Zeolite: The Science

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For years science has paid special attention to the development and utilization of functional Zeolite (especially in Japan and the USA). These alumino-silicates, with a precisely known structure of a given size and form are applicable for many ionic exchange functions, as catalysts for different chemical reactions, as well as in absorption of various materials. Zeolite displays the chemical structures: Al/Na Silicate, Al/Ca Silicate. These crystals build two or four groups with a tetra base structure. It is essentially an alkali metal displaying a very high pH-value.

Cancer and other chronic illnesses have in common the degeneration of the cell due to a change in the pH value of the extra cellular milieu. Acidity of the tissue and blood stream is brought about by poor eating habits, environmental toxicity and negative thoughts and emotions. The cells are forced to respond based on primitive survival instincts. They are forced to abandon their nature-given command to serve the body for its optimum health. They strive to live independent of the blood stream, which has become depleted of oxygen. This is exactly the way by which all creatures have lived for millions of years - mostly one-cell creatures. A return to a primitive, but efficient form of life. This kind of "atrophy" condition of life is only possible in water. In order to survive in water the cell has to degenerate its pH value (potential hydrogen, a scale for the relative acidity or alkalinity of a solution) down to the level of water, which has a pH value of exactly 7.4.

ZEO Health Zeolite Products make it possible to restore the normal pH value of cancerous cells. Tumor cells, which flourish in an acidic environment, escape detection by the immune system in part because pH changed cells are always the body's own cells. ZEO Health Zeolite Products bring all cells equally to a pH value of 7.4 and doesn't differentiate between healthy cells and sick cells. Cancer cells find the higher alkaline environment "uninhabitable" and will, as far as possible, die within six weeks without being able to duplicate.

ZEO Health Zeolite Products, whose basic substance is natural micronized Zeolite, Clinoptilolite, have a very favorable effect on human health which has already been proven in the world and many articles have been published in medical journals. Acute, sub-chronic and chronic toxicology was carried out, and it is important to emphasize that genetic toxicology proved there was no mutagenic effect. Clinoptilolite, a food supplement approved by the FDA, is taken along with medical therapy as an adjuvant - a substance which raises the general state of health of the organism. It falls into a group of antioxidants just as vitamin C, Beta-carotene and vitamin E, which absorb free radicals or more simply, unpaired oxygen electrons. Free radicals in the organism occur through our aerobic metabolism, which means in the presence of oxygen. The connection of free radicals to oxygen leads to a series of oxidized damaged cells.

Not only does Clinoptilolite absorb free radicals, it also stimulates and restores the defense anti-oxidational system with which the organism defends itself against oxidative stress. Clinoptilolite also acts as an ionic alternator, adsorbent of toxins in the digestive system, an immuno stimulator and has a favorable effect on bone structure.

Compositionally, Zeolites are similar to clay minerals. More specifically, they are alumino-silicates. They differ, however, in their crystalline structure. Many clays have a layered crystalline structure (similar to a deck of cards) and are subject to shrinking and swelling as water is absorbed and removed between the layers. In contrast, Zeolites have a rigid, 3-dimensional crystalline structure (similar to a honeycomb) consisting of a network of interconnected tunnels and cages. Water moves freely in and out of these pores but the Zeolite framework remains rigid. Another special aspect of this structure is that the pore and channel sizes are nearly uniform, allowing the crystal to act as a molecular sieve. The porous Zeolite is host to water molecules and ions of potassium and calcium, as well as a variety of other positively charged ions, but only those of appropriate molecular size to fit into the pores are admitted creating the "sieving" property.

Clinoptilolite is a natural mineral, which is not reabsorbed by the blood and the digestive tract accepts it like food. Such a mechanism enables long-term application without side-effects and toxicity. Clinoptilolite works in several ways. It acts on the signal of the cells, it is not reabsorbed and does not enter the blood but acts through cell signals. These signals occur by the stimulation of the epithelium cells of the digestive tract. In this way the activation of protein 21 I WAF 1/CIP 1 I is induced and this is the basis of the strong suppressor of tumors. Clinoptilolite stimulates another tumor suppressor - protein 27, which causes programmed death of cells to which the malignant cell must return. This is the most import mechanism of all anti-tumor therapy. Clinoptilolite also acts anti-oxidationally because it adsorbs free radicals and stimulates our own defense mechanisms. This process is an important reply to oxidational stress. The capacity for action of compounds on the basis of silicon is several times stronger than classic anti oxidants and, like micronisation (cell fragmentation), will be important in the prevention of many cell impairments which are associated with chronic diseases and for which modern medicine does not have a satisfactory therapy. These are diseases such as cancer, neuro-degenerative disease, auto-immunological diseases of the liver and kidneys, virus diseases.

Test results carried out on Clinoptilolite by the Californian University of Medicine in Santa Barbara demonstrated the favorable effects it has on several lines of human tumorous cells of which all three - Hela, CaCO-2 and HT-29 - were inhibited, that is, their continued growth was stopped. The paper 'Nedjeljni Vjesnik' was the first to receive this information, which states that Clinoptilolite (in laboratory conditions) drastically inhibits the growth of tumorous cells.