One of the things I’ve been researching a bit on lately is the crystals or “glitter” that was identified my Mark Darrah’s Raman spectroscopy work as being organophosphate and / or acetate. I noted that the crystals were hexagonal (six-sided) and multicolored and stumbled across a photo of
cystine crystals that look very similar to the Morgellons “glitter” that has been noted by many sufferers as being in their skin. Here’s a link to the photo (about halfway down the page, slide # 82):
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Cystine is an amino acid that contains sulfur and it is a primary nutritional component for providing sulfur to the human body (sulfur is required to form collagens and keratins – which are the 2 major structural proteins that make up human skin). The photo from the link above is from crystals that are sometimes found in urine (and urine contains urea which is derivative of nitrogen – nitrogen is believed to make up more than 50% of the skin chemically according to some research). As I was researching I also came across information in several places that note that there are 3 substances that can form hexagonal crystals in urine – they are, cystine, apatite (which is a form of calcium that is found in bones and teeth mainly in the form of hydroxyapatite) and tricalcium phosphate. This link notes how these substances form the crystalline shapes:
About crystals
In nature (aside from in urine),
phosphates can apparently form hexagonal crystals as well (calcium phosphates, hydroxyapatite, lead phosphates and many others). I haven’t been able to find any specific information noting it, but it seems a safe assumption that some organophosphates could form hexagonal crystals as well, especially if they chemically bonded with or to some of these other substances that form hexagonal crystals.
Chronic exposure to organophosphate pesticides has been shown to inhibit the absorption of cystine in rats (and increase the absorption of some amino acids including glutamic acid, methionine (another sulfur based amino acid used in building skin and tissue) and proline (which is an amino acid required to build collagens and keratins). The research in the next link notes that chronic exposure to organophosphates produced an imbalance in the normal amino acid profiles in the bodies of rats (which would almost certainly extend to humans as well). Here is a link discussing this:
Hepatic injury and disturbed amino acid metabolism in mice following prolonged exposure to organophosphorus pesticides -- Gomes et al. 18 (1): 33 -- Human & Experimental Toxicology
Another bit of information I found indicates that tricalcium phosphate is used in some medical applications to facilitate the production of collagen “composites” (such as filling in gaps in bone during surgical procedures). The point of this information is that there is apparently an affinity for tricalcium phosphate to bond with collagen (and collagen fibers are the structural foundation of bones as well as skin and practically everything else in the body). Here’s a link discussing this:
Colloidal {beta}-Tricalcium Phosphate Prepared by Discharge in a Modified Body Fluid Facilitates Synthesis of Collagen Composites -- Shibata et al. 84 (9): 827 -- Journal of Dental Research
So what’s the point of all this? All of this considered in the context of Morgellons may offer a plausible explanation for the “glitter”. With organophosphates being sprayed on crops constantly as herbicides, pesticides and fungicides (and the residues left on food crops) as well as GM crops containing organophosphate producing genes in many cases, it seems quite possible that the body is attempting to rid itself of the organophosphates, and the production of this glitter could be the result.
One plausible explanation may be that the organophosphates prevent the body from absorbing and using cystine properly (like for building skin) and the organophosphates bond to the cystine to form these hexagonal, multicolored pieces of “glitter” that show up as organophosphates on the Raman spectroscopy (the cystine itself may show up as “normal” skin matrix as was also noted in Mark's work). Research has shown that some people are more sensitive to organophosphates than others. Because the body can’t absorb the cystine properly, it could end up in the skin as these hexagonal crystals, especially in people that are more sensitive to the effects of organophosphates. The same could be true of calcium phosphates and hydroxyapatite which are both natural in the human body to some extent (and produce hexagonal crystals, and have an apparent affinity for bonding with other phosphates including organophosphates).
Another possibility is that the organophosphate residues on crops and / or the organophosphates produced in many GM crops (used in some as “markers” for identification) could produce abnormal processing of proteins in the body when the body tries to use certain amino acids such as cystine or methionine in the normal “skin-building” or collagen production process. The glitter could be produced as a result of the body being unable to process these proteins (and the sulfur in them) as it normally would due to the presence of organophosphates which would inhibit the ability of the body to build collagens and keratins (skin) correctly.
While all of this is speculation to some extent, given the various chemicals and proteins noted here and their functioning in the human body, it makes a lot of sense to me that this toxic brew of foreign proteins and DNA from GM crops combined with organophosphates could easily produce a lot of problems in the body that science truly has no idea about. One of these problems could be the body producing this “glitter” as a means of trying to expel organophosphates. It also seems quite plausible that these things could be preventing the body from correctly producing the collagen and keratin fibers that normally make up skin tissue, which could explain some of the strange fibers associated with Morgellons as well as lesions that won't heal (as long as more GM foods and organophosphates are ingested, the body may not be able to maintain the skin properly - and unless you stop eating, you may be continuing to ingest these foreign proteins and organophosphates).