Salt Blocks And Cows

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My father was a cattleman. He liked having cows around. Dairy cows to provide the family with milk and butter when me and my siblings were kids, and then beef cows after my younger brothers reached high school age. What he really liked was breeding animals for a specific end. He won national contests for his brood herd producing the fastest growing calves by a certain age. It was something he enjoyed getting recognition for. Maybe that's where I got the notion that it's who a person wants to impress that rules their public outlook.

One of the ideas I've been tossing around lately probably came from conversations my father and I had about cows getting sick and laying down on him. That was a crucial point of husbandry that used to break his heart. He told me several times that when a sick cow lays down, she won't ever get up again. She's dying.

He explained what he thought happened according to his experience and his education. The cows died because of a lack of magnesium in the foods they ate. He said the natural presence of magnesium had been depleted by the couple of hundred years the land had been farmed.

With no magnesium left in the soil to be used by the grass the cows ate, they had to be given a supplemental source of magnesium. That was done by setting out a hard block of salt that had the required magnesium in it for the cows to lick and get the trace minerals the tired soil didn't provide anymore.

The magnesium pills I bought at the drug store were manufactured from sea water down in South Carolina. I had no idea about the connection between magnesium and the ocean. Then, when I was researching magnesium as a food supplement I run into this article in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_chloride

This article agrees with the advertisements by Ancient Minerals that gets their pure product from buried ancient seabeds that have deposits of magnesium chloride hundreds of feet thick.

http://www.ancient-minerals.com/magnesium-chloride.html

Then, there is this video on youtube that although dubbed in English provides some interesting information about magnesium deficiencies similar to what happened to my father's cows that happen to people (particularly in ancient Italy) when the magnesium in the soil is all farmed out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIaVroZJEk

This is beginning to look like what happened to me. The stuff I've been reading and researching has led me to thinking that maybe what happens to my father's farm animals has happened to me. This leads me to think about the wheatgrass I'm growing. Is the commercial potting soil we're using to grow the wheatgrass got the required magnesium for the wheatberries to convert and include it in the wheatgrass juice I'm consuming.

There are organic fertilizers that are recommended for germinating and growing wheatgrass that come from seaweed. Kelp specifically. They come from the same sources that the magnesium pills come from. I'll bet thats the deal. The point of the wheatgrass and the kelp fertilizer recommended for growing it is about getting the necessary amount of magnesium in the human diet.

This is a little weird to consider. People and animals all over the earth are dying from magnesium deficiencies, and there are layer upon layer of pure magnesium chloride in these ancient buried seabeds, the very best type for health care there is, hundreds of feet thick and real cheap to get to the market place.

Frankly, this seems a little too good to be true, but who knows. It's cheap enough for a miser like me to give it a shot and eat a bunch of magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride I've already bought and started chasing them down with the resveratrol in the cheap burgundy to boot.

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