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Quoted message said:George W. Cherry <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Interesting that substances used to sop up poisons (aflatoxins, paraquat, and the like) may be
useful when fasting. What are you sopping up?
Fasting /seems/ like the best time to take them - but I don't know if that issue has been
studied.
Eating enterosorbents with food may not be the best thing to do:
Right, I take carefully selected and expensive supplements which activated charcoal might absorb.
I'm rather afraid to take (or not take!) activated charcoal with food. I think that from now on
I'll take it only between meals.
If we assume it works as a sort of crypto-calorie restriction - by stopping elements from the food
from being absorbed at well - then taking it far away from food might nullify any side effects - but
is likely to equally nullify any benefits.
I suspect this sort of explanation of its action is quite likely - but I don't think we
know for sure.
At some point there are elements ejected by the liver into the intestines that are intended for
excretion - and probably are not a good idea to re-absorb - and bacterial flora can get a bit out of
hand sometimes - and absorbing their effluent may not always be desirable.
*If* you could *selectively* block absorbsion at those points then *that* might be a good idea - but
I don't think charcoal from the top is likely to pull this trick off.
Also, I worry about charcoal's purity and safety. I don't usually eat burned stuff - and even if it
/is/ free of impurities, what if I eat too much - and those highly-reactive carbon atoms stick to
*me* - and not to my food?
By contrast, clay seems less likely to make it out of my digestive tract. If it /does/ get stuck to
bits of me, it seems more likely to become unstuck again.
Safety information for carbon says:
``Harmful if ingested in quantity - IVN-MUS LD50 440 mg/kg''
- ptcl.chem.ox.ac.ukcarbon.htmlOpen ↗
That might be a fair sized figure - but ten times bigger would be a little bit more reassuring.
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