Aquamin is a marine multimineral complex that provides a strong dose of bioactive calcium and magnesium along with other trace marine minerals. Here’s our Aquamin review.
What Is Aquamin?
Aquamin is a marine mineral formula sold to food, beverage, and supplement manufacturers. Instead of selling directly to consumers, Aquamin sells to manufacturers who then add the formula to their own supplements.
Aquamin’s formula is sourced from 100% seaweed. Why seaweed? There’s been a growing trend of using seaweed and other marine organisms in nutritional supplements. It’s because these marine organisms absorb trace minerals from the surrounding seawater.
This unique type of absorption, combined with Aquamin’s unique structure, creates a product that tastes neutral and non-chalky and can easily be absorbed by the human body. That’s how Aquamin “differs elementally and structurally from mined minerals”, explains the official website.
The difference in structure lies in the honeycombed shape. Aquamin has a honeycombed vegetative cell structure that gives it enhanced bioavailability. That means it can more easily be absorbed into the human body.
Another benefit of marine vegetation is that it’s richer in minerals than vegetation from the land.
The seaweed used in Aquamin is sourced from waters off the coast of Iceland. In a number of studies on Aquamin, the formula has demonstrated an ability to improve bone health, improve digestive health, and reduce inflammation.
What’s In Aquamin?
Aquamin claims that it’s richer in minerals than vegetation from the land. The two key minerals in Aquamin are calcium and magnesium, both of which are found in large amounts.
Aquamin also includes trace amounts of selenium, boron, sodium, copper, iodine, nickel, zinc, phosphorus, iron, fluoride, and cobalt. The makers of Aquamin admit that “the elements contained are at trace quantities and are insignificant alone, but within a multimineral matrix they work synergistically and give a powerful boost to the action of the calcium and magnesium.”
The Science And Benefits Behind Aquamin
The makers of Aquamin claim their marine minerals transfer a number of benefits at each stage of life. You can view their science page here, for example, where they explain that Aquamin can enhance quality of life in a number of different areas:
Bone Health
Aquamin can preserve bone structure and strength for those on a high fat diet. It can also inhibit bone mineral density loss, aid the mineralization and maturation of bone cells, protect against exercise-induced bone loss, and enhance bone mineralization further by working synergistically with vitamin D3.
Joint Health
Aquamin may boost joint health by working as a proven anti-inflammatory. It can also reduce pain and stiffness in osteoarthritis sufferers and reduce NSAID usage in osteoarthritis suffers by up to 50%, according to research cited on the official Aquamin website.
Digestive Health
Aquamin has been linked to a number of digestive health benefits, including improved symptoms of colitis, anti-inflammatory activity in the GI tract, protection from liver damage, reduced polyp formation, and the maintenance of a healthier stomach wall. Most of the cited studies were performed specifically on individuals who followed a high fat “western diet”.
It’s important to note that these studies didn’t look at the ingredients in Aquamin. They specifically looked at the Aquamin formula as a whole. That means Aquamin has been proven to provide all of the benefits listed above – at least, according to the research from those studies. A total of 9 Aquamin studies are cited on the company’s science page.
Where To Find Aquamin
Aquamin can be found in health supplements and beauty products sold around the world. There are a number of different varieties of Aquamin, including all of the following:
Food & Beverage
- Aquamin F
- Aquamin LD
- Aquamin S
- Aquamin Soluble
Healthy & Beauty
- Aquamin TG
- Aquamin Mg
- Aquamin Mg TG
Different Aquamin formulas have different concentrations of minerals. The Aquamin TG, formula, for example, contains 30% calcium and 2.2% magnesium along with trace marine minerals, for example, while Aquamin S contains 17% calcium and 1% magnesium.
Ultimately, Aquamin can be found in a wide range of nutritional supplements, foods, beverages, sports drinks, beauty products, personal care products, and more.
Who Makes Aquamin?
Aquamin is made by a Cork, Ireland-based company called Marigot, Ltd.
You can contact the company by phone at 353 (0)21 4378727.
Although based in Ireland, Marigot harvests its ingredients off the coast of Iceland “in an area untouched by international shipping and industry”. Another advantage of Iceland is that it’s where the cold, clean waters of the Arctic meet the warm waters of the gulfstream, creating ideal conditions for deposits of lithothamnion.
Marigot claims to “meet and exceed the highest international standards to ensure that the material is harvested in a sustainable manner and that this precious resource is protected for future generations.”
You can contact the company using the contact page found on their official website here.
