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Trials and Tribulations of Telling Family Members and Friends About Colloidal Silver

Have you ever tried to tell a family member or friend about the many benefits you've experienced with colloidal silver...

only to have them scoff at you, laugh, or give you that typical roll of the eyes along with that condescending look that says, "There you go again, with that kooky natural health stuff"?
But first, my thoughts on telling family members and friends about colloidal silver:

You know the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." That may sound trite, but frankly, it goes double for colloidal silver. (Maybe triple.)

After 16 years of writing and teaching on this subject, I've learned that when it comes to family and friends all I can do is plant small seeds of truth about colloidal silver (or other natural remedies, as the case may be), and then drop the subject. Steve Barwick

How It Works

Colloidal Silver may be ingested by drinking it in a diluted form. When ingested, it takes one to two days for colloidal silver particles to go to the body cells in an amount sufficient for benefits to begin.

After the silver particles entered the body cells, they reacts with thiol (sulphydryl, SH) groups in the bacterial cell, producing structural change in the cell membranes. Silver particles further penetrate into the bacterial cell, interacting with nucleic acids. These process, in essence, disable the oxygen metabolism enzyme that all one celled bacteria, fungi and viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. Within a few minutes, the pathogen suffocates and dies, and is cleared out of the body by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems.

Colloidal silver will not remain in the body forever. After three months, it will be eliminated by the kidneys, lymph system and bowel. In general, increasing water intake tends to increase silver elimination through the urine. Source .polymerfab.co.uk

A New Study Demonstrates the Protective Effects of Silver on Human Cells

While radical U.S. environmental researchers are working overtime to create the illusion that silver nanoparticles are harmful to human cells.......in order to justify their efforts to have silver-based products heavily regulated or even banned......researchers from other parts of the world are re-discovering the fact that silver nanoparticles actually PROTECT AND HEAL human cells.

New Study Shows Silver Protects Cells from Alcohol Toxicity

In the article at this link, you'll learn that researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, along with researchers from several other institutes, have discovered that very small numbers of silver atoms can protect cells against damage caused by ethanol.

Colloidal Silver: " A Closer Look"

Can Silver Nanoparticles Stop AIDS Infections? 

Excerpts From New Study Published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology: Silver Nanoparticles “Exert Anti-HIV Activity At An Early Stage of Viral Replication” Source

The following text are brief excepts from a brand new study published in the prestigious Journal of Nanobiotechnology (published online January 20, 2010), in which it was demonstrated that “HIV infectivity is effectively eliminated following short exposure of isolated virus to silver nanoparticles.”

In June 2005, the prestigious journal Nanobiotechnology published a ten page study that rocked medical science

The study abstract reads as follows:

Abstract

“The interaction of nanoparticles with biomolecules and microorganisms is an expanding field of research. Within this field, an area that has been largely unexplored is the interaction of metal nanoparticles with viruses.

In this work, we demonstrate that silver nanoparticles undergo a size-dependent interaction with HIV-1, with nanoparticles exclusively in the range of 1-10 nm attached to the virus.

The regular spatial arrangement of the attached nanoparticles, the center-to-center distance between nanoparticles, and the fact that the exposed sulfur-bearing residues of the glycoprotein knobs would be attractive sites for nanoparticle interaction suggest that silver nanoparticles interact with the HIV-1 virus via preferential binding to the gp120 glycoprotein knobs.

Due to this interaction, silver nanoparticles inhibit the virus from binding to host cells, as demonstrated in vitro.” Source

AIDS-related pneumonia due to staphylococcal, pneumocystis, streptococcal, klebsiella and fungal infections may also warrant internal use of colloidal silver. These types of pneumonia are very difficult to fight with traditional antibiotic treatment; moreover, people with weakened immune systems, such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, are especially prone to them. For a weak immune system, these types of pneumonia are sometimes unbeatable, making alternative measures a necessity. "Dr. Marchial-Vega had considerable clinical experience with a colloidal silver preparation that contains between 15 and 25 parts of silver per million parts of water. This preparation has proven effective in patients with HIV… In the hospital, the therapy is administered by a special nebulizer as well as orally," reports Dr. James Howenstine in A Physician's Guide to Natural Healing Products that Work

Silver Inactivates Herpes Simplex Type I and II Viruses 

A study conducted in 1972 at Department of Microbiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan demonstrated that the Herpes Simplex Virus types I and II were totally inactivated by low concentrations of silver nitrate, which is a more caustic, chemical form of silver. According to the study, silver nitrate caused so much damage to the viruses, they simply could no longer cause infection. Source

Colloidal Silver and Pseudomonas Infections

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading causes of post-operative infections, burn infections and lung infections such as those found in cases of cystic fibrosis and obstructive pneumonitis.

In fact, Pseudomonas is also one of the leading causes of death in post-operative infections, burn infections and lung infections.

What's more, it's also a major cause of urinary tract infections, respiratory system infections, dermatitis, soft tissue infections, bacteremia (invasion of the bloodstream by a pathogen), bone and joint infections, gastrointestinal infections and a variety of systemic infections

Worse yet, Pseudomonas is likely to become an even greater cause of illness and disease in the future, because it is now one of the most highly antibiotic-resistant pathogens on the face of the earth.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is primarily a nosocomial pathogen [i.e., it originates primarily in hospitalized patients - ED]. According to the CDC, the overall incidence of P. aeruginosa infections in U.S. hospitals averages about 0.4 percent (4 per 1000 discharges), and the bacterium is the fourth most commonly-isolated nosocomial pathogen accounting for 10.1 percent of all hospital-acquired infections.

Colloidal Silver and Cancer

DOES SILVER WORK AGAINST CANCER ??? The mutation of healthy cells into cancer cells occur continuously, even in healthy bodies. But such cancer cells are destroyed by the body's natural immune system at a rate about the same as they occur, and when the body condition is stable, there is nothing manifest that a healthy person would experience as cancer. Some types of Cancer are reported to be caused by a virus. Like with any virus, upon invading a body tissue cell it will take over the cells reproductive chemical factory thereby forcing the cell to replicate the virus instead, the cell will revert to the primitive state thus enabling the Colloidal Silver to be effective and kill the cancerous cell. A higher concentration of Colloidal Silver means more immediate contact with any virus or other pathogen.

Recent clinical research utilizing silver nanoparticles against cancer cells has demonstrated that there just might be something to the myriad of anecdotal stories for silver's oft-claimed but as yet unproven cancer-fighting properties...

Two recent clinical studies have looked at the idea of using silver nanoparticles as a method to shrink cancer tumors. You can read about one of them here. And another one here.

The second study, this one a test tube study conducted on breast cancer cells, produced similar results.

In fact, it concluded, "Colloidal silver had dose-dependent cytotoxic effect in MCF-7 breast cancer cells through induction of apoptosis."

Once again, that simply means if you put enough colloidal silver into direct contact with the breast cancer cells, it kills them.

Different Than Dr. Robert O. Becker's Method

2 Colloidal Silver Pioneers: Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D., and Dr. Robert C. Beck, Ph.D.

For two decades, two pioneering research scientists – both now deceased – influenced and impacted the colloidal silver community with their work perhaps more than any others ever have, or even will.

One was a physicist named Dr. Robert C. Beck, Ph.D. And the other was a medical doctor named Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.

This is quite different than the method employed by Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. back in the 1980's.

Dr. Becker generated very minuscule amounts of silver into a cancer cell culture, using tiny positive micro-amp currents of electricity.

He was able to cause the cancer cells to dedifferentiate and revert to stem cells, which could then renew themselves through mitotic cell division and re-differentiate into healthy specialized cell types.

In other words, if new heart cells were needed, they became heart cells. If new prostate cells were needed, they became prostate cells. And so on.

As he stated in chapter 8 of his bestselling book, The Body Electric: ".we found that we could suspend mitosis in the fibrosarcoma cells with silver ions injected by minute levels of positive current.

During one day of exposure, the cells appeared to dedifferentiate completely, and they stopped dividing for a month without additional treatment, even though we changed the nutrient medium regularly. Obviously, this entire subject needs to be investigated more thoroughly. "

Dr. Beck generally recommended a four-pronged protocol for healing serious life-threatening diseases:

· First, he advocated using electrical micro-currents for cleansing the bloodstream of pathogens (via what later became known as the “Beck Blood Electrification Unit”). More

· Second, he recommended using a technique called magnetic pulsing for cleansing the lymph nodes of pathogens (via the “Beck Magnetic Pulsar”). More

· Third, he recommended making and drinking electrically generated ionic silver for boosting immunity and killing pathogens in body tissues and other parts of the body. More

· And fourth, he recommended drinking freshly ozonated water for detoxifying the body and killing off residual pathogens, and he published simple designs for making a home water ozonation unit from a simple aquarium ozonator pump .More

A Simple, Natural Colloidal Silver Fruit and Vegetable Wash

Commercial fruit and vegetable washes are expensive. And there's quite a lot of controversy over the safety of common ingredients such as sodium laurel sulfate. Thankfully, you can quickly, easily and inexpensively make a safe, highly effective produce wash using colloidal silver and other all-natural ingredients.

As a water purification agent:

Water can be purified by adding 1/2 to one teaspoon of 5-30 ppm colloidal silver and a few drops of iodine to one gallon of water. Legionella pnuemophilia (Legionnaire's disease) is lethal in water with a temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. It has been reported that water with a colloidal silver concentration of only 20 ppb (parts per billion) kills Legionella pnuemophilia.

As an antibiotic for plants:

A colloidal silver solution can also be sprayed directly onto plants and shrubs in the garden or the water-reservoir of a self-watering planter. The action of the colloidal silver positive ions work on the outside of the plants to destroy bacteria, virus, fungus, etc. Garden food plants that have been sprayed with colloidal silver leave no residue, as do poison sprays, and are safe for human consumption.

Tests in a hydroponics greenhouse have shown that Colloidal Silver is absorbed and used by the living plant as are any other minerals. Hydroponics is an ideal gardening method having only one problem: Viruses, funguses and bacteria tend to thrive in the plant nutrient fluid. The presence of silver in the hydropnic solution will not only kill the viruses, fungues and bacteria present in the solution, but also prevent mosquitoes from hatching.

Keeping algae, mosquito larvae and parasites out of still water:

Tests have shown that algae, larva of mosquitoes and eggs of some parasites are effectively killed by colloidal silver. Colloidal silver may not kill mosquitoes and parasites. However, since the eggs of mosquitos or parasites are mostly single-celled, their reproduction process will end in the presence of colloidal silver. It should be remembered that to remove mosquitoes or parasites by killing their eggs or larvae means that one must continue the course of treatment until all of the adults die.

As a nasally administered medicine for treatment of sinus infection, nasal conjection, runny nose, sore throat, cough, flu, or the like:

Since most disease-causing organisms enter your body through the mucous membranes of the nose, the mouth, and/or the pulmonary system, it is possible to treat the disease by killing the disease-causing organisms through the same channel ---- i.e. the mucous membranes of the nose, the mouth, and/or the pulmonary system. Inhalation of colloidal silver can be a better alternative to oral ingestion of the same by virtue of the fact that the colloidal silver itself can directly irrigate and disinfect the loose foreign bodies and particulate debris from the nasal cavity and posterior nasopharynx.

One can nasally take colloidal silver solution by pouring, pumping or spraying colloidal silver solution directly through the nose in a way to achieve the similar effects. According to the author's experience, it is not difficult to use this method to treat a cold or other similar infections in less than one afternoon.

This liquefied form of silver is a powerful natural antibiotic that can help knock out an acute sinus infection, says John M. Sullivan, M.D., a physician in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Buy or make a bottle of colloidal silver, put some full-strength into a spray bottle, and use one or two squirts into your nose twice a day until the infection has been noticeably gone for 3 days.
Alternative Cures by Bill Gottlieb, page 553

To treat ringworm, use a sterile pad and apply colloidal silver to the affected area. Hands and feet can also be soaked in this solution, a natural antibiotic that destroys some 650 different microorganisms.
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 388

Few unique and Traditional uses for Colloidal Silver

Add to suspected drinking water when traveling or camping.

Silver-sprayed burns heal rapidly

Safely sterilize anything from toothbrushes to surgical instruments.

Use topically on cuts, wounds, abrasions, rashes, sunburn, insect bites, razor nicks and bandages.

Spray on garbage to prevent decay odors.

Mist kitchen sponges, towels, cutting boards to eliminate E. Coli and salmonella bacteria to
prevent food poisoning and gastrointestinal inflammation.

Add when canning, preserving or bottling.

Use like peroxide on zits and acne.

Add to juices and milk to prevent spoiling, fermenting, deteriorating, clabbering or curdling.

Spray in shoes and between toes to stop most skin itch, athletes foot and fungi.

Diminish dandruff, psoriasis, skin rashes, etc.

Add to bath water, gargle, douches, colon irrigation, nasal spray and dental water-pic solutions.

Cuts downtime dramatically from colds, flu, pneumonia, staph, strep, respiratory infections and
rhino viruses.

Skin itch, eye irritation or infection (dilute a small amount with an equal amount of distilled water for eye use) and ear infections (warm slightly first), some moles and warts vanish (put on band aid pad and wear on wart overnight each night until gone).

Use with Q-tips on fingernail, toenail, and ear fungi.

Can impede tooth decay and bad breath.

Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, Colloidal Silver never permits strain-resistant pathogens to evolve.

Toothaches, mouth sores, bacterial irritations are diminished.

Soak dentures.

Spray refrigerator, freezer and food storage bin interiors.

Mix in postage stamp, envelope, and tape moistening wells, paint and paste pots to prevent bacterial growth, odors, spoiling or souring.

Add to water-based paints, wallpaper paste, dishwater, cleaning and mopping solutions, etc.

Spray pet bedding and let dry.

Spray on top of contents of opened jam, jelly, and condiment containers and inside lids before replacing.

Mix a little in pet water, birdbaths, cut flower vases.

Add to swamp cooler water.

Spray air conditioner filters after cleaning.

Swab air ducts and vents to prevent breeding sites for germs.

Use routinely in laundry final rinse water and always before packing away seasonal clothes.

Damp clothes or towels and washcloths will not sour or mildew.

Eliminate unwanted microorganisms in planter soils and hydroponics systems.

Spray plant foliage to stop fungi, molds, rot, and most plant diseases.

Silver is an excellent plant-growth stimulator.

Treat pools, fountains, humidifiers, Jacuzzis, hot tubs, baths, dishwashers, re-circulating cooling tower water, gymnasium foot dips, and bath and shower mats.

Spray inside shoes, watch bands and gloves and under fingernails periodically.

Treat shower stalls, tubs, fonts, animal watering troughs, shavers to avoid trading germs.

Rinse fruit and vegetables before storing or using.

Put in cooking water.

Add to human and animal shampoos and they become disinfectants.

Prevent carpets, drapes and wallpaper from mildewing.

Wipe telephone mouthpieces, pipe stems, headphones, hearing aids, eyeglass frames, hairbrushes, combs, loofas.

Excellent for diapers and diaper rash.

Do toilet seats, bowls, tile floors, sinks, urinals, door knobs.

Kills persistent odors.

Rinse invalid's pillowcases, sheets, towels and bedclothes.

There are literally thousands of other essential uses for this odorless, nearly tasteless and colorless, totally benign, powerful, non-toxic disinfectant and healing agent

OTHER ESTABLISHED USES OF COLLOIDAL SILVER

Can colloidal silver be used safely in the eyes, to treat eye infections, sore eyes, itchy red eyes, sties, cataracts and more?

According to Dr. James Balch, M.D., author of the bestselling book Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing, you can indeed use colloidal silver directly in your eyes for Pink Eye and other eye infections (i.e., conjunctivitis).

"As Phyllis A. Balch and Dr. James F. Balch write in Prescription for Nutritional Healing, colloidal silver can safely and inexpensively protect you from infection in a wide variety of ways: "Topically, it can be used to fight fungal infections of the skin or nails and to promote the healing of burns, wounds, cuts, rashes, and sunburn. It can be used on toothaches and mouth sores, as eye drops and as a gargle to fight tooth decay and bad breath. It can also be used as sterilizer and can even be sprayed on air-conditioning filters and air ducts and vents to prevent germs from growing." In addition to those found in air conditioning vents, germs make many other aspects of our environment both unhealthy and bad-smelling. Colloidal silver, as a powerful antibiotic and antifungal agent, can make your environment just as healthy as it can make your body."

In his newsletter, he recommended a few drops in each eye, several times a day, of 5 ppm to 10 ppm colloidal silver.

"The Natural Antibiotic"

Colloidal Silver and Infected Teeth or Gums

Colloidal silver is considered by many users to be one of the simplest and most effective all-natural remedies in existence for healing infected teeth and gums.

Whenever I've had an infected tooth or infected gums, I've had the best results getting rid of the infection by using this simple 3-step protocol:

Step #1.) I use a small mouthful of 10 ppm colloidal silver to brush over the infected area thoroughly, if it's not too painful. The idea is to use the brush to work colloidal silver all around the tooth and surrounding gums.

If it's strictly a gum infection, I use the toothbrush to brush over the infected area of the gum rather forcefully with colloidal silver in order to force any bacteria out. It will usually bleed a bit, but the next step takes care of that problem, in my experience.

I end by spitting out the colloidal silver and then rinsing for 15 or 20 seconds with another mouthful. (Again, if the infected area is too painful, I skip this step entirely and go straight to step two.)

Step #2.) Directly after brushing with colloidal silver, and rinsing, I then hold a fresh mouthful of the colloidal silver in my mouth for as long as I can, i.e., at least 7-10 minutes.

I just alternate between swishing the colloidal silver around from time to time, and then holding it directly over the infected area.

After 7-10 minutes of doing this I spit it out and repeat the procedure for another 7-10 minutes. Then I repeat this procedure several more times throughout the course of the day.

Step #3.) If the infection is a particularly nasty one, I generally also increase my oral dosage of colloidal silver to anywhere from four to eight ounces a day, in divided doses throughout the day (i.e., several ounces in the morning, several in the afternoon, and several in the evening) but only for a few days until the problem is resolved. Steve Barwick

Here's some more great new research (see news article below) which truly helps put the lie to claims by the anti-silver environmentalists that "nano-silver" (their code word for colloidal silver) somehow harms human cells.

In the referenced study, scientists have now demonstrated that small amounts of nanosilver can reduce blood clots by as much as 40%. More

Varanasi, India -- Scientists in India report the discovery of a potential alternative to aspirin and other anti-platelet agents used to prevent blood clots.

The researchers said they've found the use of silver nanoparticles might prevent blood clots in coronary artery disease, heart attack and stroke patients.

The scientists said low levels of nanosilver particles injected into mice reduced the ability of platelets to clump together by as much as 40 percent with no apparent harmful side effects.

Debabrata Dash and colleagues at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, said patients urgently need new anti-thrombotic agents because traditionally prescribed medications often cause dangerous bleeding.

The nanoparticles "hold immense potential to be promoted as an antiplatelet agent," the researchers said.

The news was reported by the American Chemical Society which said laboratory experiments indicate small amounts of the nanosilver injected intravenously reduce the ability of platelets to clump together - which forms the basis of life-threatening clots - by as much as 40 percent. It also said the procedure shows no apparent harmful side effects.

Study Synopsis: 88 patients with peptic ulcers orally ingested tablets containing colloidal silver oxide over a period of 9 days.

Within 6 weeks, all cases except one were healed. The particle size of the silver oxide was "three-tenths of a micron and smaller."

The study was conducted by researchers Larry J. Rendin, Carl L. Gamba, and Wallace M. Johnson in 1958, and published in the Pennsylvania Medical Journal. 61: 612-614. It was titled Colloidal oxide of silver in the treatment of peptic ulcer.

Beat Toenail Fungus With Colloidal Silver

This powerful antibiotic reportedly acts as a catalyst to hinder the enzyme that is needed for bacteria, viruses and fungi to metabolize oxygen. The result of this process is the suffocation and destruction of organisms that cause many health problems, including toenail fungus. One of the most commanding arguments for the use of colloidal silver to fight infections is that, unlike most other antibiotic medications, bacteria and viruses seem unable to become resistant to the treatment. It is these important characteristics that make colloidal silver a meaningful, all natural alternative to prescription medication designed to treat toenail fungus.

When treating your toenail fungus, the success of the treatment is dependent upon your willingness to continually treat the fungus as directed and to continue your chosen course of therapy for the recommended amount of time. Curing oneself of toenail fungus can be a lengthy process if not done correctly due to the fact even after the fungus has died and the toenail begins to clear, the treatment must continue until the infected portion of the toenail has completely grown out. Unfortunately, because the cure for toenail fungus can take 3-6 six months, many people choose to live with it rather than take measures to combat it.

Fungus Research, LLC

Colloidal Silver, Cystic Fibrosis and Lung Disease

In the excerpts below from a medical study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2008: 101: S51–S52. DOI 10.1258/jrsm.2008.s18012)we see some very strong evidence indicating that colloidal silver may turn out to be a successful treatment for the debilitating chronic lung infections associated with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). More

In this particular case, a young boy was first diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at age two, and over the ensuing nine years grew worse and worse in spite of intensive medical treatment. By the time he was 11, physical exertion left him struggling for breath due to the severity of his lung infection and his condition had deteriorated to the point that his doctors referred him for heart/lung transplant assessment. Because doctors had documented serious infections in the boy’s lungs, and because aggressive IV antibiotic therapy administered by the boy’s doctors had proven to be futile, his parents began to look into alternative remedies for the infection. Small Daily Amounts of Colloidal Silver Eliminated His Lung Infections and Restored His Life

On the internet, his parents found information about colloidal silver and began treating their son with small daily amounts, approximately 1/2 teaspoonful, twice a day. According to the study authors below, “Over the next three months the patient achieved a sustained improvement in symptoms, which persisted following weaning from oral steroids, nebulized antibiotics and regular asthma medications. “ More

Colloidal Silver great potential as a disinfectant?

N. R. Thompson recognized that, "To primitive life forms, oligodynamic silver is as toxic as the most powerful chemical disinfectants and this, coupled with its relative harmlessness to animate life (i.e. mammals), gives it great potential as a disinfectant."

Based on laboratory tests with colloidal silver, destructive bacteria, virus, and fungus organisms are killed within minutes of contact, Larry C. Ford, M.D, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine, Center For The Health Sciences reported in a letter dated November 1, 1988, "I tested them (the silver solutions) using standard antimicrobial tests for disinfectants. The silver solutions were antibacterial for concentrations of 10' organisms per ml. of Streptococcus Pyogenes, Staphylococcus Aurcus, Neisseria Gonorrhea, Gardnerella Vaginalis, Salmonella Typhi, and other enteric pathogens, and fungicidal for Candida Albicans, Candida Globata, and M. Furfur." source

MORE AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION OF CS

CS kills leaf curl on peach trees and apple rust on apple trees in my orchard. Great for roses also!!!

Henry Reed wrote:

Everyone probably already knows about this, but just in case, here goes. This time of year when expensive, delectable white peaches come home from the grocery store in a 'smashed' condition, they will exude much juice and, even if refrigerated, will become uneatable from deterioration. But I have found that if I spray them with a fine
misting of cs, they can be left out at room temperature to finish ripening and get really sweet and tasty. The bruises even get better, ie., firmer and with better color. The juice stops flowing and nothing rots!! This is incredible, but it happened 2 times for me. Also a philodendron developed 'jungle rot', (layman's term) with many leaves affected before I noticed. Out with the spray for leaves and added a few ounces to its root water and voila! the rot is stopped dead in its tracks. A tomato with unbroken skin developed a blistery looking area. I sprayed the area well. Next day the blistery area was firmer to the touch and had only spread a little. Usually I just toss a tomato like that, but was able to use most of that one. Great stuff

FLOWERS and Xmas TREE LASTS LONGER

"I use a few drops of Cs in my cut flowers, they seem to last longer and the water never gets smelly, no matter how long I let them go before tossing. Keep smiling,

Making Your Own
Colloidal Silver is a well-known natural antibiotic that can be inexpensively homemade. It is formed by electrolytically pulling microscopic silver particles from a silver electrode into a liquid, such as distilled water. The sizes of these microscopic silver particles are normally less than 100 nanometers so that they remain suspended in the liquid without forming silver ions, or dissolved solution. Because of their ultra-small dimensions, these nano-particles of silver can easily penetrate and travel throughout a human body.

The simplest way to make the colloidal silver for yourself. is with one of our inexpensive colloidal silver generators . By making it yourself, you will end up with real "colloidal" silver, which is the product referred to in most of the literature. How to make Colloidal Silver

According to a document released by European Commission, antioxidant deficiencies (e.g. vitamin E and selenium) appear to enhance silver toxicity. Some researchers believe that silver can reduce the intracellular content of selenium, with eventual inhibition of glutathione peroxidase synthesis, which is selenium-dependent. On the other hand, supplemental vitamin E and selenium in diets of rats and chickens have been shown to increase the animals' tolerance of high dose of silver.

A document from Environmental Protection Agency in the USA echoes the same finding. According to Environmental Protection Agency , individuals with low vitamin E and selenium levels are more susceptible to argyria.

A formula for curing argyria has been published on a website (CLICK HERE FOR THE SOURCE ), which surprisingly contains very high doses of vitamin E and selenium. The formula is as follows:

This article is provided as a research tool for the purpose of education only. Most of the information in this article is pieced together from a variety of Internet and non-internet sources (including my own experimental results). Not all the sources are unbiased, accurate, reliable, current and complete. It is also important to understand that the Internet environment is variable and dynamic. This means that websites which I considered relevant in the first place may change from day to day.

This article will be actively updated when correction is warranted and/or new information on colloidal silver becomes available. If there are any errors found in this article, please let me know and I will be happy to correct them. Meanwhile, I recommend that my readers exercise good judgement when reading this article.

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