Manganese / The Maternal Female & Older Element
SOURCES OF HEALTHFUL MANGANESE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Manganese is a very important, alkaline-forming, regulatory mineral. Healthful forms of manganese are found in many natural foods. It is a very essential mineral, needed for dozens of enzyme reactions in the body.
Deficiencies. Most people are deficient in vital manganese compounds because:
A female mineral. Dr. Eck classified manganese as an older ‘female’ element in the body. He called it the maternal mineral because animals fed diets low in manganese exhibit less maternal behavior toward their young, and may abandon them completely.
Toxic manganese. A highly toxic form of manganese is found in gasoline. This means that anyone living in a city, or living near a highway, is exposed every day to a toxic form of manganese that can replace the good forms of manganese in the body, to some degree.
Welders are often exposed to another toxic form of manganese, as well. Toxic forms may have a valence of +4 or +6. This may explain why welders sometimes exhibit bizarre and violent behavior. A number of the school shooting rampages in the United States and other nations have been committed by welders. This is explained later in this article.
SOURCES OF HEALTHFUL, BIOAVAILABLE MANGANESE
REMOVING EXCESS TOXIC MANGANESE FROM THE BODY
Removing the toxic, oxide form of manganese and some other toxic forms of manganese from the body is not too easy. However, a properly designed nutritional balancing program will achieve this easily.
One may need to remain on a nutritional balancing program several years for manganese elimination to occur if the body is in a weakened state, as most of them are today. Following a complete nutritional balancing program is definitely the fastest way I know of to eliminate excess and toxic manganese that I find almost everyone has, so some degree.
In particular, near infrared lamp sauna therapy is very helpful, and perhaps needed, at times, to remove toxic manganese from the body. Perhaps this is because this therapy drastically increases circulation, or for other reasons.
Sources: Lawrence Wilson, M.D.
Manganese is a very important, alkaline-forming, regulatory mineral. Healthful forms of manganese are found in many natural foods. It is a very essential mineral, needed for dozens of enzyme reactions in the body.
Deficiencies. Most people are deficient in vital manganese compounds because:
- They are born low in manganese due to deficiencies in their mothers.
- They eat refined or chemicalized foods that contain little manganese.
- They eat too much raw food such as salads. Human beings cannot extract enough manganese from these foods because we cannot break down the tough vegetable fibers.
A female mineral. Dr. Eck classified manganese as an older ‘female’ element in the body. He called it the maternal mineral because animals fed diets low in manganese exhibit less maternal behavior toward their young, and may abandon them completely.
Toxic manganese. A highly toxic form of manganese is found in gasoline. This means that anyone living in a city, or living near a highway, is exposed every day to a toxic form of manganese that can replace the good forms of manganese in the body, to some degree.
Welders are often exposed to another toxic form of manganese, as well. Toxic forms may have a valence of +4 or +6. This may explain why welders sometimes exhibit bizarre and violent behavior. A number of the school shooting rampages in the United States and other nations have been committed by welders. This is explained later in this article.
SOURCES OF HEALTHFUL, BIOAVAILABLE MANGANESE
- Vegetables - corn, corn germ, parsley, legumes
- Meats - snails, egg yolk
- Nuts/seeds - sunflower, coconuts, peanuts, pecans, walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, brazils
- Fruits - blueberries, olives, avocados
- Grains - wheat, wheat germ and bran, rice, barley, oats, buckwheat, rye
- Miscellaneous - kelp, cloves, tea. Gasoline fumes contain manganese, as can some water supplies, especially in the Northeast USA.
- Essential for energy production
- Involved in glucose tolerance
- Helps maintain the integrity of tendons and ligaments
- Essential for bone development and arterial integrity
- Nervous system - synthesis of neurotransmitters
- Reproductive system - fertility
- Endocrine system - required for normal adrenal and thyroid gland activity
- Skeletal - tendons, ligaments, connective tissue
- Metabolic - energy production, glucose tolerance, utilization of fats and carbohydrates
- Detoxification - involved in superoxide dismutase
- Pyruvate carboxylase - carbohydrate metabolism
- Superoxide dismutase - destruction of free radicals
- Glycosyl transferase - glucose utilization
- Various hydrolases, kinases, transferases, peptidases, arginase, phosphatases, and DNA polymerase - degradative and biosynthetic enzymes
- Allergies
- Hypoglycemia
- Diabetes
- Myasthenia gravis
- Dizziness
- Ringing in the ears
- Fatigue
- Weakness, muscular fractures or osteoporosis
- Weak ligaments and tendons
- Anorexia
- Neurological symptoms
- Ataxia
- Schizophrenia (often unemotional behavior, however, unlike a copper-based schizophrenia)
- Extreme criminal behavior (psychopathology)
- Iron deficiency
- Parkinson’s disease, or symptoms similar to it. Manganese often accumulates in the pons and cerebellar region of the brain
- Manganese madness (seen in manganese miners)
- zinc, choline, vitamin K
- Absorption - calcium, phosphorus, iron, soy protein, iron, many other minerals
- Metabolic - copper, magnesium, iron, vanadium
- Normal or low hair manganese is not a reliable indicator of manganese status.
- Most slow oxidizers have excessive and usually biounavailable manganese. Toxic accumulation of a biounavailable form of manganese to some degree is very common. To assess this, look for elevated aluminum or iron. Manganese, aluminum and iron are called on this website “the amigos” because they are often found together inside the body. If any one of these three are elevated on a hair mineral analysis, usually all are excessive inside the body. To read more about this, read The Amigos.
- Manganese-deficient animals show reduced maternal caring for their young.
- A hair manganese level less than about 0.02 mg% or 0.2 ppm is a poor eliminator pattern for manganese. A hair manganese level less than about 0.008 is a very poor eliminator pattern for manganese. These mean that the body cannot eliminate toxic forms of manganese, such as MnO6. The excess manganese is hidden, but it is building up inside the body. This is a very important indicator for detecting hidden manganese and other toxic metals.
- Drinking water. This is common in Massachusetts, USA and in a few other areas of the USA and other nations. It may be due to natural rock formations through which ground water flows. It may also be due to contaminated soil and wells due to older factories. NOTE: The US and state Environmental Protection Agencies are not required to report manganese levels in drinking water.
- Gasoline. When lead was removed from gasoline in the 1970s, it was replaced with a toxic form of manganese. Those who live in cities with heavy traffic may absorb more of it. Also, a cruel practice is forcing women, in most cases, to remove their clothes and pouring gasoline over them. This results in manganese toxicity.
- Welders and other metal workers. Manganese is used in many steel alloys, for example, so welders are often exposed.
- Adrenal support. When the adrenal glands are weak, most people accumulate some toxic oxide form of manganese, which has a stimulatory effect upon the adrenals and the sympathetic nervous system.
- Not a reliable indicator of manganese status. It is often hidden and biounavailable.
- A hair manganese level less than 0.02 is an indicator of poor elimination of manganese. See the section above for more on this interesting hair mineral pattern.
- To raise low sodium levels.
- To lower excessive iron, copper or other toxic metal levels.
- To help correct a low sodium/potassium ratio,
- To assist thyroid and adrenal gland activity.
REMOVING EXCESS TOXIC MANGANESE FROM THE BODY
Removing the toxic, oxide form of manganese and some other toxic forms of manganese from the body is not too easy. However, a properly designed nutritional balancing program will achieve this easily.
One may need to remain on a nutritional balancing program several years for manganese elimination to occur if the body is in a weakened state, as most of them are today. Following a complete nutritional balancing program is definitely the fastest way I know of to eliminate excess and toxic manganese that I find almost everyone has, so some degree.
In particular, near infrared lamp sauna therapy is very helpful, and perhaps needed, at times, to remove toxic manganese from the body. Perhaps this is because this therapy drastically increases circulation, or for other reasons.
Sources: Lawrence Wilson, M.D.
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