I have been reading some of my brother's Phil gardening and soil books. I would not imagine that a whole book just on the benefits of seaweed could be so interesting.
If the last 50 years, food producers are putting NKP (petroleum) on the soil instead of manure and composting as they had for centuries. The results are that all the trace minerals are missing from our diet. The amount needed of these 50 or so minerals are so minuscule that they a faction sometimes with five zeros but they are necessary for our bodies. The soil growing are food, in another words, is lacking nutrient we need. It makes sea weed very important for us to consume along with flaxseed oil.
If you garden, of course, composting is important but another way is spraying sea weed a few times a year on the growing crops--one gallon per acre diluted in water 100 to one for farmers. That amount shows how little is needed but the results are impressive. I have been spraying the last five years but I have a new understanding of important it is.
Our current American diet is so limited in scope. Count for one week that different foods that you consume and it will surprise you. Ancient peoples ate seasonally, with many little seeds, berries and roots that we do not include that gave them the balance we don't have. Maybe that is part of our disease problems of today.
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