These foods contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other beneficial substances.

Further, it is common to have effects ranging from beneficial to adverse for one substance when going from low to high doses.

This was probably due to binding of the metal to the extramatricial mycelium of the fungus, without affecting the exchange of beneficial substances.

The beneficial substances in soy appear to be plant estrogens called isoflavones, antioxidants which may have an added benefit of reducing the risk of breast cancer.

Here absorption of water, salts and other beneficial substances take place before excretion.

Paracelsus further developed the idea that beneficial medical substances could be found in herbs, minerals and various alchemical combinations thereof.

Nectars can contain other beneficial substances as well.

Once again, it seems that a combination of nutrients and other beneficial substances found naturally in foods, rather than isolated vitamins or minerals, provides the optimal health benefit.

The new research suggests that the beneficial substances in cranberry juice could reach the urinary tract and prevent bacterial adhesion within eight hours.

Because everything in the universe was interrelated, beneficial medical substances could be found in herbs, minerals and various chemical combinations thereof.