I am sure it's a factor, but I doubt that there's enough selenium in garlic to produce therapeutic effects considering how much garlic people take and how fast it works sometimes. Mark Konlee at Keep Hope Alive (http://www.execpc.com/~keephope/report24.html) talks about therapeutic doses of selenium.
Roman Ivan Anderson wrote: > It seems that garlic contains high concentrations of selenium, which > may account for some of its action. > > Regards > Ivan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roman [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Saturday, 20 July 2002 6:11 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: CS>CS & Melaleuca (tea tree) Oil > > > > > > I've attended a lecture with Charlie the Fox, the aged > > garlic man, in which he > > said that people are mislead about an active bacteria > > controlling substance in > > garlic. Allicin is VERY unstable and disappears too quickly > > to explain anti > > microbe action of garlic. > > > > Roman > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
