The Story of PANAK-ITE^TM

Mineral Supplements to Replenish our Bodies.

Chelated trace elements are an essential part of the human diet.  Vitamins, amino acids, and proteins are like the electrical, plumbing and sheetrock  in a house. Minerals can be compared to the foundation and framework that support the building.  All are very important, although without the foundation,  and sturdy lumber in the walls, even the most beautiful home will collapse.  Trace elements that are chelated are more readily absorbed.  Extensive research has been put into studying the benefits of minerals and their trace element components.

What is Chelation?

Chelation is the bonding, or suspension of a particular element between two or more amino acids,  to “small proteins”, or peptides.  Chela (pronounced "keela") is Greek for “claw”.  These hooking-on, or chelation, substances can include amino acids (the building blocks of DNA), ascorbic acid, orotates, and even hydrolyzed protein. Chelation improves the absorption of essential trace elements within the digestive tract introduced by minerals.   Edible clay sources of minerals  have been utilized for centuries by such diverse cultures as the Chinese, American Indian tribes, and ancient Egytpians  for medicinal purposes.

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What is PANAK-ITE?

PANAK-ITE is the marketing name used to distinguish our minerals from other varieties.  For more history on the exploitation of this mineral and the present operators of the quarry, go to www.montmorillonite.us.    The current operator, Window Peak Trace Minerals has coined the name "PANAK-ITE" for this freshwater, sedimentary deposit.  The all-natural complex is made almost entirely of colloidal material--an edible clay described as montmorillonite, and humic material stratified with it.  Both the clay and the humates come to us in fairly recent geological time from the aquatic  diatoms and other plankton that once flourished in the former caldera on the outskitrts of Panaca, hence the current marketing name.   The stratification of PANAK-ITE reveals millennia of deposition  of trillions of microscopic unicellular bodies that processed airborne and artesian deposited minerals, then died and accumulated in fresh water, forming the resulting rich sediment.  78 known elements  as they are found in nature, have been catalogued  to date.   The balanced  presentation of elements, mostly in trace amounts in their natural chelated state, makes this mineral complex more bio-available than rock dust, while its colloidal properties also enhance absorption without the risk of toxicity.

Deficient Micronutrients in the Soil.

Over time,  intensive farming practices after deforestation have left our soils worldwide, virtually bankrupt.  Furthermore, chemical pesticides and herbicides have not only caused ground water pollution, but contributed to the tying-up of valuable minerals from which plants derive nourishment.  The animals that depend on the resultant, impoverished forage, likewise are  incapable of supplying adequate nutrition to organisms higher up in the food chain, like humans.  Many of the health problems identified in orchards, fields, livestock and humans have been associated with the lack of nutrition, particularly the essential trace elements.

Trace Mineral definition.

Trace minerals are those that occur in seemingly insignificant amounts in nature.   Minerals in major concentrations are the opposite of so-called 'trace' minerals.  Elements make up minerals, and minerals make up rocks.  A micro element is one that is required in micrograms in nutrition; however, macro elements required in nutrition such as calcium are those appearing as RDAs and International Units, or as dosages in milligrams.   Hence, there is a certain correlation between 'micro' and 'trace' with reference to their abundance in a particular supplement or rock, but dosages and prevalence should not be confused.  Technically, a mineral is comprised of at least one metal and one or more non-metals, such as a gas or a quasi-metal as designated on any periodic table for those familiar with basic inorganic chemistry. Trace minerals, therefore, would seem to play a very important role in health, since their trace element components have catalytic properties.  To achieve this catalysis they are only needed in micro amounts.  Even with very tiny dosages, it has been observed that health can be powerfully affected.  Many of the better studied trace elements are now considered to be essential.  They are the building blocks from which other substances are manufactured. Trace elements aid in many metabolic functions such as, digestion, reproduction, elimination and so forth.  They work synergistically with other nutrients.  Even hormones, enzymes, anti-biotics and fatty acids benefit by being in the presence of the trace elements.  When acquired in mineral form, such as PANAK-ITE, indispensible electrolytes, sodium, potassium and chlorine, become available.

Mineral concentrations in soils.

Plants adversely react to inadequate supplies of trace elements in soil either by producing less nutritious vegetable tissue, or by reducing growth, or a combination of both.  However, it should also be recognized that merely supplying raw elements to plants even in macro amounts is not the solution.  First of all plants need the elements in mineral form to be bio-available, and secondly, just like with humans, too high of concentrations of a particular element in its metalic state will cause other problems such as tie-up of other essential elements and nutrients.  Bacteria, earthworms, fungus, enzymes, even humates and other colloids  such as the clay portion of the soil all play a role in reducing complex compounds, and creating bioavailable, simpler ones.  Mineral concentration in soils has a great effect on pH, which in turn has a major impact on nutritional uptake by plants. For example, molybdenum uptake increases as soil pH increases which adversely affects copper availability.  Also, while liming the soil with calcium carbonate can be a good thing, sometimes magnesium calcium carbonate (dolomite), or calcium sulphate dihydroxide (gysum), add imbalances of other prevalant elements that cause tie-ups. In this regard PANAK-ITE is the ideal soil amendment.

Here are some of the things it does:

1) Texturizes the soil for better tilth by supplying the clay content.  Approximately 1/3 of rich, arable soil should be comprised of clay.

2) The clay portion aids in water retention during the heat of the day drought conditions.

3) Its fulvic acid content and certain trace elements increase fertility of plants.  More blossoms appearing and a longer reproductive season will be a result readily observed.

4) The significant silicon base serves as a structural component for plants enabling them to bear up the increased yields they produce with the additions of PANAK-ITE.

5) It remineralizes the soil.  As a result microbial colonies flourish and earthworms' castings are enriched providing a natural organic fertilizer for lawns, gardens and orchards.  The microbes help detoxify troubled soil and earthworms also aerate soil for improved air and water circulation, and that of the minerals themselves.  These are further benefits of replacing trace elements already depleted to an alarming low level by agriculture over the decades.

6) Tie-ups of macro elements begin to disappear as PANAK-ITE's balanced formula and essentially neutral pH begin to recondition soil.  This is further accomplished because the clay's electrical charges support transport and release of cations from both its matrix and other nearby mineral sources from which it draws to supply root tips with nutrients in exchange for unwanted hydrogen.  PANAK-ITE acts as a transfer agent.  Bound up elements are incorporated into the clay and released to plants.

7) PANAK-ITE helps prevent leaching of minerals and water soluable nutrients from contaminating the water table because it creates stable sites for chemicals to adhere where they can be safely transformed into ions for nutrition.

8) Produce gets higher protein and brix readings with PANAK-ITE, once again because its clay mobilizes mineral resources and marshals ionic exchange, flowing nutritional building blocks to plant tissue.  Plant products look better, taste better, last longer without artificial genetic engineering and fumigation technologies, and therefore, are better to eat.

9) There are reports of insect infestation and other parasites, all but disappearing in groves and fields, where PANAK-ITE has been conscientiously applied.   Generally, disease and parasites first attack stressed and unhealthy organisms.  Plants are no exception.

10) Cost-effective. PANAK-ITE for all of the foregoing reasons pays for itself.  Less irrigation, less fertilizer, fewer pesticides, fewer problems with ground water, greater and more nutritious yields commanding a higher price at market are all quantifiable results with PANAK-ITE.  Refer to just some of the testimonials at www.colloidaltraceminerals.net

Animals have different needs than plants.

For example, the iodine, selenium, and cobalt concentrations needed for optimal plant growth are much below those required by animals.  On the other hand animals do not require the amounts of carbon and nitrogen that plants do for growth; although protein is often measured in nitrogen content and animals of nearly all species do acquire a lot of carbon in the growing process.  Many animals need far less sunshine than plants, but they do need to acquire protein that the plants manufacture from their carbohydrates.  Calcium in mammals, especially, is accumulated.  Plants need it also to develop protein, but animals use employ calcium more heavily because of bone structure, and for hooves and nails.  Even though the proportions of the macro elements required from species to species, the role of trace elements is indispensible.   Particularly where animals cannot derive minerals from plants, supplementation is required.  PANAK-ITE is also a balanced formula for animals.  In particular it has been discovered that desert clays administered along with other macro supplements help to restore bone mass lost through fetus development and subsequent lactation.  PANAK-ITE is well known for fostering healthy-looking hair, hooves and nails.  If its observable effects are so observable on the outside, one can only wonder what great things it is helping to accomplish on the inside.  Horses administered edible clay with trace minerals usually recover from founder, or never become laminitic, and generally cease nervous behaviors such as eating corral sand and chewing on fence posts.

Specific Product Grades.

PANAK-ITE "Z00-20" (mesh) contains Mother Nature's blend of colloidal minerals and chelated trace elements in a balanced ratio. PANAK-ITE "ZOO-20" (mesh) is neither ground, hammer milled, nor subjected to above ambient heat during processing. Generally it has the touch and feel of baking flour or rock salt crystals, but also it contains a small percentage of gritty particles approximating the size of table salt, or refined sugar and some ultra fine material, as it tends to crumble a bit during shipping. It's all the same stuff!--and will readily dissolve in ordinary water when stirred. PANAK-ITE "ZOO-20" (mesh) comes from a quarry of freshwater sediment in Panaca, Nevada, stratified with residues of humic matter formed by organic processes millenia ago. Rich in fulvic acid and containing a broad bouquet of [including many unique] trace elements, it represents the finest source of its type known for remedial and supplementation purposes.

PANAK-ITE AQUARIUM-PLUS grade contains Mother Nature's blend of colloidal minerals and chelated trace elements in a balanced ratio. PANAK-ITE AQUARIUM-PLUS is screened even finer than "ZOO-20". It has the consistency of talcum powder to the touch containing ultra fine, and very fine particles, no larger than 30 mesh. PANAK-ITE AQUARIUM-PLUS (of trace minerals) comes from the same quarry in Panaca, Nevada, as "ZOO-20" richly stratified with matter pre-processed by microbes and plankton millennia ago. Rich in fulvic acid and containing a broad bouquet of [including many unique] trace elements, it represents the finest source of its type known for remedial and supplementation purposes.