Davido, I think the difference is in the quantity involved. There may be a threshold above which you will start hurting the bowel flora, and you reached it, for you, and probably just barely.
I had a similar experience when I was experimenting a long time ago with taking a similar amount, upwards of a quart a day of some pretty strong stuff. After some weeks at it, I realized I was starting to feel bad -- aches and pains in the lower extremities, weak and tired -- and realized, by way of the symptoms, that it was a *calcium* deficiency. It was solved, short term, by a few chugs of calcium supplemented orange juice from the grocery store. The results were almost instantaneous. Long term, of course, I cut back on the CS a bit. Sol, I think if you put enough in, it'll start to affect everything, even what's in the colon. But that amount tends to be pretty big, as David and I demonstrate. Of course, all bets are off if you're talking about an intestinal tract that's *already* been cleared by diarrhea as from food poisoning or a bad flu, in which case a big chug of CS will probably go a long way towards clearing up whatever's in there and getting you ready to repopulate the gut with probiotics. David, if you're concerned about picking up a bug from all those lil'uns you cart around every day, I'd say you can do just as well with half the CS you're taking, or even less. My thoughts, anyway. Mike D. > ... I was > ingesting about a gal. of cs/gatorade [i'd sa 'atleast'], the mix being > APPROX 3qts Gatora, 1qt cs [6-8ppm ish]. After 3 to 4 weeks of being > quite regular with it, I realized my eliminations had become quite loose > and herx like; my sense was that the good flora was being killed off; > that my digestion was not being complete. sol wrote > In addition my basic family medical guide says the "normal intestinal > flora" in the human intestines are found in the colon, not in the > stomach or small intestines. Thus there are NO "good bacteria" in a > human stomach. So nothing for CS to hurt. In the colon the water > content of the food remains is removed and absorbed, thus the colon > contents are relatively dry, so CS is not able to be very active there > at all. If one accepts the Altman study as reperesentative of how CS > is excreted in most humans, little CS exits the body through the feces > so it is extremely unlikely that CS could harm the colon's normal > flora. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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]>
