I would like to know more about coral calcium, and how it is different than other forms of calcium.
Carmen ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Wayne <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:01 PM Subject: CS>Reams lit & info > Dear CSers, > I have been trying to post some articles I've written and use in my > business on the list for those who are interested, but Mike suggests I > send them one at a time, since sending them together doesn't work. > Here is attachment #1, with two more to follow. They are in text format > for easier handling. > > _____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > [The following is from an email I sent to someone on the Silver List, but it gives specific information some may find interesting.] > > > >Question: I have worked with diet...all types of diet...and I always do as much organic as possible. Right now I am following the alkaline Bio-Balance Diet. When I did it before, I was doing urine pH testing. I don't know if I made myself too alkaline. I need to get some pH tape. > > Answer: Dr. Reams said that if your chemistry was balanced, you could eat any good food without reactions. He didn't place much credit in "Type" diets - "Body Type", "Blood Type", etc., except to provide temporary relief until one's chemistry was balanced. I have repeatedly noticed that a client could not efficiently metabolize certain foods - say, protein or sugars - and then when they had balanced their chemistry, they could again eat those foods without suffering for it. > > >Question: Obviously you cannot tell me at this time, w/o knowing my pH, whether coral calcium would be good for me. Do you ever use coral calcium? I am fascinated by it at the moment. Also, the Pascalite I am taking is a calcium-based clay. Apparently the only one. I called and found its pH is in the high 6 or 7-point range...can't remember right now. Coral calcium is in the 9's. > > Answer: I do not personally recommend either coral or Pascalite calcium because of the cost. I have no reason to distrust either of them as far as their quality. I also do not know if they are more assimilable than, say, oyster shell (which is BARELY assimilable). The main issue is, where do they push one's pH? You mentioned that Pascalite calcium has a pH of high 6 or 7, and that Coral calcium is in the high 9's. This, assuming they are not hard to break down, like oyster shell, would make them good calciums to be used to balance an over-acid pH. But so is calcium hydroxide, which is considerably cheaper to buy. (You have to ask a pharmacist to order it; it's rarely on the shelf. Daily Manufacturing also carries it.) Once a client's pH is close to 6.4 (6.3-6.5), I recommend they switch to a neutral pH calcium such as calcium orotate, aspartate, citrate or gluconate. Neutral pH calciums can be utilized by the body in large quantities, because they are very low-energy calciums.! > Reams said that the body could use up 1000 mg.'s per hour of calcium gluconate (the lowest-energy calcium). He maintained that calcium deposits are not from too much calcium, they are from an imbalance of calciums, causing one type to be unassimilated because of a deficiency of the other type. The analogy to demonstrate this looks like this: If you take a cup of vinegar and a cup of baking soda and dump them together in a bowl, you will get a large release of energy from them, right? What about a cup of vinegar and a teaspoon of baking soda? Not much energy released, is there? That's because of the unbalanced ratio between the two substances. Reams said that we do not live off the food we eat, we live off the energy from the food we eat. The body extracts energy from the foods we eat by the interaction of the minerals in the food with the digestive acids and enzymes in our stomach and digestive organs. Literally, the energy is extracted by the resistance between the two subst! > ances. When the pH is too acid, it means that all the minerals and vitamins which need an alkaline medium to be extracted will not be efficiently extracted. Vice-versa for those nutrients that need an acid medium, if our pH is too alkaline. In reality, all nutrients are best assimilated in a balanced pH. > > Reams maintained that pH is an expression of one's calcium condition, not diet (acid or alkaline-forming foods), with one exception: The more DEmineralized a person was (including and especially calcium), the more their pH's (and the rest of their numbers) would fluctuate. Reams said that the body uses more calcium in volume than all other nutrients combined. I have had clients whose pH would be alkaline in the morning and acid at night, UNTIL they had been on a REmineralization program for awhile. Then their pH's stayed the same, whatever they ate. > > Reams said that the pH (especially the urine pH) represented the average pH for the day, even though it was measured in the morning. This could not be true if pH was determined by food, since one might eat differently each day, and differently throughout the day. Again, there is an exception: If a person's body is demineralized (the case with most people), their pH will be effected by eating acid or alkaline foods, but this will not be an accurate pH reading (it will not tell me what it's supposed to tell me, i.e., the state of the body's calciums). That is why repeated testing every day for awhile (even several times a day) will determine whether a person's pH is consistently acid or alkaline, or is fluctuating because of demineralization. If it is fluctuating, I recommend the client start a remineralization program and take a neutral pH calcium. Once people remineralize their bodies, they find themselves with a consistent pH of 6.3 - 6.5 without having to fiddle with either ! > their diet or their calciums. > > One of the things I liked about Carey Reams was that he simplified the process of regaining one's health by approaching it in a scientific, sensible way. > > The bottom line is this: We are MADE of minerals. We are not made of vitamins or enzymes or hormones, we are made of minerals. I think that nearly everybody knows that we are 80% water. I weigh 175 lbs., so if all the water in me was removed, there would be about 35 lbs. of powder left. What would this powder consist of? Minerals. Of those minerals, 70% of that would be calciums. So you are basically made of calcium and water. I liken the body to a brick wall. The wall is made up of bricks and the mortar that holds the bricks together. In this case, the bricks represent calciums, and the mortar is all the rest of the minerals. Obviously, if the bricks in a wall are crumbling, the wall won't be very strong. But equally obvious is that, if the mortar is dissolving from between the bricks, the wall won't last long, either. > > I think nearly everyone also knows that the foods we buy in the store don't have much nutrition in them, because of what has been done to the soil by commercial farming. U.S. Senate Report #264 (available from a dozen or more Web pages selling Colloidal Minerals) declares the mineral-poor soil condition in North America as reaching a consequential level. This is even more significant when you consider that this report was published in 1936. So, you not only cannot remineralize your body by eating "good" foods, you cannot even maintain pre-existing good health, even if you already had it. > > Every day our bodies use up a certain amount of minerals just to function, yet we are not fully replacing those minerals with the foods we eat. It's a bit like a checking account I once had, where if I wrote a check for more than the money that was in the checking account, it would automatically dip into the money in my savings account. They called it Overdraft Protection. But we have all been doing this same thing all our lives with our Metabolic Bank Accounts. Every day that you deposit less into your account than the checks you write that day, you dip into your savings account, which in this case means what Reams called your Mineral Reserve. When I do not give my body the minerals it needs that day, my body steals them from somewhere else in my body. So, if my chemistry has become unbalanced in one particular way, my body will steal minerals from my joints, and I will end up with arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, etc. Or, if my body has a chemistry imbalance of another kin! > d, my body will leach minerals from the linings of my arteries, and I will contract heart disease. > > As we grow older, our savings accounts get so low that there is not enough for our bodies to use to respond to emergencies. Then we end up with statistics like this: Of people over 65 years of age who fall down and break an arm or leg, 70% don't live 90 days. They don't have enough in their reserve accounts to cope with the trauma. Everybody's heard of the senior citizen who was in an auto accident, had no obvious injuries, but died a short time later anyway. They just didn't have enough in their reserve to cope with the trauma of even a bad scare. (My grandmother, at 94, stumbled and sat down hard on the cement porch steps. She didn't break anything, didn't hit her head, wasn't unconscious. She was dead within six weeks.) So we need to be making deposits into our Metabolic Bank Accounts which are not only enough to cover our days' checks, but provide extra to rebuild our low reserves. > > When you get into the field of health and nutrition, you are overwhelmed with information. Every time you pick up a magazine, you will see an article telling you how important it is to take this herb, or that amino acid, or how effective various therapies are for treating various health issues (reflexology, colonics, accupuncture, liver-cleansing, dry brush massage, fasting, colostrum, homeopathy, Rife Beam Therapy, Magnetic Pulser, Blood Electrification, etc.). It seems very complicated and confusing. > > I believe in the efficacy of all these therapeutic models, but they are all just that: Therapeutic Models. A therapy is something that causes your body to kick into a different and more efficient healing gear, something that causes the body to heal itself more effectively. But therapies don't address the problem of an empty bank account. Therapies don't refill our mineral reserves. I know that many of the therapeutic substances contain valuable nutrients, and many of them respond to specific deficiencies (like colloidal silver does). But we are made of the whole range of minerals, and our bodies use the whole range of vitamins, etc., to best utilize those minerals. Dr. Reams generally opposed taking individual nutrients (B1, B6, etc.), because he said that vitamins and minerals occurred in nature in groups, or complexes, and also was utilized in our bodies most efficiently in those complexes. In fact, taking therapeutic substances that trigger our bodies to heal more efficient! > ly can actually increase our need for those brick-and-mortar nutrients of which we are made. Remineralization is essential before trying to initiate significant healing (although during remineralization, the body usually commences healing actions using the minerals that are being provided). > > So the need for supplementation is essential. The next question is: Where do I find high-quality supplements that will cover all my days' checks and build up my reserve account? Obviously, every supplement company claims theirs is the best. What standard do we use to differentiate high-quality from poor-quality? > > Well, I think most holistic or naturalistic-oriented practitioners would agree on this next point: If you were deficient in iron, you wouldn't expect that sucking on an iron nail all day would help, would you? The reason for this, of course, is because the iron nail won't dissolve in your mouth (or be assimilated inside your body). How about if you ground the nail up into tiny pieces? Again, this would not help because you would, in effect, only have millions of tiny iron nails, which still would not dissolve or be assimilated, in your body. The reason for this is because the iron nail is made of metallic iron, just like digging a chunk of iron ore out of the ground. But I once read a letter-to-the-editor in Mother Earth magazine in which a man had iron-poor soil in his garden. So he pounded iron nails into the ground in his garden. By the next year, the nails had all dissolved into the ground, and his vegetables tested high in iron. The plants had taken the metallic iron from! > the ground and converted it to organic iron, meaning a form of iron useable by an organism. So we recognize that the best source for minerals is a plant source. > > But then we have the already mentioned problem of the plants in North America being mineral-poor. It would be nice if we could harvest the plants that grew a long time ago that were high in minerals, before man stripped the soil (a kind of nutritional time-travel). And so we can. There are deposits of very old plants (actually buried prehistoric forests) which have been found in Arizona, Nevada and Utah (there may be more, but these are the ones I've heard of). If you believe in the Carbon-14 dating techniques used by geologists, these deposits are 75-120 million years old. They are called humic shale or pre-lignitic coal (ancient plants which have not yet turned into coal, thereby still containing their original minerals). Depending on the source, and even what part of the source, these old plant deposits contain 65-77 minerals, all organic, meaning converted by a plant to a state useable by an organism. > > At this point the topic of Colloidal Minerals will arise. Lots of opinions, lots of claims. Let's start with the basics: Colloidal is defined in the scientific world to refer to particles of a substance which are so small they are suspended in a liquid medium without floating to the top or sinking to the bottom, yet are not absorbed into the liquid (like you would have in a solution), but stay separate from it. Still with me? Dr. Reams insisted that colloidal minerals were what the body needed (this in 1939), that the assimilation rate for metallic, non-colloidal minerals was so much lower as to make them nearly valueless. > > Now, one might think that you could grind up minerals into a fine powder and put them in water and call them "colloidal" (as some companies do), except for three things. One, grinding up metallic minerals would only get you millions of tiny "nails"; two, they would not be organic; and three, you could not actually grind them into particles anywhere near as small as the particles you find in plant-source colloidal minerals. The minerals found in plants are not ground up by the plants, but taken apart molecule by molecule. (All plant-source minerals are colloidal. Since all plants contain a liquid medium, they can't be anything else.) The value of the mineral particles being so small is in the ease of their assimilation, among other things. > > The next topic that will arise when you begin researching Colloidal Minerals is Ionic. (Specifically, an ion is a molecule with a positive or negative charge.) You will see colloidal minerals being advertised as Ionic, Colloidal Minerals. The word Ionic, as used by these advertisers, refers to the mineral particles having the same charge (positive or negative). The significance of this is that, if the minerals that are suspended in a liquid all have the same charge, they will repel and stay separate from each other (like the south poles of two magnets repelling each other). We see this same phenomenon in the making of colloidal silver. When some of the silver particles in the water begin to lose or change their charge, they aggregate, or clump together (become attracted to each other). In the same way, we are told, that the silver particles become less assimilable as they become larger, so would the mineral particles. > > I have some reservations about this idea. For one thing, nearly all of the colloidal mineral liquids that are sold are flavored (the minerals themselves tend to be very bitter). If you wanted the minerals (or silver) to stay ionized (separated by their identical charge) you could not mix them with anything that was not also same-charge ionized, or the mineral particles (or silver) would aggregate to what you added (lemon juice, sugar, honey, etc.), supposedly making them less assimilable. But this pre-supposes that particle size is of major significance. Dr. Reams called his urine/saliva testing to determine biochemical imbalances "Biological Ionization". He explained that the whole process of digestion and assimilation occurs on the molecular level. We tend to think of the food we eat as dissolving in our stomachs (which would show the importance of adequate chewing). But, in reality, the reason to chew our food adequately is to expose as much surface area of the food as poss! > ible to the digestive acids and enzymes which extract the minerals and vitamins using an interaction process similar to the vinegar / baking soda analogy I described earlier. Literally, when the digestive acids and enzymes in our bodies do not have the right molecular frequency, it's kind of like having too much vinegar and not enough baking soda, and efficient digestion will not occur. The molecular frequency is what determines whether something is acidic or alkaline (in reality, we're concerned with cationic and anionic, but that's another discussion), how much energy is contained in that substance, and how efficiently it will be assimilated and utilized. Going back to the particle-size concept (too big means less assimilable), efficient digestion and assimilation is the de-ionization of the foods that we eat, meaning that the body takes the food apart literally ion by ion. If this were not so, we would not be able to digest any food, because we certainly do not chew our foo! > d into ion-sized particles. No, our bodies remove the minerals from our food molecule by molecule, assign them the appropriate charge, and assimilate them into the body's cells in an ionic form (here I mean taken completely apart, and a specific charge added to each particle). It's not actually possible to have colloidal minerals that are not also ionic, because being ionic (having the same charge and repelling each other) is what even makes the colloidal state possible. In a sense, plant-source minerals are already partially digested by the plant they are in, and are therefore more assimilable by our bodies. > > I realize some of the Colloidal Mineral companies make a distinction between ions with a positive and a negative charge, claiming that the body's cells only assimilate negative-charged ions. But once, when I was in one of Eugene Reams' classes (Dr. Carey Reams' son), and he was talking about the importance of cleaning out the colon, I asked him how that could be done. He said, "Psyllium seed". I was thinking of the importance of fiber, and I said, "Why Psyllium seed?" (I thought to myself, 'Wheat bran is a lot cheaper'.) He said, "Because it has a positive charge". He went on to explain that as the Psyllium seeds passed through the colon, they would attract and remove the negative-charged fecal matter from the walls of the colon. I have difficulty with the simplistic idea that all "good" minerals from all foods are negatively charged, that the only assimilable minerals are negatively charged. Dr. Reams taught that, when a person's chemistry is balanced, the digestive process a! > dds the appropriate charge to each molecule, to be utilized as the body needs. > > Let me now return to the pre-historic plant deposits found in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. I had known for years from Dr. Reams that we all needed to remineralize our bodies (cover our checks and refill our reserves), and that we needed colloidal, plant-source minerals. After moving from California to Nova Scotia, Canada, I got on the net and researched companies that sold Colloidal Minerals. I found a dozen or more companies purporting to sell "Colloidal Minerals", and some which sold "Ionic, Colloidal Minerals". I ordered from 3 of them, asked numerous questions of all of them. I personally drank 18 bottles (up to 6 oz. per day) of the stuff sold by Nature's Rx (I bought it on sale) without noticing any change whatsoever in anything in my health. I might as well have been drinking plain lemon-aid, which is probably what I was doing. I also went through a bottle of ConcenTrace, which is minerals from the Great Salt Lake in Utah. I was cautioned by a ConcenTrace rep not to take! > more than the recommended dose, that it would cause diarrhea. I bought a third colloidal mineral drink made by Now! Health Foods, drank it generously, but noticed nothing. > > Then I found a company called New Vision International (www.nviworld.com in the U.S., www.nviworld-canada.com in Canada). They, too, have a colloidal mineral drink containing 65 plant-source minerals. But they go a step further than the rest. They have a supplement which is 14 fruits juiced, the water removed and the powder put into capsules; another supplement which is 19 vegetables the same. The company that grows these fruits and vegetables is called Bio-Flora. They grow all these fruits and vegetables themselves, exclusively for NVI, they don't buy them from anyone, they grow them "organically" (no pesticides, etc.) and they fertilize them with these 65 plant-source minerals. In the U.S., they are called Fruit Power and Veggie Power caps (the drink is called Essential Minerals), and in Canada AM and PM caps (the drink is called Liquid Essence). My clients who take all three report results which are difficult to believe. I have two pharmacists and a medical doctor who are ! > my clients. The doctor delivered our 3rd child, and we (my wife and I) liked this doctor a lot. Not too long after our child was born she got sick (pneumonia) and had to take a sabbatical from her practice. Then she came back, but later contracted pneumonia again, and almost died. Before she had fully recovered from that, she came down again with pneumonia, almost died, and the doctors started talking tuberculosis. She had to close her practice. Later she recovered enough to work, and was employed as a doctor at a nearby military base. However, she couldn't drive herself to work, because she would fall asleep at the wheel. At work she would sleep between patients, sleep during lunch and after work come home and go right to bed (it appears she had a form of narcolepsy). Then she started taking the NVI products. Today, a year later, she is six months pregnant, nursing an 8-month old, working full-time as a doctor at the military base, and when she gets home from work she wants t! > o play tennis! At midnight she tells herself she ought to go to bed, but she doesn't feel like it. She tells me she has virtually unlimited energy. Should you want to talk to her, her name is Dr. Andrea Barry, and her number is 1-800-440-0443 (after 1:00 P.M. Atlantic Standard Time). > > All of this that I'm telling you is to illustrate the dramatic effects of giving your body all the minerals it needs. Dr. Reams maintained that all disease is the result of demineralization. He insisted that, if your chemistry was balanced, everyone around you could be dropping like flies from Bubonic Plague and it would not touch you. > > Dr. Reams raised six children to adulthood, and none of them ever had a cold, ever had a cavity, ever missed a day of school in their lives. During WW2, Reams drove over a land mine and was severely injured (including his liver and kidneys) and was not expected to live more than a few days, but by constantly adjusting his chemistry and giving his body all that it needed, he lived until his late 80's. > > One other of my clients is a pharmacist (now nutritionally oriented). She has had a total body rash for the last nine years that would not respond to any treatment from medicine, homeopathy or naturopathy. I tested her and told her what calciums she needed, plus the mineral drink and the fruit and veggie caps. Within 3 days her rash started to disappear, she found herself jumping out of bed at 5:30 A.M. because she couldn't stay in bed (lots of energy), the bags under her eyes are almost gone, she also doesn't feel like going to bed when it's only midnight, and she's just plain happier now than ever. She has also found that, without paying any attention to it, her cigarette consumption has dropped to half what it was (and falling). Her name is Maria Hagen, her work number is 902-584-3366 (9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Monday & Tuesday, Thursday - Saturday, Atlantic Standard Time). > > Though I have been testing people for 15 years, I have never seen my clients respond to any other line of supplements like this. Other of my clients are a woman with totally unresponsive Candida who offered to hug me after a week on the products, two diabetics who no longer need insulin (Dr. Barry is overseeing them), high blood pressure and high cholesterol which have returned to normal (actually, Dr. Barry's husband) and arthritis which has nearly gone. > > What's in it for me? > > Yes, NVI markets their products using Network Marketing, and yes, I am interested in sponsoring distributors. But the nice thing about NVI is that you can sign up (for no cost) as a Preferred Customer, have whatever you want automatically shipped to you each month (if you want to purchase that way), and pay no attention to the MLM part of it. On the other hand, it only costs US$10 to become a distributor ($15 in Canada), and that saves you $3.00 per bottle, with no minimum required order, or penalty if you don't order. > > There, I've made my pitch. I'm done with that part, unless you have questions about it, which you should certainly email me privately at: [email protected] > > Question: I was in Theron Randolph's (the granddad of food allergy testing) unit for a month many years ago. I was just about a universal reactor. I'm not sure I want to get into this right now. I have had blood tests and vega tests for food allergies in the past few years that all give a different story. Some say I have almost no allergies. Some say I have a lot of allergies. Too many buttons for me right now, if that's okay. I think I'll stick to working on pH at the moment. This is just great, Terry. I had read about Reams work with calcium and pH some time ago, but it seemed so complicated... I will order the pH tape tomorrow. Thank you. > > Answer: The nice thing about pulse testing [more detail about this in the next attachment] is that you can do it a little at a time, one food at a time, it costs nothing, and you can experiment with it all you want (there are no risks). It's possible to have varying results because, with food sensitivities, you are not always consistently reactive to every food. I am sensitive to certain foods (or substances) depending on how recently, how much, how often and how close together I ate them (or was exposed to the substance). I tested reactive to three-quarters of the scratch and sniff tests, but if I avoid the foods I am sensitive to, I react to hardly any of the dusts and pollens. (My clients have had the same experience.) I can eat a small amount of chocolate about once per week (if I haven't also been recently eating, say, peanuts). But if I eat chocolate two or three days in a row, I will react unpleasantly. > > I very well may have tried to cover too much in one sitting, but feel free to ask me questions. You may also call me should you desire at: 902-584-3810 Atlantic Standard Time. > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
