[Gasification] metal recovery from ash, Al in Alzheimers

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Leland

The name of the phenomenon is "hormesis". A good example is Selenium; it 
is vital to human life in small quantities, yet toxic at higher levels.

Best wishes,

Kevin

LINVENT at aol.com wrote:
> I agree. The guy who came up with Radon as an environmental toxin later 
> recanted his position once he studied the epidemiology of radon exposure, finding 
> that actual benefits may have occurred from low dosage. There is an effect 
> named for this and it apparently applies to all toxins. 
> 
> The study that EPA issued regarding second hand cigarette smoke dangers was 
> seriously flawed, but was accepted as fact anyhow. 
> 
> If we live in a purely toxin free environment, our defenses are not 
> stimulated and we become much more subject to damage caused by any toxin at all. Living 
> in a plastic bubble has it's disadvantages. 
> 
> 
>  Leyland.
> In an earlier reply. I tried to make a point regarding the content of metals 
> in our environment. There are those within our society who would try to 
> eliminate anything within our environment, which has acquired a label remotely 
> bearing the name TOXIC. I feel these people have an agenda. a great deal of money 
> can be made by forcing the population to change their life style. because of 
> some toxin which in sufficient quantity killed a rat.
> I pointed out that as a child a guzzled water delivered through miles of lead 
> pipe ,as did the Romans.
> I know that people periodically boiled Rhubarb in the cook ware to shine it 
> up. making Rhubarb pie with the
> pot cleaner. Of course, "their" brains were never sliced up for analysis, 
> because they died prematurely?
> To say that: lung cancer is a direct result of cigarette  consumption,other 
> causes are equally valid :
> for instance, the irradiation of school children every six months in persute  
> of TB. may have contributed to later lung problems. I can remember walking 
> through a trailer fitted with agricultural Xray equipment, standing in front of 
> a fluorescent screen, and having a "ate technician"viewing my beating heart. I 
> and she got a massive
> dose of rhontgens. This scenario was never raised in th defense of big 
> tobacco, this and the cold war gave us all our quota of cancer causing radiation.
> 
> GF
> Sincerely,
> Leland T. Taylor
> Leland T."Tom" Taylor
> President
> Thermogenics Inc.
> 7100-F 2nd St. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107
> Phone:505-463-8422 Fax:505-268-9206 (call first)
> Web:thermogenics.com
> 
> 
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