Silica Benefits from Diatomaceous Earth

Initially, I purchased DE for myself. I loved that it killed parasites in the gut and it’s hard edges also scrub your colon walls. Basically, it is an all round product!

DE sweeps out fungus (like candida), bad bacteria, mucus, and old fecal matter from the walls of your intestines. But the cherry on top for me was the fact that DE is over 80% silica.

Silica is an amazing mineral that is very important for your skin, hair, nails and bones! Silica is essential for the formation of collagen. Collagen is what holds our skin together. Collagen provides moisture, heals wounds and inflammation and slows the breaking down (aging) of our skin. So to put it in a nutshell, DE’s high silica content helps with keep us looking young!

Silica is also a building block for the hair, nail and bone structures. It brings luster back to dull hair and can help with hair loss. It is also great for weak and brittle nails. And it is incredibly important for your teeth and bones!

This is part of why I make my own toothpaste with DE (watch my video)!
Your bones and teeth cannot absorb calcium without silica. Taking calcium won’t do any good unless you have silica in your body. This is why silica works so well for osteoporosis, bone breaks and fractures. It actually helps remineralize the bone!

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Dosage: Take 1-2 tablespoons per day mixed in some kind of liquid or food.
There is no unpleasant taste. Since it will not dissolve, stirring several times while drinking will prevent settling. Some have experienced higher energy levels, so it is probably better not to take it right before sleeping. No worry about getting too much–any excess silica not needed by the body is automatically eliminated through the blood stream, kidneys and intestines.

Hopefully, you understand my diatomaceous earth obsession by this point. DE is a natural herbal food grade powder that contains silica, which some say is the most crucial trace mineral for human health. Silica plays an important role in many body functions and has a direct relationship to mineral absorption.

Once you take diatomaceous earth into your body it starts working in 3 major ways:

Moves through your body and removes toxins
Supplies your body with silica, providing you healthier skin, cushioned joints and preserving your teeth.
Remineralizes your bones
*** One very IMPORTANT thing to look for is “Food Grade” on the label. If it is labeled for animal or livestock consumption is it also safe for human consumption.
The diatomaceous earth used for pool filters is NOT SAFE for human ingestion! Never buy the processed DE used for pools (unless you’re using it for your pool). It is toxic if consumed and inhaling it can damage your lungs!
Dosage: Take 1-2 tablespoons per day mixed in some kind of liquid or food.
Advice from a users:

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Jul 22, 2006
Posts: 111
Location: Vermont

posted 9/14/2009 1:01:16 PM

Here are some tips and information.

Heart-worm is in the blood stream and DE has no effect on the circulatory system as such. Keep with the heart-worm medication until such time as a natural, proven effective treatment comes along, if ever.

DE kills intestinal parasites of all kinds. Feeding it is up to 2% of the daily ration of food for the animal. I give it to my dogs everyday.

No dosage is recommended for people because like so many other things, the USDA and the FDA are in bed with the chemical companies and the AMA to keep people from finding and using effective, low cost alternatives to the poisons they recommend and manufacture.

I know of people who have taken it and told me that they have been tested for heavy metal poisoning and after taking a teaspoon or two a day for 6 months to a year they retested with no heavy metals in their system. No medical evidence supports this but this is what some say. I have taken it with juice and water to settle an upset stomach and received immediate positive results.

It's been used in grain storage silos for years and is known to be non-toxic. you may already have eaten some today in your cereal or grain from bread.

Wet applications work pretty good outside. The liquid allows the stuff to find it's way into holes and cracks in the ground and once it dries out, when mixed with soap it sticks to any surface it gets on.

The dust thing is like Paul said. It's dust. You don't want to breath a lot of it any-more than any other kind of dust. Fresh Water DE-Fossil Shell flour contains mostly amorphous silica which is good for you and even necessary for life on earth. Swimming Pool De and other forms of DE on the market for filtration and other purposes like grinding compounds contain high amounts of crystalline silica which is what causes silicosis you may have read about.

We bag it and work with it everyday and we're all okay. We were crazy before we used it.

John Meshna (owner)
Green State Hydroponics
1195 Dog Team Road
New Haven, Vt 05472

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posted 9/14/2009 5:02:27 PM

Theory is..wink, wink that the molecules of DE are negatively charged. If you look at the stuff under and electron microscope it sort of looks like wheat checks and all those little holes are surrounded by negatively charged atoms which draw positively charged particles to them. As luck would have it, most of the heavy metals and crap that's bad for you is positively charged so it get attracted and stuck onto the DE and then your body passes the whole business out of you as neutral waste.
You have something similar but not exactly like that going on in the soil. Soils have heavy metals in them. Some a a lot and some a natural amount. If the pH gets out of balance these valence bonds get broken and the metals become available for the plants to get hold of and absorb and we wind up eating them. It's one reason why not to use Lee Lime or Slick Lime as it's sometimes called. That type of lime changes the pH rapidly and breaks all the bonds in some cases within hours. pH changes need to be done gradually so as to keep things in balance at the molecular level. I've oversimplified this a little but hopefully it makes sense to the casual reader.

For internal parasites the stuff works much the same way it works for bugs, The physical scraping action and desiccant qualities of the product scour out the tract on the way by. It's a little less effective on hook worms because of their ability to hang on to the lining of the digestive tract so treatment takes a little longer to be effective with those rascals.

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The Benefits of Dyna Powder and the silica within it.

There is no life without silica!

Professor Adolf Butenant, the Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 1939, proved that life can not exist without Silica. Silica plays an important role in many body functions and has a direct relationship to mineral absorption. The average human body holds approximately seven grams of silica, a quantity far exceeding the figures for other important minerals such as iron.

A small amount of Diatomaceous Earth gets absorbed into the blood stream as silica. One of the benefits of Silica is that it helps to destroy bad fats. Many taking Diatomaceous Earth have lowered their cholesterol by 40-50 points. Everyone is also amazed at how their high blood pressure goes down.

What can it do for you?

Lower Blood Pressure
Of the thousands of people that are using Diatomaceous Earth, everyone that has high blood pressure has reported that it has gone down. It has been so thrilling to talk to people all over the United States and have them tell their stories. I am not just talking a few points --- I am talking about LIFE-CHANGING numbers. Doctors are amazed --- customers are amazed --- You will be too.

Lower High Cholesterol
Just as Diatomaceous Earth has been lowering blood pressure - it has also been lowering cholesterol! I have not talked with one person that has high cholesterol that has not had lower numbers after taking Diatomaceous Earth. Most are reporting 40-60 points lower after only 2 weeks on DE. I know it sounds too good to be true, but it works!

Joints Feel So Much Better!
Osteoporosis is a symptom of the aging process. As calcium in our body system depletes, our bones become brittle and weak. Taking only a calcium supplement can not correct or stop this threatening and crippling disease because the body cannot assimilate and make use of the calcium without the presence of silica. Evidence suggests that, instead of affecting healing, supplemental mineral calcium, on the contrary, accelerates the leaching away of bone calcium and thus hastens the degenerative process of osteoporosis and similar diseases that affect the supportive and connective tissues in the human body.

For osteoporosis, silica can stop the pain and even restore the bodies self repair process. Osteoporosis symptoms attack women primarily after menopause but the degenerative process starts much earlier in their younger days. More women are dyeing of fractures caused by osteoporosis than of cancer of the breast, cervix, and uterus combined.

Silica is responsible for the depositing of minerals into the bones, especially calcium. It speeds up the healing of fractures and also reduces scarring at the site of a fracture. More and more research evidence shows that through a transmutation process, silica is turned into calcium when it is needed. That is why some scientists refer to silica as a precursor of calcium. Even when calcium is insufficient, the body can turn silica into calcium that the bones need.

Natures Internal Cosmetic
In Europe and Asia Diatomaceous Earth is used extensively as a health and beauty product for hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints. They have no FDA. Tissue degeneration accelerates due to aging when connective tissue develops an increasing inability to retain moisture when left unassisted. Silica can help slow the degenerative process of connective tissue. With silica, vitality and life, which are often lost as the years accumulate, can be naturally maintained or even restored to your skin. Collagen, largely made up of silica, is the glue that holds us together. If our body has enough silica glucosaminoglycane, the collagen will make us look younger. Silica helps with skin problems and injuries including itching, rashes, abscesses, boils, acne, calluses, warts, eczema, burns, frostbite, benign skin sores, insect bites and bed sores. If you regularly follow a silica regimen, your skin will keep its young look. A good silica supplementation program works far better than other products for maintaining healthier and longer lasting collagen.

Hair That Grows!
Hair is natures greatest beauty enhancer. Hair deserves to be pampered. Hair at 90 micrograms per gram is almost as rich in silica as are healthy bones, which contain 100 micrograms per gram. Silica is a major component of hair. Using a good silica supplement should be part of your ongoing hair care program for revitalizing hair. Silica helps to prevent baldness, stimulates healthier hair growth and assures beautiful shine, luster and strength.

Teeth and Gums
By hardening the enamel, silica prevents cavities and preserves teeth. Silica also prevents bleeding gums, gum atrophy, and recession that cause the loosening of teeth, which could ultimately lead to tooth loss. Silica effectively fights ulceration and the decay of bones, teeth and also lessens inflammation.

Tough as Nails
Your nail plates are complex protein structures that grow four to five millimeters per month on average. With silica supplementation, fragile nails become normal within a short period of time. Silica will beautify the appearance of your nails and improve their hardness, making them shinier and less prone to breaking. The restorative effects of silica will be most noticeable on your hair, skin, nails and teeth. Our skin and hair require silica essentially for the same purpose as do other tissues. As we know, the supporting collagen underneath the skin enhances elasticity and beauty. Collagen owes that quality to silica, which provides a beautiful complexion that is more than skin deep.