Selenium is an important antioxidant and can reduce cancer size quite dramatically. Some areas are low in selenium soil content (like the alluvial plains of NZ) and selenium supplementation is advised.
Vitamin E must be a heavy metal scavenger I guess. Regards Ivan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 21 November 2000 10:30 Subject: Re: CS and the Big C > "Dean T. Miller" wrote: > > > Hi again, Ivan, > > > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:18:17 +1300, "Ivan Anderson" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > >Roger, > > > > > >You will find this document from the EPA contradicts the FDA on many > > >fronts. > > >The references to studies of the carcinogenity of silver, and the > > >conclusions reached are about half way through the document. > > > > > >http://www.epa.gov/ngispgm3/iris/subst/0099.htm > > > > >From the report: > > "Investigators have hypothesized that this toxicity is related to a > > silver-induced selenium deficiency that inhibits the synthesis of the > > seleno-enzyme glutathione peroxidase. In animals supplemented with > > selenium and/or vitamin E, exposures of silver as high as 140 > > mg/kg/day (100 mg Ag/L drinking water) were well-tolerated (Bunyan et > > al., 1968). " > > > > Now we know where the glutathione peroxidase comment came from (the > > MD's rant). > > I weigh 80 kg or so. That would be over 11 grams of silver a day for me! > Using 10 ppm CS that would require me to drink 1,100,000 grams of water, or > 286 gallons of colloidal silver a day. (I hope I didn't make any math errors > on that). > > And this is a problem???? > > So should we be taking selenium supplements? Also how does viatmin E help? > > 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]>
