Re: article about GSE, not so good?

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Oh that sucks bad...I just took a few drops myself. I take the stuff

every day. I love it. I use NutriBiotics GSE liquid concentrate

unfiltered formula. I brush my teeth with it too, keeps my mouth

feeling awesome all day long. After reading it I realize thats my

brand they are talking about. That really sucks...

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Materials. Grapefruit seed extract (GSE liquid concentrate,

unfiltered formula, NutriBiotic, Lakeport, CA) was purchased

at a local store. The ingredients were stated to be 33%

Citricidal and 67% vegetable glycerin (glycerol). Grapefruit

seed extract powder concentrate was obtained from Nutri-

Team, Inc. (Ripton, VT). GSE powder is said to contain 50%

quaternary ammonium compound (from grapefruit bioflavonoids),

30% silicon dioxide, and 20% USP vegetable

glycerin.

Chemicals. Benzethonium chloride was purchased from

TCI America (Portland, OR). Solvents were HPLC spectroscopic

grade.

Extraction. Approximately 2 g of liquid GSE was mixed

with 1 mL of water and extracted with 40 mL of chloroform

in a separatory funnel. The chloroform layer was collected, and

the oily residue was extracted with another 40 mL aliquot of

chloroform. The combined chloroform extract was evaporated

under a stream of nitrogen. The resulting white crystalline

solid was dried in a desiccator containing CaSO4. The solid

was dissolved in HPLC mobile phase, and filtered through a

0.5-ím disposable membrane filter before injection. The GSE

powder was first extracted with diethyl ether, then after airdrying,

the powder was extracted with methanol. The methanol

extract was evaporated, redissolved in mobile phase and

filtered before HPLC analysis.

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I am going to email NutriBiotic about this. This should be a major

concern. Many of us have candida and the use of this is widely

advocated as a general treatment. That really sucks too as it makes

me feel good afterwards. Looks like its time to switch...

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> I found this article about GSE rather interesting, so I thought I

would share. I have no idea about the source of this information, so

I'm just putting it out there, for those who are interested.------Jackie

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> http://www.terressentials.com/truthaboutgse.html

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