> My little girl has for the past 36 hours of > so been coughing and wheezing and short of breath, and > the albuterol we are currently giving her (temporarily > until I get a nebulizer and some CS) is barely > working. I beginning to wonder if the ionizers are at > fault. > -Ken
Ken, before you blame the ionizer, which has not been linked to problems, take look at a probable antioxidant deficiency. The lungs are the third biggest users of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione after the liver and kidneys. The rate-limiting factor in glutathione production is cysteine, actually as cysteine-containing amino acid peptides, not as a free- form amino acid. The peptides happen to be in short supply in the diet, as is drinking water selenium in most areas. Selenium is used to make one form of glutathione, and it is low or absent in many areas and it's also depleted by arsenic in drinking water, a combination that can easily exacerbate a depleted antioxidant pool. The proof is in the pudding though, and I've seen people who were on oxygen for COPD for example not require it anymore. They reduced the irritating toxins, thus the mucous problem and inflammation, with cold-processed whey, selenium, and the antioxidant vitamins C, E, A, and a b-complex. Further gains could probably have been made with other antioxidants and cod-liver oil, an antiinflammatory. The other thing to look up is insufficient nitric oxide production in the lungs. It is important for microcapilliary circulation and when there's enough you get less swelling. There's probably enough arginine in the cold-processed whey but some people get good results with Noni. Although I no longer sell Noni products I think a lot of Noni and Nitric Oxide science is still on my web site. Duncan -- 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: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
