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To labrat (and others): Very (or extremely?) effective use of kelp for disease resistance in animals and humans (please archive)

The following are posts from an email list that is mostly devoted to use of colloidal silver.
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The recent animal-related posts jogged my failing memory into recalling some interesting....and I believe, useful investigations we conducted some time in the past. These endeavors revolved about the possible efficacy of "kelp-based solutions" for nutritional support and disease prevention/abatement in animal pets and livestock. Our results were VERY encouraging.

The most efficacious protocol was as follows:

Starting with a concentrated solution of kelp (seaweed) extract [ approx. 11 ounces of soluble powder in 1 gallon of water], we used 2 tablespoons CONCENTRATE diluted in 1 gallon of water......as the basic mixture. Our goal was to evaluate the benefits---if any---of using this material as a nutritional support and/or a disease prevention modality for domestic pets and livestock. The beneficial results exceeded our expectations. In chickens furnished this solution free choice, NO significant nutritional-based deficiencies were detectable(less than .1%)......with them receiving 3 different commercial feed mixtures. Among controls, a background pathogenic level of 5% was a constant....and in some cases outbreaks of varying pathogens expressed as high as 20%...on occasion. Among "purposely infected" groups, naturally -occurring recovery/resistance spontaneously established (lowering mortality from 60% to 10%) when the kelp solutions were administered as the sole source of liquid intake AFTER THE INFECTION. The speed and completeness of recovery was noticeably enhanced when the parent solution was diluted 20%, by volume, with 10 ppm CS. This in spite of contentions/suspicions of antagonisms between the silver colloid and the parent solution substances. Among subjects furnished access to the Kelp X CS combination solution, we were able to infect...via direct injection....less than 2% of the subjects----and the resulting insults were, in almost all cases, quite mild. Mortality was less than .05%.

Our results among dogs, cats, and birds.....were equally impressive; although the physical number of subjects was much smaller. We did encounter some difficulty in getting cats to drink water containing this level of kelp.....at least in the beginning. The only successful method involved maintaining them in cages.....during the evaluations.

At the time of these experiments we did not utilize MSM, vitamin supports, fluid electrolyte enhancement, etc.

A rather fascinating byline relating to this type investigation is that a similar modality involving human volunteers (older subjects....beyond 60) yielded superior results----when employing a somewhat modified version----for individuals suffering from a variety of chronic expressions. The principal modification involved a second dilution of the kelp X CS with 25%, by volume, of complete sea-solid solution (reduced from 35,000 ppm to 8750 ppm). The sea solid solution may be constructed using any acceptable FULL SPECTRUM source (e.g. Celtic Sea Salt, etc.....but never ANY white or leached marine salt). This latter modification enabled a rather pronounced synergistic effect. Interestingly, we utilized the same unmodified, agricultural grade, kelp powder..... which we used in the animal experiments. Our bacteriological tests (of these CS containing solutions) revealed no viable pathogens extant.....prior to use for the human volunteers.

While there was little difference in the kelp products we evaluated, we settled.....for the bulk of our tests.....upon on one called Maxicrop. The reasons being that it gave the best solubility results and seemed to evoke more pronounced biological benefits----probably as a result of superior extraction/concentration techniques. We do not endorse this----OR ANY OTHER---product. These were, simply, our particular results under

Re: To labrat (and others): Very (or extremely?) effective use of kelp for disease resistance in animals and humans (please archive in supplements.)

Thanks, R. I thought maybe you'd forgotten!