About 50 million years ago the Indian continent collided into Asia and formed the Himalayan mountain range. As the mountains formed tropical forests were crushed and compacted between massive boulders. The compressed forests gradually transformed into a nutrient- and mineral-rich biomass loaded with medicinal humic and fulvic acids. Now every summer as the mountains warm India's most prized herbal remedy literally oozes from these biomass resins in the high mountain crevasses. Known as shilajit this resinous and nutrient-rich biomass has been touted for millennia by ayurveda's material medical as the best carrier of energy and nutrition into the human body. Modern science has recently proven this by identifying fulvic and humic acids which are found in abundance in shilajit as the main substances responsible for energy production within the cell.