Essential Minerals Your Body Needs

Sodium
Needed for proper fluid balance, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction

Chloride
Needed for proper fluid balance, stomach acid
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Potassium
Needed for proper fluid balance, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction

Calcium
Important for healthy bones and teeth; helps muscles relax and contract; important in nerve functioning, blood clotting, blood pressure regulation, immune system health

Phosphorus
Important for healthy bones and teeth; found in every cell; part of the system that maintains acid-base balance

Magnesium
Found in bones; needed for making protein, muscle contraction, nerve transmission, immune system health


Trace Minerals Your Body Needs

Iron
Part of a molecule (hemoglobin) found in red blood cells that carries oxygen in the body; needed for energy metabolism

Zinc
Part of many enzymes; needed for making protein and genetic material; has a function in taste perception, wound healing, normal fetal development, production of sperm, normal growth and sexual maturation, immune system health

Iodine
Found in thyroid hormone, which helps regulate growth, development, and metabolism

Selenium
Antioxidant

Copper
Part of many enzymes; needed for iron metabolism

Manganese
Part of many enzymes

Chromium
Works closely with insulin to regulate blood sugar (glucose) levels