Zinc is an essential mineral that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Zinc is also found in many cold lozenges and some over-the-counter drugs sold as cold remedies. [Read more...]
Sodium
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Sodium is an element that the body needs to function properly. [Read more...]
Selenium
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Selenium is a trace mineral that is essential to good health but required only in small amounts. [Read more...]
Potassium
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Potassium is a mineral involved in electrical and cellular body functions. In the body, potassium is classified as an electrolyte. [Read more...]
Phosphorus
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Phosphorus is a mineral that makes up 1% of a person’s total body weight. It is present in every cell of the body, but most of the phosphorus in the body is found in the bones and teeth. [Read more...]
Molybdenum
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Molybdenum is a trace element essential to human and plant life in metabolizing nucleic acids (RNA, DNA) and today is found in most commercial multivitamin formulas. [Read more...]
Manganese
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Manganese is an essential trace nutrient in all forms of life. The human body contains about 10 mg of manganese, which is stored mainly in the liver and kidneys. [Read more...]
Magnesium
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Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Approximately 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Only 1% of magnesium is found in blood, but the body works very hard to keep blood levels of magnesium constant. [Read more...]
Iron
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Iron, one of the most abundant metals on Earth, is essential to most life forms and to normal human physiology. Iron is an integral part of many proteins and enzymes that maintain good health. [Read more...]
Iodine
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Iodine is a trace mineral and an essential nutrient found naturally in the body. [Read more...]
Fluoride
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Fluoride occurs naturally in the body as calcium fluoride. Calcium fluoride is mostly found in the bones and teeth. [Read more...]
Copper
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Copper is an essential trace mineral present in all body tissues. [Read more...]
Chromium
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Chromium is a mineral that humans require in trace amounts, although its mechanisms of action in the body and the amounts needed for optimal health are not well defined. It is found primarily in two forms: 1) trivalent (chromium 3+), which is biologically active and found in food, and 2) hexavalent (chromium 6+), a toxic form that results from industrial pollution. This fact sheet focuses exclusively on trivalent (3+) chromium. [Read more...]
Chloride
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Chloride is a salt consisting of two elements, one of which is chlorine. Chloride makes up about 0.15% of the body weight and is found in the fluid outside cells. [Read more...]
Calcium
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Calcium, the most abundant mineral in the body, is found in some foods, added to others, available as a dietary supplement, and present in some medicines (such as antacids). [Read more...]
List of Minerals
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Minerals are important for your body to stay healthy. Your body uses minerals for many different jobs, including building bones, making hormones and regulating your heartbeat. [Read more...]
Nutrition 101
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Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. [Read more...]