Coral Information - History

• Ancient History
• Amercian History

Coral Information - Facts

• Why You Need Coral Minerals?
• What Are Coral Minerals?
• How Do Coral Minerals Work?
• Where Does Coral Come From?

Coral Information - Benefits

• Full Spectrum
• Organic
• Ionic
• Synergistic

Coral Information - Research

• Bruce W. Halstead, M.D. - Fossil Stony Coral Minerals and Their Nutritional Application
• James Chappell, D.C., N.D., Ph.D., M.H. - The Miracle Elements: Fossilized Stony Coral Mineralsl

Coral Information - History
[Ancient History | Amercian History]

The first use of coral in medicine is impossible to document but it clearly began thousands of years ago. The use of mariceuticals (medicine from marine organisms) is well documented in ancient Arabic and Chinese literature but the first specific mention of coral is found in Indian Ayurvetic Medicine, dating back some 5,000 years.

Coral was first introduced as medicine to the Western World by the 9th century Arab expansion into Europe. The Persian philosopher Al-Kindi had included coral in the "Medical Formulary" (830 A.D.), which was adopted by the Arab world upon the Muslim conversion of Persia and then spread during their westward campaigns. Proof of western coral usage can be seen in one of the world's oldest pharmacies (established 1685), that is still in existence and preserved as a museum in northern Spain. Among the rows of bottles on the ancient shelves is a container of coral powder with the inscription that "The blond coral is the only coral used for medicine". The inscription further states that the coral has a beneficial effect upon the heart and elevates the mood of the person taking it.

Okinawan Centurions

History remains silent on coral from 1700 - 1900 but local legend reports that coral remained in use in Okinawa. Many say that the coral minerals are the reason for the indisputable longevity of the Okinawan people. Japanese population studies show that Okinawa has the highest incidence of people 100 years of age or over. These Okinawan Centurions are not a feeble group of invalids confined to a nursing home. These are active senior citizens with productive lives and enjoying their golden years, they just happen to be over 100 years of age.

Amercian History

Prior to 1980, coral, as a nutritional supplement, was unknown in the United States or virtually anywhere outside of Japan. A Swedish industrialist named Rolf Ericsson is credited with introducing coral to the western world. Rolf Ericsson's son Stephan was living in Japan and became familiar with the health giving qualities of Okinawa coral and convinced his father that it represented a sound business opportunity. Rolf Ericsson organized the distribution and successfully introduced nutritional coral into Europe and America. Rolf Ericsson selected the name "Coral Calcium" for the natural coral complex of 74 minerals.

This original Ericsson coral product was in the form of tea bags. Small tea bags containing 1000mg. of coral sand were recommended for placement in one litre of water. About 20% of the coral minerals would enter the water that was to be consumed throughout the day. Many people used and experienced the benefits of the teabags; however, as the industry began to study and research the use of coral, many researchers realised that if they ate the coral directly, the absorption and benefit was greater. Thus, were created the "fine powder" capsule and caplet products. The development of these "fine powder" coral products led to the procurement of fine coral product raw materials by VitaCorp International's manufacturer. These "fine powder" capsules and caplets have quickly become the popular and preferred way to take coral products.

Researchers beleived that consuming water treated with the coral sand provided significant health benefits and that eating the actual sand provided even greater results. The logical strategy was to develop a product consisting of fine coral powder. Working with leading scientists, nutritionists and doctors, Vitacorp International has done just that by establishing raw materials source for fine coral powder from Okinawa.

Ingesting the fine coral powder (as opposed to drinking water treated with coral sand) proved to be a far more effective way of putting minerals into the blood. This greatly increased method of coral mineral bioavailability attracted much attention and many companies quickly copied the successful concept. Encapsulated coral powder became the preferred coral product very rapidly and within a few months only a few distributors of the once popular coral tea bags remained.

Many companies and infomercials make exaggerated claims about the health benefits of coral. It is not necessary to exaggerate. Coral is a fabulous product and should be promoted for what it is. Vitacorp deals with the facts and encourages Internet and infomercial viewers to beware of overstated health claims and misleading information.

Some doctors say that 157 diseases are caused by mineral deficiency.
Minerals make up the basic foundation of health.

Our soils have become depleted of minerals; thus, our foods and our bodies have become mineral deficient.

Coral naturally contains every mineral found in the body and unlike most mineral supplements, coral minerals get in and really work.

What Are Coral Minerals?

A small sea animal creates coral by ingesting the ionic ocean minerals and secreting them into a coral formation. This natural balance of 74 organic coral minerals are harvested from above sea coral deposits, crushed into an ultra-fine powder and sterilized with ozone.

The natural balance of all 74 minerals is important because each mineral requires other minerals to do its job and in turn, those minerals require different supporting minerals. All minerals must be present for any one mineral to work properly.

The organic nature (previously digested by an animal) of the coral minerals is also important. It is very difficult to assimilate minerals, especially inorganic minerals. Organic coral minerals are highly absorbable.

What makes the coral minerals so absorbable is the natural ability to become ionic upon contact with moisture. This natural ability to go ionic, combined with the full spectrum, organic formation, makes coral one of the most absorbable form of minerals.

Minerals are the basic foundation for health. From our bones to the multitude of enzymatic activities within and without our cells, minerals are the key that opens the door to optimum health. This is accomplished by supplying the body with missing minerals that have crucial roles to play and by bringing overall mineral levels up, thereby raising the pH of body fluids and tissues back to their natural healthy levels. A high pH (alkaline) is important because most disease thrives in a low pH (acidic).

Most people in our society are mineral deficient because the soils have become depleted through unsustainable farming practices. When the minerals are supplied in an organic absorbable form, health can improve. Coral contains every mineral needed by the body and is known for it's synergistic relationship with the body. Did you know that orthopedic surgeons use pieces of coral for bone grafts because the bone and tendons readily accept the coral?

All coral supplied by Vitacorp is harvested from above sea. Thousands of years ago this coral was a thriving coral reef. Geologically, this coral was pushed up above sea level, free from the ocean pollution of the industrial era.

Only the pristine white coral heads are harvested. This harvesting process involves removal of the protective layer of soil that accumulated over the eons and collecting the ancient coral. The environmental consequences are similar to any small land based mining operation.

After the coral is collected, it is ground into a 2 to 10 micron size powder (smaller than a red blood cell). After grinding, the coral is purified in a vacuum ozone chamber and then packaged for distribution.

Vitacorp respects the fragile state of the coral reefs and ocean environment. Unfortunately, other companies do take dead coral rubble from the ocean. Dredging the ocean floor devastates the ocean ecology and is detrimental to the living reefs. Coral larvae propagate in the dead coral debris and any disturbance directly affects the life of the living reef.

(Using above sea coral never impacts the living reef.)

(Living coral reefs are never touched
in making of Coral Calcium Plus.)

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Benefits

Coral has gained an impressive reputation as a health supplement capable of delivering seemingly miraculous health improvements. So many totally different health problems are relieved with coral supplements that it begs the questions: How can this be? How does coral work? The answer is found in the availability and absorbability of the minerals that are naturally present in the coral.

The populations of modern society are experiencing a virtual epidemic of mineral deficiency. The farming soil has been stripped of minerals through unsustainable farming practices and soil erosion. If the minerals are no longer in the soil, they are not in the foods. If the minerals are not in the foods, they are not in our body. Over 150 different diseases have been linked to mineral deficiency. Many of these deficiencies are with the trace minerals and are virtually impossible for a doctor to diagnose.

Coral naturally contains every mineral found in the human body in similar proportions as the human body. Coral minerals are one of the most effective ways to put minerals into the blood because of the high absorbability of the minerals. There are four main reasons the coral minerals are so highly absorbable:

a. Full Spectrum
b. Organic
c. Ionic
d. Synergistic

With the coral minerals being available as a complete spectrum and all 74 individual minerals being highly absorbable by the body, two main health-building functions are achieved:

1. As specific trace mineral deficiencies are fulfilled, the health ailment caused by that mineral deficiency is relieved. These ailments can be virtually anything from a persistent skin rash to high blood pressure.

2. As the bio-available calcium and other alkalizing minerals get into the blood and the cells, the body pH begins to return to the natural slightly alkaline level. Most disease thrives in an acidic environment. Maintaining a healthy pH may help in the recovery from a degenerative disease but more importantly, a degenerative disease has difficulty ever getting started in an alkaline environment.

Full Spectrum

Every mineral needs other minerals to support it in order to do its job effectively. And each supporting mineral needs other minerals to support them. Hence minerals work best in a complex, such as coral, where every mineral is present in a natural balance.

The mineral wheel diagram shows how some of the minerals are related and need each other. Imagine the complexity of the diagram if all 74 of the coral minerals were shown.

Organic

Coral minerals are organic in the sense that an animal has previously digested them. It is very difficult for the human body to digest inorganic minerals (similar to eating little rocks). Having been previously digested by the coral polyp, coral minerals are readily absorbable by the human body.

(Coral Polyp)

Coral minerals possess the natural ability to go ionic upon contact with moisture. When coral powder is placed in water over half of the minerals go into the ionic state. Ionic means the smallest atomic size. Ionic is the size required by the body for digestion. Ionic is much smaller than colloidal.

Synergistic

Coral is naturally synergistic with the human body. This is evidenced by the medical practice of using pieces of coral in bone grafts. Orthopedic surgeons use coral in bone grafts because the body readily accepts the coral and the various muscles and tendons grow into the coral structure as if it were actual human bone.

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Coral Information - Research
[Bruce W. Halstead |James Chappell]

Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.
Fossil Stony Coral Minerals and Their Nutritional Application

This book is the most extensive research on nutritional coral minerals ever published. 130 pages, hard cover, full color.

About the Author: Bruce W. Halstead, M.D.

Dr. Halstead is a world-renowned scientist. His scientific studies have been concerned with marine biotoxicology, toxic plants and animals of the world, global population, chelation therapy, traditional medicinal plants, radiation sickness, AIDS, cancer, adaptogenic immune enhancement and nutrition.

He has served as a consultant to over 40 governmental and international agencies such as the World Health Organization, UNESCO, U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, National Institutes of Health, foreign governments (Soviet Union, Peoples Republic of China, and Cuba), domestic and foreign universities, research institutes, and industry. He was a member of the GESAMP (The Group of Experts on Scientific aspects of Marine Pollution) of the joint IMCO, FAO, UNESCO, WMO, WHO, IAEA, of the United Nations. He was selected by WHO to serve as a participant at the Stockholm Conference involving 150 countries of the world in 1972 to deal with global pollution. He has served as a consultant to the Jacques Cousteau and Jean Michel Cousteau organisation. He is a professional diver.

He has authored fourteen books, which include his monumental 5-volume work on Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, as well as over 300 other scientific publications, some of which have been translated into 8 languages. He has travelled in over 150 countries of the world. At the present time, he is conducting a major study on the poisonous animals of the world and their treatment. Dr. Halstead is the founder and Director of the World Life Research Institute, which is an international documentation center specializing in biological poisons, medicinal plants, pollution, traditional medicine and nutrition. Dr. Halstead was recently appointed as an honorary advisor to the Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China. Dr. Halstead's latest scientific treatise is on Chinese Adaptogenic Nutritionals in the treatment of AIDS, Cancer, and Radiation Sickness, which is presently awaiting publication.

James Chappell, D.C., N.D., Ph.D., M.H.
The Miracle Elements: Fossilized Stony Coral Minerals

A concise book on coral minerals and the role of minerals in health. 40 page, black and white, soft cover booklet.

About the Author: James Chappell

James Chappell is a chiropractic (D.C.) and naturopathic (N.D.) physician, clinical nutritionist (Ph.D.) and medial herbalist with over 31 years experience, specializing in helping people with terminal and chronic illness. He is the President, CEO and formulator of Dr. Chappell's Sacred Native Herbs and Natural Healing Products, Vice President of Heart to Heart Media, publishers of the California Sun, medical consultant and writer for the California Sun and Producer/Co Host of the Shoong & Chappell (radio) show. Dr. Chappell is also a teacher, lecturer and visionary.

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