Mercola is often not correct with his facts. He has his positions and just because he says something doesn't make it correct.
For instance, I was just at his site recently and someone had made a connection about preventing anthrax with black tea. Mercola stated that he couldn't recommend black tea because of it's fluoride content. In another article, he was extoling the virtues of green tea. I looked it up, and it appears that green tea often has even more fluoride than black tea. Although, that's not necessarily a problem. See below: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/ Fluoride Tea plants accumulate fluoride in their leaves. In general, the oldest tea leaves contain the most fluoride (9). Most high quality teas are made from the bud or the first two to four leaves—the youngest leaves on the plant. Brick tea, a lower quality tea, is made from the oldest tea leaves and is often very high in fluoride. Symptoms of fluoride excess (i.e., dental and skeletal fluorosis) have been observed in Tibetan children and adults who consume large amounts of brick tea (10, 11). Unlike brick tea, fluoride levels in green, oolong, and black teas are generally comparable to those recommended for the prevention of dental caries (cavities). Thus, daily consumption of up to one liter of green, oolong, or black tea would be unlikely to result in fluoride intakes higher than those recommended for dental health (12, 13). The fluoride content of white tea is likely to be less than other teas, since white teas are made from the buds and youngest leaves of the tea plant. The fluoride contents of 17 brands of green, oolong, and black teas is presented in the table below (12). These values do not include the fluoride content of the water used to make the tea. For more information, see the separate article on Fluoride. Fluoride Content of Teas (12) Type of Tea Fluoride (mg/liter)* Fluoride (mg/8 ounces) Green 1.2-1.7 0.3-0.4 Oolong 0.6-1.0 0.1-0.2 Black 1.0-1.9 0.2-0.5 Brick tea 2.2-7.3 0.5-1.7 *Fluoride in 1% weight/volume tea prepared by continuous infusion from 5 to 360 minutes On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Dorothy Fitzpatrick<[email protected]> wrote: > The trouble is, he is a bit on the fence with CS. He doesn't outrightly > trash it but neither does he recommend it either. If your son is used to CS > then I don't think there should be a problem. The problem would arise with > a new user who may have all sorts of infections in their system also as well > as the 'flu, and this could maybe cause this. Mind you, anti virals would > be the same - but worse. dee PS by the way, I am a Mercola fan - I think he > has done great work for alternative medicine. > On 2 Sep 2009, at 02:03, Shirley Reed wrote: > > Mercola's newsletter mentions that CS might cause a cytokine storm (sp) > in young persons if they catch the flu. Does anyone have any thoughts on > this or any information?? My youngest son is 24 and he regularly ingests > CS. Now I am wondering if this is the right thing to do. Mercola is pretty > good, imho. pj > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
