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Fascinatingly, humic acid is the byproduct of an 80 million-year-old geological process. Humification happens when the right combination of organic matter combines with certain geological conditions, such as pressure and temperature. Humates form as ancient seaweed, plants, vegetation, and fruit trees compress over time, leaving us with a mineral-rich humic acid shown to drastically benefit human health.
Humic acids are important because they help make nutrients in the soil available, instead of locked within the soil. How?
It all comes down to oxidation, which gives humic acids a net negative charge. This helps attract positive ions, like calcium and iron, bind to them in what’s called a cation exchange capacity. This process helps aid in root growth and ultimately plant growth, transferring those important micronutrients into bioavailable food.
Don’t be fooled by the name! Humic acid is not actually acidic but is rather highly alkaline. This is important because the higher the pH values, the more water-soluble it becomes, and therefore more bioavailable to your body
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Humic acid is filled with minerals that are essential for every aspect of your health. Your body needs minerals for things like bone development, heart health, eye health, digestive health, and even mental health. Minerals also work together with other vitamins and enzymes to carry out important chemical reactions in the body.
When something starts to break down in your body, it can almost always be associated with a mineral deficiency.
Ideally, we’d be able to get all our minerals from plant food grown from mineral-rich soil. Unfortunately, large-scale commercial agriculture uses soil-depleting methods and agricultural chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides, which negatively affects the soil pH.
One hundred years ago, farmers made it a priority to maintain soil fertility by using soil amendments, or conditioning the dirt for optimal health. They did this by putting rich compost back into the soil, and rotating crops to let their fields rest and heal in between harvests. When our food production system became commercialized, it was no longer economically feasible for farmers to put back nutrients into the soil on such a large scale. (Although you can in your own home garden!)
As minerals decline in the food supply, health problems inevitably increase. Many heart conditions are associated with deficiencies of minerals like chromium, copper, magnesium, selenium, and potassium.
Thankfully, supplementing with humic acid can help fill in the gaps.
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