Also, keep in mind that warts are caused by persistant viral infections that distort the way the local tissues grow. So anything you do to boost your immune system will help. For example, I think having an optimal vitamin D level should help. There are other posts and articles on this site about improving one’s immune system. They should help with getting rid of warts and keeping them away. And, of course, it is good for general health to have the immune system as strong as possible.

I hope this helps you. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of further help. My direct e-mail is posted at the end of varius articles on the site. To your great health!

Now on to color added or not: I have no way to know much about the farm-raised salmon that is available in Canada, which is what I assume you are talking about. I can tell you that almost ALL of the farm raised salmon in the U.S. does have color added. It is clearly listed on the label, and must be by law. Further, almost all of it is raised in very tightly confined environments, and is treated with heavy doses of anti-biotics. It is entirely possible that the farm-raised salmon in Canada is raised in an entirely different way. There are many things about the way that things are done in Canada that are far superior to the ways things get done here. So I would look forward to learning more about and if possible even trying some typical farm-raised salmon from Canada. (BTW, the canned salmon that I use and that I stock in my emergency food supply is from Canada, but it is wild caught.)

Added colour? Thats the funniest thing I have heard in a while. Did you know that farmed salmon was one of the two main dishes in Bocuse d’Or a couple of years ago? Do you think the worlds best chefs would have used color added fish? Get your facts straight, please. There are some antioxidants in fish feed which give salmon its color – especially one called astaxhanthin, which is one of the most powerful antioxidants. Astaxhanthin is a caroten (like vitamin A) and have a reddish color. Astaxhanthin in farmed salmon and wild salmon are exactly the same, and both get the antioxidant through their feed. But you prefer referring to some demarketing campaigns which have created a myth about “color added farmed salmon”. I’m sorry – but you seem to be just another useful fool for these guys..

First of all, the list is Dr. Mercola’s, not mine. I re-posted it on this site because I think that most of the information in it is useful and accurate – I agree with most of what he says, but not all. I have no marketing axe to grind here.

That said, while I am reasonably confident that most wild salmon, caught in reasonably pollution-free water, should be just fine, I am not so sure about farm-raised salmon. Perhaps there is some farm-raised salmon that I do not know about and that does not present health problems. However, the farm-raised salmon that I am familiar with all has these problems:

They are raised in very high-density environments that makes it prone to infections, so to combat that vulnerability, anti-biotics are used. This is analogous to the same problem that happens with cattle raised in a feed lot – the high density conditons make them prone to infections so they are routinely given lots of antibiotics throughout their lives.

The food that most farm-raised salmon is fed is not natural for salmon, and so they tend not to grow in quite the same way. In some cases this makes them not as healthy for us to eat. The “excess” food material that falls through the farm netting also tends to pollute the local water. If antibiotics are used, they also pollute the water around the farm.

Then there is the issue of artificial color. I reallize that one can find farm-raised salmon that does not have color added, but most does. For reasons that I do not understand, most farm-raised salmon lacks that beautiful pink or red meat and so often food coloring is added. This has been shown to have various levels of toxicity.

As far as tha actual chemical compostion of the protein found in wild versus farm-raised salmon, I really do not know. But it would not surprise me to learn that the protein is different just because the food that the wild salmon eats is significantly different from the food that most farm-raised salmon eats.

All in all I think the issues I have raised are sufficient to at least cause one to take a careful look at farm-raised salmon. And I would certainly avoid any farm-raised salmon that has been raised with anti-biotics or that has had color added.

Again, I have no axe to grind, and I have no financial motivation in this discussion. My only goal here is to be as helpful at I can to people wanting to maximize their own health.