Do We Truly Need Extra Mineral Supplements?
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The body's use of elements like over 60 ones other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are "elemental ciphers" that sustain life processes. Of these, seven macroelements — calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine and magnesium — make up 60%-80% of the minerals in the body. In China, however, only calcium is significantly and widely deficient. For the remaining minerals, daily balanced diet can keep them in balance. Random testing is like trying to decipher a chaotic code: since 2013 the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China has forbidden preventive mineral testing in children; hair or blood cannot indicate whole-body distribution of minerals. Protecting yourself from these supplement traps equates to refusing false decipherers. We can stay healthy only by rationally replenishing calcium according to symbiosis of elements on this planet.