Langsley Russell wrote: > Hi everybody, and thanks to those who responded to my questions about > selenium and sulfur deficiencies caused by CS. for anyone who is > interested in finding out more about Mark Metcalf, the author whose > book I quoted, he has a website called, About Silver Medicine, at > http://aboutsilvermedicine.com/ He does seem to be truly pro CS. I > find it very interesting that no one on this list has any personal > knowledge of, or clinical evidence to either support or refute the > findings published in Mr.. Metcalf's book. That is, that silver bonds > with selenium and sulfur causing a deficiency in people who ingest CS > on a regular basis. Is it just because nobody has ever bothered to > check? Or is it that the effect is so slight as to not be of any > importance? On the surface it would seem to me to be fairly important > information, particularly in light of the fact that most of our diet's > are already lacking in selenium.
Silver does bind to sulfur, that is the process which creates tarnish on silverware. But from a practical standpoint I don't see how CS could cause a sulfur deficiency. There is so much sulfur in a typical person's diet it is left completely out of the FDA RDA. If all the silver in 10 ppm CS were to bind with sulfur, then the amount of sulfur tied up would be trivial. Selenium however, being a trace mineral does not fall in this catagory and might be work exploring. Marshall
