You All Must Think I Own a Zeolite Mine

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I am not a doctor. Or a college graduate. I did take a semester of German, Psychology, and Environmental Geology. I don't know how many credits that is.

I caught part of a lecture on PD and supplements, and right at the beginning the mentioned one of the characteristics of PD is that your body starts accumulating heavy metals. Of course I raced to Google and found:

Iron Chelators as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Parkinson’s Disease ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl... Whether it is a primary factor, a secondary factor or an exacerbating factor, numerous studies have consistently shown that iron dysregulation and accumulation in the PD brain appears to be central to the progression of this condition.

And then to: Zeolite protects mice from iron‐induced damage in a mouse model trial ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

I don't think Zeolite is a cure for PD and I am not encouraging anybody to try it. I think it might be a piece though. A prong of a multi-pronged thingy to chip away. Somebody on this forum mentioned once that even if you reset the microbiome with FMT, the pathogen that started this might still be present. That is what I am thinking. Can Zeolite (or maybe Bentonite Clay?) clean up some of the pathogen?

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Zeolite Clinoptilolite is Pro-Inflammatory. That's Bad.

I am so stupid. I've been taking something that has probably been making me worse. And I have been evangelizing about it. So many report looked so good, but I was not smart enough to notice the finer details. Zeolite Clinoptilolite modulates immune responses. It up-modulates them (not what I expected).

So many places I read that Zeolite Clinoptilolite is anti-inflammatory. Can't figure out why they say that now. It is a superantigen and amps up the immune response:

sciencedirect.com/science/a... "As superantigens, zeolites are also responsible for the development of local inflammation, in which accumulated macrophages release large quantities of free oxygen radicals (Olanders et al., 2002). Besides reactive oxygen species, activated macrophages release tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which together with other cytokines and calcium compounds stimulates splenic T cells (Pavelic et al., 2002; Hu et al., 2013; Lamprecht et al., 2015)."

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1.4.2. Effects of Zeolites on Immune Response

In 1984 Korkina et.al. showed that clinoptilolite particles cause hemolysis and macrophage toxicity (Kleiner, et al. 2001). Katic et al. (2006) showed that clinoptilolite can absorb the growth factors in cell media and inhibit the cell proliferation (Rivera, et al. 2005). These studies show that clinoptilolite, a kind of naturally occurring zeolite, has apoptotic, toxic and hemolysitic effects on living cells directly or indirectly. In addition to these investigations, it was found that silicates have the superantigen ability so that they can induce T cell apoptosis and may cause autoimmune diseases. Not only the T cells but also the alveolar epithelial and mesothelial cells can undergo apoptosis.

Both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways may be triggered by silicate particles (Aikoh, et al.1998, Hishumura, et al. 2006, Tomokuni, et al. 1997, Otsuki, et al. 1998, Otsuki, et al. 2000, Otsuki, et al. 2002, Matthew, et al. 2004). Ueki et al. (1994) and Aikoh et al. (1998) showed that silica; silicates and aluminosilicates act as nonspecific immunostimulators (like superantigens) (Aikoh, et al. 1998, Pavelic, et al. 2001). Also Allison et al. (1966) showed that pro-inflammatory macrophages were activated by fibrinogen silicate particulate. Silicates are the substances of which have Si ions in their structure. Clinoptilolite is that kind of substance but there was no any investigations carried out on zeolites or clinoptilolite for their effect on T lymphocyte apoptosis. In this study T lymphocyte apoptosis via clinoptilolite will be investigated, and then the pathways that can take role in apoptosis will be enlightened.

I'm so sorry for going down this path and especially for sharing it with others. This may explain my current issues with seborrheic dermatitis.