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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Natural pesticides versus artificial pesticides, in humans
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:26:20 EDT



> Sorry James, you will have to prove this to me..

I'm not sure it is a thing that can be proved, nor disproved, but .....


Consider a small IC engine such as a lawn mower or rototiller and you find
that for whatever reason there is an ounce or so of water in the gas tank
every
time you go to use the machine. If that water gets into the intake siphon,
it
can choke out the engine and/or corrode the engine parts. To get rid of that
periodic bit of water, you can add a few ounces of ethanol to the gas tank.
The ethanol goes into solution with the water, transports it through the
atomizer, and when the ethanol is burned in the cylinder, the water vapor is
exhausted along with the water vapor which results from the combustion of the
gasoline and ethanol. That is, water vapor in the exhaust system is no
problem,
it's what happens in normal operation of the engine.

If you realized that a bit of water was going to be in the gas tank
routinely, you could simpy add a few ounces of EverClear to the tank with
each fill of
gas and whether there is a little water in the gas tank makes no difference
whatever. A few ounces of ethanol burns goes through the fuels sytem, burns
in
the cylinder, and is exhausted with no problem. If there was a little water
there, it is eliminated by means of this "channel". If there were none, the
engine would operate exactly the same and little odds which.

BUT if you had more water than the amount of ethanol added to your fuel could
bind, some of the water would be left in the tank and over time would
accumulate. It could corrode parts of the tank and engine and eventually
would
"kill" the engine since so much water would be drawn through the fuel system,
it
would choke off combustion.

Until you swamp out this system, the presence of a little water is pretty
much the same as the presence of no water at all.

View this, for the sake of my argument, as a paradigm of the functioning
human system.

When toxins appear in the human system, there is a mechanism for transporting
them to some site or the other, usually the liver, where they are
enzymatically rendered to a form in which they can be eliminated. Then they
are
delivered outside the body through urine, sweat, breath, etc.

There is a view that every bit of lead or arsenic (for examples) that you
have ever ingested are retained in your body and their presence and effect
cumulate. The evidence is against this. Although there is no known use for
lead,
arsenic is a micro nutrient. When you have too much of it, it is delivered
to
the liver where it is bound in a form that can be eliminated. Lead goes
through a similar process, as does amost anything you ingest unless it is so
artificially contrived that human chemistry has had no need to develop a
chemical
channel to deal with it.

Do you recall all those stats and stories about lead poisoning and how such a
large percentage of the cases were from very poor households? The obvious
conclusion was that such children were more likely to be poorly supervised
and
living in old, crumbling housing where the children could snack on paint
chips
and such.

However other chemist view it differently. To the human chemistry lead looks
a lot like calcium (though why is not readily apparent to me). The new
thinking (and several studies and experiments points in this direction) is
that
lead intake is a function of calcium deficiency. If the body has sufficient
dietary calcium, it uses the calcium it needs and elimintes the rest. The
nearly
look alike calcium (lead) is not prefered and is eliminted as well, at least
for the most part. But if the diet is deficient in calcium and the body has
need for a molecule resembling it, it will accept the lead and attempt to use
it
like calcium with toxic results.

Likewise much of the asenic we ingest is (or ends up) in the form of
arsenate. To the human chemistry it looks a lot like phosphate. Evidence
now is that
diets poor in phosphates (or in which phosphorus absorbtion is thwarted) is
where we find the most acute arsenic poisoning. Elsewise aresante is bound
in
the liver and elimianted through the urine.

That doesn't actually "prove" anything, of course. But the notion that every
bit of toxic heavy metals you have ever ingested are still there causing
mayhem is increasingly lacking in evidence and the argument for a really good
diet
is emphasized all the more. </HTML>




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