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This volume provides a comprehensive academic review of both
positive and negative effects of minerals on human health and
quality of life. The book adopts the concept of mineral latu sensu
(mineral l.s.), which encompasses a broad spectrum of natural,
inorganic, solid, and crystalline, of natural and inorganic
chemical elements (metals and metalloids), of modified natural
minerals, of biominerals, and of syntetic minerals, all products
that branch across the disciplines of earth, soil, environmental,
materials, nutrition, and health sciences. Using this broad
framework, the authors are able to provide a multidisciplinary
assessment on many types of minerals which can be essential,
beneficial and hazardous to human health, covering applications in
medical geology, medical hydrology or balneotherapy, pharmacology,
chemistry, nutrition, and biophysics. The book performs historical
analyses of the uses of minerals for therapeutic and cosmetic
purposes to better understand current trends and developments in
mineral research and human health. The book will be of interest to
students, public health officials, environmental agencies and
researchers from various disciplines, as well as scientific
societies and organizations focusing on medical geology, health
resort medicine (crenotherapy, hydrotherapy and climatotherapy),
and on pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biomedical applications.
This volume provides a comprehensive academic review of both
positive and negative effects of minerals on human health and
quality of life. The book adopts the concept of mineral latu sensu
(mineral l.s.), which encompasses a broad spectrum of natural,
inorganic, solid, and crystalline, of natural and inorganic
chemical elements (metals and metalloids), of modified natural
minerals, of biominerals, and of syntetic minerals, all products
that branch across the disciplines of earth, soil, environmental,
materials, nutrition, and health sciences. Using this broad
framework, the authors are able to provide a multidisciplinary
assessment on many types of minerals which can be essential,
beneficial and hazardous to human health, covering applications in
medical geology, medical hydrology or balneotherapy, pharmacology,
chemistry, nutrition, and biophysics. The book performs historical
analyses of the uses of minerals for therapeutic and cosmetic
purposes to better understand current trends and developments in
mineral research and human health. The book will be of interest to
students, public health officials, environmental agencies and
researchers from various disciplines, as well as scientific
societies and organizations focusing on medical geology, health
resort medicine (crenotherapy, hydrotherapy and climatotherapy),
and on pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biomedical applications.
Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English
translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on
human health including the long history of clays used as
pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their
structural properties and modes of action.
Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English
translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on
human health including the long history of clays used as
pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their
structural properties and modes of action.
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