Re: Wrong place for science?

Hi Michael,

>>With regard to the mucoid plaque issue: My concern is that this substance may be regular, healthy mucus conbined with normal feces. If this is so, then stripping this mucus out of the body in this fashion may leave the colon without protection against lectins and other substances which might get into the blood stream where they don't belong and create ill-health sometime down the road.<<

Well, I think this is an unnecessary concern. You make it sound as though mucus is a rare resource in the intestines, which the system has to work hard to regenerate. I find that hard to believe - mucus must be one of the easiest body exudates to create. And I think the word "stripping" is somewhat alarmist: mucus is surely not a thick, protective sheath that peels off, it's a semi liquid substance. People on cleanses are typically * not * constipated, which suggests that there's enough mucus smoothing the passage of faeces, rather than there being a lack of mucus. As for it combining with regular faeces to create mucoid plaque: well, the rate of movement of whatever's in the gut (typically psyllium husks and sometimes a sprinkling of Bentonite clay powder) is pretty high: does this really give it time to congeal into the rubbery stuff that is mucoid plaque? Seems unlikely to me, but I concede that that's hardly proof.

What were your thoughts on the 20 year delayed penny, by the way?



regards,

Marc