>On another list there s the account of someone who watched
>cable tv, and saw the story of a woman in (Latvia?
>Lithuania?) who has eaten 3kg of dirt for years. She did it on
>camera. So now we know - can get necessary
>microbes from the edge of a Baltic forest. ;-)
straight or with brains ? :)
aborigines used to bury some fruits in the ground til they rotted. and
buried bunya nuts in mud for a few months. i think various lactobacillus
are widespread in soil. they obviously knew intuitively it was good for
them.
andrew