subject: Will Silica Help In The Repair Of Body Tissue [print this page] One of the most commonly talked about benefits that one stand to get from the use of a silica supplement is enhancement in the speed at which worn out tissue in the body is repaired. Put in other words, what this means is that with optimal levels of silica in the body, one would have a tendency to heal from all manner of injuries at a faster rate than if they had sub-optimal levels of the nutrient. There are many of us who suffer from situation where they take too long to heal from even the simplest of injuries, and this is obviously something about which they would be extremely enthusiastic.
A question arises though, as to how exactly silica works, in order to strengthen the body's natural mechanisms for repairing worn out tissue.
And in order to understand how silica helps in such repair of body tissue, it would be important to understand that one of the roles that silica serves in the body is that of helping the body assimilate a mineral known as phosphorous. Now it is a well established fact that without optimal levels of silica in the body, the body has insurmountable difficulties in assimilating phosphorous. The person in question may be eating all the right foods (food that are rich in phosphorous), but as long as they don't have adequate levels of silica in their body, they would have no way of benefiting from this phosphorous. In a way, we can say that silica serves as a catalyst in the biochemical process via which phosphorous is absorbed and assimilated into the body.
Now phosphorous turns out to be one of the minerals which play a very important role in the body, and one which specifically goes a long way in determining how adept the body will be in healing its worn out (or otherwise injured) tissue. Besides that role, phosphorous also plays an important part in the formation of bones and the filtration of waste from the body. Phosphorous deficiency has been associated with severely slowed down rates of healing from various sorts of injuries. Those, incidentally, also include bone fractures; because when all is said and done, the cartilage that makes up our bones is also some sort of body tissue - whose expeditious repair good levels of phosphorous can promote.
In the final analysis, we have a situation where silica may not directly play a role in the repair of body tissue, but where it turns out to be indispensable in the assimilation of phosphorous; which in turn plays an important role in that repair of body tissue. Without adequate levels of silica, the body will find it hard to assimilate phosphorous. And without adequate levels of assimilated phosphorous, you will inevitably have major difficulties in the repair of worn out/injured body tissue.
