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Dirt — prehistoric dirt, that is — is one of the best ways you can boost your baseline immune function and improve your overall health.
Hear me out: Fulvic acid, a substance formed by ancient plant life deep in the soil, supplies the vitamins, nutrients, and minerals (including trace minerals) in the produce we harvest and eat every day. And study after study shows that supplementing with fulvic acid 1 can make a big difference in how well your immune system fights off pathogens like viruses and bacteria.
What Is Fulvic Acid?
You might think you haven’t heard of fulvic acid before–or perhaps you’re confusing it with folic acid, which is a B vitamin.
But don’t let the strange-sounding name fool you. Fulvic acid is the original source of nearly every other vitamin and mineral that makes its way into the produce we eat, which in turn fortifies our bodies against disease.
The vitamin C in oranges? The selenium in Brazil nuts? The iron in spinach? It all came from the soil, where decomposing plant life turned into rich humus and released byproducts called humic acids, including fulvic acid.
The millions of microbes in fulvic acid work together with plant roots to extract all those inorganic minerals and nutrients from the soil and convert them into organic, ionic minerals and trace minerals for the plant in a highly usable form (which, uncoincidentally, is the same form our bodies use most easily!)
Every organ and every function in our body depends on vitamins and minerals. Produce rich in fulvic acid delivers the life-sustaining raw materials that fuel our cells and organs on every level.
And when we’re deficient in vitamins and minerals (because we’re not getting enough from bioavailable sources), we see the results in reduced immune function, inflammation, and disease.
Fulvic acid can improve immunity against pathogens and disease:
Fulvic acid is a potent antiviral and can guard against immune threats and speed up healing from many different pathogens. Studies have shown its effectiveness in battling numerous viruses including polio virus herpes, influenza A, and Coxsackie A9.In one study, participants who supplemented with fulvic acid were able to beat the common cold significantly faster.
When the atoms in our cells are damaged by UV rays, poor diet, or chemical load, they become free radicals. These unstable atoms cause damage throughout the body and can lead to inflammation and stress as the body diverts resources to run damage control. Fulvic acid neutralizes those free radicals and has been shown to significantly reduce inflammation freeing up the body’s resources to battle outside invaders and pathogens — instead of internal threats!
Fulvic acid helps improve circulation and blood flow for every cell in your body— which means better coverage of circulating antibodies. And antibodies circulating efficiently throughout the body means a faster response when an outside threat attempts to gain a foothold in the body!
Contrary to what its name implies, fulvic acid is very alkaline. So many of us have a highly acidic body pH as a result of poor diet and processed foods–which makes it difficult for our cells to grow, reproduce, and fight off pathogens. Fulvic acid can set the stage for a less acidic environment that allows our cells and organs to respond effectively to immune threats.
Fulvic acid is filled with good bacteria (probiotics). A diverse, healthy microbiome is not only vital to preventing pathogens from getting a foothold, but is key to creating the short-chain fatty acids that directly impact your dopamine levels (which are vital to mounting an effective immune response on a cellular level!)
We all know that our bodies use the minerals and nutrients in fruits and vegetables for a wide variety of immune functions. For instance, our killer-T cells and phagocytes require copper, selenium, and zinc to effectively fight off bacteria and viruses.
So, why not just double down on taking a multivitamin? Because the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients found in living produce are much more bioavailable (aka, our bodies can readily use them) than processed, powdered vitamins, that our bodies have trouble absorbing. Why? The answer revolves around the fulvic acid in plant foods, which can easily cross cell membranes.
Here’s the science: Fulvic acid is one of the densest sources of bioavailable nutrients (upwards of 75 different minerals, trace minerals, electrolytes, vitamins, and amino acids!) on the planet. Its unique molecular structure allows it to transform colloidal minerals (larger molecules that can’t cross cell membranes easily) into water-soluble, ionized fulvic minerals (smaller molecules that can readily cross cell membranes).
Incredibly, that unique molecular structure of fulvic acid allows it to carry 60 times its own weight in nutrients — right into our cells.
Unfortunately, the answer to this question is, “Probably not.” Modern agricultural practices like genetic modification, reliance on chemical fertilizers, strip farming, and mass production mean that we are stripping the soil of rich humus (and fulvic acid!).
The bottom line is that in most parts of the world, fruits and vegetables are far less nutrient dense than fruits and vegetables two hundred years ago. Even those of us who eat a whole foods, minimally processed, plant-based diet are at risk of being deficient in key vitamins and minerals. We see it in the rise of all forms of disease, autoimmune disorders, and inflammatory conditions.
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