THE RAPID DECLINE IN OUR SOILS' ORGANIC MATTER
When you think of all the organic matter in our soil we call it collectively the Humic Substances. It's made of all the living and dead plant an animal materialk and algal matter all in their various stages of decomposition and age.They are the wonderful earthy smell of a freshly ploughed field and they're the life of rich fertile soils.
HUMIC SUBSTANCES
Humic Substances are
extremely valuable. They are highly unique by being created bespoke to: their location, climate conditions, carbon availability, microbial activity and geographical area. One of their most remarkable roles is to make elements in the soil plant-ready. The they ensure plants get the nutrients they need in the balance they need.
Soils with high levels of organic matter are less susceptible to drought and dessertification.
Humic Substances Carbon Capture
Nothing hoovers up carbon from the atmosphere like a soil rich in humic substances. In fact, the more humic substances in soil - the more carbon it can trap and hold carbon out of the atmosphere and the longer it can hold it for.Their role is so incredibly important because soils absorb more carbon than all the world’s vegetation and the atmosphere combined.
Humic Breakdown
Here's how humic substances are formed as they decompose and decrease in size over time, from the largest to the smallest:
- Humus
- Humic Acids
- Fulvic Acids
- Humin
- Humate
- Fulvate
HUMUS AND HUMIC ACIDS
Humus and Humic Acids are black in colour. They are formed near or on the surface soil and are the planet's major carbon resevoirs.They're low oxygen compounds and key to soil structure and nutrient transport.
Crucially, they are integral in the proper the development and maintenance of the soils' microbial network.
Humus and humic acid always remain in soil and not absorbed by plants.
However the very next stage of decomposition of organic matter behaves differently - by not remaining in soil.
FULVIC ACIDS
Here's where Mother Nature waves her magic wand - Fulvic Acids.
Golden in colour fulvic acids are found in abundance in aged forest soils. Jurassic forests were packed with them.
They're the only element in the humic substances chain that are absorbed by plants - and ultimately by humans.
Part molecule part magician, they connect our living soil with the electrical charge inside the cells of our bodies.
They are a transporter, solublizer, detoxifier, free radical scavenger, oxygen delivering, immune modulator, restorer of electrical balance and energy reformulator.
And fulvic acids are unique because.....
"....they do the very same things in the human body, as they do in our soils......"
Fulvic acids are smart nutrients - attaching
either to a positively charged toxin or to a negatively charged
nutrient. They can magically bypass cell walls taking any element they want with them...then taking out whatever they want when they leave.
They are The Great Adaptors. This ability to attach to, change or remodel a molecule is truly remarkable and magical.
This is not dissimilar to our brain's ability to remodel itself, to change and to adapt - regardless of age, known as brain plasticity.
THE SPIRIT FULVIC MOLECULE
Fulvic Acids are highly regarded in advanced spiritual practices. It's often suggested that geographical evolution of spiritual practices is due to the great availability of fulvic acids in the local soil and food chain.
And their loss from soils represents a handbrake on the spiritual development and the use of the higher more evolved parts of the our brain.
So when Hipocrates said...."let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" - fulvic acid made food a lot different back then.
Fulvic Acids one nutrient we absolutely cannot affort to loose from our soils.
THE LOSS OF OUR HUMIC SUBSTANCES
However the whole chain of humic substances is collapsing.
In one of the largest field studies of its kind ever conducted, Northeastern University and The Organic Centre revealed that in chemically fertilized soils, the amount of organic matter has decreased substantially.
This study is due to be published in the scientific journal:Advances in Agronomy on October 1st 2017.
It shows that on average, organic farms have 44% higher levels of humic acid -- than soils not managed organically.
If you're starting to wonder how it's all going to end, I am too. This is effecting millions of people and has respect for no-one, not even you.
So using samples from 700 farms in 48 U.S. states the research revealed that on average, soils from organic farms had:
- 13 percent higher soil organic matter
- 150 percent more fulvic acid
- 26 percent greater potential for long-term carbon storage
You might even be beginning to consider having a raised bed in your own garden.
And as you think about that now, you can discover how easy it is to make sure you and your family get the nutrition you all need.
Growing Your Own
Growing your own vegetables - carrotts, cauliflower, green beans, beetroot is incredibly rewarding. Nutrition for strong bones and teeth the the optimum function of the enritre body and brain.
In fact the taste of even one serving of home grown, nutrient-dense food on your plate can bring the whole meal to life.
Conclusion
It's one of the only solutions left as more and more humic substances are stripped from our soil.You'll immediately get more nutrient dense food to begin with and have a premium carbon capture system in your own garden.
Then, add a soil test to bring minerals, trace minerals & their trace elements to the levels needed. Combined with the humic/fulvic you're producing real nutrient dense food.
* Green Beans Image: By Hedwig Storch - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15890894
* Earth Hands Image: By Jeetendra23 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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