Who doesn’t desire healthy hair, skin and nails?
In addition to achieving these admirable aims, it benefits other parts of the body too, aiding digestion and improving the elasticity and firmness of our blood vessels. But where does this wondrous supplement come from and how does it do what it says it does? Why is silica so important and necessary to our bodies that it will benefit such a wide range of conditions? In the quest to answer these questions, I started a journey of discovery which begins in 1917 with the compound silicon dioxide. Silica and silicon dioxide are one and the same. In 1917, a scientist called Kobert carried out a number of experiments on silica. He and his students established that silica was present in almost all human and animal tissues but that the silica content of embryonic tissue was substantially higher than that of older tissue. Research carried out since then has shown that, when we are young, silica exists in our bodies in a finely dispersed colloidal form, contributing to our ‘bounce’ and flexibilit
