Carolanne Wright – Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winning researcher, believed that all modern disease can be traced to nutritional mineral deficiencies. With our soils depleted of these valuable nutrients through conventional farming and the lavish use of chemical fertilizers over the last sixty years, is it any wonder that the rate of disease has exploded?

Since 1954, we’ve seen a 4,000% increase of serious ailments in the United States. This just happens to be the same year chemical fertilizers were mandated by the government. Patrick McGean, director of the Cellular Matrix Study, suspects that the use of fertilizers have broken the sulfur cycle in the soil and “… appears to have contributed to the decline of our health, wealth, mental acuity, and quality of life.”

The important role of sulfur in human health

One of the crucial biological mechanisms of sulfur is that it facilitates the transport of oxygen across cell membranes. If we don’t have adequate sulfur in the diet — which is a very real possibility considering the state of our soil — healthy cellular regeneration is put at risk. This can lead to a host of disorders like cancer, inability to handle physical and psychological stress, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and more.

Sulfur is essential for the health of the muscles, skin and bones as well. Many times, people who have issues with connective tissue supplement with an organic version of sulfur: methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), which helps to fortify the sulfur bonds of the flexible tissues in the body. But this is just the tip of the iceberg concerning the benefits of the mineral. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, sulfur is also vital for the following: Continue reading →