Fulvic Acid
A Substance Critical to Human Health
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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................................3
Fulvic Acid Major
Attributes...................................................................................................... 4
One of Nature’s Most Powerful
Organic Electrolytes
.................................................................... 4
Promotes Electrochemical Balance As
Donor Or Receptor ...........................................................5
One Of The Most Powerful Natural
Free Radical Scavengers & Antioxidants Known....................5
Complexes & Dissolves Minerals
& Trace Elements.......................................................................6
Enhances Nutrients
........................................................................................................................6
Transports Nutrients
.......................................................................................................................6
Catalyzes Enzyme
Reactions..........................................................................................................7
Increases Assimilation.....................................................................................................................7
Stimulates
Metabolism....................................................................................................................7
Detoxifies Pollutants
......................................................................................................................7
Dissolves Silica...............................................................................................................................8
Synthesizes Or Transmutates
Minerals..........................................................................................8
Enhances Cell Division and
Elongation..............................................................................................8
Enhances the Permeability of Cell
Membranes....................................................................................9
Increases Metabolism Of Proteins..................................................................................................9
Catalyzes Vitamins Within The
Cell.................................................................................................9
Chelates All Monovalent &
Divalent Elements To Which It Is Exposed..........................................
9
Fulvic Acid, Origin and Overview
................................................................................................9
In the Beginning
............................................................................................................................10
Humic Deposits
............................................................................................................................
10
Fulvic Acid......................................................................................................................................10
Microbial Action.............................................................................................................................10
Fulvic Acid is Lacking in Food Crops.............................................................................................11
Science & Medicine
......................................................................................................................11
Benefits of Fulvic Acid
..................................................................................................................11
Fulvic Acid Mineral Complexes are
Better than True Colloidal Minerals.......................................12
Hidden Treasures..........................................................................................................................12
Fulvic Acids Further Defined
.....................................................................................................13
Unknown Fulvic .............................................................................................................................13
How Are They Formed?.................................................................................................................13
What Humic Substances Do in the Soil
................................................................................,,,,,,,,14
The Fulvic Plant
Miracle..................................................................................................................14
Who and What Are We?
...............................................................................................................15
The Body Cellular
.........................................................................................................................16
Growth & Maintenance Nutrients
..................................................................................................16
Nutritional Deficiencies
.................................................................................................................16
Sick Soils, Sick Plants, Sick People
..............................................................................................16
Gone Are The
Minerals..................................................................................................................17
Unsafe Foods
................................................................................................................................17
Can Good Foods Be
Found?.........................................................................................................17
The Vitamin Connection………………………………………………………………………………….17
The Enzyme Connection...............................................................................................................17
Free Radicals &
Antioxidants........................................................................................................18
Super Antioxidants
.......................................................................................................................18
Fulvic Acid and the Free Radical
Connection................................................................................18
Who Wears the White Hat?
..........................................................................................................18
Antioxidants and Beyond
..............................................................................................................18
The Human Experience.................................................................................................................19
Human Experiences With Fulvic ..........................................................................................20
The Healing & Regenerative
Influences of Low Molecular Weight Humic Substances (Fulvic Acid) On Human
Tissues and Cells…20
Animal Experiments With Fulvic
..............................................................................................20
Information Concerning Possible
Toxic Minerals...................................................................21
Aluminum, Friend or Foe?.........................................................................................................23
False
Information..........................................................................................................................23
Healing Clays..............................................................................................................................
23
Where Did It
Start?.......................................................................................................................23
Iron Toxicity
.................................................................................................................................24
Animals Studies
........................................................................................................................
24
Poison From the
Garden..............................................................................................................24
The Alzheimer’s Myth
..................................................................................................................24
The Team
....................................................................................................................................25
To Be, Or Not To Be (Natural &
Unnatural)..................................................................................25
Colloidal Minerals vs. Complex
Minerals..................................................................................26
Definition of Colloid and
Colloidal..................................................................................................26
Fulvic Acid and Colloid Questions
and Answers...........................................................................26
Myths
...........................................................................................................................................28
Analysis of Fulvic
Acid...............................................................................................................28
Structure Problems……………………………………………………………………………………….28
Mineral
Affinity...............................................................................................................................29
Cellular
Action...............................................................................................................................29
Radioactive Reactions with Fulvic
and Humic Substances....................................................30
According to Szaloy, radioactive
elements react with humic substances and require only a brief time until
equilibrium is reached………30
Reported Claims of Effective
Treatment of Symptoms............................................................31
Fulvic Acid & Vegetal Silica
.......................................................................................................32
Most Calcium Supplements Don’t Seem
To Be Effective .............................................................32
Fulvic Acid & Vegetal
Silica...........................................................................................................32
Vegetal Silica Transmutates Into
Calcium.....................................................................................32
Professor Louis C. Kervran’s
Research ........................................................................................32
Absence Of Silica In Conjunction
With Degenerative Disease .....................................................33
Vegetal Silica Vs. Mineral Silica
....................................................................................................33
Noted Observations Concerning Fulvic
Acid, Vegetal Silica, & Arthritis ..............................34
Science Has A Lesson To Be Learned
......................................................................................34
The Wisdom of Man, and the “Theory”
of Chemical Fertilizers .....................................................34
The Story of Justis von
Liebig........................................................................................................34
Introduction
Fulvic acid
is rapidly being recognized as one of the key elements in many outstanding
health and scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century. Scientists and doctors
throughout the world are beginning to discover fulvic acid, and are starting to
recognize its extraordinary potential, Interest in the medical community has
been escalating rapidly. We have no doubt that this will increase dramatically
as our ongoing findings are released to the world.
We are now
receiving many requests for fulvic acid information and resources from
prestigious
scientists
and research clinics in the
Until
recent only very small amounts of fulvic acid have been available for
scientific testing. Most of the studies to date have been done on plant cells.
In reviewing and evaluating these reports, it is important to bear in mind that
leading scientists like Roger J. Williams, recognize and agree with the following
fact;
‘the
building blocks present in the metabolic machinery of human beings are, in the
great
majority
of cases, exactly the same as the building blocks contained in the metabolic
machinery
of other organisms of extremely different types.”
Roger J.
Williams
Although
the majority of research and experimentation that has been done on fulvic acid
is in relation to plants; it is important to realize that human beings
have been ingesting fulvic acid complexes regularly for over 60 years in
supplemental form, and for thousands of years from natural food and plant
sources. The new discoveries involving fulvic acid are very similar in nature
to the recent important discoveries of valuable phytochemicals in
vegetables that have always existed, but were hitherto unknown. Fulvic
acid has always occurred naturally in organic plants and soils, yet its recent
discovery and tremendous value is now just beginning to be recognized.
Accumulating testimonials from
regular users, continue to substantiate the fact that the same
beneficial properties related to
plant studies and cells, hold true in relation to animals and humans as well.
Clinical studies on animals and humans are beginnings, and updated information
will be
forthcoming. Preliminary findings
show that the most prominent diseases and health problems of our day have been
dramatically effected in positive ways by supplementation or treatment with
fulvic acid and other preparations enhanced, extracted, or chelated using
fulvic acid.
Uses beneficial to humans are not
the only focus here either. The known agricultural benefits have enormous
potential to heal soils of the world. Yet the majority of the agricultural
community is virtually unaware of the implications. Industrial use for
treatment of sewage and landfill wasted,
neutralization of radioactive and
toxic wastes, and a myriad of other uses are just beginnings to be realized.
Fulvic acid has already been found to have tremendous potential.
Fulvic Acid Major Attributes
One of Nature’s Most Powerful
Organic Electrolytes1
Fulvic acid is an organic natural
electrolyte that can balance and energize biological properties it
comes into contact with2.
An electrolyte is a substance that is soluble in water or other appropriate medium
that is capable of conducting electrical current3.
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References:
1.
Senesi, N. (1990). Analytica Chimica Acta, 232, 51-75.
2. Vital electrolytes – Baker, W.E.
(1973). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 37, 269-281.
3.
Gamble, D.S., & Schnitzer, M. (1974). Trace Metals and Metal-Organic Interactions in Natural
Waters.Ann Arbor, Mi:
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The power of an electrolyte has been
shown in repeated tests on animal cells (giant amoebae), to be able to restore
life in what researchers termed “a beautiful demonstration” and “astonishing.”
When the electrolyte potential was
taken away during the test, the cell ruptured and disintegrated into the
surrounding fluid causing death. Upon reintroducing electrical potential the
cell reconstructed and became active and healthy4!
It was also determined from these
same studies, that similar results could be expected of the
progressive weakness among humans
that results from unchecked hemorrhage, overwhelming emotional stress,
uncontrolled infections, unbalanced diet, prolonged loss of sleep, and surgical
shock.
These examples are all accompanied
by a steady decrease in electrical potential that can eventually be reduced to
zero at death. These studies show convincingly that the physical well being of
plants, animals, and humans is determined by proper electrical potential5.
Fulvic acid has proven to be a
powerful organic electrolyte, serving to balance cell life. If the
individual cell is restored to its
normal chemical balance and thereby in turn its electrical potential, we have
given life where death and disintegration would normally occur within plant and
animal cells6.
Fulvic acid has the outstanding
ability to accomplish this objective in numerous ways7.
Promotes Electrochemical Balance As
Donor Or Receptor
Fulvic acid is available at times as
an electron donor and at other times as an electron acceptor, based on the
cell’s requirements for balance8. One of the reactions that occurs
is always an oxidation reaction in which the chemical species loses electrons
as a donor. The other reaction is a reduction in which the active species gains
electrons as an acceptor9. A recent study of the binding of a donor molecule
to fulvic acid in solution revealed direct evidence for donor-acceptor
charge-transfer mechanisms.10 Trace minerals in the fulvic acid
electrolyte could also be beneficial in this process by serving as electrodes.11
One Of The Most Powerful Natural
Free Radical Scavengers & Antioxidants Known12
Free radicals of fulvic acid behave
as electron donors or acceptors, depending upon the need for balance in the
situation.13 Fulvic acid can in the same way take part in oxidation-reduction
reactions
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References:
4. Power of an electorlyte – Crile,
G. (1926). A bipolar theory of living porcesses.
5. Decrease in electrical potential- Crile, G.
(1926). A bipolar theory of living porcesses.
6. Powerful electrolyte – Jackson, William R.
(1993). Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance: Organic Soil Conditioning, 329.
7. New Electronic Encyclopedia.
(1991). Photosynthesis. Grolier Electronic Publishing.
8. Donor and acceptor – Jackson, William R.
(1993). Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance: Organic Soil Conditioning.
Evergreen,
9. Donor and receptor – Rashid, M.A. (1985).
Geochemistry of marine humic substances.
10. Donor, receptor- Sposito, G.,
Holtzclaw, K.M., LeVesque, C.S., &
11. Mineral complexes in fulvic may serve as
electrodes – Rashid, M.A. (1985). Geochemistry of marine humic substances.
12. Free radical – Senesi, N. (1990) Analytica
Chmica Acta, 232, 51-75.
13. Free radical – Senesi, N., Chen, Y., &
Schnitzer, M. (1977b). The role of humic acids in extracellularelectron
transport and chemical determination of pH in natural waters. Soil Biology and
Biochemitstry, 9,397-403.with transition metals.
14. (See the detailed report on free
radicals and antioxidants beginnings on page 21)
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Complexes & Dissolves Minerals
& Trace Elements15
Fulvic acid is especially active in
dissolving minerals and metals when in solution with water. The metallic
minerals simply dissolve into ionic form, and disappear into the fulvic
structure becoming bio-chemically reactive and mobile. The fulvic acid actually
transforms these minerals and metals into elaborate fulvic acid molecular
complexes that have vastly different characteristics from their previous
metallic mineral form. Fulvic acid is nature’s way of “chelating” metallic
minerals, turning them into readily absorbable bio-available forms. Fulvic acid
also has the unique ability to weather and dissolve silica that it comes into
contact with.
Enhances Nutrients16
Fulvic acid enhances the
availability of nutrients and makes them more readily absorbable. It also
allows minerals to regenerate and
prolongs the residence time of essential nutrients. It prepares
nutrients to react with cells. It
allows nutrients to inter-react with one another, breaking them down
into the simplest ionic forms
chelated by the fulvic acid electrolyte.
Transports Nutrients17
Fulvic acid readily complexes with
minerals and metals making them available to plant roots and
easily absorbable through cell
walls. It makes minerals such as iron that are not usually very mobile, easily
transported through plant structures. Fulvic acids also dissolve and transport vitamins,
coenzymes, auxins, hormones, and natural antibiotics18that are generally found
throughout the soil, making them available. These substances are effective in
stimulating even more vigorous and healthy growth.19 These
substances are produced by certain bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes in
decomposing vegetation in the soil. It has been determined that all
known vitamins can be present in
healthy soil20. Plants manufacture many of their own
vitamins, yet these from the soil
further supplement the plant. Upon ingestion these nutrients are easily
absorbed by animals and humans, due to the fact that they are in the
perfect natural plant form as nature
intends. Fulvic acid can often transport many times
its weight in dissolved minerals and
elements.21
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14. Oxidation reduction – Senesi,
N., Chen, Y., & Schnitzer, M. (1977b). The role of humic acids in extracellular
electron transport and chemical determination of pH in natural wastes. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry, 9, 397-403.
15. Dissolves metals and minerals –
Ong, H.L., Swanson, V.D., & Bisque, R.E. (1970) Natural organic acids as
agents of chemical weathering (130-170).
16. Enhance and transport nutrients
– Christman, R.F., & Gjessing, E.T. (1983). Aquatic and terrestrial humic
materials. The Butterworth
Also: Prakash, A. (1971).
Terrigenous organic matter and coastal phytoplankton fertility. In J.D. Costlow
(Ed), Fertility of the sea, 2, 351-368. (Proceedings of an International
Symposium on Fertilty of the Sea,
17. Enhance and transport nutrients
– Prakish, A. (1971). Fertility of the Sea, 2, 351-368.
18. Williams, S. T. (1963). Are
antibiotics produced in soil? Pedobiologia, 23, 427-435.
19. Stimulate growth- Konovona, M.M.
(1966). Soil organic matter.
20. All known vitamins in soil –
Konovova, M. M. (1966). Soil organic matter.
21. Many times its weight- Deb, B.
C. (1949). The movement and precipitation of iron oxides in podzol soils.
Journal of Soil Science, 1, 112-122.
Catalyzes Enzyme Reactions22
Fulvic acid has close association
with enzymes.23 It increases activity of enzymes, and especially
influences respiratory catalysts. Fulvic acids increase the activity of several
enzymes including alkaline phosphates, transaminase, and invertase.
Increases Assimilation24
Fulvic acid metal organic complexes
are of a low molecular weight25, and because of this they are also
of low molecular size, and are capable of a high degree of penetration into
cells. Fulvic acid complexes and chelates are able to readily pass through
semi-permeable membranes such as cell walls. Yet it is important to note that
it has also been determined that fulvic acids not only have the ability to
transport nutrients through cell membranes, they also have the ability to
sensitize cell membranes and various physiological functions as well.26
Stimulates Metabolism27
Fulvic acid appears to cause the
genetic mechanism of plants to function at a higher level. It has been concluded
that any means by which plant cells are exposed to fulvic acid can improve
growth.28
Oxygen is absorbed more intensely in
the presence of fulvic acids.29 Fulvic acid aids in penetrating roots
and then quickly transports to the shoots of plants.30 Fulvic acid relieves oxygen deficiency and increases
the vital activity of cells. Fulvic acids change the pattern of the metabolism
of carbohydrates, resulting in an accumulation of soluble sugars. These soluble
sugars increase the pressure of osmosis inside the cell wall and enable plants
to withstand wilting. Fulvic acid enhances growth and may stimulate the immune
system.31
Detoxifies Pollutants32
An important aspect of humic
substances is related to their sorptive interaction with environmental chemicals,
either before or after they reach concentrations toxic to living organisms.
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22. Catalyzes enzyme reactions –
Khristeva, L. A., Luk’Yanonko, M.V. (1962). Role of physiologically active
substances in soil-humic acids, bitumens and vitamins B, C, P-P A and D in the
life of plants and their replenishment. Soviet Soil Science, 10, 1137-1141.
23. Fulvic and enzymes – Pardue, H.L,
Townshend, A., Clere, J.T., VanderLinden (Eds.), (1990, May 1). Analytica
chimica Acta, Special Issue, Humic and Fulvic compounds, 232 (1), 1-235.
(
24. Increase assimilation- Buffle
25 low molecular weight, Aiken, G.R.,
McKnight, D.M., & VacCarthy, P.1985). Humic substances of soil, sediment
and water,
26. Sensitize cell membranes- Rashid,
M.A. (1985). Geochemistry of Marine Humic Substances.
27. Stimulte metabolism-Rashid, M.A.
(1985). Geochemistry of Marine Humic Substances.
28. Genetic and growth-Jackson, William R. (1993).
Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance: Organic Soil Conditioning, 538. Evergreen,
29.
Oxygen is absorbed – Kononova, M.M. (1966). Soil organic matter.
30. Rapid transport to shoots-
Kononova, M.M. (1966). Soil organic matter.
31. Immune system – Syltic, P.W. (1985). Effects
of very small amounts of highly active biological substances on plant growth.
Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 2, 245-269; and, Research reports and studies,
Appropriate Technology Ltd. Dallas, TX: Murray Sinks II of ATL (Publisher).
32. Modify damage by toxic compounds
– Christman, R.F., & Gjessing, E.T. (1983). Aquatic and terrestrial humic
materials. The Butterworth
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The
herbicide known as Paraquat is rapidly detoxified by humic substances (fulvic
acids).34 Fulvic
acids have a special function with respect to the demise of organic compounds
applied to soil as pesticides.35 It
has been established that fulvic acid is vital in helping to form new species
of metal ions, binding with organic pollutants such as pesticides and
herbicides, and catalyzing the breakdown of toxic pollutants. Radioactive
substances react rapidly with fulvic acid, and only a brief time is required
for equilibrium to be reached.36
All radioactive elements are capable of reacting with fulvic acid
and thus forming organo-metal complexes of different adsorptive stability and
solubility.
Dissolves Silica
Fulvic
acids are especially important because of their ability to complex or chelate
metal ions and interact with silica.37
It has been shown that these interactions may increase the
concentrations of metal ions and silica found in water solutions to levels that
are far in excess of their assumed dissolution ability38.
Synthesizes Or Transmutates Minerals39
Fulvic
acid complexes have the ability to bio-react one with another, and also
inter-react with cells to synthesize or transmutate new mineral compounds. The
transmutation of vegetal silica and magnesium to form calcium in animal and
human bones is a typical example of new synthesis of minerals.40
(See Fulvic Acid & Vegetal Silica beginning on page 40.)
Enhances Cell Division and Elongation41
Fulvic
acid stimulates and balances cells, creating optimum growth and replication conditions.
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References:
33. Enviromental
chemicals -
34.
Paraquat
– Fisher, A.M., Winterle, J.S., & Mill, T. (1967). Primary photochemical
processes in
photolysis
mediated by humic substances. In R.G. Zika & W. J. Cooper (Eds).
Photochemistry of
environmental
aquatic system (141-156). (ACS Symposium Series 327).
35. Pesticides
– Aiken, G.R., McKnight, D.M., & MacCarthy, P. (1985). Humic substances os
oil, sediment and water.
36.
Radioactive properties – Szalay, A. (1958). The signifiicance of humus in the
geochemical enrichment of uranium. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy,
2, 12-186 (
37. dissolves and
weathers silica- Huang, W.H., & Deller, W.D. (1970). Dissolution of
rock-forming silicate minerals in organic acids; simulated first-stage
weathering of fresh mineral surfaces. American Mineralogical Journal, 55,
2076-2094.
38. Dissolves
silica- Kodama, H., Schnitzer, M., & Jaakkimainen, M. (1983). Chlorite and
biotite
weathering
by fulvic acid solutions in closed and open systems. Canadian Journal of Soil
Science, 63, 619-629.
39. Transmutate
or synthesis of new minerals – Shnitzer, M., Dodama. H. (1977). Reactions of
minerals with soil humic substances. In J.B. Dixon & S.B. Weed (Eds.),
Minerals in soil environments (Chap.21)).
40. See
“The Fulvic Acid, Vegetal Silica Miracle” later in this report, and further
documentation of Kervran, Louis C., Biological Transmutations.
41. Cell
clongation – Poapst, P.A., & Schnitzer, M. (1971). Fulvic acid and
adventitious root formation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 3, 215-219.
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Enhances the Permeability of Cell Membranes42
Fulvic
acids act as specific cell sensitizing agents and enhance the permeability of
the cell
membrane.43
Increases Metabolism Of Proteins44
Fulvic
acid intensifies the metabolism of proteins, RNA, and DNA.45
It has been found that fulvic acid definitely increases DNA
contents in cells46, and also
increases and enhances the rate of RNA syntheses.47
Catalyzes Vitamins Within The Cell48
Fulvic
acid has the ability to complex vitamins into its structure, where they are
presented to the cell in combination with complexed minerals. In this perfect
natural condition, they are able to be catalyzed and utilized by the cell. In
absence of adequate trace minerals, vitamins are unable to perform their proper
function.
Chelates All Monovalent & Divalent Elements To Which
It Is Exposed
Fulvic
acid has the power to form stable water soluble complexes with monovalent,
divalent, trivalent, and ployvalent metal ions. It can aid the actual movement
of metal ions that are normally difficult to mobilize or transport.49
Fulvic acids are excellent natural chelators and cation exchangers,
and are vitally important in the nutrition of cells.
Fulvic
Acid, Origin and Overview
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References:
42. Enhance
permeability of cell membranes – Christman, R.F., & Gjessing, E.T. (1983).
Aquatic and terrestrial humic materials. The Butterworth
43. Sensitizing
agent – Prakash, A. (1971). Terrigenous organic matter and coastal
phytoplankton fertility. In J.D. Costlow (Ed.), Fertility of the sea, 2,
351-368. (Proceedings of an International Symposium on Fertility of the Sea,
44. Increase
metabolism of proteins – Christman, R.F., & Gjessing, E.T. (1983). Aquatic
and terrestrial humic materials. The Butterworth
45. Proteins, DNA,
RNA – Khristeva,
46. Proteins,
DNA, RNA – Jackson, William R. (1993). Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance:
Organic Soil Conditioning, 569-570. Evergreen,
47. Synthesis of RNA
and DNA – Khristeva,
48. Catalyst
to vitamins within the cell – Williams, Dr. Roger J. (1977). The Wonderful
World Within You. Bio-Communications Press.
49. Transport metal ions – Schnitzer, M., &
Khan, S.U. (1972). Humic substances in the environment
In the Beginning<