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SWIMMING POOLS AND HUMAN ORGANIC MATTER. "Highly toxic disinfection byproducts (DBPs) form from reactions between pool disinfectants and organic matter, including hair, skin, sweat, dirt and… urine. In a new study, researchers mixed uric acid from human urine with chlorine and found it creates two DBPs: cyanogen chloride (CNCl) and trichloramine (NCl3)." An exemplar for other human protein reactions. http://lnkd.in/d7D-rJ6 View in LinkedIn

PHAGES IN MEDICINES have a long tradition in Russia. "A major Soviet pharmacological giant, Microgen, has now taken over all of the commercial phage production in Russia, and a wide variety of their phage preparations are available in pharmacies as well as on line." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278644/ View in LinkedIn

THE OBVIOUS EXPERIMENT that appears lacking is to administer chlorinated water to a fed animal, and examine the gut fluids for disinfectant byproducts (DBPs). And then to a human after a range of different foods. It is highly probable that DBPs would be found, and given the volumes, in rather high concentrations. The same for steam from a shower and lung fluids. View in LinkedIn

PHAGES IN US CLINICAL TRIAL: "in 2008, FDA officials approved the first phage phase I clinical trial evaluating phage ... used a cocktail containing eight phages ... and the trial included 42 patients with venous leg ulcers. The trial results fully supported the safety of the complex, multiphage preparation in the infected patients." http://lnkd.in/digJGBR View in LinkedIn

CHLORINE REACTS WITH ORGANIC MATTER, to form hundreds of carcinogenic or toxic purification byproducts (DBPs), and a big focus of regulatory considerations is to remove organics before chlorination. But as we drink chlorinated water, our stomachs contain high concentrations of organic matter. How much is known about the formation of DPBs in the gut? View in LinkedIn

CO2 increases can diminish nutrition in crops. View in LinkedIn

STUNNING LACK OF LITERATURE on the obvious: (1) chlorine reacts with organic material in water to make hundreds of carcinogenic byproducts; (2) epidemiology shows a significant portion of GI cancers are correlated with chlorinated drinking water; (3) the gut is full of organic matter; (4) drinking water is full of chlorine; (5) the missing experiments? (6) Chlorine reactions with gut contents. View in LinkedIn

FDA POLICY on phage safety is still not settled. "Despite this safety record, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not have guidelines for reviewing bacteriophage preparations until recently, and those guidelines are not yet fully finalized." http://lnkd.in/digJGBR View in LinkedIn

GUT BACTERIA MAKE HUMAN BRAIN HORMONES. "... the gut ... often called the body's "second brain." About 80 percent of the neurotransmitter serotonin is produced in the gastrointestinal tract—not the brain. Since large quantities of neurotransmitters are manufactured in the gut, that means your GI tract is largely responsible for your general physical and mental wellbeing." http://lnkd.in/dSfGGiV View in LinkedIn

ALLERGY-GUT MICROBES LINK. Increasing evidence links human gut microbe changes with the development of allergies, especially correlated to early antibiotic use. Probiotic treatments for allergy are currently under investigation, but the work is at an early stage. http://lnkd.in/ddsRd2h View in LinkedIn