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Silicate Minerals as a Dietary Supplement
Microhydrin® and Crystal Energy® are a proprietary blended silicate mineral analog similar to those found in nature. The silicate analog has been formulated by Patrick Flanagan for Royal BodyCare. Inc of Irving Texas. The microcluster silicate mineral is an aggregate mineral containing potassium, magnesium and silica partially coated with a plant based oil in order to increase its bonding and transport of compounds. The microcluster silicate has been formulated to retain a spherical shape and is about 50 Angstroms or less in diameter. This article will cover an overview of research showing various functions of this supplement and studies that are indicating beneficial biological and physiological functions. Crystal Energy® is a dilute suspension in water of the colloidal silicate mineral. Microhydrin® is the same mineral silicate that has been further saturated with hydride ions (H-). The
 difference in the two products is that Microhydrin® contains a higher concentration of the silicate mineral (250 mg/capsule) and Microhydrin® has been further saturated with hydride. One capsule added to 4 oz of water shows a negative oxidation reduction value (approximately -500 mV), as well as, biological antioxidant properties towards superoxide free radicals, hydroxyl free radicals and serum alkenals (membrane fatty acid oxidative free radicals).
Several interdisciplinary sciences (geology, material geochemistry, physical chemistry, and cluster chemistry) are converging on the unique properties of colloidal minerals and complex mechanisms that structure both transported compounds and water. Biochemists such as Linus Pauling and Szent-Gyorgyi were also looking at more specific roles that water played in biological systems realizing that water helped form structural and functional bridges between molecules and could also form arrangements around certain organic or inorganic compounds. Although these are separate chemical areas they involve the same type of water structures and provide insight into water chemistry found throughout nature.
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