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What Makes The Best Organic Sulfur?
Organic sulfur is all the rave right now, and with all the benefits that it brings, there has to be some downside… right? Well, no, not really. The best organic sulfur stands on its own because it promises what it advertises – the benefits of organic sulfur are real and it’s here to stay. The problem comes with more and more companies trying to hop on the bandwagon and pumping out subpar versions of MSM that simply can’t live up to what people provide. Finding the right organic sulfur will be the key to obtaining the results you desire, so what exactly are the signs you should be looking for?
First it’s important to understand what organic sulfur does. The best organic sulfurs advertise a wide range of traits, from joint health to muscle recovery all the way to hair growth and skin care. The reason it’s able to do all of these things is because organic sulfur helps to make the walls of cell more permeable. This means that toxins are more easily expelled and nutrients can move in uninhibited. Couple that with the fact that bio-available organic sulfur comprises our body weight and that organic sulfur is essential for the structure of amino acids and oxygen transport and the results can speak for themselves. Organic sulfur is the best natural detoxifying-chelation agent for heavy metals.
Cellular regeneration is closely linked with the body’s ability to transport oxygen across the cell membrane. By facilitating this process, we allow our body to recovery more quickly and easily and make living life an easier process. This is the fundamental core of organic sulfur and its operation in our bodies – understanding the impact it has on our cells is crucial to understanding why lesser-quality MSM supplements don’t provide results. The purer the better.
Sulfur exists in both mineral (yellow mineral - not bio-available) and organic (white crystals - bio-available) forms. Yellow mineral sulfur in the earth—the “yellow dirt” from mining—is present in a volcano's lava that is forced into the ocean through volcanic activity on the ocean floor. These under-water volcanoes are called “black smokers”. The sulfur mineral from black smokers reacts with ocean water and is changed to bio-available sulfur that becomes a part of ocean water. Through nature's cycle of water distribution, evaporation, and condensation (rain), and microscopic life forms, bio-available organic sulfur becomes a part of the nutrients for plants and animals. Bio-available sulfur (not the yellow mineral) is then consumed by animals and people. The sulfur cycle is symbiotic and vital for life as we know it.
Organic sulfur occurs naturally in the growth cycle of all living things and should be present in significant quantities in the human body. To be healthy, our body must be able to utilize the sulfur that we are supposed ingest through eating food. The MSM must be in our food and biologically “available” (hence bio-available).
Black liquor is a by-product of the pulp and paper industry. There is a similar product from the petrochemical industry. From this black liquor, a chemical company makes DMSO. It is more accurately called DMSO1. That, DMSO1, is then heated, other chemicals are added, and that precipitation process results in pure DMSO2. DMSO2 is methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) or organic sulfur. All organic sulfur is chemically referred to as DMSO2 and is precipitated out of DMSO1.
A molecule of sulfur, because of its atomic make-up, is easily affected or modified by any substance it comes into contact with. Sulfur is affected in a negative way whenever it is “packaged” in pills or capsules, processed into a powder, or combined with other products. It becomes less efficient and cannot be effectively utilized for vital cellular oxygen transport, cellular health, amino acid production, and is less efficient as a detoxifying agent.
In order for our bodies to use MSM to its maximum potential it should be a clean precipitation of DMSO1 to DMSO2. That means in the precipitation process the sulfur molecule solidifies and takes on an extra oxygen molecule. Tt should also be as pure and un-processed as possible after precipitation — this means in its large flake form. Grinding the organic sulfur into a powder exposes more of the surface area of the molecules. It is negatively affected by air pollutants, chemicals, flow-agents, additives, pill bonding agents, pill coatings, the container it's stored in, other nutrients it is mixed with, and the paste ingredients of creams and gels.
It’s a lot of information to take in, and this is really just the surface of it all, but to get the best organic sulfur, you want to find an untampered version, typically in flask form, that retains all of its nutrients from the precipitation process. This should give you the groundwork to start shopping around, but always do a bit more research.
