What is a Zeolite?

The Science Behind Advanced TRS

On its own, your body has to go to a lot of work to neutralize and remove toxins, if it is able to remove them at all. For example, lead and mercury are notoriously difficult to remove. And as a person’s body becomes more toxic with heavy metals, it becomes less able to remove them.

Zeolite, the active ingredient in Advanced TRS, facilitates your body’s ability to extract harmful toxins.

As zeolite is inert in your body, your body doesn’t recognize it as anything out of the ordinary. However, heavy metals, radioactive elements and other toxins are extremely attracted to the cage-like structure of the zeolite molecules.

What Are Zeolites?

Zeolites are crystalline, hydrated aluminosilicates of alkali and alkaline earth metals, having infinite, three-dimensional atomic structures. They are further characterized by the ability to lose and gain water reversibly and to exchange certain constituent atoms, also without major change of atomic structure.

Along with quartz and feldspar minerals, zeolites are three-dimensional frameworks of silicate (SiO₄) tetrahedra in which all four corner oxygens of each tetrahedron are shared with adjacent tetrahedra.

In zeolite structures, some of the quadri-charged silicon is replaced by triply-charged aluminum, giving rise to a deficiency of positive charge ions. The charge is balanced by the presence of singly- and doubly-charged atoms, such as sodium (Na⁺), potassium (K⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), and magnesium (Mg²⁺), elsewhere in the structure.

Chemical Formula

The empirical formula of a zeolite is of the type:
M_2/nO • Al₂O₃ • xSiO₂ • yH₂O, where M is any alkali or alkaline earth atom, n is the charge on that atom, x is a number from 2 to 10, and y is a number from 2 to 7.

The chemical formula for Advanced TRS, a common commercially available zeolite, is:
AlMgNaO₉Si₃