| One of the most commonly talked about benefits | | | | serves as a catalyst in the biochemical process |
| that one stand to get from the use of a silica | | | | via which phosphorous is absorbed and assimilated |
| supplement is enhancement in the speed at which | | | | into the body. |
| worn out tissue in the body is repaired. Put in | | | | Now phosphorous turns out to be one of the |
| other words, what this means is that with optimal | | | | minerals which play a very important role in the |
| levels of silica in the body, one would have a | | | | body, and one which specifically goes a long way |
| tendency to heal from all manner of injuries at a | | | | in determining how adept the body will be in |
| faster rate than if they had sub-optimal levels of | | | | healing its worn out (or otherwise injured) tissue. |
| the nutrient. There are many of us who suffer | | | | Besides that role, phosphorous also plays an |
| from situation where they take too long to heal | | | | important part in the formation of bones and the |
| from even the simplest of injuries, and this is | | | | filtration of waste from the body. Phosphorous |
| obviously something about which they would be | | | | deficiency has been associated with severely |
| extremely enthusiastic. | | | | slowed down rates of healing from various sorts |
| A question arises though, as to how exactly silica | | | | of injuries. Those, incidentally, also include bone |
| works, in order to strengthen the body's natural | | | | fractures; because when all is said and done, the |
| mechanisms for repairing worn out tissue. | | | | cartilage that makes up our bones is also some |
| And in order to understand how silica helps in such | | | | sort of body tissue - whose expeditious repair |
| repair of body tissue, it would be important to | | | | good levels of phosphorous can promote. |
| understand that one of the roles that silica serves | | | | In the final analysis, we have a situation where |
| in the body is that of helping the body assimilate a | | | | silica may not directly play a role in the repair of |
| mineral known as phosphorous. Now it is a well | | | | body tissue, but where it turns out to be |
| established fact that without optimal levels of silica | | | | indispensable in the assimilation of phosphorous; |
| in the body, the body has insurmountable | | | | which in turn plays an important role in that repair |
| difficulties in assimilating phosphorous. The person | | | | of body tissue. Without adequate levels of silica, |
| in question may be eating all the right foods (food | | | | the body will find it hard to assimilate |
| that are rich in phosphorous), but as long as they | | | | phosphorous. And without adequate levels of |
| don't have adequate levels of silica in their body, | | | | assimilated phosphorous, you will inevitably have |
| they would have no way of benefiting from this | | | | major difficulties in the repair of worn out/injured |
| phosphorous. In a way, we can say that silica | | | | body tissue. |