Potential Danger - Don't Eat Zeolite!
The newest multi-level-marketing product called Natural Cellular Defense is already being promoted on the Internet, and people are signing up to sell it. It is claimed that it will "kill epithelial cancer cells, 100% kill rate, detoxify heavy metals and all toxins easily, and [it] disables viral replication by capturing viral components within it's [sic] cage like structure." It is further claimed that this product, derived from a volcanic Zeolite mineral called clinoptilolite, is not toxic. The company cites a small study that demonstrated that the cancers of terminally-ill patients went into remission when they consumed the product.
The manufacturers of Natural Cellular Defense claim that their product is completely safe and are promoting it as something that healthy people should take to prevent disease. But there are many unanswered questions. Mineral crystals - both fibrous and non-fibrous - have a long history of causing disease. For instance, silica crystals - ordinary fine sand - cause lung cancer and a fast-acting deadly lung disease called silicosis that kills cement workers and miners.
Rik Deitsch, one of the principals of the company that promotes this new product, has revealed electron microscope data indicating that the crystals of this product have sharp edges. He states that these crystals enter the bloodstream (presumably through the small intestine), cells, and intercellular spaces, and that they are highly reactive. In relation to a non-food product that is a red flag. It is precisely this crucial piece of information that raises unanswered questions about its safety:
What does it do inside the cell and inter-cellular spaces?
What reactions does it mediate or interfere with?
Does it stay inside the cell and become part of it?
Does it leave the cell and intercellular spaces? Is it excreted?
Since it is a reactive mineral, how does it react with each of the thousands of cellular bio-chemicals, hormones, neurotransmitters, and essential fatty acids? (Some of these bio-chemicals are not even known.)
How does it get into the cell? Does it enter through a protein channel, or does it break a hole in the cell membrane?
What does it do to developing cells or tissue?
If it can enter cells from the bloodstream, then it can likely enter into the cerebrospinal fluid. If so, what does it do to the neural membrane or to developing brain cells?
Does it affect the operation of the cell organelles (components of the human cell), and, if so, how?
Does it enter into or affect the nuclear envelope (that is, does it affect DNA and RNA)?
Does it enter or affect the mitochondria, our energy subsystem?
Is the immune system aware of the presence of the particles? Does it go into overdrive, eventually leading to allergy, MCS, or auto-immune disease?
These unanswered questions suggest that we simply do not know very much about this material. That is the critical difference between a food-derived substance, such as a dietary supplement, and this product, which is pulverized rock. Humans have been eating food and food extracts for hundreds of thousands of years. In contrast, it would seem inadvisable to take a small cancer study of a non-food substance and turn it into a vast human experiment. It would be very different if the company submitted its work to the National Cancer Institute for a larger study with terminally ill cancer patient volunteers. But instead it is subjecting the entire human population to the product and promoting it via a multi-level marketing organization.
Please take my advice: Stay with food-based natural therapies, such as those developed by well-known researchers and physicians such as Dr. Matthias Rath and Dr. Hugh Riordan. These have been used successfully by thousands of people and proven safe.
References:
Physical Carcinogens, excerpted from Cancer Medicine,
Korkina LG, Suslova TB, Nikolova SI, Kirov GN, Velichkovskii BT. Mekhanizm tsitotoksicheskogo deistviia prirodnogo tseolita klinoptilolita [Mechanism of the cytotoxic action of the natural zeolite clinoptilolite]. Farmakologiia i Toksikologiia 47:63-67(1984).
Pylev LN, Krivosheeva LV, Bostashvili RG, Possible carcinogenic hazard of zeolite-clinoptilolite Gig Tr Prof Zabol. 1984 Mar;(3):48-51.
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