Eytons' Earth: Natural & Alternative Medicine

[CaribooSue]

Howdy,

so far we had great success with Bentonite, battling stomach problems, Staffinfection, borderline C-Diff from Antibiotic for weeks (I thought he is dying on me) , Spiderbites etc., we are very pleased with the results of the clay.

My husband is on kidney dialysis and he is hooked onto the cycler at night time for 9 hrs. since March 09.
We started the Bentonite on April 9,09, we told the doctor about it.
His concern is the aluminum, had blood tests done and the level was raised to 993.
We are still waiting for the June and July test results.

The kidney specialist said that it comes from the clay.....very firm on it and that people that have kidney failure have trouble with this.

He was telling me about a village with a well contaminated with aluminum that came from the local clay, and the people there had very high levels of alum. in their system and because of it lot's of health problems.

All over I read statements that

"Will the aluminum in the clay hurt me?
The aluminum in the sodium bentonite cannot be absorbed by the body. Both the negative charged bentonite and negative charge cells of the stomach repel each other like polar opposites. This stops bentonite from entering our bodies." FROM REDMOND CLAY

This is a big concern for us...my gut feeling believes that it does not come from the clay because it can not be absorbed.
What I would love to get is some documentations/proof regarding this, to show to the kidney specialist.

Is there a difference between aluminums? I am not a chemist...
Just a hound-dog looking for answers...
Thank you all
Sue

[CIColburn]

You're not a chemist? Well, no problem -- I don't think anyone else here is. But here's what I've come to understand about aluminum, its toxicity, and where it's coming from.

First off, the levels of aluminum in the types of clay I use are considered "very high." Depending on my mood and what color I'd rather have, I'll normally use a clay with anywhere from 10% to a supposed 30% aluminum content. For the last couple years, I've been using these clays 1-3 times a day >internally,< in serving dosages of about a heaping tablespoon per large home drinking glass of water.

Over all of this time, I've heard plenty about aluminum and how extremely dangerous it is. And what I've determined is this: it's all a scare. Aluminum is not just "aluminum." There are many different types of aluminum, because what you encounter in nature really isn't the isolated element. When people say aluminum, they could be -- without knowing it, usually -- talking about elemental aluminum as a metal, or aluminum as found bound to a great number of things.

Just an example of how different the types can be when it comes to our health:

Sodium chloride: Take as much as you want. You'd have to be pretty darn stupid to kill yourself with it. This is table salt, by the way, and though it's not such a good thing to eat by itself, it's not going to kill you.

HOWEVER

Sodium fluoride: One of the many neurotoxins tested on prisoners in WWII. Sodium fluoride can fill empty bone space, interrupting living electrical signals and burdening the body's eliminatory organs. Just give it a quick search and you'll read plenty.

AND then we have:

Sodium: Reacts violently with water, and it's obviously not edible. (However, the body can isolate it from stable chemicals like sodium chloride.)


That's just an example. Aluminum as the elemental metal might cause a lot of damage to the body -- I don't know. But I can promise you the body uses aluminum in some way, at some time, for something, and that not all forms or sources of aluminum are dangerous to humans. My kidneys work very well, but if your doctor had anything to say about it, he'd probably write it off as me being unusually resistant, or atypically insensitive.

Now, where does the aluminum come from? From what I've seen over a long period of time, people these days are having a lot of aluminum worries. And rightfully so, because many of them, like your husband, have elevated levels of the metal in their body. But it didn't used to be this way -- not according to the older books I've read, anyway. So the solution to this problem of "where is it coming from" might be closer to us than we think.

If the problem of elevated biological aluminum levels has only just occurred within the last several decades, and it varies drastically by location of the examined subject(s), it's reasonable to assume the source could be man-made -- or that it's been introduced by man in some way.

And it has. Keep a note in your pocket or somewhere visible: Look up.

Sometimes people have to accept things they don't want to accept. Give your skies a watch over the next month or two. If nothing seems odd, pretend you've only ever lived far away from humans, and examine the sky with virgin eyes.

There are plenty of sources of man-made and man-administered aluminum. The food you eat, the water you drink (especially if it's bottled), the cleaners and sprays and chemicals you use, the packages you eat stored food from, etc -- all sources of unnatural aluminum, thanks to both the laziness and progress of man.

Just out of nowhere: If your husband was tested for aluminum levels, and the levels are high, make sure you understand that the test performed on him might have been detecting many more types of aluminum than just the harmful. Ask whoever you can what type of test was given, and ask if there are any common errors in detection. They might give you a funny look, but when science hasn't managed with their machines to detect a difference between theobromine, theophylline, and caffeine molecules, how can you expect them to know the difference between safe and harmful aluminum types?

Point: your kidney specialist is wrong when he guesses the bentonite is the source, but I seriously doubt he'll accept it.