Your Brain, Bones, and Boron
Boron is an element found naturally in leafy green vegetables like kale and spinach. It can also be found in grains, prunes, raisins, noncitrus fruits, and nuts.
A person’s daily diet typically contains 1.5 to 3 milligrams (mg) of boron. The five most common sources of boron in a person’s daily diet are:
- apples
- coffee
- dried beans
- milk
- potatoes
Boron helps your body metabolize key vitamins and minerals, has a key role in bone health, and it also affects estrogen and testosterone levels.
There’s no established dietary recommendation for boron in terms of daily value. A boron deficiency also hasn’t been proven to cause any diseases.
Small studies have indicated that boron may play a role in brain function. Early studies in the 1990s showed promise for human supplementation with boron.
For example, one 1994 study published in the journal Environmental Health PerspectivesTrusted Source found that people who added 3.25 mg of boron to their diets were better at memory and hand-eye coordination tasks than people with low boron levels.
These encouraging results didn’t spur a boron research boom.
Now boron-related research studies are mostly limited to those performed on laboratory rats. Although researchers know that boron plays a role in many human functions, its status as a minor mineral means there aren’t many recent human trials regarding boron’s benefits on the brain.
Boron can aid in keeping your bones strong along with possibly improving brain function. Boron is known to play a role in extending the half-life of vitamin D and estrogen.
The half-life is the amount of time it takes for a substance to break down to half its starting amount. Scientists aren’t exactly sure how boron does this. But it could be important for bone health in several ways.
First, vitamin D is essential for bone health because it enhances your body’s ability to absorb calcium. Calcium is a mineral responsible for making bones strong. Boron could help enhance bone health by increasing how long vitamin D works in your body.
According to an article in The Open Orthopaedics JournalTrusted Source, people with low levels of vitamin D are more likely to have low levels of boron. This shows that the two nutrients have a relationship in terms of their availability in the body.
Estrogen is another hormone that plays a role in bone health. It protects against bone loss that can lead to osteoporosis. This is a condition that can make bones weak and brittle in both men and women. By extending the amount of time estrogen is present in the body, boron may help to maintain healthy bones.
While boron supplements have been considered as a possible treatment for people with arthritis, more clinical evidence is needed to support this claim.
Read more at www.healthline.com
The above article has been medically reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT
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Joseph Olson
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Borax is a product name, using three, natural Sodium Borate salts. These salts are used as insecticides and some questionable internet sources claim chelation benefits. Self medication requires self education with regard to Borax.
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Rosie Langridge
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This has been known about for decades. Rex E. Newnham who died in 2008 spent his life trying to tell people. You’ll find plenty online and it looks as if the supplement he devised is still available http://rexnewnhambonesupportformula.com/
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Scouse Billy
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Thank you, Rosie. Walter Last wrote the story of Boron and Rex Newnham’s remarkable work in a 2012 article called, The Borax Conspiracy:
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm
This PSI paper barely scratches the surface of the full story.
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tom0mason
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Borax has all but been eliminated from everyday use in Europe.
The EU’s safety (anti-safety, pro-crony capitalist) committee has deemed Borax a hazardous material, and as such only qualified, correctly safety aware, and hazmat besuited individuals are allowed to handle it.
The very FACT that it is in toothpaste and eyewash solutions does not seem to phase to overreaching EU bureaucrats. No, for these EU bureaucrats banning Borax means that their pet crony chemical companies can sell less effective products at inflated prices.
See https://europeanmovement.eu/news/borates-banned-in-the-eu-without-exception/
and understand that these are the same IDIOTS that wished to ban all chlorine containing products from the EU.
The EU — A group of nations ruled by half-wits and regulated by bureaucratic IDIOTS!
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Scouse Billy
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Well said, Tom.
In the land of the witless the half-wit is king!
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