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“Whenever the subject of nutrition for plants or animals is discussed the need for vitamins and minerals is accepted axiomatically. They are considered as imperative and are used in abundance in agriculture and veterinary practice. It is understood and universally accepted that plant and animal health are controlled and regulated by vitamins and minerals” John A Myers MEE MD (Introduction: Metabolic aspects of health.)
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In the introduction to his own book, cited above, Dr. Myers makes ample mention of the following: The Biology of the Trace Elements – Their role in nutrition, by Karl H. Schütte MSc PhD (J. B. Lippincott Company, publisher). Dr. Myers goes on to say that Schütte’s book “is a magnificent compilation of our knowledge of the trace elements as catalysts and regulators in the health of vegetable products…Although he confines his book to his expertise in botany, he gives examples of how deficient plant life leads to disease I animals and humans that consume them. It is impossible to avoid this association. This book is recommended to all students of nutrition. Unfortunately, it has not been circulated very widely, and is now out of print (1979). Permission has been granted by Dr. Schütte, …and the publisher…, to reprint the book in order to make it available to physicians who are becoming interested in metabolic disease. Supplementation of the diet with these regulators is necessary to correct the resultant deficiencies…Here we have the chain of health constantly dependent on at least 40 or more specialized links. These links are so intertwined and interdependent it is very difficult to (isolate) how much and to what extent each (individual) one contributes to our state of health. Some in lowest concentration—called trace elements, … affect the body in most remarkable ways and cause great illness when in short supply.”
Dr. Schütte was Professor of the Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, South Africa, for many years, and in Dr. Meyers’ opinion, was one of the foremost authorities in his field. Reprinted in Dr. Myers’ book (cover pictured above) along with several other fascinating articles, The Biology of the Trace Elements – Their role in nutrition is indeed a storehouse of information, vital to the health of human beings both from the standpoint of mineral supplements taken directly, and those nutrients obtained indirectly from eating plants and animals. As reprinted in Myers’ book, the text is over 240 pages long including index, table on contents, and lists of tables with an extensive bibliography.
Metabolic aspects of health is now also out of print (2007), but faithfully reproduces Dr. Schütte’s impressive work. The last known, authorized yet uncirculated reprints (“Remainders”), were purchased from the publisher (Discovery Press, Kentfield, CA) nearly 20 years ago by a customer of Altenberg Media International, Inc., and one of them recently presented to the latter’s chairman while on a business trip in Arizona.
After several readings and much study and contemplation, it was decided to offer several research quotations and findings to the public. Therefore, a number of important statements have been excerpted painstakingly, and republished on the website www.montmorillonite.org as an aid to researchers to get to the heart of Dr. Schütte’s conclusions. Just the excerpts themselves run for several pages. An abbreviated abstract of the excerpted pages may be found on www.colloidaltraceminerals.net
In conclusion, Dr. Myers relates some wisdom gleaned from his own professional experience.
There is a tendency to view the subject of metabolic disease and nutritional support as second-rate medical practice. It is often left to dieticians to prescribe the dietary program. This may be true when the physician uses only the standard items of diet in his (or her) attempt to control the health of (a) patient. (I) have broken down nutritional support to its basic elements and applied them carefully and specifically to the alleviation of symptoms in all patterns of disease, and to support metabolic excellence. It requires great clinical acumen and experience for its application. Mineral elements are supplied as ions on exchange resin. In this form are absorbed almost instantly, and therapeutic response can be recognized in minutes and sometimes seconds...From a physician’s point of view it can (also) be said ‘We are what we don’t eat.’ The lack of certain nutritional elements in the diet of an individual may lead to symptoms of ill-health both mentally and physically…As a practicing physician I am constantly confronted with patients who buy the best of the food available…, but they still come down with various degrees of ill-health and it requires supplementation to eth them back together again…Massive doses of supplementary vitamin fail to help the patient, whereas digestive enzymes produce remarkable results. (Trace elements are either parts of enzymes, or influence them. Schütte, page 14)
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