Demineralization

Your body is losing its substance. Minerals — calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, fluoride — are no longer being absorbed sufficiently or are being excreted too rapidly. The bones become porous, the teeth brittle, the muscles weak. Medically speaking, this is a metabolic problem, a question of nutrition, hormones, and resorption. And of course it is that too.

But the deeper question is: why is your body losing its building blocks? Why is what literally holds you together dissolving — your inner framework, your foundation, your solidity?

Demineralization is not only a nutrient deficiency. It is an image of something essential seeping out of you — quietly, steadily, almost unnoticed. Like a house whose mortar is slowly crumbling from the joints.