Something I haven;t heard mentioned yet is that we live in a veritable cloud of yeast. Actually that may be a bit of an overstatement but yeast is everywhere, floating freely in the air and landing on all the food we eat. So we are never going to rid ourselves of wild yeast because we ingest it with every bite of food we take.
One of the interesting properties of yeast overgrowth is that it causes us to crave sweets and things like pasta, bred, and other grain products. I guess this isn't surprising since it is the carbohydrates in these foods which the yeast needs to thrive and multiply. Something I only recently learned however, is that in addition to the naturally occurring yeasts which are one of the primary forces in decomposition, and therefore important in maintaining the balance of nature. There is now and has been for several years a genetically engineered and patented yeast. It was developed for the wine industry. There is currently no labeling required for this particular form of GMO (Genetically Modified Organism). It has long been known that yeast gives off numerous byproducts during its life cycle, which is basically just eating other things, some of these byproducts are benign, some of them are mildly toxic, causing things like flatulence and bloating, and some of them are highly toxic. These byproducts of the yeast life cycle vary from one strain to another. At this time (to the best of my knowledge) there is no clear evidence of just what the byproducts given off by this new genetically engineered yeast may be or how toxic or benign they may be to humans. Likewise it is unknown just what effect this GE yeast will have on the natural wild yeasts. the following quote came from: http://www.ecologycenter.org/terrain/article.php?id=13547 Genetics Professor Emeritus Joe Cummings, from the University of Western Ontario, writes in Sustainable Agriculture, "The United States Food and Drug Administration, in 2003, designated the genetically engineered yeast 'Saccharomyces cerevisae, strain ML01' to be a substance generally recognized as safe; [and] [t]he GM wine yeast did not appear to have been tested for toxicity in animal feeding experiments, nor was the must (the grape residue) [or] finished wine. The FDA review seemed to be based on faith rather than on science." I have edited the punctuation and capitalization for clarity. What this new GE yeast does is combine the actions which had previously taken two separate organisms and possibly other additives to accomplish and puts it all into one new GMO. I doubt that this will help anyone with their yeast infection. I just thought it might give people a little more to think about when pondering the issues surrounding yeast. -- L T R Registered linux user # 280295 Associate member #4758 of The Free Software Foundation itisi...@cox.net -- 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 Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
