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KrissaTMC2
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I just had to dig up this thread because of the information concerning Barium Stearite and Aluminum oxide before it disappeared. |
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Jeanie
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Fri Apr 19, 2002 5:21 am
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Hello Nirvana; Some time ago you offered me some encouragement to do the Clark cleanses. Have done the para-cleanse, am part way into the kidney cleanse, soon to come will be the liver cl. which I plan to repeat, then on to the last one. It is stated that viruses go inside parasites, and when the parasite dies, the virus is released . After a while on the para-cl I came down with the exact same virus I had about two months ago. This explanation seems to explain the reoccurance the illness. My energy has been low, don't know for sure, the cause. You might find interesting the web site www.iconacraft.com This deals with some recipes etc. I read in regards to the bar soap recipe, the proportion of lye is much too strong. Time will tell how valuable these new ideas are. Jeanie 
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Nirvana
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Fri Apr 19, 2002 9:39 am
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Hi Jeanie,
I am very glad that you are taking the initiative to do the cleanses. Wait until you do the liver flush, you will not be disappointed. I will do my 3rd soon. My favorite supplier of black walnut extract, wormwood, and cloves is http://www.shrc.net, run by Hulda Clark's son.
I also recommend you look into the health protocol advanced by Bob Beck. You can do an Internet search on his name and find lots of information. Specifically beneficial is blood electrification and drinking homemade colloidal silver, but all four elements of the protocol are beneficial. The primary supplier of these instruments is Sota Instruments in Canada. It's the only supplier endorsed by Dr. Beck. www.sotainstruments.com. I have bought and used some of their instruments and find them very reliable. Such a company cannot exist in the USA at this time due to undue scruitiny by the FDA and FTC. See also www.sharinghealth.com for information.
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Sore Throat
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Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:54 am
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I want to add this cross thread reference.
This seems to be one that NO debunker, skeptic, etc. seems to want to touch.
Interesting observation in and of itself.
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001161.html |
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KrissaTMC2
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Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:27 am
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I found this interesting and somewhat depressing article concerning Aluminum toxicity.
Aluminum Toxicity in Infants and Children (RE9607)
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Committee on Nutrition
Although aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust and is ubiquitous in its distribution, it has no known useful biological function. Even though the element is present in small amounts in mammalian tissues, its toxic effect on living organisms has become clear only recently. Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues.
ALUMINUM EXPOSURE
Humans are exposed to aluminum from a variety of environmental sources. Because aluminum sulfate (alum) is used as a flocculating agent in the purification of municipal water supplies, drinking water may contain high levels of aluminum. Aluminum cans, containers, and cooking utensils, as well as medications that contain aluminum, are also potential sources of exposure.[1]
Although an increase in body stores of aluminum as a result of transfer through the skin is probably negligible, exposure is common from the use of deodorants containing aluminum. Aluminum inhaled from dust is retained in pulmonary tissue and peribronchial lymph nodes but is largely excluded from other tissues. The aluminum concentration in pulmonary tissues does not correlate with that in other tissues.
The average dietary intake of aluminum by adults is probably 3 to 5 mg/d, of which about 15 mug is absorbed.[2] Most of the aluminum absorbed from the intestinal tract is excreted in urine, leaving total body aluminum stores of less than 30 to 40 mg. Individuals with normal glomerular filtration rates who increase their aluminum intake by ingesting aluminum-containing antacids increase their absorption and urinary excretion of the metal.[3] Healthy individuals seem capable of increasing their renal aluminum clearance from approximately 5% to about 50% of the glomerular filtration rate.[4,5] The low aluminum clearance normally present is largely related to the plasma binding of aluminum by a saturable plasma component at blood levels less than 200 mug/L.[5]
Aluminum levels in tissue are generally low in adults with normal renal function who have ingested large amounts of aluminum-containing antacids for years [4]; however, elevated plasma aluminum levels have been reported in healthy infants given aluminum-containing antacids.[6] In contrast, in patients with chronic renal failure, total body aluminum can be markedly increased from the ingestion of antacids containing aluminum. Bone and liver are the tissues most frequently affected by increased absorption and/or decreased clearance of aluminum.
POTENTIAL FOR TOXICITY
Renal Disease
In 1976, it was reported that the brain tissue of patients dying of a neurologic syndrome called dialysis encephalopathy had high concentrations of aluminum in the gray matter.[7] Two years later, a severe form of osteomalacic osteodystrophy (fracturing dialysis osteodystrophy) and dialysis encephalopathy was described, which occurred in patients undergoing dialysis with a dialysate prepared from tap water that contained large amounts of aluminum.[8] The epidemic-like occurrence of these diseases was largely eliminated by removing the aluminum from the water used to prepare the dialysate.
The first reports of pediatric patients with progressive encephalopathy similar to dialysis encephalopathy described some children who had not received dialysis at the time their symptoms first appeared.[9,10] The children had congenital renal disease and had received doses of aluminum-containing phosphate binders as high as 240 to 800 mg/kg per day for 4 to 12 months. Aluminum toxicity also has been reported from bladder irrigation with aluminum sulfate.[11] Many of these studies do not include data on aluminum levels in plasma and tissue.
A report in 1984 described three infants with azotemia in whom aluminum intoxication developed after treatment with aluminum hydroxide.[12] Biopsies of the iliac crest demonstrated severe osteomalacia and massive deposition of aluminum in the bone. In the same year, another child who had chronic renal failure and normal neurologic findings at 2 years of age was described.[13] This child developed encephalopathy by 8 years of age. The child had not received dialysis but had received aluminum-containing phosphate binders for 6 years. High concentrations of aluminum were found in serum samples and bone biopsy specimens. Other studies have confirmed that children with chronic renal failure who receive aluminum-containing antacids for control of hyperphosphatemia have increased serum aluminum concentrations and bone aluminum levels.[14-16] The data from these studies show a direct correlation between the oral aluminum dose and plasma aluminum concentrations. Plasma aluminum levels greater than 100 mug/L put individuals at risk for aluminum toxicity.[2,12,15] The precise threshold for toxicity is not known, but it may be lower than 100 mug/L.
Alternatives to treatment with aluminum-containing phosphate binders are available. Calcium carbonate has been shown to be superior to aluminum binders in the control of secondary hyperparathyroidism in adults and children with chronic renal failure.[17] Calcium acetate also has been shown to be a safe, effective binder of phosphate.[18] Calcium citrate should not be used as a phosphate binder, because citrate enhances aluminum absorption from dietary sources.[19]
One study has shown that aluminum does not accumulate in infants with chronic renal failure who are not exposed to aluminum-containing antacids or contaminated intravenous solutions.[20]
Intravenous Therapy
High concentrations of aluminum have been found in the bone, urine, and plasma of infants receiving intravenous therapy.[21,22] It has been shown that commercial albumin solutions and a number of substances frequently used as additives in the parenteral fluids given to premature infants may have high aluminum concentrations, including intravenous calcium and phosphorus salts as well as dextrose and mixed parenteral nutrition solutions.[21-23]
Aluminum loading has been observed in patients with normal renal function who receive long-term parenteral nutrition with aluminum-contaminated fluids.[24] The Food and Drug Administration has recommended that concentrations of aluminum in parenteral solutions should not exceed 25 mug/L.[23]
Infant Formulas
Data on the aluminum content of human milk and a variety of infant formulas [25-29] are shown in Table 1. The aluminum levels in all infant formulas are higher than those in human milk. The formulas containing the highest levels of aluminum are those with additives, such as calcium salts and soy protein, which contain aluminum as a contaminant.
There have been conflicting reports on the possibility of aluminum accumulation from infant formulas. One group of investigators have proposed that the aluminum present in infant formulas played a role in the development of aluminum toxicity in two neonates with renal failure.[25] Later, the authors conceded that other unrecognized sources of aluminum, such as intravenous fluids, may have contributed to the excessive aluminum loading in these infants.[30]
Other investigators [20,28] have found no evidence of aluminum accumulation from infant formulas. Formulas for premature infants seem to contain higher levels of aluminum than do standard formulas for term infants.[27,28] Therefore, there is a slightly higher aluminum intake and plasma aluminum concentration in premature infants than in term infants.[27] A provisional tolerable intake recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization [31] is 1 mg/kg per day. Infants fed formulas with even the highest levels of aluminum, 2.35 mg/L, at intakes as high as 200 mL/kg per day would receive an aluminum dose of less than 0.5 mg/kg per day.[26-28] Currently, the data are insufficient to recommend against the use of specialized formulas in premature infants; on the contrary, the nutritional advantages of premature infant formulas clearly outweigh the concern about the higher concentrations of aluminum in these products. However, it seems prudent to seek further reduction in the aluminum levels of infant formulas and to investigate whether aluminum accumulates in the tissue of premature infants fed formulas.
TREATMENT OF ALUMINUM TOXICITY
Deferoxamine administered intravenously has been shown to reduce the body aluminum burden and to ameliorate injury to the bone and brain in adults receiving hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.[32] Deferoxamine also has been used successfully to treat aluminum toxicity in children.[33,34]
Although new cases of aluminum intoxication should be preventable in most instances, deferoxamine therapy seems beneficial for those with established aluminum toxicity; however, this therapy is not without hazards. It may cause a number of allergic reactions, including pruritus, wheals, and anaphylaxis. Other adverse effects include dysuria, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, fever, leg cramps, and tachycardia. Cataracts and neurotoxicity also have been described.[35]
CONCLUSIONS
Dialysis encephalopathy and fracturing osteomalacia, which occur in hemodialysis units that use dialysis fluid contaminated with aluminum, have largely disappeared. This has been accomplished by establishing standards for safe concentrations of aluminum in dialysates. Infants, children, and adults with chronic renal failure who are not receiving dialysis have been shown to be at risk for aluminum intoxication from the oral administration of aluminum-containing phosphate binders. This complication should be avoided with the use of phosphate binders that do not contain aluminum and the use of other measures to control hyperphosphatemia.
A number of substances commonly administered intravenously, including calcium and phosphorus salts and albumin, have high levels of aluminum. Premature infants receiving intravenous fluid therapy may accumulate aluminum and show evidence of aluminum toxicity. Efforts are being made to reduce the levels of aluminum in products added to intravenous solutions; these efforts must continue.
Some infant formulas may contain relatively high concentrations of aluminum. The reported concentrations of aluminum in soy formulas and premature infant formulas are higher than those in other infant formulas. The potential impact of these formulas on the aluminum intake of premature infants and infants with impaired renal function should be recognized, although it is not clear that toxic effects result from the use of the formulas in these situations.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Aluminum-containing phosphate binders should not be administered to infants and children with renal failure.
2. Continued efforts should be made to reduce the levels of aluminum in products that are added to intravenous solutions that are used for premature infants and infants and children with renal failure.
3. Continued efforts should be made to reduce the aluminum content of all formulas used for infants, but especially soy formulas and formulas tailored specifically for premature infants.
4. In infants at risk for aluminum toxicity (renal failure and prematurity), attention should be paid to the aluminum content of the water used in reconstitution of infant formulas. http://www.aap.org/policy/01263.html
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KrissaTMC2
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Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:41 am
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Here's some more information about aluminum.
Aluminum
Aluminum is a relative newcomer to the list of toxic metals, long having been considered harmless. It has been implicated as a contributory cause of Alzheimer's disease. (5) Elevated hair aluminum in children, especially when attended with elevations of lead, have been found to cause decreased visual motor performance. (6)
We routinely recommend hair tests for ADHD children, primarily as a screening test for lead. Rather surprisingly, the most consistent finding is that of elevated hair aluminum.
Aluminum comes from foods cooked or stored in aluminum pans and aluminum foil. Leafy vegetables, rhubarb, and apples cooked in aluminum pans are prone to leach the metal from the pan. Pressure cookers are especially likely to impart metal into the food. Tap water may contain aluminum when it is used in water reservoirs to flocculate silt from the water. Other sources include antacids taken for stomach trouble, some antiperspirants, food additives, and milk substitutes. http://www.oneflesh.org/Child-chap%208.html
Contamination with Aluminum Compounds
Copyright 1996 Leading Edge Research Group, P.O. Box 7530, Yelm, Wasington 98597 USA
General Information
Aluminum is the third most abundant element (8%) in the Earth's crust, exceeded by oxygen (47%) and silicon (28%). Because of its strong affinity to oxygen, aluminum never occurs as a metal in nature but is found only in the form of its compounds, such as alumina. This strong affinity to oxygen also explains why it withstood all attempts to prepare it in its elemental form until well into the 19th century. The metal's name is derived from alumen, the Latin name for alum.
In 1761 the French chemist Guyton de Morveau proposed the name alumine for the base in alum, and in 1787 Antoine Lavoisier identified alumine as the oxide of a then-undiscovered metal.
In 1807 Sir Humphry Davy assigned the name alumium to the metal and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted to conform with the -ium ending of most elements, and this spelling is now in general use throughout the world, except in the United States (where the second i was dropped in 1925) and Italy (where alluminio is used). The role aluminum plays in human physiology is not known. The metal is ingested through food and water. Aluminum has been detected in the brain cells of Alzheimer’s Disease patients. ...
The rest of this article can be found here. http://www.connectcorp.net/~trufax/mercury/alum1.html
And here is the site where I found the article at.
Chemical Manipulation of Consciousness, Behavior,
Health and Evolutionary Potential in the Human Population http://www.connectcorp.net/~trufax/menu/chem.html
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Nirvana
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Sat Apr 20, 2002 8:51 pm
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Eat cilantro and chlorella daily for a couple of weeks if you are worried about heavy metal poisoning. It's been found to rid the body of these poisons. |
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