This post appeared at:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?p=725577I was able to have 2 posts published (
post 1,
post 2), but no links and my subsequent post was not published. It seems many of these forum owners/moderators are willing to allow negative comments, but will not allow much in the way of rebuttal.
In most cases, the person writing has done little if any research into the product or the company.
Here is my final response to this thread:
(Taken from Primordial Food, by Christian Drapeau):
Nontoxicity of AFA"In the 1960s and ’70s, concerns were raised regarding the possible neurotoxicity of AFA. At that time, a few samples of what was thought to be AFA were taken from lakes in New Hampshire and Europe and were shown to contain neurotoxins.
Classic AFA grows in filamentous colonies about the size of a small blade of grass. In the original scientific literature, the toxic samples of AFA were described as “atypical non-colony forming AFA.” In other words, the toxic strains that were originally identified and classified as AFA were not typical of AFA.
These few reports created the perception that AFA was a toxic algae species. However, virtually all samples of AFA taken throughout the world have failed to contain any neurotoxins.
Indeed, toxicity in AFA was the exception rather than the norm. In Klamath Lake, nearly ten years of intense testing has failed to reveal the presence of any neurotoxins in its AFA. In 1998, the opinion among scientists was that AFA did not contain neurotoxins and that the original samples that had been identified as AFA were likely another species. Indeed, the boundary between AFA and some Anabaena species can at times be unclear, mostly pertaining to strains isolated and cultivated in laboratory. Anabaena spp. is known to produce various kinds of neurotoxins.
Recently, a team of scientists at Wright State University used recent advances in genetics to establish if the original toxic samples of AFA were genetically identical to the common strains of AFA shown to be nontoxic. Li et al. established that all the toxic strains of AFA were genetically dissimilar to the nontoxic strains and most likely belonged to the Anabaena genera. Further work is in progress in order to clearly identify these original samples and properly rename them. The Wright State University study confirms that AFA growing in Klamath Lake is nontoxic."
"Stories that Klamath Lake is polluted come from the fact that at certain seasons, fish die from oxygen deprivation due to the changes brought on by massive algal growth. During AFA blooms, the water of Klamath Lake can reach a pH of 11, and dissolved oxygen can go under 3 ppm. This can be deadly for fish."
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My post was not approved and I received the following message:
"Hello
I regret your post could not be approved as copyright regulations preclude copy/pasting another person's work here without full citation and link, and additionally you are not yet at the status of membership required for linking
I also note from the website in your profile that you may have a vested interest in promoting this product here, again something that is not in keeping with our guidelines and terms of service.
thank you
Chemar
NT admin"
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As you can see from my
first post, I was more interested in setting the record straight in a logical and calm manner, devoid of hype or hysterics than in spamming their forum in an attempt to sell the product.
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