Sulphur reacting to metal. Re: methionine in supps? Andy?

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> Unfortunately the whole sulphur thing is too complicated for me to

> understand. Would be nice if anyone could explain this to me.

I am the last person to be able to explain the answer, at this point

anyway, but want to point out that, if anybody has ever used real

silverware, like sterling, the absolute WORST thing you can to it is

let it sit with a high sulfur food on it, like egg yolks..

The silver will turn permanently black in the area where the sulphur

was, no polishing will restore, and so, intuitively, this is telling

me that sulphur and metal react chemically :-)

Purely empirical. Now if we use this chemistry in small amounts, like

to coax metal out of our delicate bodies: this is good. If we use a

lot of sulphur and have a lot of metal, well, I keep thinking of the

black marks on those spoons... maybe too much chemistry and not what

we want.

A little side-note: when I first started dividing DMSA caps, I did it

on a mirror with a single edged razor blade. I started to notice that

my fingers were getting black from the blade and realized, horrors!,

the sulphur of the DMSA was " melting " that cheap steel, the metal

was " sweating " onto my fingers..

I now use a cardboard business card to do the separating...

~robin