Your scientific perspective is flawed. Carbon fibers are not same as Activated Carbon. Polymers are not same as carbon based lifeform like us.

You need to reduce amount of activated charcoal consumption to smaller quantities to get rid of constipation. BTW flatulence is mostly caused either due to the fact that someone is poisoning you (you may not realize it but the world is a really ugly place where jealous people tend to do some really evil stuff) or you are consuming toxins in your diet by consuming junk foods.

True. The article is written by someone on the payroll of some sh*tty company or it is gossip intended to misguide people. BTW author needs to know that we ourselves are carbon based life form. So, AC has no side effects whatsoever. That being said, keep the daily consumption in extremely small amounts (250 mg or less) and don’t purchase it from market. Make it yourself. The only way you can be harmed from it is by consuming the factory made impure AC. ’nuff said.

Excellent insight!

“The carbon fibers are electrically conductive and electrochemically very noble. Therefore, when a metal is electrically connected to a CFRP, it is more susceptible to galvanic corrosion. This situation becomes worse when a large surface area of carbon composite components is coupled to small metallic parts (such as fasteners, bolts and nuts). In these circumstances, the rate of galvanic corrosion is extremely high due to the high cathode to anode surface area ratio (Ac/Aa)…..”
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My chemical perspective is that current forms solvated electrons + O2 = .O2- which is the superoxide radical anion. The latter plus an acid source makes H2O2 which in the present of ferrous, cuprous, …makes hydroxyl radicals which attack organics including your DNA leading to cancer, and oxidative stress related

The story gets even better per another reference, but while not in the presence of oxygen:

“The production of the reactive oxidant (i.e., hydroxyl radical) by the Fenton-like reaction (Fe(III)/H2O2) was greatly improved by the addition of carbon materials such as powdered activated carbon (PAC) and carbon nanotubes (CNT).”

Source: ‘Enhanced production of reactive oxidants by Fenton-like reactions in the presence of carbon materials’. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276120744_Enhanced_production_of_reactive_oxidants_by_Fenton-like_reactions_in_the_presence_of_carbon_materials.
Now, one can perform their own redox experiments at home and verify that AC accelerates redox reactions, a bad thing in your body, or wait 20, 30, 50 years until it is public knowledge .

I don’t feel like looking it up and posting the links. But do it yourself if interested. They are easy to find.

I think that’s a pretty good thing and I hope more is being done to use that method and/or do more clinical trials with it. … Sadly, a lot of times they WON’T, just because something is “natural”.

But it’s a pretty interesting fact that it can be used in kidney failure patients (and has been used by Doctors) and has saved people from going on dialysis.

Now they were certain people they studied this on. Like they were really old, but they had to meet certain conditions. I cant remember exactly what. But that should be looked into more. … And it helped them when they WERE old, what can it do for younger patients???

Hi Chele, I’m eagerly following this blog and also reading a numerous other articles on benefits of AC. Just wanted to follow-up and see if you have your blood work and if AC was effective to you at all?

“My daughter took the activated charcoal for a few weeks and it removed her plantar warts that she had”, plantar warts often go away on their own, had she taken orange or vitamin c you would have thought oh, it is the vit C. The fact that she took charcoal and during that period the warts have gone absolutely does not mean it is the charcoal that did the job. Besides, given how charcoal works, it can’t really have “attacked” a virus that is in some feet tissues.