Re: Agar Agar for detoxing REFS PLEASE? - also Agar media type when sampling for stachybotrys using petri dishes (mold plates, etc)

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Does anybody have any references to what " agar agar " does?

I have been looking on PubMed and even the regular web for something,

anything solid about it and all Ive been able to find are sites which

don't seem very credible at all, and no specifics.

Most of it comes from China, from what I can see. But the MSDS that I

found was pretty vague..

What do people use it to detox from? For? How is it supposed to work?

What does it address? What are the target " toxes " that it helps " de "

from? Are there any papers describing its use in the detox context.

The word " detox " is pretty broad and obviously, there's a lot of snake

oil out there..

On a related note, searching for agar and mold does bring up a lot of

interesting stuff about the use of different kinds of agar

as culture media in Petri dishes for viable sampling. Evidently, Petri

dishes with non-stachybotrys-specific agar are almost guaranteed to

not grow stachybotrys under typical growth conditions if a dish is

exposed to a typical mix of spores as the usual instructions suggest.

*Its recommended that people use stachybotrys-selective agar*, or

stachybotrys wont grow, because of the presence of other, toxinogenic

and non-toxinogenic molds.

Any petri dish that is opened and then closed within a reasonable time

(so it wont dry up) will grow at least some of spores that land on it,

but the composition of the agar often influences what dominates. In

the case of stachybotrys, often other molds will overpower it

completely. No stachybotrys will grow, even if it is there.

[Guest guest]

Agar agar might be food most frequently used for mold plates because

it is clear and gels and is a good source of carbohydrates which mold

likes. Gelatin would be clear and also gel but has alot of protein

and not a good source of carbohydrate. However this site gives

further explanation as to why agar is used in culture plates:

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-

projects/project_ideas/MicroBio_Agar.shtml

If you google 'soluble fiber' and 'toxins' you will find alot of

references to soluble fiber as an aide to removing toxins from body.

http://www.cancercenter.com/after-care-services/fiber.cfm

Although it recommends fiber to remove toxins from the body, it warns

to use them away from medications, as they can absorb medicines.

Here and in other places I read said the soluble fiber helps to

stabilize blood sugar levels since it is slowly digested.

Agar agar in another source says it is a type of soluble fiber that

is called a Hemicelluloses, which is a type not digested by body:

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/reference_carbohydrates.asp

Dr Shoemaker told me on my appointment that he's found that things

that lowered toxins, also lowered cholesterol, or the other way

around, that things that lowered cholesterol, also lowered toxins.

I don't profess to be knowledgeable on this. I posted a question

only. However there is some common sense analogies between fibers

binding toxins. I don't think there is just one. However there

probably is a 'best one' and since we know of noone else who has done

as extensive a research as Dr Shoemaker I wouldn't assume to know

better than he does on anything concerning binding of mycotoxins, and

I have qualified that constantly.

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[Guest guest]

Barb,

I hope you feel better. Hang in there.

Good luck..