How Minerals Determine Your Quality Of Life

What Are Minerals?

Our world is made of minerals. Scientists believe they were formed billions of years ago as the earth changed from clouds of gases into a solid planet.

Life on our planet comes from a small number of chemical elements. Some of the most important ones are calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorus and potassium. These are also sometimes called electrolytes.

There also minerals that are needed in smaller amounts. We call these trace minerals and they include i...