Many of the points raised in the Mass Medicine article are valid here
too, but there is also the suspicion that the politics of mass market
food production mean there is no funding available for anyone who may
want to
find out the real state of our food. Anyone who has seen the vast food
factories of California's arid Imperial Valley, with their four crops
a year, year in year out, mass produced with NPK fertilizer and irrigation
water has to wonder if there is anything left in the soil other than pesticide
residues. The so called food sure doesn't taste real!
One other point -
Modern Chemistry defines a colloid simply as a very small particle.
It only relates to size. However due to the fact that mineral researchers
in the l93O's used only organic source minerals in their research, properties
they discovered in such minerals are now, unfortunately, attributed by
those (who are less informed) to all colloidal minerals.
This is a big mistake because, as we shall soon illustrate, there are
essential bio-electrical life-supporting properties in organic minerals
which inorganic colloidal minerals do not have.
Because of the increased absorption, certain
inorganic colloidal minerals are in fact, more toxic than their non-colloidal
counterparts.
To illustrate, nowadays colloidal aluminum would just mean any compound
of aluminum (eg aluminum oxide or aluminum from pots and pans) ground
up in a fine suspension. Back then it would only have meant aluminum which
had been absorbed from the soil by a plant and turned into a complex organic
plant source colloid, like the aluminum in bananas.
CHEMISTRY'S MIRACULOUS COLLOIDS
(Reprint from READER'S DIGEST - March
1936)
Chemistry's Miraculous Colloids Condensed from Rockefeller Center Weekly
by Kenneth Andrews
A group of executives sat tense and silent
in an office in the RCA Building in New York City. They stared with credulous
eyes at a purple orchid. A short time before it had been rescued from
a pile of debris, a withered, yellowed thing, dead. Now the petals were
fresh and crisp, its colors vivid. It was blooming with new life, and
would continue to do so for 16 or 17 days! Dr. Frederick S. Macy, one
of the country outstanding bacteriologists, had added a teaspoonful of
an amber tinted liquid to the quart of water in the bottle which held
the flower. Here was striking indication of the mysteries that lie ahead
in that comparatively unexplored realm of science known as colloidal chemistry.
It was one of innumerable experiments these gentlemen had been witnessing
for a year or more, on behalf of their internationally known pharmaceutical
company. A few days later they signed an 8-year contract for the rights
to a solution similar to the one in Dr. Macy's bottle. They will invest
more than $12,000,000 a year in it, from now on. To gain a working conception
of what colloidal chemistry is, consider that living tissues and organs
are simply great masses of cells-billions of them. The energy, the very
life force of these cells, is obtained from certain minerals and metal,
among them iron, iodine, manganese, copper. There are some 32, with traces
of as many others, in the human body. Colloidal chemistry is the science
which converts those elements into particles so minute that they can be
utilized by living cells. Normally, nature supplies the cells with these
elements in their colloidal form. Science has now learned to produce these
colloids in the laboratory. "Lately, life has been prolonged by colloid
action," says Dr. Macy, "and better knowledge of the subject will certainly
result in prolonging the normal term of existence.!" In the case of the
apparently dead orchid, copper in colloidal form was needed to restore
the proper balance of the mineral and metals that comprised the life cells
of the flower. Once that balance was restored, the cells began to function
and the orchid lived again.
In the Colloidal Laboratories of America
they have a motion picture which is as weird as anything ever shown on
a screen- a movie of a headache. The actors are the nerves in a human
head, magnified millions of times. You see the headache. Those nerve endings
are tangled, twisting, writhing. Then you see the colloids enter. These
rescuers, smaller than the blood corpuscles themselves, march straight
to the spot where there is an unbalance of the vital metals. You see those
laboratory-prepared colloids restore normalcy there at the seat of the
trouble. Then you see the nerves cease their twisting, relax, and assume
their proper position. Dr. Steinmetz, the wizard of electricity, devised
a method of utilizing colloids in the treatment of sinus trouble.
The Bide-a-Wee Home, New York's famous hospital
for cats and dogs, can cure mange in three days, where it used to take
three months. A large Midwestern city was freed from the scourge of goiter
when colloidal iodine was added to the water supply. A famous institution
for the treatment of alcoholism is experimenting with a colloidal solution
which apparently not only overcomes the effects of excessive drinking
but removes the craving for liquor as well. Such treatment consists of
the introduction of metals - gold and iodine, in the case of alcoholism
- which correct the unbalance caused by alcoholic poisons.
The effect of colloids is explainable in
part by electric action. Sick and dead and broken-down cells are attracted
to the colloids by electromagnetic force, as iron filings are attracted
to a magnet. The colloids carry those decayed or poisonous substances
into the blood stream, and they are eliminated, the system meanwhile adapting
what it needs of the colloids. A simple illustration will suggest the
immense powers that are being unsealed.
Suppose we have a cube of iron measuring
one inch sq. The total surface would be six square inches. The electrical
charge is on the surface would be limited to that of 6 sq. in.; the greater
the surface area, the greater the charge; and if we divide the cube of
iron into smaller pieces we increase the surface areas. By colloidal chemistry,
that iron cube can be divided into particles so minute that they are invisible,
hence instead of six square inches of surface emanating electric energy,
we have something like 127 acres. In colloidal form iodine, for example,
is one of the elements essential to the well-being of human cells. Yet
if you should drink as much as two or three grains of free iodine, it
would kill you. Dr. Macy, when explaining this, held up an eight-ounce
cup full of colloidal iodine. "There," he said, "is the equivalent of
740 grains of free iodine - enough to kill 300 people" and he drank it.
In that form iodine is not only harmless but beneficial. The same is true
of arsenic and other deadly poisons. Colloidal chemistry was evolved by
David Graham, a British chemist, 50 years ago, but only recently has it
been realized even by scientists, what enormous influence it is destined
to have in medicine, agriculture and industry. "We have television now,"
one of the world's greatest scholars said recently. "There is, as I see
it, just one great development left for our time. That is in the understanding
of colloidal metals. It is the 'Fourth Estate of Matter,' the other three
being land, water, and air." Says Dr. Macy: "The study of these phenomena
constitutes the road to the ultimate in human knowledge."
(c) 1935, Center Publications, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
N.Y.C. (Rockefeller Center Weekly, October 31, 1935)
Dr. Joel Wallach, BS, DVM, ND