Fulvic and humic acids are organic acids extracted from humus, the well-decomposed fraction of soil organic matter formed via microbial decomposition of plants and animals [1]. Soil microorganisms break down plant and animal matter and convert it into inorganic minerals through mineralization (the minerals are released by oxidation) [2]. The stable portion of organic material that does not undergo mineralization is termed humus. Fulvic and humic acids fall under the tripartite umbrella of humic substances, and they differ in molecular weight, oxygen and carbon content, and degree of polymerization [3]. Fulvic acids have a low molecular weight and are soluble in both acidic and alkaline solvents, while humic acids have a higher molecular weight than fulvic acids and are only soluble in water under alkaline conditions [4]. For convenience, fulvic and humic acids are often spoken of in the singular: fulvic acid and humic acid.
However, the traditional view of humification has been challenged with the argument that soil organic matter, as it exists naturally, does not simply consist of distinct, seriately-developed humic substances, but instead stands as “a continuum of organic fragments that are continuously processed by the decomposer community towards smaller molecular size” [5]. Thus, fulvic and humic acids, in their natural state and environment, might be defined plainly as aggregate soil constituents. And with particular regard to fulvic and humic acid supplements, it’s important to understand that “fulvic and humic acid functions should be expected to have a spectrum of properties depending upon the type and amount of inorganic impurities,” as expressed by Malcolm in his 1976 paper [6]. So a fulvic or humic acid supplement sourced from one location can have a markedly different composition than a fulvic or humic acid supplement sourced from a different location. Of course, purification processes can be used to better isolate fulvic and humic acids from humus samples, but the extent of and method used for purification by supplement manufacturers is tough to ascertain [7]. Also, organically-grown root vegetables should contain at least a small amount of fulvic and humic acids [8]. Now that we know what humic substances are, we can move on to looking at the possible benefits that could be derived from a fulvic or humic acid supplement, examining some risks along the way. Fulvic acids have a strong chelation capacity, and normally help deliver utilizable minerals to plants while thwarting the uptake of toxic metals. In a porcine model, fulvic acid supplementation was able to decrease the toxicity of copper, suggesting that humic substances may be able to sequester problematic metals [9]. However, humic substances may interfere with the availability of minerals like iron, zinc, and manganese in humans, even though they typically do a great job of facilitating nutrient uptake in plants [10] [11]. Undeniably, humic substances are excellent environmental detoxifiers, and they can skillfully bind to toxic metals like lead, mercury, aluminum, and cadmium, as well as pesticides and other toxicants [12] [13]. Fulvic and humic acids can also enhance the water solubility of pesticides and organic pollutants, which should facilitate their excretion from the body [14]. Fulvic and humic acids can form chelate complexes with bacterial and fungal toxins too [15]. Accordingly, in supplemental form, fulvic and humic acids have as their most touted asset their detoxification potential. The problem is that the detoxification potential of humic substances depends upon their source, quality, and purity – huge wildcards in the current, very non-standardized market of humus extracts [16]. Humic substances can activate macrophages and stimulate the activity of neutrophils and T cells, but their immunomodulatory action appears to be complex and conditional, so it’s hard to say whether supplementation with humic substances is likely to improve immune function or aggravate it [17]. Though humic substances have been seen to exert anti-inflammatory effects via inhibiting cytokine release and activation of the complement system (which is probably why they can suppress delayed hypersensitivity reactions), in addition to curbing homocysteine-induced COX-2 expression in human white blood cells [18] [19]. Homocysteine is an amino acid metabolite of methionine, and COX-2 is an enzyme associated with the making of proinflammatory prostaglandins (fun fact: vitamin D3 can also suppress the COX-2 enzyme) [20]. In a study conducted by Ansorg and Rochus, humic acids have exhibited antimicrobial action against such microbes as Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans, but the authors stated that “The spectrum and degree of activity…” varied “according to the origin and extraction mode of the natural humic acids” [21]. An antiviral potential of humic acids has also been observed [22]. In plants, humic substances have been described as agents which can mitigate the impact of environmental stressors, but it would be a little bold to assume that the same function would be seen in humans upon ingestion [23]. Moreover, humic substances often behave as conjurers of stress themselves [24]. Humic substances serve as free radical carriers for the plants they relate with, and humic acids carry a greater quantity of free radicals than fulvic acids do. The delivery of prooxidants to the body by way of humic and fulvic acids may decrease selenium concentrations and increase lipid peroxidation in cell membranes [25]. On the other hand, humic acids have exhibited antioxidant activity when administered to chickens, and have strongly scavenged hydroxyl radicals in rat liver mitochondria [26] [27]. Fulvic and humic acids can increase the efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation inside mitochondria, and it seems fulvic acids do a better job of this [28]. Animal and human data have supported the use of fulvic and humic acid-containing shilajit (a resinous exudate found in sedimentary rock) for enhancing physical performance and relieving fatigue, but native shilajit is often contaminated with microbial debris and heavy metals [29] [30]. Shilajit does have a very long history of use though, and is quite venerated in Ayurvedic medicine [31]. Furthermore, shilajit is one of only a few supplements that can trigger skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise via upregulation of extracellular matrix-related genes associated with muscle tissue elasticity, repair, and regeneration – cool beans [32]. A combination of fulvic and humic acids has demonstrated desmutagenic action in the fava bean plant, meaning that it reduced the capacity of an administered compound to cause genetic mutation [33]. And humic acids have been said to stabilize the intestinal microbiota and improve nutrient utilization in pigs [34]. Fulvic acid does seem to have anti-ulcerogenic properties in that it can bolster the stomach’s mucosa and prevent against the unwanted shedding of mucosal cells [35]. In an in vitro model of Alzheimer’s disease, fulvic acid demonstrated an ability to inhibit the aggregation of tau proteins and disassemble what are termed ‘paired helical filaments’ [36]. Tau proteins normally help stabilize the cytoskeleton of CNS cells, but when they become tangled they can twist and basically suffocate brain cells to death. Fulvic acid has been used successfully in the topical treatment of eczema, with a slight and temporary burning sensation being the only side effect reported (though there was a statistically significant elevation in the liver function marker aspartate transaminase or AST) [37]. Now here’s a big one: consuming fulvic acids in combination with chlorinated municipal water can lead to the formation of chloroform and other trihalomethanes, adding to the degree of trihalomethane exposure as these toxins will already be present in chlorinated drinking water [38] [39]. Granted, none of us should be drinking unfiltered tap water, but doing so in combination with the ingestion of supplemental humic substances is definitely not recommended. Fulvic acid supplementation has been shown to degenerate articular cartilage and cause irregular bone formation in mice [40] [41]. Furthermore, humic acid has caused growth arrest and apoptosis in human fibroblasts (connective tissue cells), forestalling wound repair [42]. Evidence suggests that fulvic acid may also have a mild hypothyroid effect when introduced to the body, even though humic substances can contain iodine [43] [44]. In conclusion, a few hundred years ago the occasional use of a carefully collected and purified sample of already clean shilajit was likely quite therapeutic. But today, in my opinion and with few exceptions, humus extracts are probably more suited for use in agriculture than medicine. Frankly, there exist safer detoxification aides, as well as safer and more effective antioxidant and mineral sources, so justifying the use of fulvic and humic acid supplements is difficult given their riskiness. I hope this research was useful. Have a great day. References:
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What is rarely understood yet of paramount importance, is the fact that the vast majority of scientific research and education (particularly in the fields of archaeology, medicine, and physics) stands in subjugation under the controlling yoke of the world’s elite. By violently suppressing truths, propagandizing falsities, and fabricating academic curricula, the powers that be have, for well over a century, strategically controlled scientific thinking, understanding, and progress. This clandestine enterprise has yielded an atheistic battleground of physics which represses mankind’s spirituality, a profane and deplorable system of poisonous (but lyingly evidence-based) medicine, and a spurious, concocted history and origin of the human race.
Inarguably, a landmark precursor to the current scientific censorship, interdiction, and thought control was the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church and the Nicaean monopolization of religious scripture. Early on, the Catholic Church acquired immense power and wealth via tithes and loans, and soon after branding itself the universal religion, commenced a legacy of book burning that not only added to the Romans’ earlier wrecking of the great libraries of Alexandria and Carthage, but also expanded to include the destruction of numerous sacred sites plus the adulteration and wiping of knowledge from cultural wisdom keepers through inquisition and forced conversion to Christianity. Fast-forwarding, the grave misconceptions of scientific explanation equaling causal explanation, scientific experimentation being the only valid means for testing causal models, and the scientific method being capable of proving theories have elevated the ivory towers of academia to a veritable godhead presiding over the assumedly ignorant masses [1]. Fortunately, these towers are crumbling, for even the traditional big bang theory, the leading stone wall in opposition to suggestions of meaningful or intelligent creation on any level, has been scientifically discredited along conventional lines [2] [3] [4] [5]. If the universe did not come into existence as a result of a coincidental explosion a while back, then Homo sapiens did not materialize out of a random collision of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen at some point in the past. The architecting of life is permeated with obscure chasms that cannot be crossed by mechanistic biology. It is consciousness which lies in back of the animating life force, so to remove consciousness from the equation of the universe’s operation is to nullify the universe itself. Darwinian evolution cannot account for the sophistication of the human system and its interrelated web of ‘irreducibly complex’ components, per Dr. Michael Behe [6]. Even the astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe stated in their 1984 book that: “The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 naughts [zeros] after it…There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence” [7]. Furthering the above contention, the standardly indoctrinated dogma of our genome, which contains a massive amount of encoded data for the perfect development and cooperation of trillions of cells, simply coming about over a period of time via pure happenstance, is astronomically absurd. Most are familiar with the fact that the common earthworm contains more protein-coding genes in its genome than does the human, but it houses far less non-coding DNA [8]. So it is clear that our collection of protein-coding genes is nowhere near capable of accounting for the level of complexity that exists within the human body. The human, itself a superorganism, is one part of a unified, global, hierarchical super-superorganism that can be labeled Gaia [9]. Understanding Gaia as a self-regulating super-superorganism allows us to grasp how inter-kingdom communication takes place between microorganisms, plants, and animals via exosomes and small non-coding RNAs [10]. This communication can mediate environmental adaptation, gene expression, immune defense, genome evolution, and ecosystem sustainability [11]. To give a specific example, in the human body information transfer within the gut-brain-microbiota axis occurs partly through an exchange of human exosomes and bacterial outer membrane vesicles [12]. Continuing, what microbes utilize as food, what plants utilize as food, and what animals and humans utilize as food constitutes an open system that shares and recycles not only physical matter but data from each of the entities comprising the system, and this drives the collective biosphere. Side note: this is why a diverse diet of organic and non-GMO foods is optimal not only for the health of the human being, but also the health of the entire planet. Returning, the Gaia model showcases how the planet is composed not of competing organisms with nothing but self-preservation in mind, but instead a giant community that thrives most effectively and efficiently when it cooperates [13]. Undoubtedly, the modern human has thrown a colossal wrench into the harmonious template that nature designed, and it is now up to us to restore balance before we dig our own grave as a species. Now, with that prelude out of the way, we can finally turn our attention to the pursuit of alchemy and what has been referred to as the philosopher’s stone. The mysterious white powder gold of the alchemists may indeed be correlated with what are known as ‘orbitally rearranged monatomic elements’ or ORMEs. ORMEs were purportedly discovered, or perhaps rediscovered, by a farmer in Arizona named David Hudson during the 1970s. As the story goes, Hudson’s property harbored relatively large deposits of gold and the platinum-group metals ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum. In attempting to extract these precious metals using conventional means, David wound up with a fine yet unidentifiable white powder. After several years and the expending of a substantial amount of money, a sophisticated fire assay method was used to determine that the tested white powder consisted of gold and platinum-group metals, but in an anomalous state – monatomic [14]. At standard temperature and pressure, normally only the noble gases should exist in a monatomic state in which the element’s atoms are stable and unbound or singular (though it has been suggested that at least some ORMEs are actually diatomic). Hudson’s monatomic metals supposedly had their electron orbitals “rearranged,” and thus did not exhibit the typical properties of gold and the platinum-group elements in their normal form (it seems ORMEs lack a d-orbital electron) [15]. In other words, the atoms of ORMEs are not held in rigid lattices, instead they are freely “floating,” and because their numbers remain below the respective thresholds for microcluster aggregation, they do not behave like metals and possess unique characteristics [16]. Microclusters can be loosely defined as a phase of matter lying in-between the phases of solid and liquid. Allegedly, ORMEs can be found to occur naturally in some volcanic soils, but only in quite miniscule concentrations. Each of the ORMEs are said to chiefly affect a different major spinal chakra (of which there are seven), in addition to having an indirect physiological effect (pure ORMEs are believed to be chemically inert). Six platinum-group metals plus gold in the monatomic state make for seven ORMEs, and the impact of ORMEs upon the chakra and meridian systems might be explained by Josephson-like behavior involving superconductivity, as proposed by Del Guidice et al. [17]. According to Hudson, ORMEs exhibit superconductivity at room temperature. A superconductor is an element capable of conducting electricity or transferring electrons with zero resistance. Superconductors typically remain within the Meissner state (cancellation of magnetic flux) and are wholly diamagnetic, meaning they are repelled by externally-applied magnetic fields [18]. The diamagnetic quality of superconductors allows for their facilitating of levitation (some magnetic levitation trains utilize superconductors for their propulsion). Upon sufficient heating, ORMEs are also capable of interdimensional travel (relocating to a dimension above the third and then returning) and very potently interacting with the zero-point field or the electromagnetic fluctuations of the background “vacuum” of space-time [19]. Furthermore, ORMEs can facilitate the transmuting of elements, in addition to being readily transmutable themselves (under the right conditions), hence their veneration in alchemical circles [20]. Now, the true white powder gold alchemically crafted through the means patented by David Hudson seems to be legitimate and therefore of monumental importance, but at least most of the commercially retailed products with some kind of monatomic, ORMEs, manna, mfkzt, or ORMUS stamp are surely trash. While it is possible to trap or concentrate naturally occurring ORMEs from various sources (spring water appears to be one of the best), such extracts would be largely incomparable to the authentic elixir of life employed during initiatory rites of the ancient Egyptian priesthood and similar mystic orders. I feel that ORMEs definitely have a big future, but right now their consumer product market is full of fraud and hazard. Though when that will change is hard to say, for the mere existence of ORMEs is diabolically quelled and concealed. But fret not, for the storm that has plagued this planet for centuries is insurmountably dissolving. More and more individuals are coming to understand that scientific exploration should be employed to constructively confirm truths, not to propagate enslaving fictions, lest we submit ourselves to tyrannical rule. The human race is to be governed not by fearful beliefs of the mind, but by loving knowledge of the heart. And wonderful Aquarius has beckoned this metamorphosis of ours for long enough. References:
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