Re: Zeolite - Re: Contrary theories..... LINK ADDED!

I don't intend to knock the products, but what they didn't tell you is that zeolites are about eight bucks a pound, and what the first link is selling for $ 170 probably contains about # 4 worth of chemical.

Zeolitic materials are insoluble. Thus, any effect they exert is on the digestive tract, unless tiny particles of them smaller than colloids enter the blood stream, which seems unlikely. I don't know what to make of the claims of people who say it makes them better from a scientific standpoint, but I am glad they were able to find relief. I did not look at the second link. There is probalby much available on how zeolites work. They're like a cage, having a certain pore size which lets things in, but then by the Boltzmann distribution of statistical thermodynamics they become trapped inside and unable to leave, like students in lecture halls.

Before things can get trapped in a zeolite particle, they first have to be floating around freely. For example, to trap a mercury atom, the mercury has to be moving around. Since mercury in the human body is generally bound to thiol groups, I dont see zeolites as being an effective remedy. How about methylmercury ? I don't know, one would need to look at the pore size of the zeolite and the size of the Me-Hg molecule and see if it is physically possible. Some molecules are too large to get into zeolites. Tweet