"Quirky Lyme Disease Bacteria: Unlike Most Organisms, They Don't Need Iron, but Crave Manganese

flyme,

You are taking a lot more than the daily requirement of manganese than you require, based on the amount that you are getting from the cinnamon alone. Your 2 tablespoons equals 150% of the RDA for women. If you add that amount to the amount from the greens and the rest of your food, you could be receiving several times more than you need. I have read elsewhere that an impaired liver is often unable to clear the excess manganese out of the body. Therefore, there would be an unhealthy buildup of manganese in the body. This is just my hunch as to what may be happening.


Manganese

Manganese has several vital functions in the body including a role in collagen production, making it especially important for wound healing and bone health, as collagen is an important component of bone. Furthermore, manganese functions as part of the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase, which helps to prevent free radical damage to your body. One tablespoon of cinnamon provides 1.4 mg of manganese. The daily requirement for manganese for adults is 2.3 mg for men and 1.8 mg for women. One tablespoon of cinnamon provides more than 60 percent of the daily requirement for men and more than 75 percent of the daily requirement for women.

Don

While going through my bookmarks on my computer looking for something else for someone, I came across another site that helps to explain about stools and what healthy ones are like, and what the others mean:
altmedicine.about.com/od/gettingdiagnosed/a/stools.htm