July 21, 2005

UNVACCINATED, NOW UNWASHED (via John Resnick):

Showers 'may damage your brain' (News24, 21/07/2005)

Traces of manganese found in household water could be sufficient to cause permanent brain damage to those who take a regular shower, according to a report published in the US journal Medical Hypotheses.

John Spangler of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and his team suggested that breathing in vapour containing manganese salts could be dangerous over the longer term.

"Inhaling manganese, rather than eating or drinking it, is far more efficient at delivering manganese to the brain. The nerve cells involved in smell are a direct pathway for toxins to enter the brain," Spangler wrote.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2005 3:02 PM
Comments

Back to the old cistern. lonbud will be ecstatic.

Posted by: erp at July 21, 2005 3:35 PM

'regular showers' ..wassat, about 5 a year?

Posted by: JonofAtlanta at July 21, 2005 3:48 PM

Based on this, there are some vagrants on the streets and in the subways in New York who have got to be the healthiest people in the world.

Posted by: John at July 21, 2005 3:57 PM

Obviously a Commie plot--they found out that fluoride wasn't doing the job fast enough, so they switched to manganese.

Posted by: Lou Gots at July 21, 2005 4:15 PM

Not to mention the possibility of a snakehead emerging from the nozzle.

Posted by: Luciferous at July 21, 2005 4:17 PM

Dihydrogen oxide strikes again. Where ever it is found, there people are being injured.

Posted by: David Cohen at July 21, 2005 4:52 PM

Sorry, lonbud, even the tinfoil hat won't help.

Posted by: John Resnick at July 21, 2005 4:55 PM

Well, maybe this explains why the Euros are so much smarter than Americans.

Posted by: Jeff at July 21, 2005 5:07 PM

Michael Moore must be the smartest man alive...:P

Posted by: Vince at July 21, 2005 6:54 PM

This might explain a few things about Bart.

Posted by: Dave W. at July 21, 2005 7:56 PM

Considering that there are many other dissolved minerals in tap water that is safe to drink, I'll have to read his Medical Hypotheses paper to see why he singles out manganese.

Posted by: John J. Coupal at July 22, 2005 10:42 AM

Last night I read in the paper that beach sand is harmful and tonight I read that their are fewer foreign toxins in our bodies now than in the past. What are we to believe, and how are we to respond? Help, help, help!

Posted by: Dave W. at July 22, 2005 11:47 PM

Dave :

I wouldn't worry until the day you lay down on the beach and your body temperature turns it to glass.

Posted by: oj at July 23, 2005 12:28 AM
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