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Beat Stress Naturally with Mineral Support
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Stress is a natural reaction to life’s challenges, and in the short term, it can actually be good for you.
But when you’re stressed out daily for weeks or months, it takes a major toll on your health. This type of persistent stress is called chronic stress , and it could be from work, illness, relationships, past trauma, or any other source.
If you’re struggling with chronic stress, mineral support may help. Minerals can both ease the negative effects of stress and increase your resilience in the face of future stress.
Here’s a look at how chronic stress affects you—and how minerals can help you beat stress naturally.
How Many People Are Chronically Stressed?
If you always feel stressed, you aren’t alone:
A 2023 Gallup poll found that 52% of Americans report chronic daily stress . [ * ]
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A 2024 survey of more than 23,000 people found that 45% have burnout from work that’s damaging their long-term mental health . [ * ]
Chronic stress is one of the biggest challenges to wellbeing of our time—so much so that the World Health Organization called stress “the health epidemic of the 21st century.” [ * ]
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Symptoms Of Chronic Stress
Chronic stress takes a toll on your body. Being in a continuous state of stress uses up cellular energy and resources, and over time, it can lead to serious health issues.
When you’re stressed your body releases cortisol, the hormone that controls your fight-or-flight response. As cortisol rises your heart rate increases, your muscles tense, you become hypervigilant of threats in your surroundings, and you feel on edge, ready to react at a moment’s notice.
Cortisol is great if you’re in immediate danger. But if you’re chronically stressed and you keep pumping out cortisol for weeks on end, the cost for your body is huge. It leads to a variety of symptoms, including:
Anxiety
Depression
Fatigue
Irritability
Insomnia
Headaches or muscle pain
Weight gain
Muscle loss
Stress also leaves you more susceptible to serious illness, including cancer [ * ] and heart disease. [ * ]
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How Minerals Help You Beat Stress Naturally
So what do you do to combat stress? You’ve probably heard the usual lifestyle advice. Meditation, breathwork, gratitude—these work well for psychological stress relief and they’re absolutely worth your time.
But there’s a biological side to stress too. Constantly pumping out cortisol (and then dealing with the inflammation it causes) is expensive for your body. It’s especially hard on your nutrient stores. A 2020 review found that stress depletes a variety of minerals, including magnesium, potassium, calcium, selenium, zinc, and iron. [ * ]
Even worse, several of those minerals regulate cortisol, which means mineral depletion from stress leaves you more fragile in the face of future stress.
Researchers call this the vicious circle theory: stress depletes your minerals, which impairs your body’s ability to regulate cortisol, which further depletes your minerals, and so on, trapping you in a negative feedback loop of continuous chronic stress. [ * ]
But if you replenish those depleted mineral stores, research shows that you actually build greater resilience to stress. Increasing your mineral intake gives your body the raw materials it needs to fight back against stress. [ * ]
A 2020 study found that replenishing magnesium decreases stress levels and protects against future stress. [ * ]
A 2021 study found that selenium protects the brain from chronic stress-related damage and symptoms. [ * ]
Stress depletes iron , [ * ] and a 2015 study found that restoring healthy iron levels regulates many of the emotional symptoms of chronic stress, including anxiety and depression. [ * ]
A 2018 study found that zinc supplementation helps reduce chronic stress and lessens its psychological impact. [ * ]
Minerals play an essential role in your ability to handle stress, and replenishing them is one of the simplest ways to help ease chronic stress and feel like yourself again.
The Best Mineral Supplements For Stress Relief
Here at BEAM Minerals, we make two products specifically tailored for stress relief.
Our Stress Relief Kit contains everything you need to stand up to the stressors of daily life.
Micro-BOOST and Electrolyze work together, delivering the full spectrum of essential minerals directly to your cells for fast, convenient, all-in-one mineral replenishment.
BooBoo-Lytes is an electrolyte misting spray that contains several important stress-relieving minerals, as well as soothing essential oils.
Happy-Lytes is another misting spray that’s rich in mood-boosting minerals.
You can also bring Happy-Lytes with you when you travel. The mineral-rich spray is infused with stress-relieving oils like eucalyptus and black spruce. It absorbs through your skin and reaches your bloodstream within minutes, making it perfect for quick stress relief on the go. A few sprays on your face and chest can help you get through stressful situations unscathed.
If you’re struggling with chronic stress, give BEAM Minerals a try. They’re a great way to build extra resilience and encourage stability and calm—no matter what life throws at you.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
