In article <[email hidden]>,
Dave Wickware said:Germanium-132
IN ITS inorganic form, the trace mineral germanium is
used in the electronics industry as a semiconductor, and
has no nutritional or therapeutic benefits. However, in
its organic form, germanium is being hailed as one of
the greatest new developments in the nutritional
treatment of cancer.
Those hailing it are primarily those like Spammin' Dave, who
sell the stuff. I think I found exactly one case in the
literature where germanium may have been a factor in
someone's recovery from cancer.
I found a much larger number of cases where someone was
poisoned by germanium supplements.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I
have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)