Zeolite

Science

What is Zeolite?

Porous volcanic rock that can be ground into powder and added to food or drink, and will then trap pollutants that may exist in the body and carry them out in the stool. Typical mineralogical composition of our Natural Zeolite Powder is 95% Clinoptilolite plus minor amounts of smectite (common, silica clay that makes up 50% of earth’s crust) and feldspar (common, silica rock that make up 41% of the earth’s crust).

Zeolite Method of Action

Zeolites exchange existing internal cations (calcium, potassium or sodium) with whatever cations (i.e. toxic elements) that enter into its crystalline structure, and will then retain those toxins within its crystalline pores, through capillary and electronic attraction. The zeolite crystals will then become part of the stool and the zeolite and the toxins it has trapped will eventually exit the body in the stool. Zeolite Affinity for Trapping Cations (Toxins) • Zeolites have greater affinity, or capturing power, for some elements than for others, i.e. they are selective as to which elements they will trap and most strongly hold on to. • The particular cations for which a zeolite has the most affinity depends on the electronic charge within the tunnels and fissures of the zeolite crystal and upon the size of those tunnels, which depends upon the type of zeolite, the makeup of tightly held metals in its structure (which give it its negative charge) and which cations (such as calcium, potassium, sodium, etc.) it contains in its cages (i.e. tunnels and fissures). • Clinoptilolite (the type of Zeolite used in most supplements) has the greatest affinity for heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury. It also has a strong affinity for ammonia. • Each clinoptilolite deposit will differ slightly from another clinoptilolite deposit in regard its particular affinity for various cations. This difference is due to differing tightly bound metals and differing cations that are in its cages (pores and fissures). • Typically, the cations in those cages are sodium, potassium, or calcium, sometimes iron, or copper. When a toxin is encountered for which the zeolite has has affinity, an exchange is made, the lower affinity element goes into the body and the higher affinity element goes into the zeolite cage… this exchange process continues until the zeolite leaves a person’s body in the stool. • Thus zeolites will continuously exchange encountered elements that are preferred over the existing elements trapped in its cages. For instance: o Example: originally contains calcium. o Exchanges an encountered cadmium for the calcium. o Then exchanges an encountered mercury for the cadmium. o Then exchanges an encountered lead for the mercury. • Since Clinoptilolite Zeolites have a greatest affinity for lead, they will exchange anything encountered of lower affinity until exchanging lead, then nothing else will be able to cause the lead to exchange.. Thus, zeolite cleans the body of toxins in a hierarchical order, according to affinity, which comes down mostly to element size and valence. This is one reason what it is important to use zeolite continuously for a long time to ensure that heavy metals are all removed. It’s also one of the reasons why, consuming zeolites results in many heavy metals of lower affinity going into the urine… while the highest affinity metals remain in the zeolite, which often goes out of the body through the stool. Books to Read About Zeolite Detoxification • Zeolite - Nature’s Heavy Metal Detoxifier • Zeolite - the Ultimate Body Detox • Natural Zeolites in Water Treatment - How Effective is their Use

Scientific Studies About Zeolite

• Zeolite study reprints from New Horizons Newsletter  • Zeolite study shows improvement in liver and kidney function • Another zeolite study showing its many applications • Study regarding removal of heavy metals by zeolite  • Study regarding removal of heavy metals by zeolite • Study regarding removal of heavy metals by zeolite • A study showing the zeolite protects the body against cadmium induced iron deficiency   • Study showing up to 98% removal of heavy metals by Clinoptilolite Zeolite in water solution  • A study showing zeolite’s ability to reduce lead (by 75% to 90%) in the bodies of test animals, simultaneously fed lead and Clinoptilolite Zeolite

What is Zeolite?

The short answer is micro-porous minerals of volcanic origin. The longer answer is that Zeolite is an inorganic porous material having a highly regular structure of pores, chambers or capillaries that are negatively charged (very unique in nature) that allows some substances (neutral or negatively charged) to pass through, and causes others (positively charged toxins) to be trapped inside its chambers. For our purposes, ”toxins check in, but they can’t check out”. For the chemists out there, our Zeolite is Clinoptilolite, or Potassium-calcium- sodium-aluminosilicate, and is classified as a dietary supplement under US-FDA guidelines (see FAQ for more information). The tiny, nanosized tunnels of Clinoptilolite are so small they can only be detected by electron microscopes or X-Ray Diffraction Analysis.