The paragraph on normal amounts refer to Silver not Silicon, as it now appears, in the below message.
Garnet On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:27, Garnet wrote: > Yes in many instances they do know how mineral function and interact. > But I don't think they know everything, it is difficult to ascertain > what one does not know. > > A good Biochemistry text book will describe many of the chemical > pathways and functions of many minerals in the body. Some that are > present in very low amounts have only been researched when the > technology (and funding) came along to measure them. Since Reganomics > much less funding has been available for basic research so but there is > still some going on. > > Zinc is a good example of a trace mineral we knew little about until we > were able to measure the low amounts it is present in. Once the research > was in all the major vitamin companies started adding it to their > blends, many Zn supplements appeared and people started talking about Zn > containing foods. > > Silicon is at that early stage right now. The trace minerals in general > are the ones we know the least about. > > According to The Elements 3rd Ed by John Emsley, a standard reference > normal amounts in the human body are 2 mg total (Blood 0.003 mg/dm3, > Bone 0.01-0.44 ppm, Liver 0.005-0.25 ppm, Muscle 0.009-0.28 ppm) . It is > distributed mainly in blood, bone, liver and muscle. Total dietary > intake is 0.0014 to 0.08 mg per day. It is present in the Earth's crust > 0.07 ppm. Native Silver occurs naturally as crystals, but more generally > as compact masses. It is often obtained as a by-product in the refining > of other metals such as copper. > > Garnet > > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:33, Thora Rasmussen wrote: > > Humans need minerals. Do scientists even know exactly how they work, what > > they do, how they change? If not, it may be difficult for us to figure out > > which part of the silver does the work, and where. > > > > > > -- > > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > >
