Guest guest Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Black specks that look like pepper or coffee grounds can be the result of bleeding in the upper part of the GI tract. I would ask your doctor about a test for occult blood in the stool and definitely tell him about it. Secondly, you were absolutely right to be VERY suspicious about the bovine brain thing. Here's a quote from researchers who work in the mad cow disease area: " Largely unregulated in the U.S., dietary supplements made of raw bovine organs may be one of the holes in the barriers erected to control mad cow disease, technically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).... PhytoPharmica markets a pill called Adrenal-Cortex Fractions, which contains in one dose raw bovine brain, lung, heart, and spleen. Except for heart, all of these organs are considered high risk for BSE. PhytoPharmica also sells a product called Essentials, which contains 300 mg of freeze-dried bovine brain per dose. A number of companies grind up cattle bones and add them to sports nutrition products. While not glandular, the bones, and thus the products, could be contaminated with prions, if made from bones of BSE-infected cattle. " Half a gram of infected bovine brain is all you need to get vCJD " --one good dietary supplement pill--notes Brown, chairman of the Food & Drug Administration's Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee. Supplements made from BSE-infected cattle could become a wide vector for spreading new-variant Creutzfeldt- disease (vCJD) in humans, he says. " More here: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/7915/7915gov3.html GFY for protecting your child from this serious risk. Don't believe everything the Health Food stores's employees tell you! My local store had " vital gluten " on the wheat-free and gluten-free shelf last week, as well as graham cracker pie crusts!! It might be a good idea to back off a little and add things back " low and slow " one at a time, to see if there is any change in the possible bleeding problem, IMO. Peace, Kathy E. > > Hi all, > > My son has been taking several supplements for yeast and I have seen no > changes in his stool. I did however notice yesterday that it was full of > black specks. Looked like pepper. He had eaten nothing out of the ordinary. > I have been giving him OLE 3x a day and Virastop 3x a day. Also, Oxy-C > (anyone have any experience with this one?) as well as his Housten enzymes > and MCT oil and Yeast Cleanse for yeast. Is this yeast die off? and should I > be giving him some Activated charcoal? (He is taking almost every other > kind of mineral and vitamin supplement too.) > > I am attacking what is left of his yeast problem and recently added the > anti-viral ones. Should I be giving something for bacteria or parasites? > Any advice is welcome! > > Also, at the local Health food store, they were trying to get me to buy > several things that were made with lots of " bovine brains " for yeast, > bacteria etc. I just did not like the way that sounded. (I keep thinking of > Mad Cow brains!) Should I stay away from those? > > Last question--is IP6 and Inositol the same thing? I have a bottle of > Inositol and just wondered. > > Reading through all of my recently purchased books and just trying to answer > these questions quickly for my husband (who is skeptical and doesn't like me > pouring all these pills down our son.) > > THANKS! > Leann > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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