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Esoteric Human Uses -- EM for Producing Monatomic Elements, Bread, Beer Some Notes on EM Dental Products (yes, it is sold in dental products on the market!) Claimed Variance in Batches of EM Source Culture, and How to Manage Inevitable Batch Variance Guidelines on Making EM Brews for Human Consumption Notice and Disclaimer
A few of the uses for EM culture and products which are discussed herein may be contrary to regulatory rules or guidelines in your country, state, province, county or region. Further, some practices may be frowned upon by qualified health professionals, and some practices could be dangerous to human health, or could be dangerous to animal health (or crop health!) if performed or processed incorrectly. This site and these pages are offered for educational and informational purposes only. If you choose to use EM or any other microbial inoculant products in any way for any application, you must first check with your local and national authorities to determine if your planned use complies with all applicable rules, regulations and requirements. If you choose to use EM for any purposes involving human ingestion (or placement upon skin, etc.), I recommend that you first research all relevant information available in the literature and on the web carefully, and review the recommendations in the regulatory guidelines for your country or region. Further, if brewing EM products for human or animal consumption, you will also wish to employ common sense and careful techniques. Any statements and opinions offered in these pages are my opinions only offered in reportorial and informational mode, and do not reflect in any way the views of any creators, producers, distributors, marketer or vendors of various EM-type cultures or products. Please note that I (the author) am not in any way associated with any of the above-referenced persons or organizations, although I may occasionally perform consulting for some companies, entities and individuals in the EM field. All opinions and statements remain my own reportage and opinions, and at times my opinions and/or practices may differ wildly from those of the various creators, producers, distributors or vendors of EM products or EM-like products.Human Uses -- EM Products for Drinking, Bathing Warning: The practices in this section are NOT recommended, but offered for information and education only because so many folks have asked how I do it myself, and what I have learned. The author accepts no liabilty for folks who may choose to play with consuming EM or EM products internally. Please note that the following statement of opinion -- like all reportage and opinion on this website -- does NOT reflect the opinion or position of the EMRO organizations, of Dr. Higa, nor of EMTrading or other official EM channels or venues, but rather my personal opinion and observation. In fact, the folks in the EM organization(s) warn that EM and their EM products are not for human consumption. Having said the above, it does appear, based upon a number of stories I have heard, that the EM shops in cities and towns Japan sell EM and EM products for the express purpose of human consumption, although they may be a bit low-key about it.
For further information beyond that offered in this section on making EM fermented antioxidant nutritional brews, please see the later section on this page entitled Guidelines on Making EM Brews for Human Consumption Drinking Activated
EM as an Antioxidant and Probiotic Health Beverage
Well, I have recently discovered that the number of folks in the US who are experimenting with ingesting EM is far greater than I thought, and goes well beyond raw vegans, the raw Paleo eaters (myself included), the Gabriel Cousens people (raw vegans), and even includes a bunch of more "normal" (not raw foodists, not even necessarily even health nuts) farmers, organic farmers and gardeners... I have more recently discovered that the phenomenon of using EM and EM products as a probiotic and antioxidant beverage/food goes even further than that; it appears to be worldwide. I have been corresponding privately with an EM researcher in Japan, and it turns out that numerous people in Japan -- again, not even raw foodists, but just folks interested in health -- are all busy drinking small (or large!) amounts of Activated EM liquid (aka EM Extension) every day, and feel that they are getting all kinds of health benefits from it. Some folks in Japan, including one of my correspondents, drink up to 1 liter per day of the full-strength stuff (a variety of EM Extension.) His perception is that the health-conscious folks in Japan are usually about 3 steps ahead of us in the USA - witness the fact that "alkaline ionized water" (electrolyzed reduced water, or ERW) got its start there many years ago; I largely agree. So their fascination with drinking Activated EM should not be too surprising..... I have learned from correspondents in Japan that there are "EM shops" in many towns and cities, and the main reason they exist is not just to sell folks EM for household use (flowers, gardens toilets, plants, waste, compost, shower stalls) or for use in building construction (concrete, plaster, wood, etc.) or for agricultural use (remember, Japan is a very crowded country -- most folks and EM shop customers live in cities), but rather, they sell the stuff (EM1, EM Ceramic powder, EM Ceramic shapes) for human consumption! As noted above, the practice of drinking EM Extension and related beverages seems quite common in the USA (although officially discouraged by the EM organization here in the USA) and in Japan, and folks in Japan are actually given guidelines on how to do this by their local EM shops. Folks who drink this stuff seem to feel that it yields any of several healthful effects, and view it as a "health beverage", loaded with antioxidants and other vital nutrients. A lot of the folks in Japan (mentioned above) -- following recipes given them by the EM shops -- brew their EM Extension in 2 liter soda/water bottles (those clear PET bottles) with some added salt (actually, quite a bit of salt -- 1 teaspoon per 2 liters, far more than I use here....), and then brew it in sunlight, as opposed to brewing in the dark (the way we usually do it in the USA). Some of these folks brew new bottles of EM Extension constantly, some with bottles on literally every windowsill in their home.... and drink it almost like water, as a "health drink". The local EM shops apparently give them full directions for doing this, and also share favorite recipes.... One thing my correspondent told me which fascinated me was this: "I found about EM completely by accident, standing in front of the local EM shopI have learned through EMRO that they have grown rather concerned about the large quantities of Activated EM consumed daily by some folks in Japan and Thailand. Some people in these countries apparently drink EM like water, literally liters per day, since they feel it offers great health benefits, and EMRO has been trying to find ways to get them to decrease their consumption.
Apparent Benefits
Sources of
Commercially-available
EM-Fermented Antioxidant Nutritional Supplements for Humans
Gargling and Spraying
Sinuses with EM and Activated EM (aka EM Extension)
Putting EM Extension
in Bath Water
For further information beyond that offered in this section on making EM fermented antioxidant nutritional brews, please see the later section on this page entitled Guidelines on Making EM Brews for Human Consumption Please note that all wild blueberry juice concentrate, cherry juice concentrate and pomegranate juice concentrate used in my own Sootheox research brews (for example, the Amber Molasses Mineral varieties) comes only from Brownwood Acres Farms. I recommend their juice concentrates highly! They also have some concentrates available in certified organic form as well. go
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Monatomic Elements, Bread, Beer Warning:
This practices
in this section are NOT recommended, but offered for information and
education
only because so many folks have asked how I do it myself, and what I
have
learned . The
author accepts no liability for
folks who may choose to play with consuming EM or EM products
internally.
Producing Monatomic
or Ormus Elements (Minerals)
Now, I start to groan just about here, because the ormus and monatomic (or, if you will, m-state, super high spin, deformed nuclei or manna) element worlds, much like the worlds of so-called "clustered water" and "structured water", are, in my opinion, rather full of hype and nonsense, along with generous helpings of pseudo-science. Yes, I feel that there is indeed something totally and deeply valid, genuine, true and real to each of these fields, and that there are at least a few valid products and claims in each of these fields. However, it is my opinion that each of these fields is also so full of horseshit and pseudo-science, that it would take a lot of EM (well, EM Extension or bokashi) to decompose it all.... So, in a nutshell, that is why I feel a vague aversion to even talking much about the ormus (aka monatomic) materials in connection with EM. However, plowing ahead for at least a moment, there is some evidence that one of the beneficial effects of the EM organisms is that they may help to convert various elements (minerals, etc.) from their compound or metallic form to their ormus form (aka monatomic elements, or m-state or manna), and to somehow amplify the effect of ormus elements already present in foodstuffs or in water, etc. There are several clusters of folks actively investigating and playing with this idea right now (one cluster is within the raw foods world), and if you were to do a search on Yahoo Groups, there may be one or more e-mail list groups which are discussing this and related topics. Monatomic Elements and
Commercial Denteme (EM) Dental Product
Basics -- Getting
Started
Links About EM and
Ormus
or Monatomic Elements
Making
Long-Fermentation
EM Sourdough Bread
These instructions come from someone who has vast experience in the EM world, and has been involved with EM for over 15 years. These instructions are geared only toward folks who have already made good batches of homebrew beer, and are comfortable with the process. Essentially, the process of making EM beer is a double fermentation process. Instructions:
More material will be added to this section shortly......
go back to top of page and table of contents As some of the readers of this site may already be aware, EM has been available in the USA in at least one line of "probiotic" live-organism dental products since late 2002, and is freely marketed on several websites. The EM-related product line of which I am aware is called Denteme, and the products consist of a mouthwash and a tooth powder (dental powder), each of which is marketed under the brand name Denteme Compete50. Each Denteme Compete50 product is claimed to contain plenty of the live probiotic EM organisms as beneficial probiotics for the mouth (oral cavity), including teeth and gums, and for nearby mucous membranes. Their general argument seems to be that the good organisms in the Denteme Compete50 products compete successfully with the undesirable decay (or inflammatory) organisms often found in the mouth. I fully agree with this reasoning. Some of the marketing verbiage currently found (late January 2003) on some of the Denteme Compete websites loses me (e.g., makes me crazy) with vague jargon about "nuclear powered organisms" and good "magnetism". For example, the toothpowder page on the main Denteme website (as of February 3, 2003; the material was not copyrighted as of that date) relates the following: " Compete50 toothpowder has more magnetic attraction than bacteria to steal the gas away from bacteria. The nuclear power has such magnetic attraction that it attracts the bacteria to the nuclear powder to adhere and have no energy to grow. With no energy resource and no power to grow, the bacteria can not grow and cause dental disease.Sigh! Such statements make me groan! I suspect that something gets lost in the translation from Japanese! However, my critiques of their advertising verbiage aside, I have heard only good things from users about their experiences with these Denteme Compete products, and I have recommended these products to numerous friends and acquaintances. Additionally, as many readers have likely surmised from reading the sections on human use of EM (immediately above), a number of folks who brew EM and EM-related products for home, garden or agricultural (or human) use have simply made their own probiotic EM mouthwashes and tooth powders from various EM products such as EM Extension and the EM Super Cera C Ceramic Powder, and many have reported great results . Ingredients
As of early February 2003, the ingredients list on a container of the Denteme Compete50 tooth powder (some have been shipped without labels...) reads: "quartz mullite, tapioca flour, antioxidant berry, vanilla, menthol crystals, maltodextrin, colloidal minerals, monatomic precious metals". As you can guess, the quartz mullite is apparently the EM Ceramic powder. Although I make my own EM probiotic mouthwash and other health products at home for my own use, I have heard only good things from users about their experiences with the commercial Denteme Compete50 dental care products, and I have recommended the products to numerous friends and acquaintances. go back to top of page and table of contents and Means of Managing Inevitable Batch Variance At least several users of EM in the USA who have purchased EM from EMTrading (late 2002) have reported that there seems to be some variance in the strength and "abilities" of various batches of EM source culture, especially when purchased in winter and cold months. I have heard such reports myself, I have found such reports on e-mail list groups on the web, and staffers at EMTrading have confirmed that they have received such reports since October 2002, but only from customers who are very sensitive to minor nuances of batch quality. On the other hand, I purchased two bottles (quart) of EM from EMTrading at each of two different times in December, and had absolutely no problem with either order; each batch worked wonderfully. I am no longer sure, beyond the obvious possibility of freezing during shipment (which would cause some organisms to decrease in count, but not drastically), how much of this variance may be in fact real, but I can offer the following suggestions as possible ways of coping with such variance.... I always suggest strongly to EM users that they ALWAYS make Activated EM (aka EM Extension) from the stock liquid, and use only the finished EM Extension liquid for all culturing activity, rather than ever using the stock material directly from the source bottle of EM. I suspect strongly (and this has been confirmed by an EM expert at SCD who is one of the co-owners, and also by knowledgeable staff at EMRO USA) that this (extension/activation) procedure may help to normalize or equalize variance across source bottle batches, may assist in making things more "even-keeled", and may also help to optimize the flora and balance of flora in each batch (e.g., improve it...). Let me take a stab at explaining the reasoning behind my suggestion: 1) It is likely true that different batches of EM may vary at least slightly in strength, in degree of dormancy, and even perhaps in the exact balance across/among various species of organisms in the brew. In fact, this is only to be expected for anything containing live organisms. Even in a lab-quality microbial inoculant product selling for $450 or more per quart, there would be variance across batches, and also variance across time as the stock culture "ages" and depletes its food supply in the container.. Since a quart of EM sells for a very affordable price far below that price bracket, it is only fair to expect some variance across batches; such is the nature of mixed-organism cultures and the art of culturing and storing them. 2) It seems quite well-established that as a bottle of EM stock culture ages, it undergoes even further shifts in the kinds of variance (strength, dormancy, balance across species) noted in item #1 above, simply due to the passage of time and that the organisms are slowly exhausting their food supply (mostly sugars and other carbohydrates from molasses.) This is only normal to expect, and indeed, to expect otherwise could be very unrealistic. 3) It is established that the stock EM culture in the USA is, and always has been, cultured in vats in Tucson, Arizona by EMRO (at one time until about two years ago, the brewing was done in AZ by EM Technology Network, a non-profit organization. ) To clear up some confusion, some staffers at EMTrading have told customers that EM was brewed in big vats in Kansas City by EMTrading until the end of 2002; this is decidedly not true. I have been assured by a knowledgeable co-owner of SCD and by folks at EMRO USA that all brewing of batches of EM in the USA has always been done in Arizona, first by EMTech, and later, by EMRO USA. And now for a bit of related murky lore which begs to be cleared up: Other customers and I have been told by staffers at EMTrading (telephone communication) that a number of consecutive EM batches are brewed from the same batch of EM starter culture, and that to ensure purity and consistency across batches, the Japanese parent company insists that the distributors/brewers in each country start anew several times per year (the person I spoke with at EMTrading believed it was three times per year, but she was not sure) with a brand-new batch of regional EM microbial starter culture, shipped fresh from Japan. Several of us have also been told by these same staffers that the folks in Japan sometimes change the culture for various reasons. I have researched this matter -- and this story -- carefully, and I can tell you that there is no truth to the following 2 items, that they are 100% mythology: 1) that any starter culture is ever shipped from Japan to the USA to "refresh" the culture. Rather, the USA regional culture is cultured from local native flora, readily available in the USA. 2) that anyone in Japan changes the starter culture for the USA regional culture (or elsewhere) at any time. In addition:3) It appears quite well-established that a goodly amount of EM inoculant batches from EMTrading store suffer at least some degree of cold damage -- often including outright freezing -- during shipping in winter-time in the USA. This cold damage may easily exaggerate or amplify each of the sources of variance noted above in item #1. It is quite well known that with extreme cold or freezing, some of the lactic acid bacteria and yeast will be damaged, and thus the total count of such organisms will be somewhat decreased, but not fatally -- usually, brewing Activated EM (aka EM Extension) will help the damaged populations to quickly recover their population counts and to keep growing. However, the cold damage may often be occult, meaning that the customer is often unaware, at the time when they open their package, that there had necessarily been any cold damage (unless the bottle is still frozen stiff...!) I have not been able to understand, in light of all the frozen-batch horror stories I have heard from friends and consulting clients, why EMTrading does not start using foam-slab insulated boxes with pre-warmed gel paks to provide thermal buffering/mass. It would likely increase S/H costs by four dollars, and could be offered as an shipping-upgrade option to customers in cold climates. I discussed this issue with a staffer at EMTrading in early February 2003, and she liked the suggestion; they may start offering this option to customers. In light of the above 3 summaries, I always suggest that EM Extension be brewed, and then -- after fermentation is complete -- that only the EM Extension be used to make the various EM products or batches you intend to make, and for the following reasons (excuse my using the same primitive numbering system): 4) It appears that the brewing of EM Extension serves to wake up or activate the various organisms It particularly awakens or activates the lactic acid bacteria and the yeasts; any activation of the phototropic organism will be less massive, since the only food for these organisms will be certain wastes from the first two classes of organisms. It is my suspicion that this activation period, especially due to the presence of the molasses (and a bit of sea salt and rock dust, which I always use) would help to allow the synergistic culture to re-establish an optimal balance as the various organisms activated, and, in effect, to normalize (and optimize) the culture, as well as allow it to acclimate to local environment, including the molasses in use, the local water, and other local conditions. 5) The EM folks all seem to feel (I have been told this repeatedly) that there is something near-mystical about using molasses to awaken or activate the culture (as in making EM Extension). I have heard much the same from correspondents in Japan about what the staffers at EM shops tell them. Apparently, the EM folks believe that there is something about the unique mix of sugars, complex carbohydrates, plant matter, and lots of minerals in the molasses which makes it ideal (if not magical) for awakening and activating the culture and allowing the various strains to "spread their wings". I was finally able, in early 2003, to get this sense about molasses confirmed. A co-owner of SCD who has trained extensively in EM has confirmed my sense as related above, and told me that molasses has always, since EM originated (and even before... as Dr. Higa evolved it) been the culturing media of choice for most of the organisms, that it is optimal and "number one", and that nothing else has yet come close. Like me, he believes that the unique mix of simple sugars, complex carbs, plant products, minerals and trace minerals in molasses make it nearly perfect as a culture media to allow EM organisms to activate. 6) My concern about using stock EM culture (which is at least somewhat dormant) straight from the bottle to make EM products (e.g., skipping Activated EM) is that it seems that only some of the organisms may be able to thrive in such an environment, while others may starve, and that this factor could or would grossly AMPLIFY or exaggerate any normal variance across EM source culture batches (e.g., some of your EM product batches might turn out really good, while others might turn out bad or indifferent...) Thus, the solution above is offered as a possible means of managing or controlling some of the sources of variance... go
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Nutri-Rice Stabilized Rice BranPlease note that all wild blueberry juice concentrate, cherry juice concentrate and pomegranate juice concentrate used in my own Sootheox research brews (for example, the Amber Molasses Mineral varieties) comes only from Brownwood Acres Farms. I recommend their juice concentrates highly! They also have some concentrates available in certified organic form as well. Kelp, Granules or Meal
However, the stuff is also available in "human grades" under the name "kelp granules", via natural foods vendors. Avoid the small 1 ounce or 3 ounce packages at health food stores -- they are a rip-off. Instead, a number of online web vendors sell human grade kelp granules in 1 lb. 3 lb., or 5 lb. packages. Usually they will charge from $3.50 to $15.00 per pound. A few examples of such vendors are: Mother Nature.com, around $3.50 per pound,You may also wish to ask Larch Hanson at Circle of Friends (above) if he can help you.... A good source for 40 lb. bulk bags of animal-feed grade kelp meal is Fertrell, a producer/distributor of organic farming supplies in PA, which sells via retailers such as organic gardening/farming suppliers all over the East Coast. You can find their list of distributors/resellers at http://www.fertrell.com/ go
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