Fred wrote: > At 06:31 PM 6/22/2000, you wrote: > >Terry: Basically, what you are saying is that minerals which "have become > >part of the body" are chemically combined and will not leach out. Is there > >evidence to support this reasoning, or are we left to decide which of the two > >speculative arguments is more acceptable? > > Roger > > You might try logic Roger! We after all, are not tea bags we pour water thru! > > "The gastrointestinal tract has a strong "need regulated mechanism" of > absorption of minerals." Page 156 - [Your bodies many cries for water] by F. > Batmananghelidj (no, I didn't make that name up) and the stomach extracts > excess water (filters it, sans minerals - believe he said in 5 minutes) before > passing the mush on. Once in the blood stream, the liver functions to > precisely regulate the concentration of minerals in the blood, discharging > any excesses. > > Now don't try to tell me you have distilled water in your stomach right after > you drink a glass of DW! Any leaching would have had to be on the short trip > down the gullet and then it is part of a strong brew! >
The water is no longer distilled, true. But will it contain the trace minerals that it leaches? No it will not, since the trace minerals it leaches are in the blood and bone. Thus it will still be able to dissolve those trace minerals until it reaches saturation. At any rate it doesn't matter. Lets say that it does find sufficient calcium in the spit and stomach to reach saturation. It then leaves with them when you urinate. The body has lost the calcium, it really doesn't matter exactly from where. To replace it requires taking supplements, or the body will end up stripping it from the bones. Look at it like this. You have a jug of lime. If you pour water into the jug that is already saturated with calcium, the lime will not dissolve, you could do it for 100 years. But if you pour in distilled water, the water in the jug will be diluted below saturation, lime will dissolve and wash away. One could argue that the water is not distilled as soon as it hits the water that is sitting in the lime, but it makes no difference. The same amount of lime will be removed per liter of water regardless. Have you ever noticed that if you lime the yard, that watering it from the tap seems to do nothing, but it will dissolve when it rains? Rain water is basically distilled, so it easily leaches the lime, but water from the tap already has sufficient minerals usually that the lime dissolves slowly if at all. Marshall -- 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] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
