I am in France right now and wasps are everywhere , so I wanted to buy borax off the internet only find it is outlawed here … apparently they do not want to alter the eco system of Mother Nature or have the stuff end up in the rivers ..yet after careful search I found you can buy borax for cleaning metal that you want to weld… books a plenty on Amazon about borax but no borax allowed to be sold… same story goes for lithium.. the highest murder and suicide rates occur in countries with the lowest levels of lithium in diet.. which was THE mineral before magnesium… as you alluded… the efforts to dumb us and keep us weak are multifaceted..Thankyou for all your time and effort to bring us back into health.
It is formally forbidden to sell yet no one cares, or enforces that, it was enough for the ds maniacs to reduce „R-value“ of borax availability in homes of citizens.
If it would be enforced, trials could bring up unpleasant details about the Morons that forbid it to sell.
Just roam the widths of EU market eg search 5kg borax on different search machines, and you‘ll find it in 5kg bucket starting from 16€, or 25kg original sack from turkey mine seen it today for ca 50€, so you can irrigate your herbs on balcony etc. too.
Last word: I for some time said boron would take down levels of iodine, and vice versa, and now can not find the source I had let slip through my digital fingers.
So now it remains to be said of course we need both, and both help us to throw unwanted stuff out. And it may be useful to dose both in “therapeutic doses” to Dr. Walter Last (0.6-1.2g borax a day depending on body weight) and Stefanie Buist (pdf, Supplementing Iodine, reported after dose finding, most that tried it found 40-140mg effective) or read about it in the “Iodine” book by Dr. David Brownstein,
So expanding this, to other “essential trace minerals”, we could find a new medicine that can easily determine deficiencies perhaps by cheap diy indirect tests, and get at least the essential trace elements and the real minerals in useful form and combination.
And come to terms in agriculture to regularly measure and supplement fields as we leech them out and deplete eg Copper by FACTOR 40 from 1945-2012.
And promote old farming knowledge now called permaculture), also farming styles like eg like demeter, that give back soil some things eg via milled stones.
(Reminder: In the same time autism rose from 1:50k to ca 1-2%, now 3%; perhaps like any toxicologists would say: this is a complex interaction of toxins and deficiencies. Giving birth to very individualised symptoms yet I see a common denominator.
Also mercury and lead can not be written in separate lines, as their toxicity potentiates, so at least multiply them as the simplest model regarding that fact in a third line; and the same will be true for most other toxins. Where toxicologist tell you they can not do a model beyond three toxins, yet we are engulfed in thoussands.
And it is necessary testing both, (trace) minerals and toxins, for cheap money as producing them costs next to nothing even in USP even when quality controlling it by external lab doing eg GC-MS analysis.
Any complex living for like a happy biome in balance is such a testing or model organism, and simple insects all also carrying a biome could be used for testing on such complex questions. A lab based model for this could ask 3 things: how balanced is biome after interventions, how much species count and proportion of keystone species is there?
But it will be possible to find simple-to-measure vital parameters just resulting in the same quality of answer, but costing only cents per test and possible doable on any kitchen table: this is an important design goal of modern medicine serving citizens.
What we can buy as zinc and selenium etc combinations hopelessly underdoses just the two.
Buying everything in seperate packages means you stuff a lot of pills in your mouth everyday, this just feels sick. Well the world is sick.
So we have to find people selling an assortment of powders soluble, and some measuring scoops along, so we can diy mix it as we need it and vary it to needs and personal situation.
It would be nice if sodium selenite is a bit thinned, as this can get toxic in case of mixing up anything.
(I want to take 0.2-0.4mg selenium a day from Na2SeO3 having Se proportion of 79/173=45,7% so need 0.43-0.86mg sodium selenite. )
Similarly, we can group eg. some families and buy the undiluted trace elements compounds eg as organic or other salt that proofed it gets absorbed, and mix from there.
Ideally, we enforce environmental and preventive medicine and test for heavy metal and trace and normal mineral status regularly.
I used to make a cream that called for Borax. I was so paranoid that I was inserting poison into my cream as I was giving it to friends. The herbalist tried to assure me of its safety but I believed what regulators stated. As Bugs Bunny would say, I was such a maroon.
I saw a video that a few years back kids were making “slime” with borax. Tons and tons of it until the screaming began. Kids might eat it or touch it and it has Borax in it. The recipe changed to Elmer’s glue.
Borax for breakfast? Someone’s clearly trying to make me sick. I’ve got arthritis so I’m going to look into it, but I can just imagine the headline: Idiot dies from eating laundry detergent.
I’ve tried Methylene Blue, DMSO, and CDS, all over the objections of friends (one of whom is a scientist). I didn’t find any of them particularly helpful, but they didn’t hurt me either (the dmso stink traumatized my family though, ha!).
I don’t actually think you’re a government/corporate agent trying to kill me, Doc, but damn! You gotta admit that it sounds a little crazy.
(This from someone who readily admits that our world is completely nuts, and I feel like I’m living in the ridiculous (or so I thought) dystopian sci-fi novels of my youth).
I bathe in Boraxo and epsom salts. No problems at all. I take boron supplements but think I will try using my Boraxo in water and try that for arthritis and osteo. I bought many boxes of Boraxo so I would not fear losing it to the ban of it any time soon.
Also dose-related anti-proportionality of borax in food and water to arthritis etc.
Yet I just try out to add iodine via Lugol’s in relevant doses too, to Buist, I crawled from thebusual 0.15mg to now 40mg, after filling up Magnesium and Selenium supplies. And take them along, and antioxidants a bit later.
Do something useful, do no harm, is all we can hope for:
Bring in things we need.
Help system throw out toxins.
Anyone telling you “here is the silver bullet” just lies.
Bringing down intake of processed food and poly-unsaturated fats may also be a factor. Search for Ray Peates eg. We often drift into metabolic states, perhaps read 3-part series of CDR celkular danger response at MidWesternDoctor com you can search for in nearly any search machine with site:midwesterndoctor.com CDR
Methylene Blue as a MAOI inhibitor certainly want to be considered with great care in relevant doses, I tried 1-3ml 1%, did careful dose finding, too, and also some waning in and out, yet just for metabolic dysfunction it may have its use. I tried it some times so by a “cure” base.
In the early 1900 Borate laundry rinses became very popular in daily Hospital use. The linens, bedding and diapers were all "sanitized" by borate rinses used in the laundry process.
They started losing infants. Apparently there was a dosing phenomenon with the diapers and the infants that wet them. The theory was they were loading the infant physiology with borates from the diaper via the inguinal (very high dermal absorption) area at a greater rate than the infants could excrete the dosing. It was a tragic situation.
The dose makes the poison. It's a matter of body weight, and the infants had very little body mass absorb the dose. Every physical contact with every linen so rinsed imparted another borate insult.
Otherwise borates are an essential mammalian nutrient. I am not surprised they have a beneficial effect on an inflammatory disorder. It has great fungicidal properties. We don't think enough about the pernicious effects of fungal crypto pathology in the third space.
Can anyone over dose on fruit? Why are people always looking for a cure in a pill or powder abd not asking or talking about diet? Whether people with unwanted aches pains are simply dehydrated or malnourished ?
It would be valid if fields were not depleted over countless decades not only in boron, but (depletion by factor 50-60x est. 1945-2025, 40x measured -2012) copper, iron, iodine (both salt and elemental, so Lugol’s), selenium, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, cobalt.
For some type-3 diabetics, it may even be they need higher amount if organic arsenic as present even in our also intoxicated by arsenic (inorganic form mostly) world.
The only element not needed by us seems Flouride. In a time where people, by nutrition and hygiene, loose teeth not to caries, but to paradentosis, it may be noteworthy Flouride enhances gum inflammation. This paradentosis. Imho it also shifts the biome also locally in mouth.
This is very helpful. One issue that I have though: I've asked a couple of questions in various places and I can't get an actual answer.
1. Why take borax if boron is what we're after? The reason why I ask is because of my second question.
2. Isn't anyone concerned about the aluminum content of borax? I asked if there is aluminum in it and I got no responses, so I looked through testing records and found that yes, there is aluminum in places where they get borax. I contacted a company that sells "pharmaceutical grade" borax and asked them if the aluminum is removed and I got no response. I'll take that as a "no, the aluminum is not removed."
My bottom line: I'm going to get lengths to get the aluminum out of my life. I've seen no reason to take aluminum laced borax if I can get the same result with my boron.
It's definitely cheap and convenient, no doubt about that. As for pure and from nature as mentioned in the article, there's a reason why 20 Mule Team puts it through two refining processes (they send it all the way to France for one of them) before they sell it to various industries, including pharma. One of the problems is that it's mined, so there are potentially any number of "contaminants" that come with it, either from the ground or from the mining machinery.
I'm curious about the comments regarding the boron forms. You sent me down a rabbit hole with this one! I use bororganic glycine, which is touted as being used specifically for its bioavailability, which is different than what your comment mentioned. It's used by NOW, Mercola, and Orthomolecular Products, among others. I may revisit this subject when it's time to restock.
Ultimately, I suspect that we're in a similar place where sometimes we have to take the information that's convincing to us, climb out of the muck, make a decision, and move on.
I wonder about RealSalt. Supposedly deep mined out west away from sea contamination but what about the nuclear tests out there back in the day. But I’m not an expert on that subject.
I have to say that using test strips isn't something that I myself would choose, especially when we're testing for metals in the ppm range. The geologic survey that I read measured aluminum in tenths of a decimal point range. Given that I trust Exley's belief that no amount of aluminum is safe, I'll still pass to be on the safe side.
I'll also add this: 20 Mule Team sells borax to the pharmaceutical, agricultural, battery, and manufacturing industries. Before it's sold, 20 Mule Team refines the borax, then sends it to a company in France for further refining. I know my supplements (and foods for that matter) are not refined to that degree, but I have to follow my hunches and/or information where I can. Where something is mined, I'm a bit more wary, which is why I use Diamond Kosher salt. (testing on that can be found here for those who are curious: https://mamavation.com/food/sea-salt-himalayan-salt-heavy-metals-lead.html ).
What real a food or fruit or veggies that supplies this, ?we are meant to eat food , not single element called a vitamin, scurvy was cured by eating fruit not by taking a vitamin c pill.
You can look up if that's what you want (I'll put a link at the bottom of this). Note that computer databases of boron content in food greatly overstates the amounts of boron.
There's this idea that the real world has been an ideal place where people had everything our bodies required in the natural world around us. That ideal has rarely existed. The world is somewhat of a hostile place, and all life-forms are subject to the whims of the elements and our abilities to harness them for our uses. The entire boron phenomenon started from a researcher who found that different areas of the world have wildly varying amounts of boron in their soils, and the people who live in areas with low levels of boron suffer as a result.
Also, one of the problems is that a lot of people are dealing with health problems that are the result of decades of boron insufficiency because of this idea that "we are meant to eat real food." We're living in an age where "real food" is anything but, after over 100 years of industrial agriculture depleting the nutrients of our soils, and adding pesticides that interfere with the absorption of some of the nutrients that are left. Add to that the medications and other toxic exposures that can interfere with nutrient absorption. So just getting a sufficient quantity of nutrients would require eating an excess caloric content, and that would cause it's own health problems. It would also be very difficult for those of us who are older, whose bodies no longer retain nutrients like they did when we were younger.
The question I have: can you link the measurements (showing also al content)? Want to compare that toneg sea salt and other stuff.
Is it in a form able to harm us?
The world has abundance of Al, yet only certain nano-modifications seem to harm us. This is my intuitive picture. Eg: So I stay clear from chemically modified nano zeolite in solution, yet have no problem in natural zeolite just very fine grounded.
You can get rid of Al eg by supplementing diatomaceous earth, bought a 10kg sack very fine ground for farming, also throw at my herbs and roses. Improves drought resistance and reduces fungal problems. Seemingly for plants and other living beings here. :)
A more direct approach would be to produce silicade water to Denis N. Crouse who brought back his mom from Alzheimer’s with it.
If we have old residual immune system load if aluminum etc loaded injections, pursuing immune system grounding in the aspect of Monocyte Activation Syndrome therapy (anti-CCR5 interventions, also oxidative cures, intermittent fasting + resveratrol (OPC) + spermidine are options.
I wouldn't count on intuition; this is far from intuitive. I've seen Christopher Exley explain why some people have been wrong when they say that certain forms of aluminum are ok. Some of the information is in his articles, some of it is in his responses to people in his comments sections. It's been a while so I can't remember the details, but what I read was enough for me to avoid mined aluminum. That's also why I decided against using zeolite unless it's a temporary necessity.
This was his response to someone who uses diatomaceous earth to do the same thing as OSA:
"No, DE is silica, it will pass through the human digestive tract unchanged. Just like sand from the beach."
I've been making silicade for a few years now. I know that Exley says that it doesn't work, but I find Crouse's arguments convincing.
- diatomaceous earth very fine ground has a natural nano precipitation , and that will do the trick.
- sand is Aluminum bound just as zeolite. But what I said above holds true here: there is always a nano precipitation also in natural erosion. Yet I do not believe that is a problem. It is a question whether or not our natural detox systems can cope with a situation. And what amounts we ingest or get exposed to in whatever route. I like to trust things we co-evolved with, and eating “healing mud” is an old tradition, and for insane money, we can buy that still in drugstores, tge ultra fine sieved ones being useful eg to prevent re-absorption of bile excreted mercury complexes in digestive tract.
For bad nano stuff, I found, often crystal growths is limited innsize by industrial excipients, and in the process of growing or in balance re-forming, it seems properties can be imprinted in quite any nano crystal. And in tge case of nearly all industrial excipients, we see sooner or later things produced with it — even if the excipients are washed out 100% befire using a product — are disrupting the immune system, changing epigenetics, and show carcinogenic properties. And whatnot side effects. So when doing things from scratch, like Crouse does, we really have to know what we do. Perhaps as always, the most easiest way to test would be if it dysbalances any biome. I am searching for kitchen table methods to measure this.
Sikicade water:
By the way, where did you order powdery low-alkaline water glass? I can ‘t find it in whole EU and again my intuition tells me I can not use liquid form of water glass even if I alright found it with the same CAS number as Crouse uses.
I use the dry for that Crouse recommends. I've toyed with using the powder to avoid the lower solubility that comes with the powder, but I'm going to finish my powder and that'll take quite a while.
For those who are not in the US, Crouse mentioned this site for ordering:
I think they ship internationally alright yet shipping is quite a sum. I always thought it is not such a rare chemical. I wished I could reach Crouse and ask him if the liquid form would be ok we can buy in EU.
(US really should sponsor shipping internationally if they want to boost exports like CN does, especially small letter to book formats of tracked parcelets. :).
To name it:
Silicade Powder Chemicalstore com CAS 1344-09-8 Sodium Silicade, Hydruous, low alkaline. fine, white powder, Sodium Silicate Powder (also known as Water Glass Powder) has a SiO2 to Na2O ratio of 3.22, similar to liquid sodium silicates. When dissolved, it forms a hazy, colorless colloidal solution. This SSG sodium silicate is used for specialized refractory compounds and acid-resistant cements.
Al 13ppm
Now if I search for that CAS and the proportion of constituents, SiO2 to Na2O ratio of 3.22, I well find liquid forms here that closely match. Yet will they have the same molecules size distribution?
I suspect that Crouse may have used the liquid form given the wording here:
"The powder is safer and easier to measure than the liquid form but has the same ratio of 3.22 SiO2 to Na2O. The powder has a as a purity of 99.5% and a formula of SiO2[Na2O]1/3.22 H2O (18.5% water) Mw of 97.25."
I have been taking this since 2015 when I was first diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation (calcification), which was cleared up in my next echo cardiogram in 2020.
Borax also stops the proliferation of nanotech in the body. Check out Terral Croft's borax/nanosilver protocol. BTW the borax dose is 1/8 tsp per 100 lbs of body weight, so 1/4 tsp is a good dose for most men.
I am tending to believe that as well. I’m 78 and I’ve gotten this far exposed to everything but yet in good shape. I make corrections as I go. No arthritis problems, etc. I’m going to use Borax for bones. I got in a spot of trouble too long on a low, very low carb diet which did a number on my metabolism but believe that’s doing better by adding many more carbs in fruit and some potatoes, etc. plus just plain eating more. That keto thing with IF turned into a starvation diet through high food satiety, no glucose that damaged my thyroid and then over-exercise. Slamming fat is not magic and it’s not really that nutritious. I’ve known some eating 80% fat and bragging about it. That’s crazy. I do eat the good fats.
Professor Mark Miller did a drop today regarding an unhinged rant of us anti-vaxxers. For those who don't know him, he was a professor of propaganda at NYU who had the audacity to have students think for themselves over masks. But he is himself a victim of propaganda belittling anyone who criticized the climate narrative - until he too came to realize the fraud. But he has made up for it by listing every week unexpected injuries and deaths.) The following is from an email to him. It evidences why there is such a divide and the river is getting wider.
From the mailbag: An email of virulent harassment (threatening to sue ME for harassment if I dare reply) I’m posting this, from yesterday, again—partly as a reminder of what Big Pharma’s Senators are doing today to get RFK, Jr. ousted; but mostly to provide the context for an email I received this morning.
Someone who glimpsed that headline felt compelled to let me know how it made him/her feel:
Give me a fucking break, he's a dangerous idiot who makes shit up, lies and knows nothing about medicine. He's a disgrace to his family, he preaches about health and vapes while sticking nicotine slips in his mouth. He had a brainworm from swimming in contaminated sewage water. You people are not only deep in the cult, but easily one of the dumbest ones ever to exist. Any further contact with me will be considered harassment and dealt with as such.
I replied, How many shots have you had?
I have you [sic] one warning about any further [sic] replies from you. Lol you people still stuck [sic] in 2020 with that played out crusty old attempt at an insult [sic]. You voted for a pedophile who though [sic] drinking bleach could cure covid. Now I will deal with your harassment as stated. Again, do not reply or email this account as it will continue to be considered harassment.
It’s the shots. Lots of outright crazy and disturbed around me and I don’t even do social media except substack. It got worse after shots and then exponentially dangerous after President Trump was elected. Some I just don’t be around anymore. I’m not afraid at this point to tell someone I didn’t get the gene therapies. I don’t care.
I just laugh at these fools now. They will have to have their own “Come to Jesus” moments. I’m not helping them. Unfortunately some are in places of power
Just a note of caution from personal experience - if you're doing a prolonged fast, intermittent or otherwise, you might wait til you're done and already recovered before trying this. Much to my dismay, I ended up with hives for 3 weeks before I figured out what was causing them. The reaction wasn't immediate.
Just a note, I had been intermittent fasting (18/6-20/4) for 1.5 months before trying the boron.
Yesterday after reading the article - not the first I’ve encountered on Borax - I made a kale avocado salad topped with fried egg and decided to have my first go at trying this. So I sprinkled a bit of Borax (maybe 1/4 tsp?)over the salad and before I could finish it I grew intensely hot and a bit sweaty. Shortly after I felt a bit nauseous. I looked at the box and read the warning to call poison control if ingested. I opted not to do that as inherently I trusted I was not going to die from this, but within 20 minutes my body vomited everything out. Never even finished lunch.
Today I’m feeling a slight “residue” of the experience still inside. (Throat, belly, head feels a bit swollen)
Your comment makes me wonder if it is due to a general practice I have of intermittent fasting plus lower calorie intake the last few days.
I am inspired to hear many people have taken it without issue. I’m wondering what guidelines I might need to consider.
But as always, I appreciate the information you share and the honesty in its delivery.
Seems than an excess of boron CAN POSSIBLY cause hives. Being on a prolonged intermittent fast, my body was already loaded with histamines. Happens on a fast, no matter the type. Boron just tipped the scales, and I theorize, that's because it was a strange substance in my body, and because of the fast and the corresponding metabolic changes, my immune system treated it like an enemy, resulting in hives.
I'll try again AFTER I'm done with the fast, another month or two, when I've fully recovered from it, and strange foods and supplements won't be such a problem. I had this happen with 3 other new foods I'd never had before, along with 2 new supplements. Each one resulted in hives. I've been in hive hell for over 3 weeks. They're just now calming down with a low histamine diet, B6, pounding buffered C, and DAO.
Hope you have stopped. I’m in a group of hundreds who did IF and fasting and lowcarb/no carb too long. I see even Jason Fung has stepped back a bit recently on that. I’ve really cut back on supplements. I just eat real food throughout the day. Cheers!
No I haven't stopped, but I don't do low carb or no carb. I eat whatever I feel like for breakfast, which is usually something resembling dinner. I love my carbs.
I got a slight headache the first 2 days on 1/8. But felt really good and energetic. My mood has gotten much better. Sticking to 1/8 for another week. 1/4 was too much in a bolus perhaps.
Make sure you get plenty of good food after those hours of fasting. I didn’t get enough for a prolonged period of IF and it caused nutrition deficiencies,thyroid damage plus a screwed up metabolism. You don’t get enough calories for energy production squeezing food into so few hours plus your appetite goes down which makes the whole thing worse. It’s ok for awhile but be careful doing years that way. This is more common for women because the less we eat becomes a “virtue “. Sounds like you stopped. Good.
I notice all the comments so far seem to be sticking to the topic, i.e., borax boron for arthritis. I was more interested in another theme or thesis I noticed in this article, but I will ask.
There are different kinds of "arthritis" which is simply inflammation of the joints.
I do not know what kind of arthritis Dr. Yoho has but I am wondering if borax would work diferently in say rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune condition. as opposed to osteoarthritis.
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Now what I thought was interesting is the other theme I observed in this article and that is that the "globalists" seem to be synonymous with "pschopath" and "sociopath."
I got off on a tangent and looked in to various aspects of that theme. It seems that there are different kinds of psychopaths too. Usually the main characteristic of a psychopath is the lack of a conscience or a sense of right and wrong or a "moral compass." But I recently heard a learned commenter say in commening on what has happned to our culture here in the USA and he said something like there is no longer a "moral compass and that is "over" indicating a large part of the populace today, especially the younger people do not seem to have a "moral compass" but I am not sure I would classify them as "psychopaths."
I, mistakenly probably, said I thought a well known figure on the world stage today was not a "psychopath" but did appear to be demonically possessed. That was not a good way for me to express the difference I saw.
“there is no longer a ‘moral compass‘“ It sure seems that there are more “crazies” today than ever before. I don’t know if they’re becoming a larger percentage of the population or if they’ve always been there, but social media now gives them a public platform to express their craziness. Another alternative is widespread brain damage caused by the COVID shots. When something like 80% of the population had been injected with a substance proven to cause dementia, the damage can no longer be hidden.
Source: “We Now Have Proof The COVID Vaccines Damage Cognition”
I am thankful for a reader of this old Dr. Yoho article about borax, because it caused me to reread this and I found a big tip for me in my current health problem that I cannot get diagnosis and treatment for and that I have decided to try some over-the-counter "supplements" to "treat" my condition and symptoms myself without worry about doing "more harm" to my body.
Just as "arthritis" is not really a true diagnosis that would at least objectively better identify the "root cause" of the pathology, "psychopath" is not really a true diagnosis but appears to just imply that There is some pathological condition of the psyche, that is the mind.
There are many kinds of conditions of the psyche. These are mental disorders or conditions.
My condition is called "leaky gut" and I have had three "surgical" or "medical interventions" so far that I think derive from my "leaky gut." What I think are the symptoms of my "leaky gut" today are different from the conditions for which I was treated years ago but which I think are just a different set of symptoms for the same underlying "root cause" condition which I will probably never know.
Now I need to figure out if borax laundry detergent is the same thing as "sodium tetraborate" which is a "booster ingredient in many laundry detergents including "Twenty Muleteam Borax" brand of laundry detergent. And then I have to figure out how to make the conversion from the "teaspoon" to the milligram or whatever an over the counter "supplement" "boron" product that would be equally "safe.".
I will refrain from commenting on " psychopath as relates to moral compass because as an old-school Catholic I am working with different definitions in what most think about the concept of "sin" and the conscious human will to engage in certain behaviors.
1) "In regions where daily boron intake is 1 mg or less per day, arthritis incidence ranges from 20% to 70%. Conversely, in areas where boron intake reaches 3-10 mg daily, arthritis rates drop dramatically to 0-10%."
2) "arthritic bone shows almost a 20-fold decrease in boron content, "
3) "A double-blind, placebo-controlled Australian study found that 50% of osteoarthritis patients improved with 6 mg daily boron supplementation, compared to only 10% with placebo"
Perhaps the people with arthritis drink soda or beer instead of water, or eat fake food or lots of sugar..never eat fruit, veggies or collagen rich food like bone broths and meat.
Quite an article Doc. I know someone in the same boat as me and I will show it tomorrow when I see her. Have to be honest I have just quickly perused just the start of the article as there is so much in it. I just woke up here in Australia so I'm wishing you have a good day wherever you are or a good night whatever.
I read recently that borax/ boron also supposedly supports sufficient estrogen production in peri/ menopausal women - I wanted to research it more but didn’t yet - have you/ has anyone come across this who and knows more? It suggested supplementing would mitigate the estrogen loss and its symptoms - which would be a real game changer
Thanks for this article. In Australia we don't have the brand of Borax you refer to, but we have a product called Borax in the cleaning section at the supermarket. The label says "999g/kg BORAX", and "Made in China". Is it the same thing you're referring to? I'm always suspect of the purity/quality of anything out of China....
It is important to supplement enough vitamin D3 cholecalciferol to attain at least 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (AKA "calcidiol"). This is a separate compound, made primarily in the liver by hydroxylating vitamin D3 at the 25th carbon. This is what is tested in "vitamin D" blood tests.
The kidneys can perform their role in regulating calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism with about 20 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and many doctors consider this to be a healthy level. However, the immune system can only function properly with 50 ng/mL or more.
For 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, about 125 micrograms (5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day is a good amount, though it takes a few months to build up the level of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D to the desired level. New Jersey Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa has recommendations of how much vitamin D3 to supplement according to body weight and obesity status, to attain at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D without the need for medical supervision or blood tests: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-how-much and https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997.
There is very little vitamin D in food, including in food fortified with vitamin D3 or the less effective vitamin D2. Until the late 1920s, the primary source of vitamin D3 was ultraviolet-B irradiation of the skin, where it breaks a bond, opening up one of the carbon rings of 7-dehydrocholesterol to form a molecule which changes shape of its own accord to become stable vitamin D3. Far from the equator, sufficient UV-B light to do this is only available in the middle of cloud-free summer days, without glass, clothing or sunscreen intervening. However, this UV-B also damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer.
Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run their intracrine (inside each cell) and paracrine (to nearby cells, usually of different types) signaling systems. These signaling systems enable each individual cell to alter its behavior in response to its changing circumstances. Most immunologists have never heard of this, because these signaling systems have never been explained in a tutorial fashion in the peer-reviewed literature. My 2020 non-peer-reviewed tutorial on this is: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/02-intracrine/, with a less detailed version at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#02-compounds.
What is your source of vitamin D? Supplements? This is where I get lost trying to find a reputable source that is not over priced. I retired in the Philippines and depend online for products. Thanks ahead.
Pharmaceutical grade vitamin D3 is molecularly identical to the vitamin D3 we produce in when ultraviolet B light breaks a bond in one of the carbon rings of 7-dehydrocholesterol in our skin.
It is industrially produced, in only a few factories in the world (none owned by large pharmaceutical companies) by the same process, using special high-power mercury vapour lamps and 7-dehydrocholesterol in benzine solution. See Industrial Aspects of Vitamin D by Arnold L. Hirsch in 2010: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/B978-0-12-381978-9.10006-X .
A gram costs about USD$2.50 (or at least it did when I last checked ca. 2021) ex-factory. (A credit card weighs about 5.3 grams.) One gram is enough for an average weight adult (70 kg) for 22 years, at the 125 micrograms (5000 IU) a day average supplemental intake which they need to attain at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D all year round.
There is almost no vitamin D3 in foods of any kind, other than breast milk from vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D mothers. No natural food diet, or one involving vitamin-D (D3 or the less effective D2) fortification (adding a nutrient to food artificially) can supply enough vitamin D3/2 to attain the 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D3/2 the immune system needs to function properly.
With two exceptions, the only two ways of attaining this is to get most or all the vitamin D3 we need from supplements and/or UV-B skin exposure. The amount of UV-B required to do it by skin along is so high that, over a lifetime, even if you can get this UV-B all year round (there is virtually none in winter) the risk of skin cancer will be unreasonably high.
The first exception is that breast milk from 25-hydroxyvitamin D replete moms contains sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and some vitamin D3 depending on how long ago she ingested it or UV-B >> skin produced it, for the babe to be healthy. I am not sure that it is sufficient to attain 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, but it is probably sufficient for good health at this stage, if the infant is substantially breast fed.
Newborns' 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels depend directly on their moms'. Measurements of vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels vary widely, in part due to the difficulties in measuring such low levels: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1229445. One recent study https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/2/573 found approximately equal amounts of vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in human breast milk. Since (at least in adults) the liver only coverts about 1/4 of ingested vitamin D3 into circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, this means that the bulk of the benefit to the breast-fed child's 25-hydroxyvitamin D comes from the 25-hydroxyvitamin D component of breast milk. This depends on the mother's 25-hydroxyvitamin D level.
The second exception is that it is sufficient to ingest 25-hydroxyvitamin D (calcifediol) alone, in smaller quantities than are needed for vitamin D3, since the body (mainly the liver) hydroxylates only about 1/4 of ingested or UV-B >> skin produced vitamin D3 to the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system, and the kidneys, need. However, calcifediol is difficult to obtain.
Vitamin D3 is a clear exception to the supposed rule that we can be healthy with a "balanced diet" (whatever that might be) alone.
Vitamin D3/2 food fortification cannot supply what we need to attain 50 ng/mL circulating 35-hydroxyvitamin D. I argue against it, since it can give a false impression of being sufficient for full health and since all efforts at such fortification would be better directed at proper supplementation. https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#07-fortif.
Excellent stack Dr Yoho…
I am in France right now and wasps are everywhere , so I wanted to buy borax off the internet only find it is outlawed here … apparently they do not want to alter the eco system of Mother Nature or have the stuff end up in the rivers ..yet after careful search I found you can buy borax for cleaning metal that you want to weld… books a plenty on Amazon about borax but no borax allowed to be sold… same story goes for lithium.. the highest murder and suicide rates occur in countries with the lowest levels of lithium in diet.. which was THE mineral before magnesium… as you alluded… the efforts to dumb us and keep us weak are multifaceted..Thankyou for all your time and effort to bring us back into health.
It is formally forbidden to sell yet no one cares, or enforces that, it was enough for the ds maniacs to reduce „R-value“ of borax availability in homes of citizens.
If it would be enforced, trials could bring up unpleasant details about the Morons that forbid it to sell.
Just roam the widths of EU market eg search 5kg borax on different search machines, and you‘ll find it in 5kg bucket starting from 16€, or 25kg original sack from turkey mine seen it today for ca 50€, so you can irrigate your herbs on balcony etc. too.
Last word: I for some time said boron would take down levels of iodine, and vice versa, and now can not find the source I had let slip through my digital fingers.
So now it remains to be said of course we need both, and both help us to throw unwanted stuff out. And it may be useful to dose both in “therapeutic doses” to Dr. Walter Last (0.6-1.2g borax a day depending on body weight) and Stefanie Buist (pdf, Supplementing Iodine, reported after dose finding, most that tried it found 40-140mg effective) or read about it in the “Iodine” book by Dr. David Brownstein,
So expanding this, to other “essential trace minerals”, we could find a new medicine that can easily determine deficiencies perhaps by cheap diy indirect tests, and get at least the essential trace elements and the real minerals in useful form and combination.
And come to terms in agriculture to regularly measure and supplement fields as we leech them out and deplete eg Copper by FACTOR 40 from 1945-2012.
And promote old farming knowledge now called permaculture), also farming styles like eg like demeter, that give back soil some things eg via milled stones.
(Reminder: In the same time autism rose from 1:50k to ca 1-2%, now 3%; perhaps like any toxicologists would say: this is a complex interaction of toxins and deficiencies. Giving birth to very individualised symptoms yet I see a common denominator.
Also mercury and lead can not be written in separate lines, as their toxicity potentiates, so at least multiply them as the simplest model regarding that fact in a third line; and the same will be true for most other toxins. Where toxicologist tell you they can not do a model beyond three toxins, yet we are engulfed in thoussands.
And it is necessary testing both, (trace) minerals and toxins, for cheap money as producing them costs next to nothing even in USP even when quality controlling it by external lab doing eg GC-MS analysis.
Any complex living for like a happy biome in balance is such a testing or model organism, and simple insects all also carrying a biome could be used for testing on such complex questions. A lab based model for this could ask 3 things: how balanced is biome after interventions, how much species count and proportion of keystone species is there?
But it will be possible to find simple-to-measure vital parameters just resulting in the same quality of answer, but costing only cents per test and possible doable on any kitchen table: this is an important design goal of modern medicine serving citizens.
What we can buy as zinc and selenium etc combinations hopelessly underdoses just the two.
Buying everything in seperate packages means you stuff a lot of pills in your mouth everyday, this just feels sick. Well the world is sick.
So we have to find people selling an assortment of powders soluble, and some measuring scoops along, so we can diy mix it as we need it and vary it to needs and personal situation.
It would be nice if sodium selenite is a bit thinned, as this can get toxic in case of mixing up anything.
(I want to take 0.2-0.4mg selenium a day from Na2SeO3 having Se proportion of 79/173=45,7% so need 0.43-0.86mg sodium selenite. )
Similarly, we can group eg. some families and buy the undiluted trace elements compounds eg as organic or other salt that proofed it gets absorbed, and mix from there.
Ideally, we enforce environmental and preventive medicine and test for heavy metal and trace and normal mineral status regularly.
I was told 2-3 Brazil nuts a day is enough.
I used to make a cream that called for Borax. I was so paranoid that I was inserting poison into my cream as I was giving it to friends. The herbalist tried to assure me of its safety but I believed what regulators stated. As Bugs Bunny would say, I was such a maroon.
I saw a video that a few years back kids were making “slime” with borax. Tons and tons of it until the screaming began. Kids might eat it or touch it and it has Borax in it. The recipe changed to Elmer’s glue.
Borax for breakfast? Someone’s clearly trying to make me sick. I’ve got arthritis so I’m going to look into it, but I can just imagine the headline: Idiot dies from eating laundry detergent.
I’ve tried Methylene Blue, DMSO, and CDS, all over the objections of friends (one of whom is a scientist). I didn’t find any of them particularly helpful, but they didn’t hurt me either (the dmso stink traumatized my family though, ha!).
I don’t actually think you’re a government/corporate agent trying to kill me, Doc, but damn! You gotta admit that it sounds a little crazy.
(This from someone who readily admits that our world is completely nuts, and I feel like I’m living in the ridiculous (or so I thought) dystopian sci-fi novels of my youth).
Methylene Blue is problematic; see the Breggins' post
Thank you! I just skimmed Breggins’ article. No more MB for
Me!
Wasn’t Kennedy taking it?
yes but he has other influences
I bathe in Boraxo and epsom salts. No problems at all. I take boron supplements but think I will try using my Boraxo in water and try that for arthritis and osteo. I bought many boxes of Boraxo so I would not fear losing it to the ban of it any time soon.
Is Boraxo the same as Borax? I just looked it up…it’s hand cleaner? Why did you choose Boraxo instead of Borax?
They are exactly the same thing, Boraxo is the brand or product name I imagine. Both are Borax.
See what you think of Dr. Batmangelidc book or videos, Your Not Sick, Your Thirsty The bodys Many Cries for Water
Thanks. I think I’ve actually read that book a while back. I generally drink more water than he recommends, and have wondered if I’m overdoing it!
Oh man, I only drink maybe 3 cups a day. I hate plain water. I drink a cup of tea in the morning and later sips here and there. I know I need more.
I've been taking it for about 5 weeks. I follow a huge group doing the same for years. Noone has anything negative to say about results.
Just read the sources eg Last gives.
All is well documented.
Including NOAEL so dose of no toxicity.
Also dose-related anti-proportionality of borax in food and water to arthritis etc.
Yet I just try out to add iodine via Lugol’s in relevant doses too, to Buist, I crawled from thebusual 0.15mg to now 40mg, after filling up Magnesium and Selenium supplies. And take them along, and antioxidants a bit later.
Do something useful, do no harm, is all we can hope for:
Bring in things we need.
Help system throw out toxins.
Anyone telling you “here is the silver bullet” just lies.
Bringing down intake of processed food and poly-unsaturated fats may also be a factor. Search for Ray Peates eg. We often drift into metabolic states, perhaps read 3-part series of CDR celkular danger response at MidWesternDoctor com you can search for in nearly any search machine with site:midwesterndoctor.com CDR
Methylene Blue as a MAOI inhibitor certainly want to be considered with great care in relevant doses, I tried 1-3ml 1%, did careful dose finding, too, and also some waning in and out, yet just for metabolic dysfunction it may have its use. I tried it some times so by a “cure” base.
In the early 1900 Borate laundry rinses became very popular in daily Hospital use. The linens, bedding and diapers were all "sanitized" by borate rinses used in the laundry process.
They started losing infants. Apparently there was a dosing phenomenon with the diapers and the infants that wet them. The theory was they were loading the infant physiology with borates from the diaper via the inguinal (very high dermal absorption) area at a greater rate than the infants could excrete the dosing. It was a tragic situation.
The dose makes the poison. It's a matter of body weight, and the infants had very little body mass absorb the dose. Every physical contact with every linen so rinsed imparted another borate insult.
Otherwise borates are an essential mammalian nutrient. I am not surprised they have a beneficial effect on an inflammatory disorder. It has great fungicidal properties. We don't think enough about the pernicious effects of fungal crypto pathology in the third space.
Can anyone over dose on fruit? Why are people always looking for a cure in a pill or powder abd not asking or talking about diet? Whether people with unwanted aches pains are simply dehydrated or malnourished ?
It would be valid if fields were not depleted over countless decades not only in boron, but (depletion by factor 50-60x est. 1945-2025, 40x measured -2012) copper, iron, iodine (both salt and elemental, so Lugol’s), selenium, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, cobalt.
For some type-3 diabetics, it may even be they need higher amount if organic arsenic as present even in our also intoxicated by arsenic (inorganic form mostly) world.
The only element not needed by us seems Flouride. In a time where people, by nutrition and hygiene, loose teeth not to caries, but to paradentosis, it may be noteworthy Flouride enhances gum inflammation. This paradentosis. Imho it also shifts the biome also locally in mouth.
This is very helpful. One issue that I have though: I've asked a couple of questions in various places and I can't get an actual answer.
1. Why take borax if boron is what we're after? The reason why I ask is because of my second question.
2. Isn't anyone concerned about the aluminum content of borax? I asked if there is aluminum in it and I got no responses, so I looked through testing records and found that yes, there is aluminum in places where they get borax. I contacted a company that sells "pharmaceutical grade" borax and asked them if the aluminum is removed and I got no response. I'll take that as a "no, the aluminum is not removed."
My bottom line: I'm going to get lengths to get the aluminum out of my life. I've seen no reason to take aluminum laced borax if I can get the same result with my boron.
I do not know about the AL, but Borax is cheap, of consistent quality, and there are issues with the supps, as I documented.
It's definitely cheap and convenient, no doubt about that. As for pure and from nature as mentioned in the article, there's a reason why 20 Mule Team puts it through two refining processes (they send it all the way to France for one of them) before they sell it to various industries, including pharma. One of the problems is that it's mined, so there are potentially any number of "contaminants" that come with it, either from the ground or from the mining machinery.
I'm curious about the comments regarding the boron forms. You sent me down a rabbit hole with this one! I use bororganic glycine, which is touted as being used specifically for its bioavailability, which is different than what your comment mentioned. It's used by NOW, Mercola, and Orthomolecular Products, among others. I may revisit this subject when it's time to restock.
Ultimately, I suspect that we're in a similar place where sometimes we have to take the information that's convincing to us, climb out of the muck, make a decision, and move on.
exactly
I wonder about RealSalt. Supposedly deep mined out west away from sea contamination but what about the nuclear tests out there back in the day. But I’m not an expert on that subject.
"aluminum content of borax?"
This is the first I've heard of it.
Yes, I am concerned!
I have water test strips which include a patch for aluminum.
Going to put some Borax in Reverse Osmosis water now and see what the strip shows.
Will come back and report the results.
RESULT OF TEST: 0 ppm aluminum.
tested with Clario Drinking Water testing kit.
I have to say that using test strips isn't something that I myself would choose, especially when we're testing for metals in the ppm range. The geologic survey that I read measured aluminum in tenths of a decimal point range. Given that I trust Exley's belief that no amount of aluminum is safe, I'll still pass to be on the safe side.
I'll also add this: 20 Mule Team sells borax to the pharmaceutical, agricultural, battery, and manufacturing industries. Before it's sold, 20 Mule Team refines the borax, then sends it to a company in France for further refining. I know my supplements (and foods for that matter) are not refined to that degree, but I have to follow my hunches and/or information where I can. Where something is mined, I'm a bit more wary, which is why I use Diamond Kosher salt. (testing on that can be found here for those who are curious: https://mamavation.com/food/sea-salt-himalayan-salt-heavy-metals-lead.html ).
What real a food or fruit or veggies that supplies this, ?we are meant to eat food , not single element called a vitamin, scurvy was cured by eating fruit not by taking a vitamin c pill.
You can look up if that's what you want (I'll put a link at the bottom of this). Note that computer databases of boron content in food greatly overstates the amounts of boron.
There's this idea that the real world has been an ideal place where people had everything our bodies required in the natural world around us. That ideal has rarely existed. The world is somewhat of a hostile place, and all life-forms are subject to the whims of the elements and our abilities to harness them for our uses. The entire boron phenomenon started from a researcher who found that different areas of the world have wildly varying amounts of boron in their soils, and the people who live in areas with low levels of boron suffer as a result.
Also, one of the problems is that a lot of people are dealing with health problems that are the result of decades of boron insufficiency because of this idea that "we are meant to eat real food." We're living in an age where "real food" is anything but, after over 100 years of industrial agriculture depleting the nutrients of our soils, and adding pesticides that interfere with the absorption of some of the nutrients that are left. Add to that the medications and other toxic exposures that can interfere with nutrient absorption. So just getting a sufficient quantity of nutrients would require eating an excess caloric content, and that would cause it's own health problems. It would also be very difficult for those of us who are older, whose bodies no longer retain nutrients like they did when we were younger.
Nothing Boring About Boron
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4712861
seems reasonable but when things are chemically identical...
The question I have: can you link the measurements (showing also al content)? Want to compare that toneg sea salt and other stuff.
Is it in a form able to harm us?
The world has abundance of Al, yet only certain nano-modifications seem to harm us. This is my intuitive picture. Eg: So I stay clear from chemically modified nano zeolite in solution, yet have no problem in natural zeolite just very fine grounded.
You can get rid of Al eg by supplementing diatomaceous earth, bought a 10kg sack very fine ground for farming, also throw at my herbs and roses. Improves drought resistance and reduces fungal problems. Seemingly for plants and other living beings here. :)
A more direct approach would be to produce silicade water to Denis N. Crouse who brought back his mom from Alzheimer’s with it.
If we have old residual immune system load if aluminum etc loaded injections, pursuing immune system grounding in the aspect of Monocyte Activation Syndrome therapy (anti-CCR5 interventions, also oxidative cures, intermittent fasting + resveratrol (OPC) + spermidine are options.
I believe it's in here:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp494B
I wouldn't count on intuition; this is far from intuitive. I've seen Christopher Exley explain why some people have been wrong when they say that certain forms of aluminum are ok. Some of the information is in his articles, some of it is in his responses to people in his comments sections. It's been a while so I can't remember the details, but what I read was enough for me to avoid mined aluminum. That's also why I decided against using zeolite unless it's a temporary necessity.
This was his response to someone who uses diatomaceous earth to do the same thing as OSA:
"No, DE is silica, it will pass through the human digestive tract unchanged. Just like sand from the beach."
I've been making silicade for a few years now. I know that Exley says that it doesn't work, but I find Crouse's arguments convincing.
You are spot on on many topics you covered.
Just this:
- diatomaceous earth very fine ground has a natural nano precipitation , and that will do the trick.
- sand is Aluminum bound just as zeolite. But what I said above holds true here: there is always a nano precipitation also in natural erosion. Yet I do not believe that is a problem. It is a question whether or not our natural detox systems can cope with a situation. And what amounts we ingest or get exposed to in whatever route. I like to trust things we co-evolved with, and eating “healing mud” is an old tradition, and for insane money, we can buy that still in drugstores, tge ultra fine sieved ones being useful eg to prevent re-absorption of bile excreted mercury complexes in digestive tract.
For bad nano stuff, I found, often crystal growths is limited innsize by industrial excipients, and in the process of growing or in balance re-forming, it seems properties can be imprinted in quite any nano crystal. And in tge case of nearly all industrial excipients, we see sooner or later things produced with it — even if the excipients are washed out 100% befire using a product — are disrupting the immune system, changing epigenetics, and show carcinogenic properties. And whatnot side effects. So when doing things from scratch, like Crouse does, we really have to know what we do. Perhaps as always, the most easiest way to test would be if it dysbalances any biome. I am searching for kitchen table methods to measure this.
Sikicade water:
By the way, where did you order powdery low-alkaline water glass? I can ‘t find it in whole EU and again my intuition tells me I can not use liquid form of water glass even if I alright found it with the same CAS number as Crouse uses.
I use the dry for that Crouse recommends. I've toyed with using the powder to avoid the lower solubility that comes with the powder, but I'm going to finish my powder and that'll take quite a while.
For those who are not in the US, Crouse mentioned this site for ordering:
https://www.myus.com
I think they ship internationally alright yet shipping is quite a sum. I always thought it is not such a rare chemical. I wished I could reach Crouse and ask him if the liquid form would be ok we can buy in EU.
(US really should sponsor shipping internationally if they want to boost exports like CN does, especially small letter to book formats of tracked parcelets. :).
To name it:
Silicade Powder Chemicalstore com CAS 1344-09-8 Sodium Silicade, Hydruous, low alkaline. fine, white powder, Sodium Silicate Powder (also known as Water Glass Powder) has a SiO2 to Na2O ratio of 3.22, similar to liquid sodium silicates. When dissolved, it forms a hazy, colorless colloidal solution. This SSG sodium silicate is used for specialized refractory compounds and acid-resistant cements.
Al 13ppm
Now if I search for that CAS and the proportion of constituents, SiO2 to Na2O ratio of 3.22, I well find liquid forms here that closely match. Yet will they have the same molecules size distribution?
I suspect that Crouse may have used the liquid form given the wording here:
"The powder is safer and easier to measure than the liquid form but has the same ratio of 3.22 SiO2 to Na2O. The powder has a as a purity of 99.5% and a formula of SiO2[Na2O]1/3.22 H2O (18.5% water) Mw of 97.25."
Preparation Of Silicade
https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/silicade
What a terrific article. Thank you.
I recently bought 6 boxes of borax for a variety of purposes. I am adding borax to my dinner tonight.
Another source for high dose K - "Koncentrated K" (k-vitamins. com):
K1 - 5 mg, MK4 - 25 mg, MK7 - 0.5 mg, Astaxanthin - 2 mg
I have been taking this since 2015 when I was first diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation (calcification), which was cleared up in my next echo cardiogram in 2020.
fantastic
Borax also stops the proliferation of nanotech in the body. Check out Terral Croft's borax/nanosilver protocol. BTW the borax dose is 1/8 tsp per 100 lbs of body weight, so 1/4 tsp is a good dose for most men.
nanotechnology is a myth perpetrated by shills: Malhalcea and Nixon
scale is impossibly wrong and images are pure idiocy
and pathologist friends laugh it off
I am tending to believe that as well. I’m 78 and I’ve gotten this far exposed to everything but yet in good shape. I make corrections as I go. No arthritis problems, etc. I’m going to use Borax for bones. I got in a spot of trouble too long on a low, very low carb diet which did a number on my metabolism but believe that’s doing better by adding many more carbs in fruit and some potatoes, etc. plus just plain eating more. That keto thing with IF turned into a starvation diet through high food satiety, no glucose that damaged my thyroid and then over-exercise. Slamming fat is not magic and it’s not really that nutritious. I’ve known some eating 80% fat and bragging about it. That’s crazy. I do eat the good fats.
Professor Mark Miller did a drop today regarding an unhinged rant of us anti-vaxxers. For those who don't know him, he was a professor of propaganda at NYU who had the audacity to have students think for themselves over masks. But he is himself a victim of propaganda belittling anyone who criticized the climate narrative - until he too came to realize the fraud. But he has made up for it by listing every week unexpected injuries and deaths.) The following is from an email to him. It evidences why there is such a divide and the river is getting wider.
From the mailbag: An email of virulent harassment (threatening to sue ME for harassment if I dare reply) I’m posting this, from yesterday, again—partly as a reminder of what Big Pharma’s Senators are doing today to get RFK, Jr. ousted; but mostly to provide the context for an email I received this morning.
Someone who glimpsed that headline felt compelled to let me know how it made him/her feel:
Give me a fucking break, he's a dangerous idiot who makes shit up, lies and knows nothing about medicine. He's a disgrace to his family, he preaches about health and vapes while sticking nicotine slips in his mouth. He had a brainworm from swimming in contaminated sewage water. You people are not only deep in the cult, but easily one of the dumbest ones ever to exist. Any further contact with me will be considered harassment and dealt with as such.
I replied, How many shots have you had?
I have you [sic] one warning about any further [sic] replies from you. Lol you people still stuck [sic] in 2020 with that played out crusty old attempt at an insult [sic]. You voted for a pedophile who though [sic] drinking bleach could cure covid. Now I will deal with your harassment as stated. Again, do not reply or email this account as it will continue to be considered harassment.
no end to professorial pretensions are there
screw these robotic people
It’s the shots. Lots of outright crazy and disturbed around me and I don’t even do social media except substack. It got worse after shots and then exponentially dangerous after President Trump was elected. Some I just don’t be around anymore. I’m not afraid at this point to tell someone I didn’t get the gene therapies. I don’t care.
I just laugh at these fools now. They will have to have their own “Come to Jesus” moments. I’m not helping them. Unfortunately some are in places of power
Just a note of caution from personal experience - if you're doing a prolonged fast, intermittent or otherwise, you might wait til you're done and already recovered before trying this. Much to my dismay, I ended up with hives for 3 weeks before I figured out what was causing them. The reaction wasn't immediate.
Just a note, I had been intermittent fasting (18/6-20/4) for 1.5 months before trying the boron.
Yesterday after reading the article - not the first I’ve encountered on Borax - I made a kale avocado salad topped with fried egg and decided to have my first go at trying this. So I sprinkled a bit of Borax (maybe 1/4 tsp?)over the salad and before I could finish it I grew intensely hot and a bit sweaty. Shortly after I felt a bit nauseous. I looked at the box and read the warning to call poison control if ingested. I opted not to do that as inherently I trusted I was not going to die from this, but within 20 minutes my body vomited everything out. Never even finished lunch.
Today I’m feeling a slight “residue” of the experience still inside. (Throat, belly, head feels a bit swollen)
Your comment makes me wonder if it is due to a general practice I have of intermittent fasting plus lower calorie intake the last few days.
I am inspired to hear many people have taken it without issue. I’m wondering what guidelines I might need to consider.
But as always, I appreciate the information you share and the honesty in its delivery.
Have you written anything on urine therapy?
Nothing on urine therapy. Not in my wheelhouse.
Seems than an excess of boron CAN POSSIBLY cause hives. Being on a prolonged intermittent fast, my body was already loaded with histamines. Happens on a fast, no matter the type. Boron just tipped the scales, and I theorize, that's because it was a strange substance in my body, and because of the fast and the corresponding metabolic changes, my immune system treated it like an enemy, resulting in hives.
I'll try again AFTER I'm done with the fast, another month or two, when I've fully recovered from it, and strange foods and supplements won't be such a problem. I had this happen with 3 other new foods I'd never had before, along with 2 new supplements. Each one resulted in hives. I've been in hive hell for over 3 weeks. They're just now calming down with a low histamine diet, B6, pounding buffered C, and DAO.
Hope you have stopped. I’m in a group of hundreds who did IF and fasting and lowcarb/no carb too long. I see even Jason Fung has stepped back a bit recently on that. I’ve really cut back on supplements. I just eat real food throughout the day. Cheers!
No I haven't stopped, but I don't do low carb or no carb. I eat whatever I feel like for breakfast, which is usually something resembling dinner. I love my carbs.
This can happen w systemic infections.. it’s called the healing paradox.. the bads inside want out and you rash up.. start very small and ramp up.
I got a slight headache the first 2 days on 1/8. But felt really good and energetic. My mood has gotten much better. Sticking to 1/8 for another week. 1/4 was too much in a bolus perhaps.
Make sure you get plenty of good food after those hours of fasting. I didn’t get enough for a prolonged period of IF and it caused nutrition deficiencies,thyroid damage plus a screwed up metabolism. You don’t get enough calories for energy production squeezing food into so few hours plus your appetite goes down which makes the whole thing worse. It’s ok for awhile but be careful doing years that way. This is more common for women because the less we eat becomes a “virtue “. Sounds like you stopped. Good.
I notice all the comments so far seem to be sticking to the topic, i.e., borax boron for arthritis. I was more interested in another theme or thesis I noticed in this article, but I will ask.
There are different kinds of "arthritis" which is simply inflammation of the joints.
I do not know what kind of arthritis Dr. Yoho has but I am wondering if borax would work diferently in say rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune condition. as opposed to osteoarthritis.
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Now what I thought was interesting is the other theme I observed in this article and that is that the "globalists" seem to be synonymous with "pschopath" and "sociopath."
I got off on a tangent and looked in to various aspects of that theme. It seems that there are different kinds of psychopaths too. Usually the main characteristic of a psychopath is the lack of a conscience or a sense of right and wrong or a "moral compass." But I recently heard a learned commenter say in commening on what has happned to our culture here in the USA and he said something like there is no longer a "moral compass and that is "over" indicating a large part of the populace today, especially the younger people do not seem to have a "moral compass" but I am not sure I would classify them as "psychopaths."
I, mistakenly probably, said I thought a well known figure on the world stage today was not a "psychopath" but did appear to be demonically possessed. That was not a good way for me to express the difference I saw.
globalists are a subset of psychopaths
borax seems to work for RA and osteoarthritis, presumably for those deficient
One naturopath thinks mine may be fungal
“there is no longer a ‘moral compass‘“ It sure seems that there are more “crazies” today than ever before. I don’t know if they’re becoming a larger percentage of the population or if they’ve always been there, but social media now gives them a public platform to express their craziness. Another alternative is widespread brain damage caused by the COVID shots. When something like 80% of the population had been injected with a substance proven to cause dementia, the damage can no longer be hidden.
Source: “We Now Have Proof The COVID Vaccines Damage Cognition”
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/we-now-have-proof-the-covid-vaccines
psychopaths have a moral compass
they get satisfaction from harming others
April 29, 2026
I am thankful for a reader of this old Dr. Yoho article about borax, because it caused me to reread this and I found a big tip for me in my current health problem that I cannot get diagnosis and treatment for and that I have decided to try some over-the-counter "supplements" to "treat" my condition and symptoms myself without worry about doing "more harm" to my body.
Just as "arthritis" is not really a true diagnosis that would at least objectively better identify the "root cause" of the pathology, "psychopath" is not really a true diagnosis but appears to just imply that There is some pathological condition of the psyche, that is the mind.
There are many kinds of conditions of the psyche. These are mental disorders or conditions.
My condition is called "leaky gut" and I have had three "surgical" or "medical interventions" so far that I think derive from my "leaky gut." What I think are the symptoms of my "leaky gut" today are different from the conditions for which I was treated years ago but which I think are just a different set of symptoms for the same underlying "root cause" condition which I will probably never know.
Now I need to figure out if borax laundry detergent is the same thing as "sodium tetraborate" which is a "booster ingredient in many laundry detergents including "Twenty Muleteam Borax" brand of laundry detergent. And then I have to figure out how to make the conversion from the "teaspoon" to the milligram or whatever an over the counter "supplement" "boron" product that would be equally "safe.".
I will refrain from commenting on " psychopath as relates to moral compass because as an old-school Catholic I am working with different definitions in what most think about the concept of "sin" and the conscious human will to engage in certain behaviors.
Asked Perplexity AI: Might boron or Borax fight arthritis?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/might-boron-or-borax-fight-art-vDeQEJC3S96mW4OQaQk.LA
Brief answer YES
Snips from the answer:
1) "In regions where daily boron intake is 1 mg or less per day, arthritis incidence ranges from 20% to 70%. Conversely, in areas where boron intake reaches 3-10 mg daily, arthritis rates drop dramatically to 0-10%."
2) "arthritic bone shows almost a 20-fold decrease in boron content, "
3) "A double-blind, placebo-controlled Australian study found that 50% of osteoarthritis patients improved with 6 mg daily boron supplementation, compared to only 10% with placebo"
it warns about toxicity of Borax, but not Boron
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https://vitamindwiki.com/Vitamin+D+and+Boron has 66 studies, which include
Boron improves Human Health
Pivotal role of Boron supplementation on bone health - Dec 2020
Knee osteoarthritis strongly associated with low Boron – 2015
Rheumatoid arthritis and many other diseases associated with low Boron – 2012
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Many companies sell safe boric acid on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Boric-Granular-Powder-Create-solution/dp/B014JJ9846/ref=sr_1_16?
thanks!
I am skeptical of naked AI searches, for they indiscriminately include studies on the net
they need to be informed with reliable sources
Borax is non toxic
Yup. ChatGPT told me last week borax was dangerous. So is iodine, apparently.
Perhaps the people with arthritis drink soda or beer instead of water, or eat fake food or lots of sugar..never eat fruit, veggies or collagen rich food like bone broths and meat.
Asked Perplexity AI - - - - - - - - -
Does consuming soda, beer, ultraprocessed foods, or sugar reduce boron in the body, and thus increase the risk of osteoarthritis?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/does-consuming-soda-beer-ultra-XkA15Y0eSMeUlRLms2l1Fw
Spoiler - YES, all 4 of the items are good possibilities, no proof yet
Back in 2011 I gave up bread and gluten and seed oils, for the most part. The change I noticed first was joint pain went away.
Quite an article Doc. I know someone in the same boat as me and I will show it tomorrow when I see her. Have to be honest I have just quickly perused just the start of the article as there is so much in it. I just woke up here in Australia so I'm wishing you have a good day wherever you are or a good night whatever.
I read recently that borax/ boron also supposedly supports sufficient estrogen production in peri/ menopausal women - I wanted to research it more but didn’t yet - have you/ has anyone come across this who and knows more? It suggested supplementing would mitigate the estrogen loss and its symptoms - which would be a real game changer
helps testosterone for sure
Thanks for this article. In Australia we don't have the brand of Borax you refer to, but we have a product called Borax in the cleaning section at the supermarket. The label says "999g/kg BORAX", and "Made in China". Is it the same thing you're referring to? I'm always suspect of the purity/quality of anything out of China....
Thanks for this detailed discussion of boron, vitamin K2, magnesium, iodine and vitamin D3.
I have some notes on boron nutrition, with links to research articles: https://aminotheory.com/cv19/#08-boron.
It is important to supplement enough vitamin D3 cholecalciferol to attain at least 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (AKA "calcidiol"). This is a separate compound, made primarily in the liver by hydroxylating vitamin D3 at the 25th carbon. This is what is tested in "vitamin D" blood tests.
The kidneys can perform their role in regulating calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism with about 20 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and many doctors consider this to be a healthy level. However, the immune system can only function properly with 50 ng/mL or more.
For 70 kg 154 lb body weight without obesity, about 125 micrograms (5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day is a good amount, though it takes a few months to build up the level of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D to the desired level. New Jersey Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa has recommendations of how much vitamin D3 to supplement according to body weight and obesity status, to attain at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D without the need for medical supervision or blood tests: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-how-much and https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997.
There is very little vitamin D in food, including in food fortified with vitamin D3 or the less effective vitamin D2. Until the late 1920s, the primary source of vitamin D3 was ultraviolet-B irradiation of the skin, where it breaks a bond, opening up one of the carbon rings of 7-dehydrocholesterol to form a molecule which changes shape of its own accord to become stable vitamin D3. Far from the equator, sufficient UV-B light to do this is only available in the middle of cloud-free summer days, without glass, clothing or sunscreen intervening. However, this UV-B also damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer.
Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run their intracrine (inside each cell) and paracrine (to nearby cells, usually of different types) signaling systems. These signaling systems enable each individual cell to alter its behavior in response to its changing circumstances. Most immunologists have never heard of this, because these signaling systems have never been explained in a tutorial fashion in the peer-reviewed literature. My 2020 non-peer-reviewed tutorial on this is: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/02-intracrine/, with a less detailed version at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#02-compounds.
thanks for the comment
I'm now taking 50,000 IU per day of D but my levels are still modest.
this week I'm taking 100,000 IU per day
I will let you know if i turn into a groundhog
rationale is on my recent D post
What is your source of vitamin D? Supplements? This is where I get lost trying to find a reputable source that is not over priced. I retired in the Philippines and depend online for products. Thanks ahead.
Cannot replace real food with synthetic chemicals in a bottle and call it nutrients
Pharmaceutical grade vitamin D3 is molecularly identical to the vitamin D3 we produce in when ultraviolet B light breaks a bond in one of the carbon rings of 7-dehydrocholesterol in our skin.
It is industrially produced, in only a few factories in the world (none owned by large pharmaceutical companies) by the same process, using special high-power mercury vapour lamps and 7-dehydrocholesterol in benzine solution. See Industrial Aspects of Vitamin D by Arnold L. Hirsch in 2010: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/B978-0-12-381978-9.10006-X .
A gram costs about USD$2.50 (or at least it did when I last checked ca. 2021) ex-factory. (A credit card weighs about 5.3 grams.) One gram is enough for an average weight adult (70 kg) for 22 years, at the 125 micrograms (5000 IU) a day average supplemental intake which they need to attain at least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D all year round.
exactly
In the case of vitamin D3 you can.
There is almost no vitamin D3 in foods of any kind, other than breast milk from vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D mothers. No natural food diet, or one involving vitamin-D (D3 or the less effective D2) fortification (adding a nutrient to food artificially) can supply enough vitamin D3/2 to attain the 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D3/2 the immune system needs to function properly.
With two exceptions, the only two ways of attaining this is to get most or all the vitamin D3 we need from supplements and/or UV-B skin exposure. The amount of UV-B required to do it by skin along is so high that, over a lifetime, even if you can get this UV-B all year round (there is virtually none in winter) the risk of skin cancer will be unreasonably high.
The first exception is that breast milk from 25-hydroxyvitamin D replete moms contains sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and some vitamin D3 depending on how long ago she ingested it or UV-B >> skin produced it, for the babe to be healthy. I am not sure that it is sufficient to attain 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, but it is probably sufficient for good health at this stage, if the infant is substantially breast fed.
Newborns' 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels depend directly on their moms'. Measurements of vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels vary widely, in part due to the difficulties in measuring such low levels: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1229445. One recent study https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/2/573 found approximately equal amounts of vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in human breast milk. Since (at least in adults) the liver only coverts about 1/4 of ingested vitamin D3 into circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, this means that the bulk of the benefit to the breast-fed child's 25-hydroxyvitamin D comes from the 25-hydroxyvitamin D component of breast milk. This depends on the mother's 25-hydroxyvitamin D level.
The second exception is that it is sufficient to ingest 25-hydroxyvitamin D (calcifediol) alone, in smaller quantities than are needed for vitamin D3, since the body (mainly the liver) hydroxylates only about 1/4 of ingested or UV-B >> skin produced vitamin D3 to the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system, and the kidneys, need. However, calcifediol is difficult to obtain.
Vitamin D3 is a clear exception to the supposed rule that we can be healthy with a "balanced diet" (whatever that might be) alone.
Vitamin D3/2 food fortification cannot supply what we need to attain 50 ng/mL circulating 35-hydroxyvitamin D. I argue against it, since it can give a false impression of being sufficient for full health and since all efforts at such fortification would be better directed at proper supplementation. https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#07-fortif.