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Sodium  is needed for proper fluid balance, muscle contraction and nerve transmission.

Chloride helps to regulate the amount of fluid and types of nutrients going in and out of the cells. It also maintains proper pH levels, stimulates stomach acid needed for digestion, stimulates the action of nerve and muscle cells, and facilitates the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide within cells.

  Potassium is necessary for the normal functioning of all cells. It regulates the heartbeat, ensures proper function of the muscles and nerves, and is vital for synthesising protein and metabolising carbohydrates.

  Calcium is important for healthy bones and teeth. It helps muscles relax and contract. It is important in nerve functioning, blood clotting and immune system health.

Phosphorus is needed for the growth, maintenance, and repair of all tissues and cells, and for the production of the genetic building blocks, DNA and RNA. Phosphorus is also needed to help balance and use other vitamins and minerals, including vitamin D, iodine, magnesium, and zinc.

  Magnesium is found in bones. It is needed for making protein, muscle contraction, nerve transmission and immune system health. Magnesium is involved in more than 300 essential metabolic reactions with the human body.

 Your body needs sulfur to build and fix your DNA and protect your cells from damage that can lead to serious diseases. Sulfur also assists your body to metabolize food and contributes to the health of your skin, tendons, and ligaments 

  Iron is part of a molecule (heamoglobin) found in red blood cells that carries oxygen in the body. 

  Zinc helps your immune system and metabolism function. Zinc is also important to wound healing and your sense of taste and smell.

 Chromium is beneficial in controlling blood sugar, heart health, weight management and brain health.

  Boron helps your body metabolise key vitamins and minerals and has a key role in bone health. It also affects estrogen and testosterone levels.

  Copper is part of many enzymes and is needed for iron metabolism 

  Manganese helps the body form connective tissue, bones, blood clotting factors, and sex hormones. It also plays a role in fat and carbohydrate metabolism, calcium absorption, and blood sugar regulation. Manganese is also necessary for normal brain and nerve function.

 Research has shown strontium helps to maintain healthy bone density. 

  Molybdenum is a mineral that you need to stay healthy. Your body uses molybdenum to process proteins and genetic material like DNA. Molybdenum also helps break down drugs and toxic substances that enter the body.

Nickel is involved in lipid metabolism.  

   Silicon has been found to play a vital role in assisting calcium for the growth, maintenance, and flexibility of joints and bones.

Nitrogen is one of the main body components required for protein synthesis and production of several nitrogenous compounds such as hormones, neurotransmitters, and components of antioxidant defence.

  Several animal studies and a few human studies suggest that vanadium may lower blood sugar levels . 

Bromine is an essential trace element, required for the formation of sulfilimine cross-links in collagen IV, a basement membrane protein.

Iodine helps the thyroid gland, in the neck, to make the hormone thyroxine. Thyroxine controls many of the ways certain cells work. Thyroxine is important for the growth of bones and nerves, and how proteins, fats and carbohydrates are used in the body. Iodine is important before birth and in babies and young children.