>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