The invention of the refrigerator was the beginning of humankind s modern health

crisis.
In 1876, the first practical refrigerator was invented and refrige
rators became commonly available by the turn of the century.
So why did this cause a health crisis for humankind?
The answer is simple: We stopped using sea or rock salt to preserv
e our meat and other foods. We thereby robbed our bodies of the essential minera
ls in that salt that we need to survive and thrive (sea salt contains perfectly
balanced ionic trace minerals). And henceforth, generation after generation has
experienced declining tissue mineral levels.
We must begin immediate and specific corrections of the mineral levels that are
already out of balance based on reliable scientific measurement. The best form o
f this measurement is by reliable HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis).
We also must begin to use whole-food vitamins only along with the
correct minerals for individual needs. Minerals and whole-food vitamins are the
basics. Without these basics, nothing else really matters.
Getting back to the refrigerator, when we stopped preserving our food with natur
ally occurring sea salts, we became progressively deficient in some, if not all,
of those essential minerals. Because a mineral fingerprint is passed from mother
to child (more about that in Chapter 6), each generation has become progressivel
y more deficient in these essential minerals.
At about the same time salt was purified, humankind in all of its wi
sdom began to severely deplete the soil in which we grow our food. The introduct
ion of chemical fertilizers actually further robbed and depleted the soil of its
nutrients.
We also began to build huge dams to control and reduce natural flo
oding. We might think that this was a good idea, but it wasn t necessarily so, sin
ce floodwaters actually carry essential mineral nutrients back into the land. Pl
ants grown in these mineral-poor soils were increasingly unable to extract the n
utrients into their produce and bring them to our tables. Without certain specif
ic minerals, vitamins cannot be formed (more about that in Chapter 7). In short,
vitamins cannot be produced or work without minerals.