pair.  This opens the door to a chemical reaction whereby the unpaired electron seeks out another atom or molecule to bond with, creating a chain reaction of oxidation.  

Normally a healthy body can keep this process in check, but if there is an excess of free radicals, created from eating a diet high in vegetable oils, for example, damage to cells and tissue can occur.  These free radicals circulate throughout the body, injuring tissue and making cells susceptible to infections, diseases, or worst of all, cancer causing mutations.   

That’s where free radical scavengers come in; they neutralize harmful free radicals, and Fulvic is one of the most powerful free radical scavengers known to science.

When Fulvic encounters free radicals with unpaired electrons, (electrons without a “buddy”), it supplies that missing electron “buddy”, and creates a stable atom, therefore neutralizing the free radical.  By bonding to these free radicals, fulvic transforms them into organic, usable substances, or if the cell is too damaged, it is flushed out of the body.

Toxins and the immune system

Life today bombards us with an overload of toxic substances…they are the preservatives, chemicals, colorings and harmful additives in the foods we eat, they are the fumes in the air we breathe, the chlorine and fluoride in our shower and drinking water, and the toxins in the plastics, carpet, paint and furniture that we use on a daily basis.  Only the strongest immune system has the power to fight the enormous quantity of toxic elements we come in contact with every day. 

People with weakened immune systems constantly battle colds, the flu, allergies, have many pre-disease symptoms, are tired, don’t sleep well, struggle with depression and more.  And the people with severely compromised immune systems are the one who don’t recover from the above illnesses - they don’t stand a chance.

What can you do to remove toxins?

Fulvic is a powerful detoxifier.  It has the ability to complex and remove toxic heavy metals and other pollutants from the system. It can either alter them into useable compounds or eliminate them as waste. It detoxifies pollutants, including herbicides, radioactive elements, and toxic metals, by binding to these substances and flushing them out of the body if unable to convert them.

When you are actively removing the toxins that inevitably build up in the body due to normal daily life, you are freeing up your immune system to fight more serious threats, such as dangerous forms of the flu, cell mutations that lead to cancer, over acidity and more. 

Fulvic has antibiotic properties

Although fulvics are not antibiotics in the technical sense of the word, as prescription drugs are, their antibiotic like effect is comparable to the power of penicillin in equally small amounts. Unlike antibiotics, fulvic can be used indefinitely without creating any antibiotic resistant strains of disease which are common problems with pharmaceutical drugs.

People with healthy lifestyles and eating habits, who take fulvic on a consistent basis, report that they rarely get colds or the flu, and suffer very little from allergies.

An extensive number of studies show that Humic extracts, specifically Fulvic, effectively and safely viruses and impurities in the blood.  In fact, one pharmaceutical company has patented a humic based drug that purifies blood for transfusions, killing the HIV virus without damaging blood cells.

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Some common questions about Vital Earth’s fulvic

What is the concentration of Vital Earth’s fulvic?

Vital Earth's Fulvic is 100% Fulvic in Solution. Remember when we said that Fulvic comes from an ancient source of plant material. This plant material is called Humic. We isolate and extract only the fulvic from our humic source and this is what we bottle - 100% fulvic in solution.  Our proprietary extraction process protects and preserves 100% of the fulvic. 

We never add any harmful chemicals, or use high heat or pressure extrusion- all of which destroy fulvic. Some manufacturers use these harmful techniques as a shortcut to achieve faster extraction. Our natural process is lengthy, time consuming and complex but we do it this way to preserve every bit of the precious fulvic in our formulas. 

Fulvic Mineral Complex’s Humic Source is an Impressive 7%

Vital Earth's original humic source contains an impressive 7% fulvic potency, whereas many mineral products come from sources that are only 3% to 4% fulvic to start with.  To explain, within the humic itself there is a certain percentage of fulvic.  Vital Earth's humic source contains a 7% concentration of fulvic.  And as we said above, we isolate only the fulvic, so what we bottle is 100% fulvic in enough solution to keep to retain its liquid form.

Can you get too many minerals?

Many people wonder if they will be getting “too many minerals” if they are consuming other products that also contain minerals…such as a high dose calcium supplement.  The answer is no because Vital Earth’s fulvic is extracted from plant material – not rocks or clay.  When plant derived fulvic enter the system, it is immediately recognized as one of nature’s essential substances.  It triggers the proper metabolic responses that utilize the minerals where they’re needed, discarding those that are not needed.  It is impossible for plant derived minerals to build up in the tissues. 

Fulvic Mineral Complex is NOT a Colloidal

Colloidals are solid particles that are simply being held in suspension in a liquid; they are too large to be easily used by cells and offer little health benefit.

The ionic particles of fulvic are “dissolved”, and are so small they are not measurable in liquid form, which means they are able to pass right through cell membranes into the cells where they’re needed.   Ionic minerals offer incredible benefits, but the benefits of colloidal minerals are marginal at best.   There are no colloidal minerals in Fulvic Mineral Complex. 

Why fulvic is commonly called “Fulvic Acid”

Back in the 50’s, U.S. researchers used chemicals and acids to extract fulvic from ancient deposits of humic material.  The process left a vile aftertaste, killed off most of the fulvic and made the product highly acid. That is when and why “acid” became part of the fulvic name in the U.S. In other parts of the world, the benefit of “unprocessed” alkaline pH fulvic is well known and has been used for centuries.