What are the benefits of minerals to the human body
Update time: 22-09-24 Views: 1043
Human survival depends on many, many elements, and minerals are one of them. We always hear mineral water advertisements say that it contains a lot of minerals. Minerals are the general term for inorganic substances in the human body. Like vitamins, they support our human body functions. Although the composition of minerals in our body is not much, it is not synthesized by itself and needs to be ingested from the outside world.
All nutrients in the human body, except for mineral elements, exist in the form of organic compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. The content of more than one million in the human body is called macroelements, they are calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, etc.; below 50 parts per million are called trace elements, they are iron, copper, iodine , zinc, manganese, selenium, chromium, etc. Mineral elements are necessary for the formation of human body tissues and the maintenance of normal physiological functions.
Its main physiological functions are as follows:
1. It is an important component of the body tissue. For example, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium are important components of bones and teeth, and phosphorus and sulfur are components of tissue proteins.
2. Together with protein, it maintains the balance of osmotic pressure of intracellular and extracellular fluids.
3. The proper coordination of acidic and basic inorganic ions, coupled with the buffering effect of bicarbonate and protein, is an important mechanism to maintain the body's acid-base balance.
4. Various mineral elements in tissue fluid, especially maintaining a certain proportion of potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium ions, are necessary conditions to maintain nerve and muscle excitability, cell membrane permeability and the normal function of all cells.
5. It is an important component of some substances with special physiological functions.
6. It is a catalyst for various biochemical reactions of human cells.
Minerals are so important, everyone should understand, so we need to supplement minerals, but we should not take too much. If there are too many minerals, it will not only be useless but harmful to the human body, and may also cause poisoning. Therefore, we must pay attention to the intake of minerals in our diet and water.
