> I have noticed that my teeth are not as healthy as they seemed to be > before I started on the silver. This led me to speculate > (remember Mike's post about 2 months ago about taking huge > quantities of silver, and getting leg cramps?) That perhaps the > large quantity of silver is leaching away the calcium needed to keep > my teeth healthy.
Careful. What I speculated was that I had so disturbed the flora that it had interfered with the uptake of calcium, and God knows what else, in the bowel. After most of a month, I begant to develop significant joint and muscle pain in the back, hips, and major leg muscles. By taking an easily asimilated form of calcium, the calcium citrate in supplemented orange juice, I experience rapid relief from what was probably a pretty acute shortage. All along I had been consuming "normal" quantities of dairy products, but it turns out they require some of the bacteria in the bowel for proper digestion. Thus I became malnourished while eating a regular amount of food. I doubt the Silver has any way to "leach" anything directly, but probably will interfere with your normal ability to take up minerals BY UPSETTING THE FLORA. A small maintenance dose, absorbed by swishing in the mouth, probably never gets enough into the gut to disrupt anything. However, repopulating the flora is recommended by many of the "experts" if you are going to be taking large enough quantities of CS to require it. > This of course leads me in search of a calcium supplement, which > will be easily absorbed and usuable by my body. Try replacing your flora and you may have another way to solve the problem, and probably more effectively. I know that *I* don't know all the things that healthy gut flora help you to digest. Just replacing the calcium is probably not enough, IMHO. The stuff in the calcium supplemented OJ worked well enough, but who can tell what else you need that's not in there!? I've not tried anything but yogurt to restore things, and have been mostly not taking large enough quantities of CS to really wipe me out inside. So, I don't have a specific recommendation for the kind of products needed. Though, of course, I've heard here about capsules that contain mixed bacteria that are supposed to do the job. Just haven't gone looking for them yet. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
