Our immune system is the most crucial protective function our body owns. Without it, we die. Silica gel activates the immune function. It helps to create the matrix that enables the body to fight off infections and environmental toxin. Silica gel mobilizes the body’s defenses against foreign intruders and disease causing micro-organisms.

One would think that the therapeutic benefits of silica should have become common knowledge. Yet even now only herbal practitioners, naturopaths and homeopaths seriously consider silica as a bio-healer. Official medicine hardly even mentions silica in textbooks.

Practitioners have been recommending silica gel for the mainly cosmetic advantages of hair, skin and nail condition for years but many did not realize that this is but a small fraction of its true potential. Numerous researchers have extolled its virtues during the early and later parts of the 20th century. It would indeed be surprising if nature, with so much of it to use, had not incorporated it into the essential structure of all life on the planet. The overwhelming proportion of the silicon on the earth is biologically unavailable until it is processed by lower organisms into forms that can be assimilated and used by us. Be that as it may, it is unarguable that silica pervades almost every human tissue and that without its presence in adequate and accessible amounts, serious health consequences are certain to follow. Connective tissue especially has a high silica content and a high need for it, which is why hair, skin and nails have been foremost in our minds when considering silica as a health supplement.