Top INDEX
• Basics: Chemical Properties.
• Effects of Boron in the Environment.
• Benefits: Borax Cures and Health Benefits.
• Cautions: Borax Side Effects.
• Feedback: Patient experiences.
• Article: The Shocking Facts Of Eating Borax For Your Health.

• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 1) - The Assault on Borax.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 2) - The Arthritis Cure.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 3) - Osteoporosis and Sex Hormones.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 4) - Fungi and Fluoride.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 5) - Calcium-Magnesium Metabolism.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 6) - What and How Much to Use.
• Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 7) - Possible Side-Effects; Toxicity.

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• Insight: Boron can end yeast (candidiasis) infections.
• Insight: Boron deficiency can cause overactivity imbalances.
• Insight: Truth is easily corrupted by Power and Authority media control.
• Insight: Boron and Maca both regulate, rather than only increase hormone levels.
• Insight: Healthy fungi change form and become toxic under challenge.
• Insight: Borax can detox fluoride and heavy metals within months.
• Insight: Boron requires magnesium for optimum effectiveness.
• Insight: A crude form of boron may be most effective.
• Insight: Heavy detoxing can bring severe discomforts.

• -LINKS: from Lenntech, and others.

• -Focus-: Monographs on Toxins and Enhancers.

Basics: Chemical Properties. INDEX
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/b.htm
LINK 2: https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/borax.html

Boron is a non metallic element and the only non-metal of the group 13 of the periodic table the elements.
Boron is electron-deficient, possessing a vacant p-orbital.
It has several forms, the most common of which is amorphous boron, a dark powder, unreactive to oxygen, water, acids and alkalis. It reacts with metals to form borides. At standard temperatures boron is a poor electrical conductor but is a good conductor at high temperatures.

What is Borax?
Borax is a naturally occurring compound found all around the world.
Mines are located in countries including the United States, China, Ukraine, Turkey, and India.
The largest known mine is the Rio Tinto Borax Mine in Boron, California. The reserves in this mine are expected to last until 2050.

The chemical formula for borax is Na2B4O7·10H2O.
In more simple terms, this includes sodium, boron, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Borax has a number of different names, but they are all the same chemical compound.

Common Names for Borax
• Sodium tetraborate
• Sodium borate
• Disodium tetraborate

Applications
The most economically important compound of boron is sodium tetraborate decahydrate Na2B4O7 · 10H2O, or borax, used for insulating fiberglass and sodium perborate bleach.

Boric acid is an important compound used in textile products.
Compounds of boron are used in organic synthesis, in the manufacture of a particular type of glasses, and as wood preservatives.

Boron filaments are used for advanced aerospace structures, due to their high-strength and light weight.

An early use of borax was to make perborate, the beaching agent once widely used in household detergents.

Boron compound also came into the average home in the guise of food preservatives, expecialy for margarine and fish.

Boron in the environment
Boron is not present in nature in elemental form.
It is found combined in borax, boric acid, kernite, ulexite, colemanite and borates.

Volcanic spring waters sometime contains boric acids.

Borates are mined in US, Tibet, Chile and Turkey, with world production being about 2 million tonnes per year.

Effects of Boron in the Environment. INDEX
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/b.htm
#Environmental%20effects%20of%20boron

Boron is an element that occurs in the environment mainly through natural processes.

Boron occurs naturally in the environment due to the release into air, soil and water through weathering.

It may also occur in groundwater in very small amounts.

Humans add boron by manufacturing glass, combusting coal, melting copper and through the addition of agricultural fertilizers.

The concentrations of boron that are added by humans are smaller than that the naturally added concentrations through natural weathering.

Boron exposure through air and drinking water is not very likely to occur, but the risk of exposure to borate dust in the workplace does exist. Boron exposure may also occur from consumer products such as cosmetics and laundry products.

Plants absorb boron from the ground and through plant-consuming animals it can end up in food chains.
Boron has been found in animal tissue, but it is not likely to accumulate.

When animals absorb large amounts of boron over a relatively long period of time through food or drinking water the male reproductive organs will be affected. When animals are exposed to boron during pregnancy their offspring may suffer from birth defects or delayed development. Furthermore, animals are likely to suffer from nose irritation when they breathe in boron.

Benefits: Borax Cures and Health Benefits. INDEX
https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/borax.html
by Deirdre Layne --- Modified: Aug 25, 2018

LINK 2: https://www.livestrong.com/article/
545174-what-are-the-health-benefits-of-sodium-borate/
What Are the Health Benefits of Sodium Borate?
by Karen Holcomb --- Oct. 03, 2017

Borax, commonly used as a natural cleaning agent, is an increasingly popular natural remedy for a whole host of health issues. This simple remedy is easy to take and an extremely inexpensive supplement. Borax is used to treat overall chronic illness, including autoimmune diseases, hormone problems, and chronic pain.

Sodium borate is also effective for treating a variety of specific ailments.
As an anti-inflammatory agent, borax effectively treats arthritis, gout, swollen gums and other inflammatory diseases.
Additionally, the substance eliminates infection such as bladder infection, urinary tract infection and others.
It has also been used to treat cancer, obesity, high blood pressure, arterial disease, and osteoporosis.

What is Borax?
Borax is a naturally occurring compound found all around the world.
Mines are located in countries including the United States, China, Ukraine, Turkey, and India.
The largest known mine is the Rio Tinto Borax Mine in Boron, California. The reserves in this mine are expected to last until 2050.

The chemical formula for borax is Na2B4O7·10H2O.
In more simple terms, this includes sodium, boron, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Borax has a number of different names, but they are all the same chemical compound.

Common Names for Borax
• Sodium tetraborate
• Sodium borate
• Disodium tetraborate

Borax Uses

1. Cleaning
   The most common use of borax is as a “green” cleaning aid, especially for laundry.
   Because borax has an alkaline (high) pH of 9.3 it can be added to the washing machine to help soften the water. Hard water is hard on clothes and makes it more difficult to get them clean. Some people have water that is already quite soft (alkaline) and borax would be unnecessary.
   Borax is one of three ingredients in a popular DIY laundry powder.

2. A cleaning powder, Borax can be used in the bathroom.
   It is especially useful for hard water stains. Gloves are recommended for cleaning, even with this natural product.

3. Parasites
   Borax is a popular and safe remedy for pest control.
   It has helped countless dogs with mange and people with a variety of parasite problems including lice and mites.

4. Hair
   Borax has become popular as a shampoo alternative.
   Multitudes of chemicals in shampoos and health conditions that affect the scalp have motivated many people to turn to the “no poo” method of hair care. Borax is not only a natural alternative to chemical laden shampoos, because of its alkalinity and antifungal properties it often brings healing to chronic and embarrassing scalp conditions.

   To use borax for your hair, dissolve 1 cup of borax into one gallon of pure water.
   Keep this solution in the shower. Pour a cup or two of this solution over your hair instead of shampoo, making sure that the solution gets to your scalp. Allow the solution to sit on your scalp and hair for a few minutes and then rinse.

   If you find the borax method dries out your hair, take a small amount of coconut oil and massage it into your hair.
   You may not need to use the borax solution on your hair more than once or twice a week.

   
   

5. Borax for Medicinal Use
   Shocking as it sounds to some, borax is used as a natural remedy for a number of health conditions.
   Borax is a natural substance, mined from the earth, just like salt.
   Borax contains boron, a trace mineral, which can be lacking in modern diets.
   Restoring healthy boron levels can improve a number of health conditions.
   Additionally, borax is quite alkaline. Many health problems arise because the body is too acidic.
   What Health Issues Benefit from Borax?
   • Arthritis
   • Osteoporosis
   • Osteoarthritis
   • Bone Spurs
   • Calcium Deposits
   • Lupus
   • Autoimmune Disease
   • Hormone Imbalances
   • Fungus
   • Candida
   • Ringworm
   • Tinea Versicolor
   • Insomnia
   • Rough Skin
   • Impotence.

If you are wondering how some white powder could possibly help such a variety of illnesses, consider a tower made of blocks. Removing one of them, especially a foundation block, compromises the stability of the entire building. Thus is it with the body. The human body exercises countless processes in many body systems. These processes are dependent upon “building blocks.” Vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, etc. are all necessary for your body to work well. Remove any one of them and all kinds of body processes are affected. Boron, a trace mineral, and a component of borax is one of those many necessary nutrients in your body. Many diseases found in the world today are related to simple nutritional deficiencies. Restoring a lacking nutrient can make a huge difference in your overall health.

Boron is necessary for the body for proper hormone function and proper calcium-magnesium balance.

According to Pubmed, studies have found that the incidence of arthritis is lower when daily boron intake is higher (3-10 mg as opposed to 1 mg or less). Additionally, bones of those who take boron supplements are harder than the bones of those who do not take a boron supplement.2

How Much Boron is in Borax?

One US teaspoon of borax powder contains about 4 grams of borax,
so ¼ teaspoon of borax contains about 1 gram of borax.
One gram of borax is 11.3% boron.
So ¼ teaspoon borax has approximately 113 mg of boron.

How Much Borax Should I Take?
Earth Clinic’s Ted recommends ¼ teaspoon (940 mg ~ 1,000 mg) of borax in 1 liter of water for men
and 1/8 teaspoon (470 mg ~ 500 mg) of borax in 1 liter of water for women each day.
This would give men about 113 mg of boron each day they drink the solution and women about 56 mg of boron each day.

Walter Last has popularized another method of dosing borax.
He recommends adding a heaping teaspoon to a liter of water and then
taking 1 teaspoon of this borax solution once or twice daily.
This solution delivers 25-30 mg of borax (and thus about 3 mg of boron) per dose.
He recommends taking it with meals.

How Should I Store Borax Solution?
If you make Walter Last's solution with distilled water and store it in a clean glass jar you will avoid having any impurities to contaminate the mixture. This will maximize the shelf life of the solution. For even greater preservation of this solution, store it in the refrigerator and always use a clean stainless steel spoon to take your dose out of the jar. If your solution looks cloudy or smells off to you, discard it and make another batch.

Cautions: Borax Side Effects. INDEX
https://www.earthclinic.com/borax-side-effects.html
Deirdre Layne --- Modified: Aug 23, 2018

Borax is gaining popularity as an effective natural remedy for many health concerns.
Borax contains boron, which is an element the body requires. Boron helps bones to be strong.
It helps the body properly utilize other nutrients. Restoring boron to the body through borax can be part of the solution for health problems like arthritis, joint problems, athlete's foot and some autoimmune diseases. However, borax is not without side effects for some people.

Side effects can include the following:
• Burning skin
• Nerve pain
• Diarrhea
• Itching skin
• Rapid heart rate
• Sweating
• Nausea
• Cramping
• Kidney pain
• Headache
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Worsening of PMS Symptoms

Why Does Borax Cause Side Effects?
Borax can cause a detox reaction in the body.
This is likely to cause headaches and flu like symptoms.

Borax affects hormones.
It can increase estradiol (an estrogen) and testosterone.
Any time that hormones are fluctuating mood changes, anxiety, depression, and exacerbation of PMS symptoms can result.

Borax may help the body remove parasites, which will, in turn cause some symptoms of toxin release. Borax may cause side effects if too much is taken at once, or not enough water is used.

How Can I Avoid Borax Side Effects?

1. Always start with less and increase the amount slowly to make sure that the body is adjusting well to a new routine.
   

2. Use plenty of water with the borax protocol.
   This will properly dilute the borax and will also give the body the needed fluids to flush itself out.

3. Take a magnesium supplement.
   Borax side effects are more pronounced in those who have low magnesium levels.

What Can I Do to Relieve Borax Side Effects?

1. Take activated charcoal to relieve digestive distress or flu-like symptoms that result from borax side effects.
   Charcoal will adsorb toxins and settle the digestive system.

2. Consume plenty of water or herbal tea to keep toxins flushing out of the system.

3. Take an Epsom salt bath.
   This will provide the body with needed magnesium and relax the body.

4. If you have used borax topically and had a skin reaction, Castor oil or apple cider vinegar can be used to relieve the reaction. Castor oil is massaged into the skin. Or 1 cup apple cider vinegar can be added to a tub of warm water and used for a bath. The apple cider vinegar bath will help to restore proper pH to the skin.

If Borax Causes Side Effects, Why Bother?
While some experience side effects from the use of borax, hundreds of Earth Clinic readers over the years have reported cures using borax. Borax is used for a wide range of symptoms, including

• arthritis,
• candida,
• athlete's foot,
• brain fog,
• chicken pox,
• colds,
• mites,
• lice,
• lupus,
• sinus problems and
• skin problems.

And an impressive number of dogs and other animals have been cured of mange with Ted's Mange Cure.

Ted's Mange Cure.
The chemical name of borax is tetrasodium borate.
It is indeed the very same borax that is found in pharmacies and in grocery stores in the laundry aisle.
Please be sure to make sure that borax is the only ingredient.
While some worry about the toxicity of borax, it is believed that borax is less toxic than table salt.
However, if you experience side effects, it is always wise to discontinue use and re-evaluate your treatment plan.

Is there an Alternative to Borax?
Borax contains boron, which is a necessary nutrient to the body.
Borax is one way to supplement this nutrient to the body to improve health, but it is not the only way.
Boron supplements can be used. Calcium fructoborate is another option.

Feedback: Patient experiences. INDEX
https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/borax.html
by Deirdre Layne --- Modified: Aug 25, 2018

Replied by Merlin, Queensland, 09/10/2016

I too have found a huge, albeit unexpected, improvement in my gut since taking borax powder
(This didn't happen whenI was taking borax supplements in tablet form).
Pretty much since the day I ran out of the tablets and used 'cleaning' borax (pure with no additives) I have noticed this effect.

I told my mother about it as she too has had major gut issues that have caused her serious pain for over 20 years.
She has been diagnosed with IBS and told basically that she has to live with it.
She too has had next to no issues since taking borax powder (1 tsp dissolved in 1 liter of water,
then add 1 tsp of this liquid to a glass of water to drink every day, sometimes 2x a day.)

Replied by John, Michigan, 11/27/2017

Things are dose dependent. All of the Boron supplements I find are rather low like less than or equal to about 10mg.
1/4 teaspoon per day though dissolved in 1 liter of water is between 115 mg-158 mg depending on the measuring spoon and how level or round your scoop is. That is a huge delta in dose. I have heard of 50 mg-60 mg tablets but have never actually seen them for sale.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's as a high school athlete the ones sold to athletes where 3 mg-6 mg - again far lower than what you get in a rather common dose of 1/4 teaspoon of borax in 1 liter of water sipped through the day!

I took 1/4 teaspoon per day the first 3 weeks then started to get diarrhea.
I reduced it to 1/8 of a teaspoon a day for 2 weeks and all of the diarrhea went away completely.
Some days I take 1/8 teaspoon some days I take a 1/4 and I am fine.

In theory anything is better than not taking borax so if someone was really sensitive or had IBS you could start at 1/16th of a teaspoon and slowly over weeks and months build up to 1/4 teaspoon. Evidence is showing that observational with individuals that you can get a lot of health benefits at varying does but the higher the dose the more consistent the results seem to be.

In post menopausal women a lot of individuals have found that reversing osteoporosis takes around 150 mg of borax, vit and 400 mg-600 mg of magnesium per day to reverse it and that is a far higher dose than someone without osteoporosis needs. In those without severe fluorosis or osteoporosis that have healthy bone mass, 50 mg per day seems to be the sweet spot but again you need magnesium and vitamin D3 in the diet. It is thought that enzymes and mineral metabolism is how boron works it's many benefits. Some people probably get enough minerals in their diet but for most Americans minerals and Vitamin D3 and iodine are almost always low. Iodine helps to keep your body from depositing fluoride in your bones.

Posted by Kristina (Arizona) on 03/15/2016

I was experiencing a horrible auto immune condition called HS (Hidradenitis Supperativa). Very, very painful and debilitating. I decided to try the borax protocol to attack the autoimmune condition. In 6 weeks all symptoms of my condition had disappeared and it is 10 months later and I continue to be healed.

I now drink borax water once or twice a week.
I drink 1/4 tsp in the liter of distilled water once or twice a week.
I give 1/4 of the above mentioned dilution to both my children once or twice a week.
My Mom has been drinking it daily for 9 months (after seeing my amazing results) due to a number of health afflictions, and has skin growing on her legs where she has had open wounds for 30 years from a recluse spider bite. My coworker drinks the above mentioned dilution daily and has had a significant reduction in her rheumatoid arthritis pain. In fact over the winter she was shocked to 'notice' she was barely hurting in her hands at all ...

Replied by Judi, Tullahoma, Tn -- 11/15/2016

Borax should be taken with a Magnesium supplement of 400-600mg per day.
This helps the effectiveness, as well as minimizing the side-effects.

Replied by Natural Hippy, Arizona, 12/11/2016

... add only a few flakes of Epsom salts. The magnesium will assist the Borax.
You only need a pinch per table spoon of borax so a flake or two a day is enough.
Once you have found a dose that works for you start doing that for 3-5 days on the borax supplementation and 1-3 days off supplementation.

Lastly, It is important to consume the liter of water on your days off of supplementation.
Putting water in your body is going to be one of the most important factors in assisting the borax.
I recommend always using distilled water. If distilled is not available you want the cleanest water possible with no added minerals. The borax and epsom salts you added are the minerals you want.

Article: The Shocking Facts Of Eating Borax For Your Health. INDEX
https://www.nourishingplot.com/2016/03/18/
the-shocking-facts-of-eating-borax-for-your-health/
“GAPS™ and Gut and Psychology Syndrome™, by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.
*Nourishing Plot is written by Becky Plotner, ND,
2016/03/18

The United States Department of Agriculture says,

“Recent data from animal and human studies suggest that boron may be
important for mineral metabolism and membrane function.”

One collection of 3 studies showed functional role of boron, brain electrophysiology and cognitive performance were assessed in response to dietary manipulation of boron using 3.25 mg of boron daily saying,

“There was a significant (p < 0.05) increase in the proportion of low-frequency activity,
and a decrease in the proportion of higher-frequency activity, an effect often observed
in response to general malnutrition and heavy metal toxicity.”

Those on boron showed
• greater manual dexterity,
• eye-hand coordination,
• attention,
• perception,
• encoding and
• short-term memory as well as
• long-term memory. ...
• increases testosterone levels naturally.

Other reports show boron potentially builds bone strength and reduces arthritis.

... One trial showed use of boron increased calcium and magnesium retention, but reduced manganese levels. Manganese is a c0-factor for calcium uptake. This could be beneficial for those with congested liver disease which leaves a person with high manganese levels that subsequently deplete magnesium and calcium levels.

Boron is commonly used as a yeast eliminator.
Medline Plus says women use boron inserted vaginally for yeast infections saying,

“Some research shows that boric acid, used inside the vagina,
can successfully treat yeast infections (candidiasis),
including infections that do not seem to resolve with other treatments.
However, the quality of this research is in question.”

... Boron does show potential stress on the kidney as they have to work very hard to process the Boron.

Boron shows to potentially affect hormone levels, increasing testosterone as well estrogen.
This could prove concerning in the use of baby powders for diaper rash.

The Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology says,

“Boron is associated with pectin it is essential for vascular plants
as a component of cell walls and is involved in membrane transport.
However, a high boron concentration in the soils is toxic to plants and
some boronated derivatives are used as herbicides.”

They go on to say,

“Boron may be involved in cerebral function via its effects on the transport across membranes.
It affects the synthesis of the extracellular matrix and is beneficial in wound healing.”

Sodium Tetraborate is easily found in the grocery store in a box labeled Borax.
Sodium Tetraborate is used as a laundry detergent booster, cleaner, pesticide as,

“Borax and other borates clean and bleach by converting some water molecules to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2),”
chemistry says.

Newnham says,

“The U.S. Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota’ has shown that boron works through the parathyroid, and this is the gland that controls mineralization of bones. Boron also helps to restore the natural hormones to elderly women who were suffering with osteoporosis. This natural hormone is much better than the hormone replacement therapy.[HRT] that is so often recommended by doctors. The HRT too often leads to breast cancer, but not the natural hormone. Patients who have used boron for arthritis just don’t seem to develop osteoporosis.”

The NIH listed the finding reported in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Acu-Cell Nutrition says,

“Toxicity is somewhat dependent on an individual’s kidney functions and may cause boron accumulation
in kidneys, lungs, bone, liver, heart, brain, fatty tissue, parathyroid and reproductive glands.”

Foods high in boron are apples, pears, grapes, non-citrus fruit, legumes, nuts, wine, vegetables and avocado.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 1) - The Assault on Borax. INDEX
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/boraxconspiracy03jul12.shtml
Big Pharma's Latest Ploy to Outlaw a Natural Cure for Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Tooth Decay.
Posted by: Educate-Yourself: The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought
By Walter Last
Published in the June/July 2012 issue of Nexus magazine
July 3, 2012 --- republished in http://educate-yourself.org/... l

[Editor's Note:
... ZS read this in the latest issue of Nexus magazine and sent me an e-mail about it on June 15.
I couldn't put it up right away due to a computer failure and the need for a replacement, ...
You will understand my enthusiasm after you read the article. You will discover that one can safely ingest a small quantity of Borax dissolved in water and supplement your body with an adequate amount of an organic (absorbable) form of boron, which will both prevent and overcome most forms of arthritis, osteoporosis (bone loss and the thinning of bone density), and reverse the loosening, falling out, and decay of teeth, especially in older people. In addition to helping the body keep your calcium inside your bones where it belongs, Borax supplementation can displace fluoride out of your body (where it doesn't belong). Other advantages of organic boron supplementation are explained in the article .... Ken Adachi]

Original title: How the Arthritis Cure has been Stopped
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

... Formerly, boric acid was widely used as a preservative in foods, but is now banned for this purpose in most countries, and is also banned from public sale in Australia.

According to conventional medicine, it is not known if boron is essential for humans, but research shows that we do need it.
The reason why it was difficult to answer this question is the presence of boron in all plants and unprocessed foods. Diets with a fair amount of fruit and vegetables provide about 2 to 5 mg of boron per day, but this also depends on the region where the food was grown and how it was grown.

In reality the average intake in developed countries is 1-2 mg of boron per day.
Institutionalized patients may receive only 0.25 mg of daily boron.
Chemical fertilizers inhibit the uptake of boron from the soil: an organic apple grown in good soil may have 20 mg boron, but if grown with fertilizer it may have only 1 mg of boron. Fertilizers combined with poor food choices have greatly reduced our boron intake compared to 50 or 100 years ago.

Further, unhealthy cooking methods greatly reduce the availability of boron from food.
The cooking water of vegetables containing most of the minerals may be discarded during home cooking or commercial processing; phytic acid in baked goods, cereals and cooked legumes may greatly reduce availability, while gluten sensitivity and Candida overgrowth inhibit the absorption of minerals. All this makes health problems due to boron deficiency now very common.

Health Effects of Boron
Due to their content of boron, borax and boric acid have basically the same health effects, with good antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties, but only mild antibacterial action. In plants as well as animals, boron is essential for the integrity and function of cell walls, and the way signals are transmitted across membranes.

Boron is distributed throughout the body with the highest concentration in the parathyroid glands, followed by bones and dental enamel. It is essential for healthy bone and joint function, regulating the absorption and metabolism of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus through its influence on the parathyroid glands. With this, boron is for the parathyroids what iodine is for the thyroid.

Boron deficiency causes the parathyroids to become overactive, releasing too much parathyroid hormone which raises the blood level of calcium by releasing calcium from bones and teeth. This then leads to osteoarthritis and other forms of arthritis, osteoporosis and tooth decay. With advancing age, high blood levels of calcium lead to calcification of soft tissues causing muscle contractions and stiffness; calcification of endocrine glands, especially the pineal gland and the ovaries; arteriosclerosis, kidney stones, and calcification of the kidneys ultimately leading to kidney failure. Boron deficiency combined with magnesium deficiency is especially damaging to the bones and teeth.

Boron affects the metabolism of steroid hormones, and especially of sex hormones.
It increases low testosterone levels in men and oestrogen levels in menopausal women.
It also has a role in converting vitamin D to its active form, thus increasing calcium uptake and deposition into bone and teeth rather than causing soft tissue to calcify. Also other beneficial effects have been reported such as improvement of heart problems, vision, psoriasis, balance, memory and cognition.

The German cancer researcher Dr Paul-Gerhard Seeger has shown that cancer commonly starts with the deterioration of cell membranes. As boron is essential for cell membranes and boron deficiency widespread, this may be an important cause for the initiation of tumour growth. Boron compounds have anti-tumour properties and are "potent anti-osteoporotic, anti-inflammatory, hypolipemic, anti-coagulant and anti-neoplastic agents". ...

The Assault on Borax

Arthritis in its various forms and its close relative osteoporosis affect about 30% of the population in developed countries.
Osteoporosis is responsible for more long term hospital care than any other individual disease. This is due to the very high incidence of fractures, and especially the protracted nature of hip fractures. This is a main source of income for the medical-pharmaceutical system. If the boron-magnesium cure for these diseases should become widely known, this vital income stream would dry up and the system collapse. As this is the biggest and most profitable industry in the world, this cannot be allowed to happen.

When Dr Newnham discovered the boron-arthritis cure, it was not a big problem for the pharmaceuticals because news travelled slowly and was easily suppressed. This is very different now with Internet communication. Most research funding comes from the pharmaceutical industry, and nothing has come forward to duplicate Dr Newnham's findings and other positive osteoporosis studies. Instead, funding goes into the development of patentable boron drugs for limited application as in chemotherapy, or even to discredit boron. A test-tube experiment found that a relatively low dose of about 4 grams of borax can damage lymphocytes, just like an earlier test-tube study showed that vitamin C supplements are toxic. Most positive borax studies now come from China, Japan and Turkey.

Furthermore, PubMed is a publicly funded search facility for bio-medical research publications.
While other articles for Newnham R.E. and Zhou L.Y. are still listed, the two important borax publications mentioned earlier - about the arthritis trial at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the treatment of skeletal fluorosis in China - are no longer listed, but they belong there and obviously had been there originally. I suspect that they have been deliberately removed to prevent them from being quoted in other research.

In addition, increasing effort goes into publicly demonizing borax for its alleged reproductive and infant toxicity.
As an example, I recently read an article by a 'senior scientist' of the supposedly 'green' Environmental Working Group. In it, the perceived dangers of borax were so exaggerated that most comments in effect said: "Thank you for opening my eyes. I did not know how poisonous and dangerous borax is, I certainly will not use it anymore in my laundry, or for cleaning my toilet and kitchen" .

This is obviously a deliberate campaign to make people grateful for banning borax from public sale.
For laundry and cleaning purposes Borax Substitute now replaces the product previously sold as Borax.
The EU has spearheaded this campaign. In June 2010, borax and boric acid were reclassified as “Reprotoxic Category 2“, suggesting that they may be harmful to the reproductive functions of humans in high doses, and the product package must display the skull and crossbones symbol. From December 2010, these products were no longer available for public sale within the EU. While this classification now applies for all of Europe, non-EU countries still have some leeway in regard to public sales. This initiative is part of a Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) which is to be implemented as soon as possible. Australia is well-advanced on preparing regulations to implement the GHS for industrial chemicals, with new regulations expected in 2012 (21).

The European Chemicals Agency gave as reason for their reclassification of boron products (paraphrased):

'The available data do not indicate major differences between laboratory animals and humans, therefore it must be assumed that the effects seen in animals could occur in humans as epidemiological studies in humans are insufficient to demonstrate the absence of an adverse effect of inorganic borates on fertility. 17.5 mg boron/kg/day was derived as a NOAEL (no event level) for male and female fertility. For the rat decreased foetal weight occurred at 13.7 mg boron/kg/day, and a safe limit of 9.6 mg/kg/day has been derived.'

What they are really saying is this:

'While we have no human data, animal studies suggest that for adult reproductive functions a daily ingestion of about 2 teaspoons of borax is safe. But to be absolutely sure that no-one is harmed, we will ban it totally.'

The key study in this assessment was published in 1972.
Why is this being dug up now to justify banning borax when it was of no concern for the past 40 years? It does not make any scientific sense, especially if you consider that the main chemical in the new borax substitute, sodium percarbonate, is about three times more toxic than borax. Acute oral LD50 values for animals are from 1034 to 2200 mg/kg/day (23). Even the commonly used sodium bicarbonate, with an animal LD50 of 3360 mg/kg, is nearly twice as toxic as borax (24). Both of these chemicals have not been tested for long-term reproductive toxicity at the high doses that caused fertility problems in rats and mice.

The same applies to washing powders [laundry detergents], it has been stated that no toxicity is expected if used in the approved way, or that reproductive tests have not been done. Ingredients in these products are more toxic than borax, why can they be used in the approved way but not borax? And how about really toxic items such as caustic soda and hydrochloric acid? Why do they remain available to the public when one of the safest household chemicals is banned despite the fact that it is absolutely impossible to cause any reproductive harm with the approved use?

Regardless of the lack of any scientific credibility, the stage has been set for borax and boric acid to be globally removed from public sale at short or no notice. Even low-level and less effective boron tablets are now tightly controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, and may be restricted at any time through Codex Alimentarius regulations. With this, the medical-pharmaceutical system has safely defused any potential danger that borax may have posed to its profitability and survival.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 2) - The Arthritis Cure. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

LINK 2: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/boraxconspiracy03jul12.shtml
How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
by Walter Last

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The Arthritis Cure of Rex Newnham
In the 1960's, Rex Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., N.D, developed arthritis.
At that time he was a soil and plant scientist in Perth, Western Australia.
Conventional drugs did not help, so he looked for the cause into the chemistry of plants.
He realized that plants in that area were rather mineral deficient.
Knowing that boron aids calcium metabolism in plants he decided to try it.
He started taking 30 mg of borax a day, and in three weeks all pain, swelling and stiffness had disappeared.

He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery, but they were not interested.
However, some people with arthritis were delighted as they improved.
Others were scared to take something with a poison label on the container and meant to kill cockroaches and ants.
Eventually, he had tablets made with a safe and effective quantity of borax.

Within five years and only by word of mouth he sold 10,000 bottles a month.
He could no longer cope and asked a drug company to market it. That was a major mistake.
They indicated that this would replace more expensive drugs and reduce their profits.
It so happened that they had representatives on government health committees and arranged that in 1981, Australia instituted a regulation that declared boron and its compounds to be poisons in any concentration. He was fined $1000 for selling a poison, and this successfully stopped his arthritis cure from spreading in Australia.

Subsequently he published several scientific papers on borax and arthritis.
One was a double-blind trial in the mid 1980's at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which showed that 70% of those who completed the trial were greatly improved. Only 12% improved when on placebo. There were no negative side-effects, but some reported that their heart ailment had also improved, and there was better general health and less tiredness.

Most of his later research was devoted to the relationship between soil boron levels and arthritis.
He found, for instance that the traditional sugarcane islands, due to long-term heavy use of fertilizers, have very low soil-boron levels. Jamaica has the lowest level and arthritis rates are about 70%. He noted that even most dogs were limping. Next comes Mauritius with very low boron levels and 50% arthritis. The daily boron intake in these countries is less than 1 mg/day. An interesting comparison is between Indian and native Fijians. The Indians are estimated to have an arthritis rate of about 40% and eat much rice grown with fertilizer while the native Fijians with an estimated arthritis rate of 10% eat mainly starchy root vegetables grown privately without fertilizer.

The US, England, Australia and New Zealand generally have average soil-boron levels with an estimated intake of 1 to 2 mg of boron and arthritis rates of about 20%. But Carnarvon in Western Australia has high boron levels in soil and water, and the arthritis rate is only 1%. It is similar in a place called Ngawha Springs in New Zealand with very high boron levels in the spa water which is curative for arthritis. Actually all spas reputedly curing arthritis have very high boron levels. These are also high in Israel with an estimated daily boron intake of 5 to 8 mg and only 0.5 - 1% arthritis.

Bone analysis showed that arthritic joints and nearby bones had only half the boron content of healthy joints.
Equally, synovial fluid that lubricates joints and provides nutrients to the cartilage is boron deficient in arthritic joints.
After boron supplementation, bones were much harder than normal and surgeons found them more difficult to saw through.
With additional boron, bone fractures heal in about half the normal time in both man and animal.
Horses and dogs with broken legs, or even a broken pelvis, have fully recovered.

Borax is also effective with other forms of arthritis, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis, and Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus). For instance Dr Newnham saw a young girl aged 9 months with juvenile arthritis. He was able to cure her in 2 weeks.

He wrote that people can commonly get rid of their pain, swelling and stiffness in about 1 to 3 months.
Then they can reduce treatment from 3 to 1 boron tablet (each 3 mg) per day as a maintenance dose so that they can avoid any future arthritis. He also stated that patients with rheumatoid arthritis commonly experienced a Herxheimer reaction [healing reaction],and that this is always a good prognostic sign. They must persevere and in another 2 or 3 weeks the pain, swelling and stiffness will be gone.

I found this statement not only interesting, but also surprising.
The Herxheimer reaction is an early aggravation of symptoms with increased pain.
It is commonly due to toxins released by killed Candida and mycoplasma.
This is very common with antimicrobial therapy, and borax definitely is an exceptionally good and strong fungicide.
What surprises me, however, is that this fungicidal effect is already present at this rather low dose of 75 to 90 mg of borax. Equally surprising is the finding that also up to 30% of those with osteoarthritis experienced a Herxheimer reaction, suggesting that the border between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis is rather fluid. I believe that in long-standing and especially resistant cases it will be advisable to use other antimicrobials in addition. For co-factors in arthritis treatment also see my article Arthritis and Rheumatism or the booklet OVERCOMING ARTHRITIS.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 3) - Osteoporosis and Sex Hormones. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

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How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
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Osteoporosis and Sex Hormones.
Boron deficiency causes greatly increased amounts of calcium and magnesium to be lost with the urine.
A borax supplement will reduce the daily loss of calcium by nearly 50%. As this calcium comes mainly from resorbed bone and teeth, boron deficiency may be the most important factor in causing osteoporosis and tooth decay.

It has been estimated that 55% of Americans over 50 have osteoporosis and of these about 80% are women.
Worldwide, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 12 men over the age of 50 may have osteoporosis, and this is responsible for millions of fractures each year. Rats with osteoporosis were given a boron supplement for 30 days with the result that their bone quality was now comparable with that of the healthy control group and of a group supplemented with oestradiol.

The beneficial effect of borax on bones seems to be due to two interrelated effects: a higher boron content of the bones which makes them harder, and a normalisation of sex hormones which stimulates the growth of new bone. Low oestrogen levels after menopause are thought to be the main reason why so many older women develop osteoporosis. In men, testosterone levels decline more gradually which seems to be reflected in their later onset of osteoporosis as a group.

Research has now shown that boron supplementation in postmenopausal women doubles the blood level of the most active form of oestrogen, 17-beta oestradiol, to the level found in women on oestrogen replacement therapy. Equally, the blood levels of testosterone more than doubled. With HRT [hormone replacement therapy] there is a higher risk of breast or endometrial cancer which is not known to happen with hormones produced by the body as with borax supplementation.

Some women get premenstrual problems because oestrogen levels are too high and progesterone too low, and therefore may be afraid of using boron. However, I found no evidence that boron raises oestrogen above normal healthy levels. Boron may balance levels of sex hormones similar to the action of maca root powder. Maca acts on the pituitary gland not only to increase, but also to balance our sex hormones and seems to stimulate our own progesterone production as needed.

A recent study in younger men (29 - 50) showed that the level of free testosterone (the form that matters most) had risen by one third after a daily supplementation of about 100 mg of borax for one week. This is of special interest for bodybuilders.

Contrary to the medical preference of chemically castrating men with prostate cancer, research with boron has shown that elevated testosterone levels are beneficial by shrinking prostate tumours and PSA levels, PSA [prostate specific antigen] being a marker for tumours and inflammation in the prostate. Also, significantly improved memory and cognition in elderly individuals may be partly due to increased levels of sex hormones and partly to improved membrane functions of brain cells.

I have been asked about boron supplementation for women with oestrogen-sensitive breast cancer.
Breast cancer is related to calcifications in the breast. In my opinion, it is more important to normalize the calcium-magnesium metabolism and cellular membrane functions rather than feel restricted by a possibly faulty medical concept, especially as I believe that cancer can usually be controlled with long-term antimicrobial therapy. Therefore I would use boron as well as maca in this case.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 4) - Fungi and Fluoride. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

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How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
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Fungi and Fluoride.
Being such an excellent fungicide, it is not surprising that borax is being successfully used to treat Candida.
There is much interesting information on an Earth Clinic forum called Borax Cures.
With low to medium-weight people use 1/8 teaspoon of borax powder and with heavier weight 1/4 teaspoon per litre of water.
One drinks the water spaced out during the day, and does this for 4 or 5 days a week as long as required.

Many contributors wrote that it cured or greatly helped them. So for instance this post:

"I also have psoriasis, so maybe the soreness in my joints is the psoriatic arthritis creeping in. I thought, after reading about borax here on this forum, I would give it a try. OMG! In one day, the soreness in my knees has vanished! .... Also, my psoriasis seems a lot better after 2 days drinking 1/4 tsp borax in 1 litre of water per day."

Another one about toe fungus: "He wet his feet and then took a handful (of borax) and rubbed it all over his feet.
He said it stopped itching immediately! He was stunned. A few weeks later I asked him how his athletes foot was and he said: oh wow! it hasn't come back! that stuff totally cured it !!!"

Other enthusiastic posts were about vaginal thrush [candida].
Borax appeared to be more effective than other remedies.
Commonly, one large gelatine capsule filled with borax or boric acid was inserted at bedtime for several nights or up to 2 weeks.
Alternatively the powder can be mixed with cool solidified coconut oil as a bolus or suppository.

A recent scientific study confirms these positive observations with vaginal thrush.
Boric acid at the dose of a filled capsule worked even in cases of drug-resistant Candida and against all the tested pathogenic bacteria. Because of the greater dilution, a douche may not be strong enough for bacteria and drug-resistant Candida, but it should work for normal Candida. Borax, due to its alkalinity, was more effective than boric acid.

In normal healthy conditions, Candida exists as harmless oval yeast cells.
When challenged, chains of elongated cells called pseudohyphae develop, and finally strongly invasive long, narrow and tube-like filaments called hyphae. These damage the intestinal wall, and cause inflammation and Leaky Gut Syndrome.

Pseudohyphae and hyphae can be seen in the blood of individuals with cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Candida can also form tough layers of biofilm. This same study shows that boric acid/borax inhibits the formation of biofilms and also the transformation of harmless yeast cells into invasive hyphal form. In other articles, I have shown that this process, commonly initiated by antibiotics, is a basic cause of most of our modern diseases, and this makes borax and boric acid primary health remedies. But this article shows that there are many more reasons to give them a top rating.

A scientific review in 2011 concluded: "... boric acid is a safe, alternative, economic option for women with recurrent and chronic symptoms of vaginitis when conventional treatment fails ...". But as it is so much better than drugs, why not use it as a first option, or use the even more effective borax?

Another study from Turkey shows the protective effect of boric acid on food contaminated with mycotoxins, especially fungal aflatoxins. Among these, Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) causes extensive DNA damage and is the most potent carcinogen ever tested, especially affecting liver and lungs, also causing birth defects, immunotoxicity and even death in farm animals and humans.

Boric acid treatment was protective and led to increased resistance of DNA to oxidative damage induced by AFB1.
The strong antifungal action of boric acid is, of course, the reason why it has traditionally been used as a food preservative.

Borax, similar to the equally endangered Lugol's iodine solution, can also be used to remove accumulated fluoride and heavy metals from the body. Fluoride not only causes bones to deteriorate, but also the pineal gland to calcify and the thyroid to become underactive. Borax reacts with fluoride ions to form boron fluorides which are then excreted in the urine.

In a Chinese study, borax was used to treat 31 patients with skeletal fluorosis.
The amount was gradually increased from 300 to 1100 mg/day during a three month period, with one week off each month.
The treatment was effective with 50 to 80% improvement.

One forum contributor suffered with Fibromyalgia/Rosacea, chronic fatigue and TMJ for over 10 years which she believed were caused by fluoride. She used 1/8 tsp of borax and 1/8 tsp of sea salt in a litre of de-chlorinated water, and drank this for 5 days each week. Within two weeks her face cleared, the redness faded, body temperature normalized, energy level increased, and she steadily lost excess weight. The only side-effect was an initial aggravation of her Rosacea symptoms.

Another post:

"7 years ago thyroid cancer, the next year adrenal fatigue, then early menopause, the following year uterine prolapse followed by hysterectomy - the following year fibromyalgia and neuropathy. Early Childhood was fluorinated water along with fluoride tablets. Fall of 2008 I was looking at total disability. I could barely walk and couldn't sleep because of the pain and was throwing up daily from the pain in my back. ... After reading about fluoride I came to understand where all of my problems originated. ... I began the borax detox of 1/8 tsp in a litre of water and within 3 days my symptoms were almost gone."

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 5) - Calcium-Magnesium Metabolism. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

LINK 2: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/boraxconspiracy03jul12.shtml
How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
by Walter Last

Calcium-Magnesium Metabolism.
There is antagonism as well as cooperation between calcium and magnesium.
About half of the total body magnesium is found in bones and the other half inside the cells of tissues and organs.
Only 1% is in the blood. The kidneys try to keep this level constant by excreting more or less with the urine.

In contrast, 99% of calcium is in bones, and the rest in the fluid outside of cells.
Muscles contract when calcium moves into the cells, and they relax when calcium is again pumped out and magnesium moves in.
This cellular pump requires much energy to pump calcium out, and if cells are low in energy, then calcium may accumulate inside cells. Low cellular energy may be due to Candida, faulty sugar or fat metabolism, deficiencies, or accumulating metabolic wastes and toxins.

This then leads to only partial relaxation of the muscles with stiffness, a tendency to cramps, and poor blood and lymph circulation. The problem gets worse the more calcium moves from bones into soft tissue. Nerve cells can also accumulate calcium, leading to faulty nerve transmission. In the eye lens, it causes cataracts. Hormonal output keeps reducing as endocrine glands increasingly calcify and all other cells become handicapped in their normal functions. In addition, it causes intracellular magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is needed to activate countless enzymes, and a deficiency leads to inefficient and blocked energy production.

A further problem is that excess calcium damages the cell membrane and makes it difficult for nutrients to move in and wastes to move out. When the intracellular calcium level gets too high, the cell will die.

Here we can see the importance of boron as a regulator of cell membrane functions, especially in regard to movements of calcium and magnesium. With boron deficiency, too much calcium moves into the cell while magnesium cannot move inside to displace it. This is the condition of old age and of the boron-deficiency diseases leading up to it.

While in good health and especially in younger years, a calcium - magnesium ratio of 2 : 1 is normal and beneficial and supplied with a good diet. But with increasing age, boron deficiency and resulting disease conditions, we need progressively less calcium and more magnesium.

For boron to be fully effective in reversing tissue calcification, ample magnesium is required.
For elderly individuals, I recommend 400 to 600 mg of magnesium together with the daily borax supplementation spaced out during the day, and with protracted joint problems additional trans-dermal magnesium. However, oral magnesium may need to be adjusted according to its laxative effect. I am doubtful whether calcium supplements are needed and beneficial, even in case of osteoporosis. In my view these individuals have plenty of calcium stored in soft tissues where it does not belong, and supplementing boron and magnesium is expected to redeposit this misplaced calcium into bones. I regard the medical focus on a high calcium intake as a prescription for accelerated aging.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 6) - What and How Much to Use. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

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How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
by Walter Last

What and How Much to Use.
In some countries (e.g. Australia, NZ, USA), borax can still be found in the laundry and cleaning sections of supermarkets.
There is no "food-grade" borax available or necessary. The label usually states that it is 99% pure which is safe to use, and is the legal standard for agricultural grade borax. Up to 1% mining and refining residues are permitted. Boric acid, if available, may be used at about the dose of borax.

Firstly, dissolve a lightly rounded teaspoonful (5-6 grams) of borax in 1 litre of good quality water free of chlorine and fluoride. This is your concentrated solution. Keep the bottle out of reach of small children.

· Standard dose = 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of concentrate.
This has 25 to 30 mg of borax and provides about 3 mg of boron.
Take 1 dose per day mixed with drink or food. If that feels right then take a second dose with another meal.
If there is no specific health problem or as a maintenance dose you may continue indefinitely with 1 or 2 doses daily.

If you do have a problem, such as arthritis, osteoporosis and related conditions, menopause, stiffness due to advancing years, and also to improve low sex hormone production, increase intake to 3 or more spaced-out standard doses for several months or longer until you feel that your problem has sufficiently improved. Then drop back to 1 or 2 doses per day.

If you want to try the higher doses recommended by Earth Clinic for treating Candida and removing fluoride from the body - using your bottle of concentrated solution - then use:

· Lower dose for low to normal weight - 100 ml (= 1/8 teaspoon of borax powder); drink spaced out during the day.

· Higher dose for heavier individuals - 200 ml (= 1/4 teaspoon of borax powder); drink spaced out during the day.

Always start with a standard dose and increase gradually to the intended maximum.
Take the maximum amounts for 4 or 5 days a week as long as required.

Borax is rather alkaline and in higher concentrations has a soapy taste.
You may disguise this with lemon juice, vinegar or ascorbic acid.
Keep the bottle with the concentrated solution out of reach of small children.

Borax and boric acid have been classified as reproductive poisons in Europe,
and since December 2010 are no longer available to the public within the EU.

Presently, borax is still available in Switzerland , but shipment to Germany is not permitted.
In Germany a small amount (20 - 50 grams) may be ordered through a pharmacy as ant poison (it will be registered).

Boron tablets can be bought from health shops or the Internet, commonly with 3 mg of boron.
These contain tightly bound boron not present in ionic form as with borax or boric acid.
While suitable as a general boron supplement, I do not expect them to work against Candida and mycoplasmas, or as a quick arthritis, osteoporosis or menopause cure. Most scientific studies and individual experiences were with borax or boric acid. To improve effectiveness, I recommend 3 or more spaced-out boron tablets daily for an extended period combined with sufficient magnesium and a suitable antimicrobial program.

Article: The Borax Conspiracy (Part 7) - Possible Side-Effects; Toxicity. INDEX
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm

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How the Arthritis Cure has been stopped.
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Possible Side-Effects While side-effects from pharmaceutical drugs tend to be negative and often dangerous, with natural medicine, such as borax therapy, these are usually healing reactions with beneficial long-term effects. Most common is the Herxheimer reaction from eliminating Candida.

In some of the above forum posts, rapid improvement was experienced within days.
This is always a functional response. High cellular calcium levels cause muscle contraction with cramps or spasms as a common cause of pain. Boron, especially together with magnesium, can rapidly relax these muscles and take away the pain.

However, with long-standing severe calcifications a large amount of calcium cannot be redistributed in a short time.
This leads to increased calcium levels in the affected area, especially the hips and shoulders, and can cause problems for a considerable time, such as a tendency to severe cramping and pain, or problems with the blood circulation, or nerve transmission. Nerve-related effects in hands and feet may be numbness, or reduced sensitivity or feeling in the skin. Higher amounts of calcium and fluoride passing through the kidneys may cause temporary kidney pain. Such healing reactions cannot be avoided when aiming for a higher level of health.

Whenever you experience an unpleasant effect reduce or temporarily stop borax intake until the problem subsides.
Then gradually start increasing again. Helpful additional measures are

a) a greatly increased fluid intake,
b) using more organic acids such as lemon juice, ascorbic acid or vinegar, and
c) improving lymph flow as with rebounding, walking or inverted positions.

Toxicity Issues: Salt vs Boron.
Government health agencies are concerned about boron toxicity.
You might be concerned as well if you read the following, pertaining to sodium chloride (or more commonly known as table salt:

'Acute oral toxicity (LD50 - the dose at which half of the tested animals die): 3,000 mg/kg [Rat].
Chronic Effects on Humans: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells.
Slightly hazardous in case of skin contact, ingestion or inhalation.
Lowest Published Lethal Oral Dose in Man: 1000 mg/kg.

Causes adverse reproductive effects in humans (fetotoxicity, abortion) by intraplacental route, may increase risk of Toxemia of Pregnancy in susceptible women. May cause adverse reproductive effects and birth defects in animals, particularly rats and mice - fetotoxicity, abortion, musculoskeletal abnormalities, and maternal effects (on ovaries, fallopian tubes). May affect genetic material (mutagenic).

Ingestion of large quantities can irritate the stomach with nausea and vomiting.
May affect behavior (muscle spasicity/contraction, somnolence), sense organs, metabolism, and cardiovascular system.
Continued (High) exposure may produce dehydration, internal organ congestion, and coma.'

Now compare the sodium chloride toxicity with the Material Safety Data Sheet or MSDS for borax:

'Low acute oral toxicity; LD50 in rats 4,500 to 6,000 mg/kg of body weight.
Reproductive/developmental toxicity: Animal feeding studies in rat, mouse and dog, at high doses, have demonstrated effects on fertility and testes. Studies with boric acid in the rat, mouse and rabbit, at high doses, demonstrate developmental effects on the fetus, including fetal weight loss and minor skeletal variations.

The doses administered were many times in excess of those to which humans would normally be exposed.
No evidence of carcinogenicity in mice. No mutagenic activity was observed in a battery of short-term mutagenicity assays. Human epidemiological studies show no increase in pulmonary disease in occupational populations with chronic exposures to borate dust and no effect on fertility.'

Here you see that table salt is 50 to 100% more toxic than borax.
Table salt changes the genetic material and is mutagenic, while borax is harmless in this regard. Infants are most at risk from high borax ingestion. It has been estimated that 5 to 10 grams can cause severe vomiting, diarrhoea, shock and even death, but it also says that lethal doses are not well documented in the literature.

The following toxicity data are from documents of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control.

A review of 784 accidental human poisonings from 10 - 88 grams of boric acid reported no fatalities, with 88% of cases being asymptomatic, meaning they did not notice anything. However, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, and central nervous system effects, dermatitis, erythema, and death have been observed in some children and adults exposed to more than 84 mg boron/kg, corresponding to more than 40 grams of borax for 60 kg of body weight.

...

possible reproductive toxicity is the official reason for the present assault on borax.
The sodium chloride MSDS mentioned above also states:

"While sodium chloride has been used as a negative control in some reproductive studies, it has also been used as an example that almost any chemical can cause birth defects in experimental animals if studied under the right conditions."

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90 Tablets --- Adults, take one to two tablets daily

Product: Boron, Chelazome, Amino Acid Chelate, 3 mg - Trophic. INDEX
https://www.vitamart.ca/trophic-boron-chelazome-90-tablets.html
Vitamart Price: Ca $8.97
90 Tablets --- Serving Size: 1- 2 Tablets

Medicinal Ingredients (per tablet):
• 3 mg --- Boron (Glycinate)(Amino Acid Chelate)
  Non-Medicinal Ingredients:
• Microcrystalline cellulose,
• magnesium stearate.

Trophic’s Boron is beneficial for the maintenance of good bone health.
Boron appears to be important for optimal bone health because of its favourable effects on and interactions with the key players involved, including calcium, magnesium, Vitamin D and estrogen. In individuals with osteoarthritis, evidence indicates that these people have lower levels of boron in bones than people without this disorder.

Boron is regarded as relatively safe and non-toxic because any excess is easily eliminated, primarily in the urine.
Evidence suggests deprivation of boron in the diet affects proper calcium metabolism and is detrimental to proper bone formation and maintenance, specifically important to individuals at higher risk of conditions like osteoporosis or bone fractures.

Manufactured under the unique Albion Laboratories’ process (patented and patents pending) whereby the minerals are chelated by amino acids, peptides and polypeptides.

Product: Complete Mineral Complex, 90 Veg Capsules - Designs for Health. INDEX
http://www.healthpalace.ca/designs-for-health
-complete-mineral-complex-90-veg-capsules/
Retail Price: $33.75 --- Your Price: $27.00 --- (You save $6.75)
Recommended Dose Adults:
3 capsules once per day.
Take a few hours before or after taking other medications. Take with food.

Ingredients:
• 00.67 mg --- Boron (Boron glycinate)
• 66.67 mg --- Calcium (Dicalcium malate)
• 66.67 mcg --- Chromium (Chromic bisglycinate, Chromium nicotinate)
• 00.67 mg --- Copper (Cupric bisglycinate)
• 0050 mcg --- Iodine (Potassium iodide)
• Magnesium (Dimagnesium malate) 66.67 mg
• Manganese (Manganese bisglycinate) .67 mcg
• Molybdenum (Molybdenum bisglycinate) 50 mcg
• Potassium (Potassium glycinate) 50 mg
• 50 mcg --- Selenium (Selenium glycinate)
• 33.3 mg --- Vanadium (Vanadium amino acid chelate)
• 06.67 mg --- Zinc (Zinc bisglycinate)

Product: Healthy Bone Factors w/ K2, Boron and Isoflavones 120 Tablets, Natural Factors. INDEX
http://www.healthpalace.ca/natural-factors-healthy-bone
-factors-with-k2-boron-and-isoflavones-120-tablets/
Retail Price: $27.38 --- Your Price: $21.90 --- (You save $5.48) 120 Tablets ---

Ingredients:
Each tablet contains:
• 6.25 mcg (250 IU) -- Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
• 75.0 mg --- Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
• 04.5 mg ---Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride)
• 30.0 mcg --- Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin)
• 200 mcg --- Folic acid (folate)
• 30.0 mcg --- Vitamin K2 (menaquinone-7) (from natto bean)
• 156.25 mg --- Calcium (microcrystalline hydroxyapatite concentrate/tricalcium phosphate/carbonate)
• 75.0 mg --- Magnesium (citrate/oxide)
• 40.0 mg --- Phosphorus (tricalcium phosphate/microcrystalline hydroxyapatite concentrate)
• 08.0 mg --- Zinc (citrate)
• 0.75 mg --- Boron (sodium borate decahydrate)
• 0.75 mg --- Silicon (Bambusa vulgaris) (leaf)
• 500 mcg--- Copper (gluconate)
• 167 mg --- Non-GMO soy isoflavone extract (Glycine max) (seed) (<30 mg AIE total isoflavones)
• 30.0 mg --- Hesperidin (Citrus sinensis) (fruit)
  Non-Medicinal Ingredients:
• Microcrystalline cellulose,
• coating (carbohydrate gum [cellulose],
• glycerin),
• stearic acid,
• vegetable grade
• magnesium stearate (lubricant),
• silica.

Features:
• Prevents osteoporosis
• Increases bone mineral density
• Slows the rate of bone loss
• Stimulates good bone cell structure
• Enhances calcium utilization and retention.

Natural Factors Healthy Bone Factors is a unique vitamin and mineral formula designed to support bone mineral density and help prevent osteoporosis. It contains scientifically proven ingredients, including vitamin K2, boron, and non-GMO isoflavones, to increase mineral absorption and support the development and maintenance of bones, cartilage, teeth, and gums.

Bones are dynamic living tissues that constantly regenerate, but many factors can cause them to weaken, including changes in hormone levels, nutritional deficiencies, autoimmune disorders, and unhealthy lifestyle choices. Natural Factors Healthy Bone Factors contains a unique combination of vitamins, minerals, and extracts that are scientifically proven to support bone mineral density and the development and maintenance of bones, cartilage, teeth, and gums.

When taken in optimal ratios, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D work synergistically to fortify bone mineral density. As part of a healthy diet and regular exercise, they may reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis and can help prevent bone fractures. Hesperidin, an antioxidant from citrus, may help slow bone loss and non-GMO soy isoflavone extract slows bone reabsorption to encourage bone mass to build up. Vitamin B12, vitamin K2, and silicon are essential to the bone micro architecture and strong bone density.

Because high single doses of vitamins and minerals can exceed the body’s metabolic capacity, Healthy Bone Factors is more effective when taken as two lower doses per day to ensure optimal absorption by the body. Healthy Bone Factors provides nutritional support to help prevent bones from weakening by targeting key nutritional needs.

Product: Osteo Prolong w/Boron, 120 Veg Caps - CanPrev. INDEX
http://www.healthpalace.ca/canprev-osteo-prolong-120-veg-capsules/
Retail Price: $30.58 --- Your Price: $25.99 --- (You save $4.59) --- 2018-08-28
120 caps --- Adults - Take two (2) capsules two (2) times daily with food
a few hours before or after taking other medication, (120 / 4 = 30 days)

Product: Osteo Prolong w/Boron, 120 Veg Caps - CanPrev. INDEX
https://well.ca/products/canprev-osteo-prolong_20738.html
We are only able to ship this item to Canadian customers.
$29.99 ---
120 capsules ---

Osteo Prolong™ is a multi-mineral and vitamin supplement and a factor in the maintenance of good health.
It helps in the development and maintenance of bones and teeth. Calcium intake, when combined with sufficient vitamin D, a healthy diet and regular exercise, may reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis. Osteo Prolong™ helps maintain healthy immune functioning and tissue formation as well, it helps to maintain proper muscle function and healthy skin.

Bones are alive and constantly changing. Bones actively dissolve and then replace minerals to keep the skeleton strong and stable. Normally body has no problem keeping up with this continuous give and take, but when osteoporosis happens, bone mineral loss is faster than than replacement. Bones become more porous and brittle and can shatter simply from a fall, bumping into furniture, or even picking up a heavy grocery bag.

So you think, no problem, I’ll just find a good quality calcium supplement and that should cover me.
But it’s a common misconception that calcium alone goes straight to the bones to make them stronger.
Supportive minerals like magnesium, boron and zinc, and vitamins like K1 and D3 will make sure that bone-building calcium goes where it needs to.

Extensively researched and specially formulated Osteo Prolong has all the ingredients that work together and help reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis. And not only that, Osteo Prolong promotes bone health, helps to maintain your muscles, tissues, teeth and glowing skin as well.

Ingredients:

Medicinal Ingredients Per Capsule
• 200 mg --- Calcium (citrate & carbonate blend)
• 86.0 mg --- Magnesium (bisglycinate)
• 3.00 mg --- Zinc (citrate)
• 175 mcg --- Boron (citrate)
• 30.0 mcg --- Vitamin K1 (phytonadione)
• 250 IU --- Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
  Non-Medicinal Ingredients:
• Vegetable-grade magnesium stearate (1%),
• vegetable capsule.

Contra-Indications: Caution advised when used concurrently with blood thinners.

Product: Boron (Calcium borogluconate), 3mg 100 CP - NOW. INDEX
https://shop.naturesfare.com/health-wellness-vitamins-
supplements-minerals/13372-now-boron-3mg-100-cp-.html
Ca $10.99 Regular -- $00.00 Special, 100 vcaps

Product: Boron (Ca Borogluconate), 3 mg - NOW Foods. INDEX
https://well.ca/products/now-foods-boron-ca-borogluconate_18887.html
We are only able to ship this item to Canadian customers.
$10.29 ---
100 capsules --- Adult Dosage: Take one capsule daily.

Ingredients:
• 3 mg --- Boron (from Calcium Borogluconate)
  Non-Medicinal Ingredients:
• Rice Flour,
• Capsule (gelatin, water),
• Stearic Acid (vegetable source)

A mineral that helps you absorb other minerals may sound funny to say out loud, but that is the absolute truth with Boron.
A biologically active trace mineral, that affects calcium, magnesium and phosphorus metabolism.
Boron is known to support bone strength and structure.

Calcium Borogluconate is bioactive, or “body- ready”, and needs no transformation by the liver to be utilized.
This 3 mg dosage is our highest potency offering. Higher dosage so you can make the most of every capsule.

LINKS from Lenntech, and others. INDEX
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LINK 2: http://rmalab.com/sites/default/files/tests/instructions/20140107_CI_UrineElement.pdf
Rocky Mountain Labs Clinical Info report for Professionals, 2014-01-07
An assessment of the benefits and limitations of various test protocols.

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