Body Essential Silica is your key to stronger nails, shinier hair and healthier looking skin. It also gives strength and support to connective tissue, tendons and ligaments.

Silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), is a natural compound so essential to all living things that it has been labeled nature"s building block. Next to oxygen, silicon is one of the most widely occurring elements on Earth. The compound of silicon and oxygen is called Silica. The "hydrated" form, as found in Gel, means that Silica and purified water form a complex to be more easily absorbed by the body.

Silicon works with calcium in bone formation and bone remineralization. Capsules give you all the benefits of quartz silica plus the added benefits of calcium. Regular exercise and a healthy diet with adequate calcium intake throughout life is linked to a reduced rate of osteoporosis by optimizing peak bone mass in women during the bone forming years, in menopausal women and in people with a family history of osteoporosis.