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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2941808, member: 15199&quot;]As I recall from a discussion in person with a silica proponent using it for nutrition, the &#039;organic silica&#039; found in cells of plants does not have the crystalline structure to produce the hardness effect, but it is not found favorably in peer reviewed medical reports, only in compounds sold by &#039;nutitionalists&#039;. In bamboo , it is in the whitish, powder like, material inside the stalk of bamboo, whereas the &#039;woody&#039; part of the stem, when dried, will have similar hardness to woody toothpicks,so no advantage there, my thought was the porosity to allow saturation and lubrication.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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