How about the idea that human digestion is enzymic in nature. The acid is a defense against parasites and most bacterium. An enzyme is not a microbe nor is an enzyme alive, so CS won't kill it.
I can take a handfull of Tums and still digest food. Ode At 07:44 PM 4/16/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I like your subject header better than mine. > There seems to be a lot of disagreement about human digestion. From >reading several differing opinions, I take the side that human digestion >is acid dependent in the main. Bacteria in the stomach are likely to be >pathogenic only, stomach digestion has nothing to do with bacteria. It >seems likely that the beneficial gut bacteria we are concerned with in >humans are much lower down in the intestines, therefore much less >subject to CS unless there is diarrhea. (so I have read). > My concern is that people with herbivore pets, might carry this >thinking over to pets like rabbits, in which digestion IS bacteria >dependent, and in those species CS could be very harmful if given in >sufficient amounts, as are other oral antibiotics. And to repeat, death >from dysbiosis can occur extremely quickly in these small animals. There >is no time to "fix" it with probiotics, which in any case, for rabbits >and other herbivore species human type probiotics are NOT normal GI >inhabitants of these animals. They can "fill in" so to speak, preventing >overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria until the normal gut flora >re-populate, but if that doesn't happen (too many have been killed off), >the animal will surely die, and I have read nothing to suggest that >probiotic bacteria spp, can replace the normal gut bacteria longterm. At >least one supplement sold for animals (namely Animal Essentials) >contains B. coagulans, which produced fatal enterotoxemia in mice. > I am harping on this because I want to be sure people understand that >it is not necessarily safe to generalize from humans to other species. >With some herbivore species, particularly pet rabbits, such generalizing >from one species to another could be fatal. Neither is it safe to >generalize from dog and cat to rabbit. >paula > > >M. G. Devour wrote: > >>Hi gang, >> >>This has been a frequent topic of discussion in the past. It's good to >>bring it up again for the newer members. >> >>I believe claims that CS "doesn't kill the good bacteria" are mostly >>marketing hype. In effect, it is sort-of true, but as the information >>is usually presented it is clearly wrong. >> >>CS will kill almost any bacteria we know of, with the exception of some >>strange bugs from some silver-rich soil deposits that have adapted >>somehow. None of those effect us. CS will not, however, distinguish >>"good" bacteria from "bad." It *will* kill the gut flora if it can get >>there. >> >> >> > > > >-- >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]> > >
