It's long been known that the majority of Americans are deficient in minerals. The human body can manufacture many vitamins from food (or the sun, vitamin D3), but not minerals, we must get those from food. Albeit in minute amounts, they are nonetheless critical to our health.

Does anyone take a balanced mineral supplement and if so, which one and how often? I have read that it is best to take minerals separately from any vitamins you might take, and that it is easy to dangerously overdo minerals as they build up in the body.

I hate to keep bringing her up, but Dr. Wahls talks about this in her book "Minding My Mitochondria". Her recipes are rich in minerals, lots of kelp (iodine) and foods that are high in magnesium (which, incidentally, is particularly important to neural function and which I've read the vast majority of American are deficient in). I wonder just how long a neuron, or any cell, for that matter, can function when it does not have the essential things it needs? Now THAT would be an interesting study!