Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I read the entire " study " and here is my take. Like many studies which are not really study, this one really just reviewed other studies and then did a cut an paste job to support the conclusion it wanted to convey in the first place. In the process, much like other studies which may have ulterior motives, there was a lot of apples and oranges comparisons used to try to paint a picture of dangers from the use of colloidal silver. We have seen no end to similar studies warning us about the dangers of taking vitamins and minerals - particularly after a genuine study or other evidence becomes known that tell us of the benefits which might endanger drug company profits by helping people avoid the trap of mainstream managed illness and a lifetime of increasing drug use and side effects. The " study " or review or whatever you want to call it, actually begins innocently enough and the beginning is where I found the only useful information, including: Only now has silver arrived as the natural immune system assistant it was in the early days of mankind when it was plentiful in its metallic form in ground water. Silver is a naturally occuring precious metal. Silver metal and silver dressings, when used in reasonable amounts, has no negative effects on the human body and it has a natural antimicrobial activity on many pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast, etc. After that it deterioriates into a mishmash of facts which try to conclude that nano-particles of silver may be dangerous to the environment and the body itself. For example, it quotes studys about silver toxicity on fish gills conducted in the Bay of San Francisco. Never mind that the silver contamination found in the Bay of San Francisco is from industrial silver compounds and NOT from nano-particles of pure silver. It also refers to CSP silver, which is the abbreviation for Colloidal Silver Protein, which is not true colloidal nano-silver at all, but is rather silver particles that are so large that they have to be suspended in animal protein - protein which the skin has an affinity for and which could indeed lead to the blue skin condition of argyria that the study tries to warn about. In much the same way, one of the two " blue people " that have been paraded before the mainstream media, no doubt with considerable help from mainstream medicine, is Rosemary Jacobs - who was prescribed silver NITRATE nose drops years ago by a mainstream MD and proceeded to take them in such quantity and over a long enough period of time that she turned greyish blue. The other blue star is of course Papa Smurf Paul Karason who claims to be shy but has travelled coast to coast for the past year enjoying the publicity of being blue as a result of making home-made ionic silver which he contaminated with salt and drank in quantities of over a quart a day for what has now been years. No one has probably consumed more silver, and not even the right kind, than Karason. He is also one of the best refutations of all the propaganda and innuendo about silver. He was given a complete physical at Mount Sinai Hospital and, despite his blue skin, was given a clean bill of health. So much for any physical dangers from silver! I find all the negative publicity, EPA petitions, harassment of Utopia Silver (which is specifically mentioned as one of the offenders in the EPA petition, by the way), parade of blue people, stated intentions of the EPA to classify silver generators as pesticides, etc. to be too much to consider as coincidental - especially since they have come on the heels of the FDA's stated intention to make silver a target. Follow the money and what do you find? You find that those who have the most to lose or gain are none other than our friendly world pharma folks. who has billions of dollars in profits at risk from their lab created drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of us each year. If silver is a pesticide because it kills bacteria, fungi, viruses, yeast, mold, etc., then what about germicidal soaps and cleansers, bleach, alcohol, disinfectants, and yes, antibiotics? And if a silver generator is a pesticide maker because it reduces a basic mineral to nano-sized particles, then what about plants - as in veggies and fruits? They do the same thing when they ingest minerals, including silver. If there really is a danger of argyris, by the way, why is it that with tens of millions of people around the world using colloidal and ionic silver we do not see entire tribes of smurfs running around? Silver has been ingested and used by mankind for thousands of years. It has been in our environment for millions of years while plants, animals, aquatic life and mankind has flourished. Reducing .999 pure silver to nano-sized particles merely returns it to a form closer to the most basic of all forms, the silver atom. Unless it is contaminated into some kind of chemical compound by an industrial process, there should be no danger whatsoever from re-introducing it to the ecosphere from whence it came. I probably will not leave that file posted for long - it gives a completely distorted view of true colloidal silver. In the meanwhile I urge everyone to send their emails and post their comments to the EPA about the purely rediculous petition! oleander soup , " simonflynn22 " <simon041082 wrote: > > > Just wondering if anyone has seen this review on silver and its effects > on health/environment? > > https://www.zsf.jcu.cz/jab/6_3/havel.pdf/ > > There's a lot of talk about argyria (which we know can occur from > inferior, poor quality c.s.) but there's also a few other bits and > pieces that would lead most people to the conclusion that nano silver > can potentially be quite damaging. > I'm assuming that the majority of the info is B.S. Is there any truth > here at all? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Thanks for that Tony. I now have a response for people if they try and use studies such as that as the basis of their argument against colloidal silver. I like to be able to give hard facts rather than just tell people they're being lied to. File has been deleted and sent back to where it came from! Thanks, Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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