Anyone take food grade Diatomaceous Earth internally?

I do not. I don’t feel my innards need to be exfoliated with crystalline silica.

Take 10 bucks. Put it in an ashtray. Light a match. Set the 10 bucks on fire.
That’ll work just as well and saves the trip to the store.

I have used diatomaceous earth as an insecticide for ants and termites. The microscopic particles are silica with hard, sharp edges. They particles get in the insects joints and cut their exoskeletons like shards of glass causing them to desiccate and die.

Supposedly it is safe for mammals, but I’ll be honest with you, microscopic particles scare me. If you breathe them they can get deep in your lungs with no way to expel them.
You couldn’t pay me to try that treatment.

I’ll skip the experiment.

DE is great for keeping ants out of your house, but I would not ingest it.

I’ve used it for ants, I would not eat it. The name is interesting. For something that I could walk to the store and find on the shelf, it has a really complicated name without any obvious meaning.

Megatron: Yeah, I can eat it everyday.

That stuff is for killing bugs. You really want to eat it?

My friend has advised me that everyone has inhaled or eaten parasites or
toxic metals and that taking a little DE for 2 weeks twice a year will clean
all of it out of your system plus leave your nails hard and your hair beautiful.
Just cannot decide if I want to do it.

I would ask them for evidence of those claims.

Your body kills parasites and certain bacteria naturally.

Diatomaceous earth particles are so small the food grade product is sometimes used as a media to filter water for fish tanks or water purifiers. It is packed into a chamber that has water flowing through it. It works by mechanically catching particles that can’t fit through the tiny spaces – like a really dense sponge or fine screen. If you eat it the powder spreads out and just becomes inert. It does no filtering.
At best it will do nothing. At worst you can damage your lungs if you are not careful and breath it.
Pseudoscience can be dangerous.
Here are some things that actually work – and have the data to prove it.
Eat right and get regular exercise. Aim to keep your weight in the healthy band of the BMI charts. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink alcohol to excess. Don’t have unprotected sex.
Are you willing to do those things? And they are all free.

@MooCows Your friend is misinformed.