What is Fulvic?

January 27 2021

What is Fulvic?

What is Fulvic?

Fulvic acid is a naturally occurring substance that is a part the Earth’s soils, rock sediments and bodies of water. It is generated through the action of millions of beneficial microbes in soil as they break down organic plant matter. This dynamic process, known as humification, creates humic substances which include Fulvic acid, humic acid and humin. Fulvic acid is the smallest fraction, soluble in water under all pH conditions. The colour of Fulvic ranges from light yellow to yellowish brown and has a low molecular weight, high oxygen content and low carbon content.

FA is perhaps best known for its ability to convert minerals into highly bio-available forms. In the soil, these tiny Fulvic molecules are charged with the important task of dissolving and transporting necessary minerals from the soil into the plant.  

ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS

Fulvic

Fulvic acid is made up of aromatic and aliphatic portions, with a remarkably high number of functional groups that release hydrogen ions, becoming negatively charged. These negative sites attract positively charged ions which then join the Fulvic structure. Some ions may be more strongly attracted to Fulvic acid than other ions. These functional groups enable Fulvic acid to behave as a polyelectrolyte, meaning that at any one time a Fulvic molecule can contain a huge variety of different ions attached at several sites of the molecule.

Minerals

Naturally degraded organic matter contains a full spectrum of minerals and trace elements, essential for optimum function and health in the human body. Minerals that are part of the Fulvic complex have greater solubility, enhancing their bioavailability and mobility in and out of the body. Fulvic is often rich in natural occurring minerals as well as small quantities of trace elements. 

TRADITIONAL USE

A popular mineral-rich substance used in the traditional Indian system of medicine, Ayurveda, is Shilajit; a compacted, dark red-brown gummy mass found mainly in the Himalayas. It is formed over centuries by the gradual microbial decomposition of certain plants, with 10-70% of the water-soluble fraction being humus .

As an active ingredient in peat-based mud baths, Fulvic acids have been used and studied in the treatment of various ailments by topical contact with the skin.

Antioxidant

Fulvic acid can act as either an electron donor or receptor, and scavenges a range of free radicals in a concentration-dependent way. In the case of oxygenated free radicals, Fulvic acid is proposed to interrupt the chain reaction and decreasing their concentration in vitro by scavenging O2, binding O2 into its structure or scavenging other radicals which can transform to O2.

Anti-inflammatory

Trial research has demonstrated Fulvic’s anti- inflammatory properties. Such activity has been attributed largely to Fulvic’s ability to scavenge oxidants and inhibit the expression inflammatory markers. antioxidant properties. It stabilises mast cells in vitro.

Bioavailability enhancer

Fulvic acid acting as carrier molecules for active ingredients can enhance the intestinal absorption and blood brain barrier penetration for such components .

DOSE

20ml of Fulvic per day when taken as a supplement, or as directed by a healthcare professional. This quantity is conservative when compared to dosages administered in toxicity studies, and other Fulvic supplements in the market. 20ml is deemed sufficient given the source and final concentration.

WHY DO WE NEED IT?

In 2015, the FAO stated that 33% of the world’s soils are moderately to highly degraded (FAO, 2015). For the agricultural soils in which we grow our food, such degradation is often the result of accelerated soil erosion, nutrient depletion and the loss of soil organic carbon. So, while agricultural intensification has markedly increased global food production, the decline of these valuable resources means humus levels in our agricultural soils have reduced by as much as 70%.

With fewer humic substances present in our soils, plants have a harder time obtaining the nutrients they need to stay healthy and ward off pests and diseases. In 1992, the official report of the Rio Earth Summit concluded ‘there is deep concern over continuing major declines in the mineral values in farm and range soils throughout the world’. Much of the food grown today contains significantly less nutrition found in food eaten by our grandparents when they were children.

Poor nutrition Is often the root cause of many degenerative diseases common in the world today, and minerals are one of the nutrient groups vital for complete and healthy body functions. They are agents of action, triggering vitamins and enzymes in our body to act, driving the digestion of food and supplying us with the energy we need.

A growing body of research indicates that minerals attached to a Fulvic acid complex, presented to the body, are perhaps the most bioavailable of all the mineral formulas on the market.