Questions and Answers

What can go wrong and how are they lost?

What happens when trace elements are out of balance?

What inhibits their absorbtion from food?

What can go wrong and how are they lost?

Trace elements are highly reactive and because they are reactive they are easily and quickly lost from the cells of the body. Therefore in order for any application of trace elements to be effective it is vital for their fast assimilation into the cells that they be in a the correct form

The following is an example of what can cause blockages in the cells or the loss of trace elements,

• Pollution
• Chelating substances – compounds which we ingest and attach themselves to the trace elements which render the catalytic effect inert
• Medicines
• Psychological disorders
• Noise
• Negative emotions
• Rhythm of life out of balance:
I.e. sleep
Diet
Change of seasons
Too little or too much exercise
Incorrect use of herbal medicines or food supplements

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What happens when trace elements are out of balance?

Trace elements sometimes act as antagonist to each other. This is a basic chemical reaction. So it is important when taking trace elements that they are taken in the correct synergy and balance. Below are some examples of elements being out of balances and the possible consequences.

• Calcium/copper: Lack of copper. Consequences: anaemia, arthritis;
• Calcium/zinc: Lack of zinc or excess of calcium. Consequences: arterio¬sclerosis, diabetes, delayed scarring, sterility, impotence.
• Iron/manganese: Excess of iron; Consequences: diabetes, hypoglycaemia.
• Zinc/copper: Lack of stored copper, copper deficiency due to malabsorption or oestrogen-based therapy; Consequences: anaemia, hypothyroidism, risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Calcium/cadmium: Excess of the calcium antagonist cadmium; Consequences: disturbance of the metabolism of calcium in the bones and the immune system.
• Calcium/copper; Consequences: disorders of the neuro¬psychological system, degenerative diseases.
• Calcium/iron: Excess of iron; Consequences: disturbance of the metabolism of calcium.
• Calcium/manganese: Excess of manganese; Consequences: diabetes.
• Calcium/phosphorus: Excess of phosphorus in the diet (meat diet); Consequences: disturbances of the metabolism of calcium, increased requirement for vitamin C.
• Calcium/zinc: Excess of zinc; Consequences: osteoporosis
• Zinc/copper: Excess of copper, treatment with steroids, contraceptive pill; Consequences: degenerative diseases, arteriosclerosis, hypoglycaemia, diabetes, delayed scarring, sterility, hyperthyroidism, alternating character.
• Zinc/iron; Consequences: delayed scarring, white patches on the nails.
• Zinc/magnesium; Consequences: arteriosclerosis, diabetes, sterility, impotence,
• Zinc/manganese: Excess of manganese or lack of zinc; Consequences: arteriosclerosis, diabetes, sterility, impotence and.

What inhibits their absorbtion from food?

Ideally, if we have a varied diet we should be able to obtain all our nutritionally requirements from food. However, as mentioned earlier, the trace elements are very reactive which means that during the process of digestion they can become attached to other nutrients and not find their way to the cells which need them. Also if the digestive system is not working efficiently then the trace elements might not be assimilated through the digestive tract.

The Bioligo complexes are absorbed under the tongue where they go straight into the blood stream bypassing the digestive system.

Why are some elements not used?

Note these are not all trace elements which appear in our body but CRAO only uses those which have been proven beyond all doubt to be safe to use in the body and does not put the functioning of the body out of balance.

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Why complexes?

The body has evolved to absorb trace elements and, in fact, the majority of its nutrients from food. Therefore it is important that any complexes mimics the combination found in food in order that the synergy is correct. So the CRAO developed eighteen complexes which are similar to the balance found in nature and are chemically balanced. Originally these complexes were given the names of plants where these combinations of trace elements could be found and the plant extracts were added to the complexes. However the active ingredients are the trace elements.

Medicines or foods?

Trace elements in this context are food supplements as they are totally biological – you are not putting anything alien into the body and they are in the format that is found in food.

• Oligotherapy does not use anything that is foreign to the body – herbal remedies and supplements have to be broken down by the digestive system to release their active ingredients in the correct form to be absorbed. This often takes too long to be effective at cellular level and this very process can sometimes produce harmful side effects.

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