Calcium Montmorillonite Clay for Dogs

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Hi everyone! I'm glad to be part of this forum, keep up the good work Jack! This is my first post and decided to talk about "Calcium Montmorillonite clay". I started feeding raw right after finishing my Pit Bull Bible book about a year ago and obviously the improvement in my dogs health has been dramatic. I rotate between my own concoctions and Nature's Variety instinct raw (without a doubt the best and most complete raw diet ever) but unfortunately too expensive One of the ingredients in this awesome food is calcium montorillonite and surprisingly I've been using this clay on my fish tank for several years to improve fish nutrition thru mineral ingestion, color, detoxifying and clarifying the water, well, This also has many benefits for dogs such as:

Thank you for joining and thank you for posting an interesting, and potentially beneficial topic. Unfortunately, I have not researched this substance enough to provide valuable feedback at this time.

• Clay works with the body to expel parasites, remove toxins and facilitate the exchange of cations, resulting in an unsurpassed cleansing agent.
• It balances and maintains the body’s pH, water balance, osmotic pressure and intestinal flora.
• Having prepared the body for optimum absorption, Calcium Montmorillonite Clay offers more than 60 naturally balanced macro, micro and trace mineral elements in a highly bio-available form.

The trouble with substances like these is they inspire quackery. I don't know if M-Clay can do all of the things you have listed, but (of these things) I would say the third element of your list is the most probable--meaning I am sure it provide a fine array of trace micro-nutrients). However, whether this substance does all that its proponents claim ("balance the body," "remove parasites," etc.) is something else again. I have heard many of the same kinds of claim for many other substances, which ultimately were debunked, the last one being for Diatomaceous Earth. I spent about a week researching this substance, and I looked up multiple legitimate studies funded by Government and Universities alike, and at the end of the day, all DE did was provide silica, some other trace elements, but it sure was not a legitimate wormer or "cure-all" like its proponents claimed.

The removal of a full spectrum of toxins is one of Calcium Montmorillonite Clay’s main claims to fame. It can assist the body in ridding itself of heavy metals and toxins through binding (adsorption), made possible by its negatively charged ions seeking out positively charged ions (toxins) throughout the body. It is even capable of dealing with radiation to a point where nuclear waste is buried in it as a natural barrier in case of leakage.
I use 1 teaspoon on my dogs food every day and so far no side effects. I've read that even helps with worms and coccidia.
Spike

Well, here again, it would be at least a several hour (or several day) task to really research actual published studies of M-Clay in the effort to separate fact from fiction. Apple Cider Vinegar is another "wonder substance" that has webpage-after-webpage devoted to it, yet very little actual scientific evidence to support its use.

Maybe over the coming week I will put in the time to read some actual published studies of M-Clay, and will provide the links, so that we can see how much of these claims are, in fact, real benefits of the substance, versus how much of these claims prove to be quackery.

Cheers,

Jack