On 10/26/10 5:07 PM, carole wrote:
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In pond.com,
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What is the nutrient silica / silicon dioxide good for? How is it used
in the human body?
For starters it stops underarm odour which obviously isn't natural, and
isn't a sign of good health.

On the contrary, underarm odor contains pheromones which convey sexual
and social information between adults. Note that children don't need
underarm deodorants -- these pheromones are produced only beginning with
puberty, and underarm hair helps spread the messages.

No, you've got that wrong.
The pheromones may play a role in attracting the opposite sex, but this is beside the point.

No, it is part of the point. Underarm odor is a normal part of how our
bodies function once we hit puberty.

I'm sure nobody is going to say that underarm odour is attractive to anybody, letalone the opposite sex. So there would be underarm
odour + pheromones and I don't think that getting rid of the odour which is caused by bacteria is going to interfere with sexual
attraction.

And you would know this how?

The frequently noted phenomenon of menstrual cycles synchronizing among
women who live closely together is mediated by pheromones in underarm
sweat.

I wouldn't think so. I have heard there is a phenomena where women living together to menstrate at the same time, but it would not
be dependent on underarm bacteria.

Yet it shows that the odors from our underarms are part of how our
bodies work.

You need to rethink this theory a little more because I can tell you that underarm odour is in direct relation to silica deficiency
and silica is mostly found in vegetables.

You can tell us that the odor in our feces is a result of heavy water
deficiency if you like, but that is not true either. If what you said
were true, then I would have no underarm odor, either, as would middle
school and high school students who don't eat meat, but we all (after
hitting puberty) have underarm odor.

The more you say that underarm odor is a silicon-defiency, the stupider
you sound.

If a person eats a high meat diet they need more silica to balance it. There is nothing
nice or natural about underarm odour - it is a deficiency symptom.

It is caused by bacteria, as you pointed out. The bacteria are fed by
the oil in the apocrine sweat glands in the armpits, around the nipples,
navel the groin and anus.

If it is so nice and natural then we should all stop using underarm deodorant and just go around stinking.
There is nothing nice and natural about any body odours and they are all symptoms of deficiencies of some mineral or other.

Having to defecate f is natural, too, but people will want to walk
around with feces in their underpants. Body odors are not symptoms of
anything, but, rather, part of our normal body function.

Note also that people who live together share the bacteria that produce
some of the odors from sweat and develop a common scent which helps
identify family and outsiders. We're much less aware of these things than
people in cultures where individuals spend more time closer together and
are less obsessed with suppressing scents, but they've been important
in human social organization since our primate ancestors and before,
as they are in other mammals.

In our culture, we prefer to suppress these odors when among strangers to
avoid pheromone effects. There's also a cultural aspect that identifies
clean, odorless people who have resources and leisure to remain so as
superior to the 'unwashed masses', even though even poor people have
access to showers in developed countries these days. Those few outcasts
who don't are further despised for their odor.

I've already covered the topic and won't respond to these rationalisations.

Too bad. You're good for a laugh.

Jeff