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A lesson from frogs
Ever seen a frog drinking water?
Frogs (and toads) don’t need to drink water because they are able to absorb or ‘drink’ water through their skin. Toads even have a specialized patch of skin on their bellies called a pelvic patch just for this purpose. This enables them to live further from water than frogs; often being able to obtain sufficient water just by burrowing into moist soil.
This unique ability of amphibians makes them very good barometers of the health of some environments. When toxins are present, typically it is the frogs that will disappear first, because they readily absorb these toxins through their skin – just like they do the water. Don’t believe it? Put just one drop of Dettol on the back of a cane toad – and see how quickly it dies!
Human also absorb stuff through their skin.
Besides being ‘the bum-washing guru’ from LuSan Bidets; one of my ‘other’ day jobs is delivering Agricultural Chemical spraying license courses, for the DPI up here in Queensland. Amongst the most important things students learn on these courses, is that the most common way people are poisoned with agricultural chemicals, is by dermal absorption (through their skin).
And similar to toads, different parts of our body have different absorption rates. Whereas our forearm has an absorption rate of just 1, our eyes have an absorption rate 12x greater. The genital area is not far behind with an absorption rate of 11.8, followed by our scalp at 3.8. When the weather is warm, the absorption rate increases even more – because the pores of our skin open up (and we sweat). Conversely; when it is cold these pores tend to close – and so the absorption rate decreases.
Chronic poisoning in the agricultural industry is usually caused by repetitive small, non-lethal doses, and may give very little indication that anything is wrong initially, save for some general symptoms like tiredness or headaches. UNTIL – one day with a little extra exposure – we come down with the more obvious symptoms of acute poisoning.
Alright; we are not spraying agricultural chemicals, so why is this important to us?
Because anything we do on a daily repetitive basis, has the cumulative potential to eventually cause serious health problems. Over the next couple of newsletters we will explore how OUR daily contact with water (yes, WATER) can be a significant cause of illness in humans.
One thing most (normal) people do on a daily repetitive basis – is showering
Exactly what are you exposing your skin to, in the water you are showering in?
Pure H20 right? You wish!
One of the trade-offs to having a ’safe to drink’ public water supply, is that it must (of necessity) be treated with chlorine to kill dangerous pathogens. If left untreated these could have the potential to cause serious illness, or even death if ingested in sufficient quantities – and especially so for young children.
Exposure to residual chlorine in our water supply would not pose a problem if this was just an occasional incident like going to your local swimming pool. But multiply this by at least 365 times a year – make that also HOT WATER – and we now have a potential health issue.
What’s even more surprising; that 10 minute shower in hot chlorinated water – can expose your body to greater chlorine toxicity than actually drinking 4 litres of chlorinated water! In fact one GP recommends that if you can only have 1 filter in your house; it should be on your shower. Watch the video here: Dr. Mercola
Unfortunately the shower filter this guy recommends, looks suspiciously like the Aquasana Model # AQ-4000 (rebranded). Despite being a clean-looking unit & reasonably well priced, one independent test showed that this model only removed 36 percent of the residual chlorine present.
OK – I’m convinced. Now to get me a shower filter.
Not wanting to pay too much – or get a 2nd rate product; I did what every normal, computer-literate person does and Google’d “shower filters”. After literally dozens of websites and realms of information, I finally found a shower filter review site!
Eureka! This guy has done all the hard work – so now I could make an informed decision: Consumer Guide – Chlorine Shower Filters
One filter that removed 99 pecent of the chlorine was the Sprite brand. Using something called KDF/Chlorgon, these were advertised as using a cartridge that lasted 12 months. I settled on the chrome brass model mainly because of looks; but then it was off to find the best deal.
Prices varied considerably, but Discount Water Filters from Sydney was the cheapest. Placed an order on-line, and 3 days later my shiny new shower filter arrived via Express Post. First thing I noticed was how HEAVY it was. I had also purchased a spare filter, and after opening the package I found that the filters themselves were in fact the heaviest items. (The KDF medium in these filters is 50% copper and 50% zinc)
Read this article to understand why this is one of the best chlorine removal mediums (where hot water is involved).
Installation was a breeze – just screwed the filter on to the shower outlet (comes with its own rubber sealing washers). Can’t say I really noticed any difference showering that night, but its got to be better not exposing your body to daily doses of chlorine (and the other toxic substances chlorine metabolizes into).
Feeling very happy that I had now eliminated our daily contact with these toxins, there was just one thing left. I do sometimes enjoy a bath – and usually soaking for some time at that. With my new-found knowledge about the dangers of chlorine, that joy had just now been taken away!
No worries. A trip to our local filter shop found a smaller Sprite filter that although designed for hand-held showers, also worked just fine on the bath outlet (even if it does look a little strange). Also had to buy these Fix-A-Tap adaptors (Bunnings) before I could attach this filter to the bath outlet (with original aerator removed).
Now I realize this looks as though I have these filters the wrong way around, but I wanted the biggest capacity filter on the shower (which gets the most use), and the smaller capacity filter on the bath (which only gets occasional use).
Altogether, this setup cost around $200:
$73 for the shower filter, $39 for the spare shower filter cartridge, $75 for the bath filter and $13 shipping and handling (plus a few more dollars for the adaptors).
Hope this helps our customers out there – who also want to (very easily) minimize their family’s daily exposure to some harmful carcinogens.
In coming newsletters we’ll also look at drinking water; bottled water versus filtered tap water/tank water etc., and inevitably of course; how some of these issues also apply when cleaning your butt with water (using a bidet).
But for now- rivet-rivet – that’s all folks!
Does this describe you?
Do you often experience:
- Headaches – that seem to come out of nowhere
- Poor concentration and ‘Brain Fog’ – especially after eating a meal
- Everyday joint stiffness—especially in the morning—and sometimes through the day
- Tiredness and/or irritability
- Fatigue—and post-meal energy drain
- Excess mucus build-up
- Anemia or chronic anemia (insufficient red blood cells)
- Diarrhoea or constipation
- Upset Stomach, bloating, belching and flatulence
- Foul smelling poo (excessive) And the list goes on - - -
You could be suffering from Lectin overload
And what the heck are Lectins? Before we answer that question, we need to back-up the truck just a little -
- If your Doctor has told you you are Lactose intolerant and need to stay away from dairy products.
- If your nutritionist has told you to stop eating wheat because you may be gluten intolerant.
- If a blood test from your GP has revealed you actually have Coeliac Disease (permanent gluten intolerance) - - -
You are not really getting the whole story
According to the Coeliac Society of Australia, coeliac disease is now one of our most common, un-diagnosed chronic diseases. If left untreated, coeliac (pronounced see-lee-ack) disease can lead to serious future health problems such as osteoporosis and bowel cancer.
Some individuals are born with a particular genetic predisposition, but environmental factors also play an important role in the widespread increase in the incidence of this disease: The wheat varieties we use in our bread today contain up to 90% more gluten than the original grains of years gone by. Food preservatives are also commonly utilized to make food last longer, but compounding this factor is the huge increase in the use of agricultural chemicals, which does enable cheaper food production. Of particular concern are the GMO grain varieties that have now been genetically bred to withstand being sprayed by an increasingly potent range of chemicals. Chemical giant Monsanto is at the forefront of this technology with their roundup-ready corn, round-up ready canola and roundup-ready soybeans – to name just a few.
Wonderfully efficient way of farming: spray the whole crop with roundup (Glyphosate) and all the weeds are killed but the soybeans/corn etc keep happily growing. In fact, there has been a more than 1900% increase in Glyphosate use on Roundup Ready soybeans from 1994 to 2006. Ref. [Center for Food Safety. Agricultural pesticide use in U.S. agriculture: Why USDA-NASS agricultural chemical reporting is important. May 2008: Washington, DC.]
But isn’t this a health risk for the people eating these food products?
One would certainly think so!
But hang on – isn’t Roundup almost safe enough to drink? Doesn’t the MSDS for Roundup say it has a LD50 value (toxicity rating) of around 5000 (mg/per kg body weight)?
For comparison; salt has an LD50 rating of only 3300, and so going by this, couldn’t we assume that ordinary salt is in fact more toxic to human beings than Roundup? (The lower the LD50 value, the higher the toxicity)
Once again: far from the whole story my dear friend!
You see the LD50 (toxicity) rating of agricultural chemicals is based on the active constituent ONLY - NOT the whole formulation! The simple truth is that if you sprayed just glyphosate onto weeds, nothing much would die. The other ingredients in roundup (that we are not told about) is what actually makes the whole formulation work.
Read this article for an insight into the real toxicity of Roundup: The Hidden Dangers of Roundup
Well some of this explains gluten intolerance – how about lactose intolerance?
Most dairy cows now-a-days are fed grain to increase milk production. Need I say more?
So what are Lectins?
This article by Dr Michael Cutler pretty much explains it all:
“For decades, scientists and researchers worked diligently to uncover WHY one food made a person feel good, yet that same food can trigger a host of health problems in another person.
Labeling a person with a food “sensitivity” or “allergy” just wasn’t enough. There had to be a deeper reason that was escaping even the most brilliant scientific minds of our time.
Now, after decades of painstaking research, scientists discovered a shocking “missing link” molecule that’s put the gastrointestinal community into a tailspin”.
Read the full story here: “The Surprising Cause of Food Sensitivities and other Digestive Problems”.
(Of cause Dr. Cutler is promoting his own natural product here, which can help in cases of lectin overload/intolerance)
Mind you; it pays not to get too obsessed with all the things that may be adversely affecting your health – after all – no matter how well we live; we do all eventually die. The main objective here is to have good quality of life as we age – and if possible – right up until we die.
Unfortunately; no matter how much of an ‘Ingredient Detective’ we become, we will (inevitably) sometimes eat food that disagrees with us – and that’s just where a bidet can help:
Bidets are a convenient way of cleaning when we have normal bowel movements, but become absolutely invaluable when we eat something that leads to less-than-perfect defecation. Whether its constipation or a loose & smelly; a bidet can make both the job of pooping and cleanup afterwards – just so much easier and more comfortable.
Come to think of it – isn’t that why we have wheelie bins? They don’t actually do anything of themselves to reduce garbage, but boy, do they make getting rid of it a whole lot easier!
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Garbage in garbage out – right? Wrong!
You’ve probably heard this ‘profoundly simple’ truth on at least one occasion or tother, and I was reminded just the other day of how exactly it applies to the digital world. I was trying to load some perverse program onto my website, and after hours of head-scratching investigation, finally found the cause for it not working: one tiny, insignificant little forward slash /, in the wrong place!
Now we all understand (or at least grudgingly accept) that computers can ONLY utilize what we actually put in.
Human beings on the other hand, although all classed as Homo sapiens (Latin for “wise man” or “knowing man”), are all – every one of us – quite different from each other; as evidenced by our uniquely individual DNA.
Initially, the differences we notice most are hair and facial features:
- Facial differences
Take away our clothes, and other differences become more apparent!
- Body Differences
Obviously; whether we are male or female constitutes the biggest difference, but even within our gender, body shape and size can vary enormously.
As obvious as they are; external differences can be insignificant compared to what is internal – take character and personality just for a start!
However internal differences which are chiefly physical, may at this very minute be causing you considerable distress:
The Roman philosopher Lucretius was once quoted as saying;“One man’s food is another man’s poison.”
We’ll look at this more in future newsletters, but for now; the spin-off to this oft -quoted truth simply means:
‘Good food in’ does not necessarily equate to ‘good poo’ out!
The “Garbage in – Garbage out” saying may actually be changed to:
“Garbage in - Garbage stays in”!!!
According to The Colon Cleansing & Constipation Resource Center; over 4 million Americans are affected by an impacted colon each year, and “poor colorectal health is also a potential cause of colon cancer, obesity, and medical disorders of the digestive system”. Many Americans (and I guess also Australians) are carrying around from 2 to 5 kg of impacted toxic fecal matter at any given time.
This image courtesy: Colon Cleansing & Constipation Resource Center, an excellent resource for all things poo-related.
- Impacted Colon: diverticulitis and prolapsed bowel evident
What to do?
“One man’s food may indeed be your poison” so watch what you eat. If you find that certain foods (or drink) cause abdominal pain, cramps, foul smelling poo and/or any other obvious feelings of dis-ease after consumption: Avoid them as if they were poison – they are to you!
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