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BambooSILICA
Silica, a natural element, stimulates cell formation and metabolism, helping to inhibit the aging process. It is used in the body to maintain and repair bones, eyes, hair, nails, skin, teeth and cell walls. Weak, spitting or peeling nails are often one of the first signs of silica deficiency. Many organs in the body require silica to function properly. Interestingly, Silica has been shown to help prevent hardening of the arteries. Silica is also a good friend to your bones---it is vital to bone growth and density and works, with calcium and magnesium, to give bones both hardness and flexibility. It increases calcium absorption in the bones ---, even in those with osteoporosis due to aging. Calcium alone can make bones harder, but it offers no flexibility to them, which is important to prevent breakage when the bones are exposed to a shock (as in a fall). SILICA AND ARTHRITIS
Mucopolysaccharides are natural substances produced by the body that work with collagen as a tissue connector. All connective and elastic tissues, including collagen are rich in silica, when in their healthy state. But levels of silica decline with age in connective and elastic tissues and these tissues degenerate correspondingly. Dr. A. Charnot has researched the relationship between silica and degenerative tissue and joint diseases. He discovered that such conditions are often accompanied by a deficiency of silica in the body. Not surprisingly Silica’s ability to enhance connective tissues has made it effective in the treatment of muscle-skeletal disorders including arthritis and rheumatism. Silica also stimulates chondroblasts to deposit chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid into the cartilage matrix, and will improve the effectiveness of glucosamine sulfate. HEALTHY SKIN AND HAIR
Silica supplements are often touted as beauty enhancers due to silica’s ability to prevent wrinkling of the skin, in part by supporting collagen production. When we add strong, healthy hair, nails and teeth (silica helps to build tooth enamel) to the anti-wrinkle properties of silica, it definitely earns its reputation as a natural beauty aid! Herbalists often recommend silica-containing herbs to treat B.P.H. (benign prostatic hyperplasia), an inflammation of the prostate that causes men to get up at night to urinate. Because silica offers elasticity to tissues it is helpful also for issues of incontinence. Therefore, Bamboo Silica would be a useful product to stack onto either our NUTRIFLOW product. Considering that there is a link between B.P.H. and hair loss in men (hormonally related: see newsletter on Prostate Health for more information), there is a good reason for those fighting hair loss to consider using silica as a supplement. Women too, can gain benefit from silica’s ability to strengthen the hair shaft making it thicker as well as stronger and less likely to break. DAILY REQUIREMENT AND DIET
The foods highest in silica include rice and oats and the herb, nettle. Followed, in no particular order, by lettuce, asparagus, onion, cucumber, strawberry, leek, cabbage, sunflower seeds, swiss chard, celery, cauliflower and rhubarb. These foods will only be rich in silica if they are organic, since it must first be in the soil before the plant can obtain and store it. To obtain a therapeutic dose of silica though it is necessary to supplement the diet.
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