Jason, All, Dr. Higa and his colleagues formally recommend EM ingestion only for farm animals. They did for a time offer a very expensive "EMX" formulation for human medical use. It had no active microorganisms. I don't see it for sale anymore here.
I heard about human ingestion of EM from the wife of a retired biology professor from a local university. She told me that many people in Japan drink EM for health. I think it's safe and beneficial, but would advise anyone interested in experimenting to do so at their own risk, with full understanding that EM professionals do not advocate this use or claim medical benefits. They are understandably careful about this. An American man named Vinny Pinto has (or at least had) very useful Internet pages explaining home "brewing" of EM "extension," as it's called. It's very easy to do, isn't terribly temperature sensitive, and results in a very long-lasting product. I've had some for five years and it seems OK. As long as one squeezes out air from the PET bottle (the two-liter size works well), the balance of microorganisms seems quite stable. Pinto has for sale a kind of "recipe" book for EM manufacture. I don't own it, but my hunch is it's well worth having. Regarding cost: from a one liter bottle of new EM (about twenty dollars), one can make, if memory serves me, about twenty liters of EM extension. I don't think an individual would consume more than that in a year. An interesting aside: EM eats rust. You can use it on rusted metal things and it cleans them up nicely. The primary use, however, is in agriculture, so those interested in growing organic food will also be interested. One last item: Dr. Higa has written two volumes of a book called "Earth Saving Revolution," available in a first-rate English translation. It's one of the most interesting works I've ever read. On 2011/03/16, at 0:04, Jason R Eaton wrote: > Hi Steve: > > I'm always playing around with various probies. Sometimes, one must consider > how powerful of a porbiotic formula one actsually needs. I'm NOT an expert > on the topic, but I do emmensely enjoy the research. > > Dr. Mercola's probiotics, which contain ten strains, are desigend to survive > the digestive tract. These are just your run-of-the-mill probiotics, and a > touch pricey, but at least one knows the job will get done. > > The first of the "big guns" I play with are HSO's, homeostatic soil > organisms, offered by Garden Life under the brand name Primal Defense. These > are very controversial little creatures have no problems surviving through > the digestive system. These types of organisms have come under fire > primarily due to modern science's inability to predict the long term effects > of HSO's. However, before disregarding them as potentially profound healing > agents, the small scale studies done should be carefully considered. > > http://www.crohns-disease-probiotics.com/HSOs.html > > http://miracleii-4u.com/hsos-clinical-studies.htm > > > But my personal favorite probies I make myself, from Effective > Microorgansims. THe EM master culture, from Japan, is quite affordable, and > is a blend of microorganisms designed as a support system to keep one type of > very special microorganism alive: Two strains of photosynthetic bacteria, > Rhodopseudomonas palustris and Rhodobacter sphaeroides > > http://www.teraganix.com/Effective-Microorganisms-History-and-Availability-s/194.htm > > These amazing little creatures (if you can call them that) don't often appear > at the Earth's surface anymore... Not since the Earth's atomosphere began > containing oxygen. > > Every last researcher that I've corresponded with has been nothing short of > amazed at the various applications of EM and A-EM. Ongoing research > continues: > > http://emrojapan.com/ > > ...however, very little has been published in English about the health and > healing potential of using EM-based supplements as probiotics. That said, in > the worst case scenarios with people I correspond with, when their chronic > digestive conditions (and we're talking hospitalization level conditions) > respond to nothing else, a combination of EM therapy and clay therapy has, at > the very least, stabilized even the most serious cases of IBS, Crohns, and > other non- or mis-diagnosed conditions of the lower intestines. > > Whatever probiotic one chooses, it takes about four weeks to see how they > will compete with whatever else is in the colon. When the state of the colon > is returned to normal, an individual will always effortlessly go to the > bathroom once for every major meal eaten the day prior. > > So it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your > supplementation. I also make kombucha on occassion, and use Kefir, but I > don't see either as being powerful enough to act to restore serious digestive > disorders. > > Kind Regards, > > Jason > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gayla Roberts [mailto:aera...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:30 PM > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: CS>Probiotics > Anyone have experience and recommendations for probiotics? >
