What are trace elements?
Trace elements are, with vitamins, the catalysts of the biological functions of all living organisms. A catalyst is a chemical species that allows a chemical reaction or increases the speed of a reaction. Catalysts therefore facilitate biological functions by reducing the time and energy required to carry them out. Recovered intact at the end of the reaction, catalysts can then be used again.
Why use trace elements to treat health problems?
Being sick means that something is not working properly or "less well". It is therefore biological, i.e. logical with life, to use the elements that normally make our metabolisms work, to bring them back to a satisfactory state of function. In other words, it means to rebalance. This allows the organism to take control of the situation again and to regain its health.
Why is catalytic therapy the only integrated biological therapy?
We introduce unatural medicine or synthesis in the organism so that it acts as well as possible on the target for which it is intended. It temporarily and partially replaces the natural but deficient functioning of the organism. In a more or less short time, it is recognized as a foreign element of our organism and is eliminated by our immune system and our émonctoires. Provided that the drug only binds to the intended target and is rapidly biodegradable, thus eliminable, there are in principle no side effects, otherwise...
The situation is totally different when using the catalysts that are trace elements and vitamins (if they are natural). These, because they are part of the organism, are not considered as foreign bodies but are integrated to act and remain on the organic site provided by nature. This is why oligotherapy is an integrated biological therapy while other therapies are substitution therapies. Example: Iron is integrated into the hemoglobin molecule and is a natural catalyst.
What are the catalytic trace elements?
Les trace elements necessary for biology are: calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper,iron, fluorine, iodine, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, potassium, selenium, silicon, sulfur, vanadium, zinc, etc...
What are our needs and where can we find them?
The quantitative needs in trace elements are very variable from one element to another (see the many books available). For example, we need 300 mg of magnesium per day, but only 0.14 mg of iodine and 0.05 to 0.1 mg of selenium.
These needs are covered, except in exceptional cases, by food. Dietary deficiencies always concern a particular element in a specific area. The deficiencies are of variable origin:
- Decrease in inputs.
- Increased needs.
- Malabsorption.
- Increased losses.
Concerning the qualitative needs, one meets on the other hand deficiencies induced due to the problems of assimilation of the trace elements by the organization and the blockings (chelation) of their action by the external elements.
The catalytic activity of trace elements is very often blocked by the hazards of modern life (voluntary intoxications - drugs - or not, rhythm of life, stress, etc...). We are then in the presence of a qualitative and not quantitative problem and in this case it is a qualitative contribution which it is necessary to call upon.
What is a qualitative contribution?
The trace elements and minerals in the food ration must first pass through the digestive tract to be transformed and assimilated. Those used in oligotherapy are IONIZED, i.e. free of any bond, in a way predigested, and therefore directly assimilable. The ionized form is necessarily in solution.
What are the advantages of the ionized form?
The advantage is a greatly increased bioavailability, which allows the use of significantly lower doses with increased efficacy. The ionized trace elements, in the same way as sugar (glucose), pass rapidly into the bloodstream, without the need to be transformed by digestion for their assimilation. The trace elements used in oligotherapy are perfectly identical to those in food; the ionized form only increases the speed of assimilation. On the other hand, the use of low doses specific to oligotherapy but nevertheless effective, makes intoxication impossible because, like everything else, trace elements, although essential to life, could also be toxic. For that, it would be necessary to ingest in one time, 200 doses for the most toxic or up to 1200 doses for those which are less toxic.
How to take the trace elements ionized?
Because they are ionized atoms, they can pass directly through the membranes of cells; including the membranes of the many blood capillaries under the tongue. This is why it is not only recommended, but essential, to keep the dose in the mouth for 30 seconds before swallowing it. A large part of it will immediately revive the functions disturbed or slowed down by blockages.