Antibacterial Nanosilver and Those Sneaky Environmentalists
As a journalist and a natural health advocate, I constantly watch how the "other side" makes their case against antibacterial silver, colloidal silver, nanosilver, and other silver-based antibacterial products.In other words, I watch how they use clever propaganda techniques to promote their anti-silver agenda.
For example, one of the most interesting tactics the environmentalists are now taking in their quest to have nanosilver products (including colloidal silver products) regulated as "pesticides" is to write articles that initially admit products containing nanosilver have beneficial qualities.
In these articles, the environmentalist author generally starts out appearing to be a moderate advocate for silver-based products.This sneaky tactic sucks you into their article, making it appear the author is unbiased and is going to present an even-handed case regarding the use of antibacterial silver in commercial products.
But then, as the article winds to its conclusion, the true agenda of the environmentalist author shows up.He (or she) suddenly turns against silver-based antibacterial products, and starts using exaggerations, hyperbole and sensationalistic claims to smear the use of silver as “potentially harmful to human health.”
Advocates, or Master Propagandists?
In short, these master propagandists begin their articles sounding like advocates for the use of silver as an antimicrobial agent, and end their articles denigrating silver as a "danger" to society.
As you'll see, the author begins his article as if he’s a passionate advocate of the use of silver for antimicrobial purposes in commercial products.
He seems to be defending a manufacturer of silver-based antibacterial food packaging who can't get his product approved by the FDA.
But that's just the tactic the author -- a well-known environmentalist journalist -- uses to lure readers into his article, and to create the illusion that he’s being even-handed in his treatment of the subject.
By the end of the article, the author reveals his true motives. He reverts to the same hyper-exaggerations and sensationalistic tactics the environmentalists always revert to.He begins making up claims against antibacterial silver out of whole cloth, and using hyperbolic language to scare readers into believing silver is a threat to the environment and to human health as well.
This same environmentalist author, by the way, used this very same tactic some months back, in an article entitled, "Health Risks from Silver Nanoparticles is a Growing Threat to Consumers and Workers."When I commented on his article on his web site, and pointed out the exaggerations and inconsistencies, he removed my comment.So I wrote about it, exposing his questionable propaganda tactics here.
My Answer to His Latest Anti-Silver Propaganda Rant
Here then is my answer to this author's latest drive-by-shooting against products containing antibacterial nanosilver:
Dear Mr. Schneider:
Because you’re an investigative reporter who claims to publish the “cold truth” about health and environmental issues, I’d like to point out that there are several demonstrably untrue statements in your recent post entitled "Nano packaging of food kills deadly bacteria, but government says no go."
In addition to the rather serious untruths in your article, which I’ll cover briefly below, you also failed to tell the truth by way of omission.Which is to say, the information you left out of your article is in some cases more indicative of the truth than the information you included in your article.
Those Dreaded Nanosilver Panties – Oh My!
For example, when you wrote about the issue of nanosilver being embedded into the fabric of clothing for antimicrobial purposes, you railed against it, claiming that "frivolous products containing nanosilver particles" have now reached "absurd levels," including "nano-infused bras, panties, athletic supporters, socks, pants and scores of other products."
What you failed to point out is that the vast majority of such silver-impregnated clothing items are medical in nature, for example:
Special nanosilver stockings for diabetics, which help prevent diabetic foot, ankle and leg ulcers from becoming so infected that amputation is the only way to resolve the situation...
Special nanosilver socks for the U.S. military, to help prevent "foot rot," athlete's foot and other serious fungal infections for our troops stationed in war zones and other areas where there are often less than sanitary conditions...
Special nanosilver imbedded sports clothing for athletes to help prevent the spread of MRSA infections and other serious bacterial infections now commonly associated with close contact sports.
I could go on and on, but I don't think it really matters to you.
Instead of pointing out that nanosilver impregnated clothing was a medical Godsend for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, you hyper-exaggerated the situation. Oh, my!Those dread nanosilver panties are clearly threatening the health of millions.
Or so you’d have your readers believe.(I truly hope they’re not that gullible.)
The Old Lie About Nanosilver In the Water Supply
You then stated, "It didn’t take long for environmental scientists to find community water treatment plants loaded with nanosilver washed from these clothing items."
Sir, where is your evidence for that statement?If that is indeed the “cold truth,” please enlighten me. Where’s the proof?
While the news media has been rife with reports of the contamination of the community water supplies of this nation with dozens of potentially dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, I have not seen a single news report about overly high levels of silver particles being found in community water treatment plants.
Indeed, to my knowledge, there have been ZERO reports of community water treatment plants being "loaded" with nanosilver, as you so sensationalistically claim.
What Really Happened…
What you failed to tell your readers is that several preliminary laboratory tests were performed in which items of clothing embedded with nanosilver were repeatedly washed until the silver particles began coming loose from the fabric.The so-called environmental "scientists" who conducted these studies then leaped to the conclusion that nanosilver from antibacterial clothing is contaminating water treatment plants and community water supplies.
But to my knowledge, to this day they have provided no significant or realistic evidence whatsoever for this kneejerk conclusion.No testing of community water treatment plants have demonstrated rising levels of nanosilver.
Agglomeration of Silver Particles
Most people who have studied the situation carefully, and with an unprejudiced eye, understand that nanosilver does not maintain its "nano" characteristics once it is released into the environment.
Instead, it rapidly agglomerates, or bonds, with other minerals such as alkaline salts, forming large particle agglomerates, and becoming virtually inert in terms of its previous antibacterial qualities.
In other words, once nanosilver enters the environment, it loses its “nano” qualities.It becomes like any other mineral substance found in water (also known as “dirt”).
Contrary to the wild assertions of some environmentalist groups like the International Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth, this poses no danger whatsoever to our nation’s waterways, or to the flora and fauna that depend upon the waterways, or to water treatment plants, or to people in general.
In fact, it is no different than the hundreds of streams in Colorado that are naturally brimming with billions of tiny silver particles, thanks largely to the abundance of mineral silver in the soil there.Some of my favorite trout fishing streams, ponds and lakes in Colorado are full of mineral silver, both naturally, and due to silver being leached from surrounding silver mine tailings.Yet these streams are rich with micro-flora and macro-flora.And the fishing is wonderful.
So it’s ludicrous to assert that simply because silver is found in waterways or water treatment plants that it is somehow "dangerous" or "toxic."In reality, when it is found, it is generally bonded with other minerals, and is relatively inert.
More Environmentalist Exaggerations
You also ominously intoned, "Most filtration systems can’t stop these nano-sized particles from entering the water supply. More importantly, very little research has been done on the health effects from the resulting exposure to humans and animals."
If "these nanosilver particles" you speak of actually remained in their "nano" state once introduced into the environment, I could understand your concern.But they don't.As I stated, they agglomerate with other minerals and essentially become "dirt."
These large, agglomerated particles are then filtered from the drinking water before it is passed along to the consumer, just like dirt is. There is absolutely ZERO evidence that nanosilver from clothing or other sources is reaching consumers in any significant amounts through the water supply.
In fact, please, show me even one study documenting a significant uptick in the silver content of drinking water in any major city’s drinking water, from clothing embedded with nanosilver partticles, or for any other reason, for that matter.
What’s that you say?You can't?So much for the “cold truth,” huh?
And even if there were such evidence (which there is not), there is still ZERO evidence of any negative health consequences to humans from it.Zero is a far cry from the potentially serious health consequences you imply in your propaganda piece disguised as a news article.
Cracks and Crevices
Like most environmentalists, the foundation of your entire case against nanosilver is full of cracks and crevices.Indeed, environmentalist outcries against nanosilver have been hysterical at best. For example, recent calls by Friends of the Earth to ban colloidal silver products or regulate them as drugs (see here) were ludicrous at face value, being based on the idea that commercial nanosilver products are now so prevalent in American households they are preventing little children from being exposed to all of the germs needed to stimulate their budding immune systems.
I don't know about the kids being raised by the people who run Friends of the Earth, but my kids roll in the dirt, crawl across dirty floors, climb trees, swim in muddy ponds, play with the neighbors dogs and cats, catch bugs and lizards and frogs, suck on candy they’ve dropped on the floor, and last week I even caught one of them digging for "treasure" in a local dumpster.So I don't think they’re in any danger of failing to come into enough contact with germs to stimulate their budding immune systems.
And I certainly don’t think owning a "Benny the Bear" plush toy with fabric that's embedded with particles of nanosilver is going to create too sterile of an environment for them.Nevertheless, that's exactly what Friends of the Earth contend in their sensationalistic 26 page position paper on nanosilver (read about it, here), released in June of this year.It’s ludicrous.Hysterical.And utterly misleading.
Do the Right Thing!
Since you claim to be an award-winning (Pulitzer, yet!) investigative reporter who reveals the “cold truth” and "exposes health issues the corporations don't want you to know about," I'd like to see you write about far more serious problems, such as the literal cornucopia of pharmaceutical drugs now contaminating many of the community water supplies in our nation.
The fact that so many environmental groups are taking a pass on the very real issue of our nation's drug-polluted water supplies, and are instead making the ludicrous claim that simple, natural nanosilver poses a serious environmental threat, has led many people to conclude that the funding these groups are taking from foundations connected with major drug companies such as Merck and Pfizer (see here) is tainting their vision at best, and utterly corrupting them at worst.
What say ye?Some actual “cold truth” on this subject would be a welcome change of pace.
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).
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. “
In other words, thanks to the success of the colloidal silver usage, the boy’s parents were able to start weaning their child off of the harsh prescription antibiotic drugs.
The boy enjoyed what his doctors called “a sustained improvement in symptoms,” and was able to enjoy a skiing holiday, full participation in school rugby matches and even “significant improvements in his golf handicap.”
In other words, the boy went from being barely able to breathe, to returning to an almost normal, active boyhood life!
The child apparently had one further relapse after experiencing a “temporary interruption of colloidal silver [usage] for a month.”Then, according to the doctors, “He has remained well for a further six months after resuming colloidal silver, with no other changes in his routine care.”
Doctors Cautious About Recommending Colloidal Silver for Cystic Fibrosis in Spite of the Evidence
The doctors, of course, are duly cautious about recommending colloidal silver usage for Cystic Fibrosis patients, even though it was they who documented the child’s startling recovery from the severe symptoms of the disease.
Nevertheless, the case represents another pointed example of what colloidal silver users have been saying for decades, i.e., Colloidal silver kills many infections better than prescription antibiotic drugs.
For example, you can read my wife’s story of how colloidal silver usage saved her toes from surgical amputation when she contracted osteomyelitis, a serious bone infection, back in 1994.She too had been aggressively treated to no avail with antibiotics, including IV antibiotics, before discovering colloidal silver.
On the internet, there are numerous other accounts of astonishing recoveries from serious, antibiotic-resistant infections using colloidal silver, including 82-year old David Sharman’s account of curing a potentially deadly, hospital-acquired MRSA infection with colloidal silver after doctor’s sent him home from the hospital with no hope.(You can read about four other medical studies documenting the powerful infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver against antibiotic-resistant MRSA at the link in this paragraph.)
Colloidal Silver is Readily Available, Or Make It Yourself for Pennies Per Quart
Colloidal silver is readily available at health food stores across American for about $20 to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle.
One of the best things about colloidal silver, however, is that it can be made at home, very inexpensively, with a simple device called a colloidal silver generator.
Medical Monopoly Continues to Shun Colloidal Silver
The medical monopoly continues to shun colloidal silver usage in favor of their own orthodox treatments and prescription drugs.Some news reports even claim that there is no medical evidence for the effectiveness of colloidal silver against infections and disease, in spite of all of the published studies which prove such a ludicrous assertion to be untrue.The truth is, medical study after medical study continues to confirm the amazing infection-fighting power of this safe and highly-effective all-natural substance.
Excerpts from “Colloidal silver for lung disease in cystic fibrosis”
Here then are some excerpts from the study “Colloidal silver for lung disease in cystic fibrosis,” published in the prestigious Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2008 (J R Soc Med 2008: 101: S51–S52. DOI 10.1258/jrsm.2008.s18012):
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) families commonly consider alternative or complimentary therapies of questionable value. We report the case of a 12-year-old boy with severe CF lung complications who was treated by his family with colloidal silver.
The child was diagnosed aged two (homozygous _F508) following investigations for faltering growth. He had extensive left lower lobe bronchiectasis and positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultures at diagnosis. This organism persisted despite aggressive IV antibiotics, long term nebulized colomycin, bronchoscopy and a prolonged in-patient stay.
Aged three he developed pseudomembranous colitis requiring prolonged intensive care. Aged six he developed severe, steroiddependent, relapsing allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and right mid-zone bronchiectasis. Atopic asthma also proved increasingly problematic, with evidence of sensitization and wheezing in relation to several aeroallergens, including house dust mite and cat. He had a significant step up in FEV1 after a trial of rhDNase (pulmozyme) and this drug was added to his treatment regime.
Spirometry plateaued around 60%, with frequent deteriorations caused by wheezing episodes and infective exacerbations. Aged 10 his FEV1 deteriorated to 40% predicted with severe episodic wheeze. A Brompton referral was made to consider monthly IVIG therapy (not given) and regular IV antibiotics and aggressive ABPA treatment were recommended.
Aged 11, the patient isolated Burkholderia multivorans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Pulmonary status deteriorated to an FEV1 of 24%.
In March 2006, he was treated with prolonged IV and oral antibiotics, steroids and antifungals. Lung function recovered to around 40% but he remained markedly symptomatic, with persistent cough, breathlessness and wheeze after physical activity. Because of these complications he was referred for heart–lung transplant assessment.
Colloidal Silver
At the same time, the family discovered websites promoting colloidal silver for CF and purchased the product from their local health food shop. They independently commenced 2.5 mL b.i.d. of the solution in July 2006.
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.
He has continued rhDNase treatment. FEV1 peaked at 60% (Figure 1). The family declined transplant assessment.
He remained well for a year, enjoying a skiing holiday, full participation in school rugby matches and significant improvements in his golf handicap. He required only one further course of IV antibiotics until a recent deterioration coinciding with temporary interruption of colloidal silver for a month.
Whereas sputum samples had consistently isolated B. multivorans before receiving silver, there had only been one further positive isolate during the year when he received it. He has remained well for a further six months after resuming colloidal sliver, with no other changes in his routine care.
…In our case we have documented significant improvements in well-being that were temporally associated with the use of the drug [i.e., colloidal silver –ED]. However, this is a single anecdote and caution should be used in interpreting the significance of these observations.
If there was a direct clinical effect of the silver we speculate that this might have been as a result of a bactericidal action on CF pathogens, as suggested by the decreased occurrence of B. multivorans on sputum cultures. Researchers in Denmark have shown that silver is highly effective as a bactericidal agent against biofilm and planktonic models of Gram-negative organisms, including P. aeruginosa.
Currently there is no evidence to support the use of silver products in CF but their potential benefits might be worthy of further exploration. An American study has shown benefits for silver in the treatment of Burkholderia dolosa infection in a murine model of severe lung sepsis.
Further in vitro studies of the effects of silver on the organisms within CF sputa and a better understanding of safe dosaging are essential first steps in exploring the potential for this use of this treatment option.
Many people have asked me how much colloidal silver can be taken daily, for nutritional supplement purposes.
Fortunately, our good friends at The Silver Edge have posted a 16-page Colloidal Silver “Safe Dosage” Report on their web site – and they’re giving it away FREE.
You’ll see the download link in the upper left-hand corner of the web site.
The FREE 16-page Colloidal Silver “Safe Dosage” Report explains how to calculate your maximum daily safe dosage of colloidal silver, based upon your own body weight. It’s quick, simple and easy to do. And it’s based upon the EPA’s own maximum safe daily intake level estimates.
In other words, it’s based upon the amount of silver the EPA estimates you can ingest daily for the rest of your life without causing any harmful buildup of silver in the human body.
The FREE “Safe Dosage” report does not cover individual dosages for specific infections or diseases. It only discusses how to determine the dosage you’d use if you simply wanted to take colloidal silver daily, for nutritional supplement purposes, for the rest of your life.
To learn about dosages for infections or specific diseases, you might want to consider getting a copy of the newly updated, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual published by Life & Health Research Group, LLC. The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual features over 40 chapters on colloidal silver and its usage, including several in-depth chapters on diseases and dosages.
A new EPA meeting on nanosilver is coming up.But EPA’s requested comment period has already passed.However…you should send your comments in anyway!Here’s why…
I’ve just found out that the EPA is going to have a 4-day “consultation meeting” of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, on the topic of regulating nanosilver, starting November 3 and running through November 6.
The specific purpose of the meeting, according to the EPA press release that was just brought to my attention, is to “review a set of scientific issues related to the assessment of hazard and exposure associated with nanosilver and other nanometal pesticide products.”
In other words, the EPA appears to be moving forward on the formulation of plans to regulate the use of products containing nanosilver for “pesticidal” purposes.
How FIFRA Regs Could Cover Colloidal Silver Products
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you no doubt know that the EPA has essentially ruled that bacteria, fungi and other microbes are now classified as “pests” under their newly revised FIFRA (i.e., Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act) regulations.
And you likely also know that “nanosilver” (i.e., extremely tiny particles of silver), when used for anti-microbial purposes, has now been classified under the FIFRA regulations as a “pesticidal” product.
These revisions to the FIFRA regulations, of course, were specifically designed to give EPA authority to regulate all products containing nanosilver.
Many observers sounded the alarm last year after EPA first ruled that nanosilver had been classified under FIFRA as a “pesticidal” product, warning that this new classification could have extremely detrimental consequences for the colloidal silver community.
But it wasn’t until January of this year that the colloidal silver community finally sat up and took notice. This, after a consortium of extremist environmental groups including the Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth filed a legal petition to force the EPA to stringently enforce FIFRA regulations against all products containing nanosilver, including colloidal silver products, if those products made “pesticidal” claims.
Does Your Favorite Brand of Colloidal Silver Contain Nanosilver and Make “Pesticidal” Claims?
In other words, if your favorite brand of colloidal silver contains tiny nano-sized silver particles (most brands do), and if it is used chiefly for its powerful antimicrobial qualities (most brands are), then according to the environmental groups, your favorite brand of colloidal silver should be interpreted to be a “perticidal” product under FIFRA, and would have to meet the EPA’s stringent regulations for pesticidal products.
What’s more, these extremist environmental groups apparently want the EPA to force nanosilver product manufacturers to remove their products from the market and prove to the EPA that these products cannot “harm the environment” before they can once again be sold to the public.
This of course means colloidal silver manufacturers along with the manufacturers of other products containing nano-sized particles of silver would have to file expensive environmental impact reports with the EPA, costing hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
Backdoor Method of Banning Colloidal Silver
Ever since the environmental groups first filed their legal petition with the EPA in late 2008, many thousands of colloidal silver users have protested to the EPA that the entire scheme smacked of a backdoor method of regulating colloidal silver into oblivion.
After all, few if any colloidal silver manufacturers could afford to comply with the added regulatory burden of having to prove to the EPA that their products won’t “harm the environment.”If the environmentalists had their way, and these types of regulations were instituted, most colloidal silver manufacturers would simply have to quit manufacturing their products.
Of course, forcing colloidal silver manufacturers to prove that their products won’t harm the environment is ludicrous at face value.Why?Because silver comes from the environment in the first place.And secondly, because there is no evidence whatsoever that commercial colloidal silver products have ever caused even a scintilla of harm to the environment.
For these reasons, and many more (including questionable “charitable contributions” to the environmental groups from foundations linked to Big Pharma) colloidal silver manufacturers, vendors and users have been extremely suspicious of EPA’s intentions in classifying nanosilver as a “pesticidal” product under their FIFRA regulations, and of the role of the environmental groups such as Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth in acting in attempting to force EPA to more stringently regulate products containing nanosilver.
(As an aside, you may remember that only this past June, the environmental group Friends of the Earth issued a white paper calling on the EPA to ban all colloidal silver products.)
Emergency Action Needed Immediately!
The bottom line is that the upcoming November 3-6 meeting of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel represents both crisis and opportunity for colloidal silver manufacturers, vendors and users.
Crisis, in that you can rest assured representatives of the major anti-nanosilver environmental groups will be in attendance, and will be pressing the EPA to adopt their radical anti-silver regulatory agenda.
And a very slim window of opportunity, in that the EPA has once again requested public comments on this critical issue, both in the form of written comments from the public at large, and well as oral comments from those who might be able to attend the FIFRA meeting in Arlington VA.
Written Public Comments Need to Be Submitted Quickly
Let’s deal with the written comments first:
Unfortunately, the EPA has requested that all written comments on this issue be submitted by October 20, 2009.This date has already passed.We were not made aware of it until it was already too late.
However, here’s what the EPA stated regarding written comments in their undated press release announcing the meeting:
“The agency encourages that written comments be submitted by October 20, 2009…”
In other words, it is apparently not a hard-and-fast deadline. Obviously, comments need to get to the EPA well before the FIFRA meeting which starts on November 3 and runs through Nov. 6.So the quicker you act, the more likely your comments will make an impact at the November 3-6 FIFRA meeting.
With that in mind, I strongly urge all colloidal silver users to immediately post a brief comment on the EPA Federal eRulemaking Portal at this web address:http://www.regulations.gov
Simply click on the above link, or type it into your web site address bar.Once the page comes up type the following docket # (i.e., EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0683) into the bar that says “Enter Keyword or ID”, and then click on “Submit a Comment.”
Once that page comes up, scroll to the bottom right side and look for the “Actions” column.In that column click on the link titled “Submit a Comment.”That should bring up the public comments page, in which you can write and submit your comment.
[If you’re really lucky, you might be able to bypass the above rigamarole and go straight to the public comments page by clicking this link.Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.The EPA doesn’t make it easy to figure out how to post public comments on their web site.I’m doing the best I can to get you there! -- Spencer]
Once you’ve reached the comments page, in your own words, simply say something to the effect of this:
In regards to docket ID #EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0683, I respectfully request that you do NOT lump colloidal silver products containing nanosilver in with other commercial nanosilver products you may be considering regulating under FIFRA.
Colloidal silver is an oral nutritional supplement product, and as such is already regulated under the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.
Despite assertions to the contrary by environmental groups such as Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth, oral colloidal silver nutritional supplements containing nanosilver have never been demonstrated to pose any threat to the environment whatsoever.
Additional regulation by the EPA of a product already amply regulated by the FDA would be redundant at best.It is also an affront to taxpayers, particularly considering the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever of environmental harm from these nutritional supplement products.
What’s more, regulating colloidal silver products under FIFRA further unnecessarily stretches thin the EPA’s already overburdened regulatory mechanisms.
Please say “No” to regulating colloidal silver nutritional supplement products under FIFRA, and in fact, please take steps to fully exempt colloidal silver nutritional supplement products from FIFRA regulation.
Thank you,
(your name)
If you don’t want to take the time to write it in your own words, simply highlight and copy the above comment and paste it into the comments section on the EPA web site as directed above.
But I strongly suggest you write the letter in your own words.Your comment doesn’t have to be a long one.Just let the EPA know in no uncertain terms that you don’t want the EPA to regulate colloidal silver products under their FIFRA “pesticide” regulations.
[If by the time you get this notice the EPA public comments page for this particular issue is no longer working, simply print out and mail your comment to the following address as quickly as possible: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.]
Attending the Meeting and Delivering Oral Comments
If you’re a colloidal silver manufacturer or vendor, or just an articulate advocate of colloidal silver, you might want to consider attending the upcoming November 3-6 meeting of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel to be held in Arlington, VA, and delivering oral comments to the panel.
But be aware:You must request in writing to deliver oral comments at the meeting.And the deadline for requesting to deliver oral comments at the meeting is October 27th.
That gives you less than a week from the date of this blog post to get your request to the EPA.
If you’re interested in doing so, I suggest drafting your request to deliver oral comments immediately, and then post it to the EPA public comments page.Or better still, Federal Express your request to the following EPA address:Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
You can always follow up with the EPA representative whose contact information appears directly below in the reproduction of the EPA press release we just received.
The Original EPA Press Release
Directly below I have reproduced the press release from the EPA regarding this meeting.It gives the address to send your written comments to, as well as to send a request to deliver oral comments at the meeting if you can attend in person.
Here it is:
There will be a 4-day consultation meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and review a set of scientific issues related to the assessment of hazard and exposure associated with nanosilver and other nanometal pesticide products.
DATES: The consultation meeting will be held on November 3 - 6, 2009, from approximately 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The consultation meeting will be held at the Environmental Protection Agency, Conference Center, Lobby Level, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.
Comments: The Agency encourages that written comments be submitted by October 20, 2009 and requests for oral comments be submitted by October 27, 2009.
Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0683, by one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail to: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph E. Bailey, DFO, Office of Science Coordination and Policy (7201M), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-2045; fax number: (202) 564-8382; e-mail address: bailey.joseph@epa.gov.
EPA source: http://www.FederalRegister.com
Finally…
The fact that the EPA is apparently moving forward on their agenda to regulate nanosilver products simply heightens my long-time recommendation that every family should own the means of colloidal silver production.
By that, I mean you should own a high-quality colloidal silver generator, such as the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from our good friends at The Silver Edge.
Once you own the means of colloidal silver production, no one can take away your right to use colloidal silver whenever you want to.
What’s more, by owning a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you’ll be able to make all of the high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver you could ever want, for the extraordinarily low cost of about 36 cents a quart.
Yes, I said 36 cents a quart!
Compare that with the $20 to $30 price tag on a tiny 4 ounce bottle of colloidal silver at most health food stores, and you’ll see that with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you can literally afford to bathe in colloidal silver if you want.
In fact, many Micro-Particle Generator owners report to us that they do just that.Once a week or so, they pour a quart jar of colloidal silver directly into their bathwater, and enjoy the soothing, healing effect colloidal silver has on the skin.After all, when you are only paying 36 cents a quart to make high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver, your uses for this phenomenal healing product are virtually unlimited.
What’s more, the set of pure .999 fine silver wire that comes with your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator will allow you to make over $24,000 worth of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver in the comfort and privacy of your own home!
And you can purchase additional sets of the pure silver wire for only about $25 apiece (each set lasts about a year under normal usage).And yes, each set allows you to make another $24,000 worth of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver.
I know this all sounds astonishing, to say the least.But every word of it is absolutely true.
Perhaps the best part is that your very first one-quart batch of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver literally pays for the entire cost of your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, when compared to the price you would have paid for the same amount of colloidal silver in a health food store.Just do the math…it’s absolutely amazing!
So I urge you to pay a visit to The Silver Edge at http://www.thesilveredge.com/ and click through on the links, paying particular attention to the link titled “How to Make High-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver for Less Than 36 Cents a Quart!” and the link titled “Make $24,000 Worth of Colloidal Silver from a $20 Set of Silver Wire.”
See for yourself that what I’m telling you is true.
Then, order a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, before the environmental groups and the EPA finally have their way, and begin regulating commercial colloidal silver products into oblivion.
Once you own the means of colloidal silver production, you’ll be able to make all of the colloidal silver you could ever want, any time you want, in the comfort and privacy of your own home. And the good news is, as long as you act before they institute new regulations, there’s not a thing the environmentalists or the bureaucrats can do about it.
Enviro group spokesman threatens investigative reporter Tony Isaacs for revealing drug company funding links...
In a recent twist in the battle between environmental groups and colloidal silver users, a spokesman for the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) has not-so-subtly threatened to sue investigative reporter Tony Isaacs over his articles in which he reported finding funding links between charitable foundations associated with major drug companies such as Merck and Pfizer, and environmental groups directly associated with the petition to force the EPA to regulate silver-based products, including some of the leading brands of colloidal silver.
Tony's articles have appeared here on this blog, as well as at NaturalNews.com and other online news venues.
I certainly don't speak for Tony Isaacs. But in my view, the implication of Tony's findings is that the environmental groups have been unduly influenced -- wittingly or unwittingly -- by the relatively huge contributions they've received from these foundations.
And what they've been influenced into doing -- wittingly or unwittingly -- is the bidding of Big Pharma in its seemingly unending drive to regulate colloidal silver products into oblivion.
Disingenuous Protest
Since these environmental groups are actively engaged in a long-term battle to force the EPA to regulate nano-silver products -- including some of the major brands of colloidal silver -- their protestations that the funding they've received from charitable foundations linked to Big Pharma companies has not influenced them does seem disingenuous at best.
And all the more so when you consider the fact that a recent investigative report from Associated Press states, “U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceutical drugs into waterways that often provide drinking water for millions of Americans — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked…" and that “…trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies…pharmaceuticals have now been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans.”(Emphasis mine.)
In other words, Big Pharma is polluting the environment with millions of pounds of drugs. But rather than opposing Big Pharma, the environmentalist groups are taking money from charitable foundations associated with them. What's more, these same environmental groups are ruthlessly attacking silver -- the most popular natural health alternative to the prescription antibiotic drugs producted by Big Pharma.
It doesn't take much to see why many people are of the opinion that certain environmentalist groups -- as well-meaning or unwitting as they may be -- have either sold out to the dark side on this particular issue, or are blind to the apparent hypocricy behind their actions.
Letters
Here then is a copy of the letter received by investigative reporter Tony Isaacs from an ICTA spokesman in which Tony is not-so-subtly threatened with a lawsuit for his most recent revelations about environmental group funding by foundations linked to Big Pharma. The ICTA letter is followed by Tony's reply to their spokesman:
Dear Mr. Isaacs:
Please inform your readers that the International Center for Technology Assessment and its sister organization, the Center for Food Safety receive no funding from the Merck Pharmaceutical company. In recent years, the International Center for Technology Assessment has received no funding from the John Merck Fund (which is a separate organization from Merck Pharmaceutical). Moreover, neither we nor the Center for Food Safety have ever received Merck Fund money for our pharmaceutical work. The Merck Fund has helped fund our work to oppose genetically modified organisms. This is something that I hope your readers would support.
Moreover, it is irresponsible of your magazine to falsely accuse our organizations and our partner groups of being in the pay of pharmaceutical organizations. We do not accept funds from corporations to do our work. Had you contacted us before printing your allegations, we would happily have provided you with complete information about our funding sources and a more fulsome understanding of our nano-silver petition which is not about taking silver ion drinks off the market.
We expect this letter to be printed in your magazine and a complete retraction of the article. We receive funding from individuals whose gifts could be affected by your inaccurate allegations and would not wish to be in a situation where we have to seek redress from you and your organization.
Sincerely, Jaydee Hanson Policy Director International Center for Technology Assessment
And here is investigative reporter Tony Isaacs's reply to ICTA spokesperson Jaydee Hanson:
Jaydee -
First of all, the article was clearly labeled as opinion, and I am not aware of the first amendment to the Constitution having been repealed. Second of all, the funding figures and years of funding were accurately reported as listed on identified internet sources.
Regardless of how you may allot your funding, or when different funding has been received, the fact is that funds from pharmaceutical companies have been received and despite your claims to the contrary, nano-particle drinks were clearly a target as demonstrated by the fact that three prominent makers of ionic/colloidal silver were included in the original list of items furnished as part of the petition to the FDA - and many other such silver products were later added as an addendum.
It would be interesting to see you seek redress and have to reveal all the sources of your funding, including any funding from pharmaceutical companies and individuals and organizations connected to the pharmaceutical industry including any funding which was diverted through the Tides Center and Tides Foundation and other groups who do not clearly reveal their funding sources and purposes. Likewise, I would like to see your groups explain why they were concerned about a natural element that has been on the earth since its formation and yet have no similar concerns expressed over the millions of tons of unnatural manmade pharmaceuticals that pollute our water supplies.
It would also be interesting to see explanations for other discrepancies such as the release of the so-called major study on the eve of the expected EPA decision which purported to demonstrate evidence of damage to human cells when the study was actually performed by a relatively obscure group from China with connections to two pharmaceutical companies and merely demonstrated that silver nano-particles killed e-coli bacteria.
I personally would love to see an explanation forthcoming from Friends of the Earth as to why they sent emails this past spring to concerned members who used colloidal silver to assure them that they had no desire or intention to regulate colloidal silver and then in June they published a position paper which stated, "We believe that all over-the-counter colloidal silver products should be immediately withdrawn from the market and their sale should be banned (unless approved as a drug by the appropriate regulatory agency)."
And finally, I would also love to see your groups or anyone else try to justify regulating silver as a pesticide by defining bacteria, viruses and fungi as "pests". If such is the case, why are not antibiotic and antiviral drugs regulated as pesticides - especially given their proven pollution of our waters? How about household bleach, rubbing alcohol or drinking alcohol.
Perhaps there are no ulterior motives, but let me ask you - how much funding did any of your associated groups receive from nano-silver manufacturers? It is undeniable that funding was received from pharmaceutical companies. Which one did you petition to regulate and who do you suppose unbiased science would consider the bigger threat?
If the implications that may be drawn are uncomfortable, it is due to your decision to go after a lesser threat, if one even exists, than a much larger threat which happens to come from companies that have funded your organizations at different points in time.
I do agree with your opposition to GMO organisms and only wish that you had your priorities in better order when it comes to regulating items in our water supply and environment.
BTW, I have no organization nor do I have a magazine.
Best regards, Tony Isaacs
My Two Cents Worth
In my opinion, anytime a relatively huge organization like ICTA has to resort to legal threats right out of the gate to shut you up, you know you're pretty much on the right track. For as much good as organizations like ICTA may do (and there is no doubt their work against Genetically Modified Organisms is a good work), they completely nullify that good by brandishing the legal cudgel whenever someone has a different opinion than they do.
Rather than simply telling their side of the story publicly, and letting the public decide, or presenting evidence to bolster their case, they threaten to unleash the legal guns. And that should put up red flags in the mind of any thinking individual.
With that in mind, I recently sent Tony Isaacs the following message regarding the above correspondence:
Tony,
You've done a fabulous job exposing the publicly available documentation of the extensive funding of some of these anti-silver environmental groups by Big Pharma through the charitable foundations associated with their names.
You ought to win one of those awards for "under reported news story of the year."
I love the way the representative from ICTA states with a straight face that they have not received any pharmaceutical company funding. By cleverly claiming there is no connection between the pharmaceutical companies themselves, and the foundation charities that go by their name, Mr. Hansen shrewdly attempts to exonerate ICTA from the charge of taking pharmaceutical company funding. "Nope. Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along."
In my opinion, groups like ICTA, Friends of the Earth and others get away with their nonsense through collusion, subterfuge and confusion. For example, ICTA and their petition co-sponsors published their petition against nano-silver along with its addendum that clearly names some of the most popular colloidal silver products on the market today as being products that need to be investigated, regulated or banned by EPA.
At that time, when some of their own members complained that they should not be attempting to regulate health food products, they send out emails claiming they have no intention of trying to regulate colloidal silver. Then in June of this year one of their most ardent petition co-sponsors (Friends of the Earth) published a lengthy white paper called Nano and Biocidal Silver:Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health, which clearly calls for the withdrawal from the market of "all over-the-counter silver products," and says their sale should be banned.
My suspicion is that inside these environmental groups, either the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, or they purposely send out conflicting information in order to obfuscate, confuse and deceive until they get their proposed regulations approved by EPA.
The bottom line is that if they truly aren't after colloidal silver products, they could simply add a clear, simple and unequivocal statement to their EPA petition, saying, "Nothing herein should be construed to apply to any oral or topical colloidal silver product on the market."
But they don't. Instead, they obfuscate and send out conflicting claims. In the email you received, their spokesperson says they have no intention of "taking silver ion drinks off the market." But ICTA's attorney George Kimbrell tells quite a different story. When he emailed me on January 8 of this year stating, " If the products are composed of nano-silver, then yes, they are different than other larger particles of silver and need to be regulated separately," he was quite clear that colloidal silver products containing silver nano-particles were indeed on ICTA's radar screen.
Going by attorney Kimbrell's past email comments to me, apparently the size of the silver particle will determine which colloidal silver products should be regulated by the EPA and which shouldn't. Of course, since we know from reading the literature and press releases of these environmental groups that they tend to define "nano-silver" as any silver particle between one and 100 nanometers, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that most major brands of colloidal silver are included under their "nano-silver" umbrella.
This, in my view, is why ICTA and its petition co-sponsors such as Friends of the Earth have unequivocally named some of the largest and most popular brands of colloidal silver in the country in their petition demanding the EPA investigate and regulate silver products.
Finally, it is supremely ironic to me that these environmental groups claim to hold the health and well-being of the public as their highest priority, yet they want to regulate or ban colloidal silver products containing smaller, safer silver particles, but apparently leave colloidal silver products containing relatively huge chunks of silver on the market for people to drink. Not that it's any of their business what people choose to ingest. But it certainly lays bare their false claim of public interest in this particular matter.
And of course, as you've so rightly pointed out, that doesn't even compare to the hypocrisy involved in the fact that our nation's waterways are being polluted by pharmaceutical drugs yet these environmental groups are instead attacking safe, natural silver which comes from the environment in the first place, and which loses its "nano" qualities once returned to the environment from which it came.
And they wonder why the public begins to draw the conclusion that the funding these environmental groups receive from pharmaceutical company charities might be affecting their decisions?
Keep up the great work, Tony. You've clearly touched a nerve with your journalistic prowess!
Regards,
Steve Barwick
The Simplest and Smartest Solution
Sooner or later the environmentalist groups are going to end up forcing EPA to regulate nano-silver products.
Whether or not the EPA will follow the views of ICTA attorney George Kimbrell, or the views of ICTA petition co-sponsor Friends of the Earth, and start regulating colloidal silver products containing nano-sized silver particles, is still up for grabs.
But...at this point it doesn't look good for colloidal silver manufacturers, vendors, or users.
That's why I must once again advocate that owning the means of colloidal silver production is the simplest and smartest solution to this darkening situation.
By obtaining a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from our good friends at TheSilverEdge.com, you'll never again have to worry about whether or not the environmentalist groups are going to be able to force EPA to regulate colloidal silver products. Why? Because you'll be able to make all of the high-quality, micro-particle colloidal silver you could ever need, any time you need it, in the comfort and privacy of your own home. And there's not a blessed thing the environmentalists and the bureaucrats can do about it.
The colloidal silver wars are heating up. And the first casualty of war, as they say, is the truth. In regards to the issue of EPA regulation of nano-silver products, the environmentalist groups are getting tired of being beat up by a relatively tiny handful of colloidal silver users. and it would appear that they are in the process of taking off the legal gloves, in order to prevent the truth from going forth.
You have to evaluate the situation for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. But as for me and my household, we are now making our own colloidal silver.
8 Prevalent Myths and Misconceptions About Colloidal Silver
Lately, there’s been more misinformation on colloidal silver going around than I’ve seen since the FDA first instituted their failed campaign to ban it back in the late 1990’s.
People seem to be "salting" various news and social networking forums with this misinformation, in an attempt to get it passed around the internet and posted on even more forums.
This, of course, is a classic campaign to get misinformation about colloidal silver to go "viral," meaning to get it passed around unwittingly by others who think they're doing the world a favor by posting the latest "facts" on colloidal silver.
In reality, they are posting myths about colloidal silver that have been purposely concocted by shills for certain groups that have a vested interest in seeing colloidal silver defamed (think Big Pharma).
Here then, are some of the current myths making the internet rounds:
Myth #1:Children are being harmed by colloidal silver
First, we saw the Friends of the Earth environmentalist group come out with their new position paper calling for a total ban on the over-the-counter sales of colloidal silver products as well as EPA regulation of all products using silver as an antimicrobial agent.And why?Because, they claimed, the proliferation of silver-based antimicrobial products is depriving children of coming into contact with the requisite number of pathogens needed to stimulate their tiny immune systems.Clearly, these guys at the Friends of the Earth have never had children.
Myth #2:Colloidal silver has been “banned by the FDA”
Then we had the recent MSNBC news article written by reporter Mike Celizic which declared that the FDA had “banned colloidal silver” back in 1999.Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.What the FDA did was prohibit colloidal silver vendors from labeling their product as a “natural antibiotic” and restrict colloidal silver advertisers from talking about its powerful antimicrobial qualities in advertisements.This action, of course, led to more public interest in colloidal silver than it had ever enjoyed in its entire 100 year history, and propelled colloidal silver into one of the most popular nutritional supplements of all times.Celizic's erroneous contention, however, has now been picked up by other writers and spread across a variety of internet forums where it is being used by opponents of natural health to convince people not to use colloidal silver because it’s been “banned by the FDA.”
Myth #3:Colloidal silver causes a “cytokine storm”
Next, we had a famous internet doctor claim that colloidal silver could cause a potentially deadly “cytokine storm” (massive inflammation) in the lungs of even healthy individuals.The doctor presented no evidence whatsoever for his claim.And a quick search of the available medical data demonstrated that the only significant research done on colloidal silver and cytokines showed that silver actually modified cytokine expression and reduced inflammation.The authors of the medical study even stated that colloidal silver should be further investigated as a potential treatment for the massive inflammation caused by the “cytokine storm” phenomena. The famous internet doctor later removed the erroneous statement from his web site, but not before other writers spread it all over the internet as "evidence" that colloidal silver usage can have potentially "deadly" consequences.
Myth #4: Colloidal silver harms human cells
We also recently saw the old “colloidal silver harms human cells” myth being dredged up again.Once more, the culprit was the environmental group Friends of the Earth, which erroneously attributes medical research demonstrating that silver damages bacterial cells (i.e., e. coli cells) as evidence that silver damages human cells.Of course, they can’t explain how Dr. Robert O. Becker of Syracuse Medical University was able to conduct all of those now famous in vivo (i.e., in the body) medical studies on human subjects, in which he used an electronic device to drive billions of tiny silver particles deep into the infected tissue and bone of “incurable” victims of osteomyelitis, and managed to cure every one of them without causing any harm whatsoever to their cells.Certain other internet writers have also misinterpreted a recent test tube study demonstrating that high levels of silver in the blood stream could harm certain human cells.The levels used in these lab tests would have been the equivalent of 15 ppm in the human blood stream – a level you couldn’t reach without drinking gallons of a standard colloidal silver solution.
Myth #5:Colloidal silver causes hardening of the arteries
Honestly, I don’t know where in the world this one came from.But suddenly it's cropping up on web sites all over the place, with no documentation whatsoever to back it up.As usual, it appears that one writer is simply quoting another, who is then quoted by another and another, until a complete fallacy becomes “reality.” Several weeks ago I googled "colloidal silver and hardening of the arteries" and "colloidal silver and arteriosclerosis" and searched for several hours. I couldn't find a solid piece of medical documentation for the claim that colloidal silver causes hardening of the arteries, except for the regurgitated and unattributed claims in those articles.I also searched the various medical science news sites (even the ones that are routinely critical of silver) and couldn't find any references to it causing artery problems. What’s more, I hired a pharmaceutical consultant to track down the origin of this growing myth.He searched the PubMed database and other key medical study databases, and could find absolutely nothing indicating any negative connection between colloidal silver and arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.We did find a recent study published in the prestigious medical science journal ACS Nano, demonstrating that silver stops red blood cells from clumping, which would help prevent heart attacks and strokes rather than cause them.You can read about that study here.So at this point my conclusion is that someone just made up the claim out of whole cloth, and it is getting passed around the internet by people too lazy to do any fact-checking or to demand documentation.
Myth #6: Colloidal silver causes harm to kidneys
This pervasive myth, along with Myth #7 below, is being cited in a variety of news articles on the internet, as well as by environmental groups like Friends of the Earth that are working to force the EPA to regulate colloidal silver products as "pesticides." Both of these myths are unfounded. As Dr. Gary Connett wrote in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2007, "Case reports have described possible nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity, but these have not been substantiated by studies in animal models." (See J R Soc Med 2008: 101:S51–S52. DOI 10.1258/jrsm.2008.s18012.) In other words, doctors have speculated that silver usage has caused harm to human kidneys and the human nervous system based on individual case reports, but that speculation has not been proven to be true when silver is actually tested. Silver given to animals during medical studies has shown no significant harm to the kidneys, liver or nervous system of the animals. And it could not be definitively demonstrated that silver was the actual culprit in the few individual human cases that led doctors to speculate that silver may have nephrotoxic or neurotoxic properties. In short, there is no significant evidence that silver harms the liver or the nervous system.
Myth #7: Colloidal silver causes harm to the nervous system
See Myth #6 above. Again, numerous internet "news" reports cite this myth, but there are to date no studies proving it. It is all based upon speculation, from a few single cases in which doctors made assumptions that later could not be proven to be true in animal studies. According to a study titled "Critical Observations on the Neurotoxicity of Silver," published in Critical Review of Toxicology (2007;37:237-50) "Although silver is metabolized throughout the soft tissues, available evidence fromexperimental animal studies and human clinical reports has failed to unequivocally establish that it enters tissues of the central nervous system or is a cause of neurotoxic damage...No evidence is available to demonstrate the toxic risk of silver to the peripheral nervous system...Transitory silver sulfide deposits seen in the tissues of the blood-brain and blood-CSF barriers are mostly lysosomally bound or deposited on basement membranes or collagen without toxic effect. Silver is mostly excreted from the body in the urine and feces." In other words, in animal studies and human clinical reports, there is no evidence that silver causes harm to the human nervous system.
Myth #8: Colloidal silver causes cancer
This myth is being promulgated chiefly by one of those fake internet "doctors" who is pushing high-dose vitamin C therapy to help prevent infections. Now, I'm not against high-dose vitamin C therapy, but I am against people pretending to be doctors when they're not. And I'm certainly against people who promulgate outright lies, such as the lie that colloidal silver causes cancer. This myth originally circulated in the 1970's after some scientists surgically implanted silver discs under the skin of animals, and saw that sarcomas (soft tissue cancer tumors) later developed. So they announced to the world that silver causes cancer. Later, when more level-headed researchers looked into the situation, they discovered that just about anything surgically implanted under the skin would induce sarcomas, i.e., glass, plastic, ivory, wood, etc. This is due to a phenomena called "solid state carcinogenesis." In other words, it wasn't the silver at all, but the normal effect of just about anything being implanted directly under the surface of the skin. The Environmental Protection Agency later jumped into the fray, looking for another reason to regulate silver, but after reviewing the existing medical and scientific documentation the agency had to conclude, "No evidence of cancer in humans has been reported despite frequent therapeutic use of the compound [i.e., silver] over the years." In other words, there are no cases of colloidal silver-induced cancers reported in the medical or scientific literature. Quite the contrary, researchers Furst and Schlauder later conducted animal studies designed to avoid the possibility of solid state carcinogenesis. They found that silver injected intramuscularly once a month into rats did not induce cancer.
Colloidal Silver and Global Warming?
Next, they’ll probably claim that colloidal silver causes global warming.
After all, it takes electricity to make colloidal silver.And electricity is generated through coal fire plants. And coal fire plants put “greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere.And “greenhouse gases” ostensibly rip holes into the ozone layer allowing excessive ionizing radiation from the sun to come streaming into our atmosphere resulting in warmer temperatures.
So there you have it.We must ban colloidal silver because it causes global warming.Seals are dying in Antarctica because thoughtless, greedy, uncaring natural health lovers are using colloidal silver.
No.Wait.For the sake of the children, we must ban colloidal silver because the FDA has already banned it.No.Wait.We must ban it because it can cause a “cytokine storm” and harm human cells.And that causes global warming.No.Wait…
...Oh, whatever.Just ban it because Big Pharma and the environmentalists hate it.At least that would be honest.
Tired of the Rhetoric?
If you’re sick and tired of the anti-colloidal silver rhetoric, and you realize the powers that be are willing to use any excuse to take away your right to protect yourself naturally against infection and disease, perhaps it’s time to make the leap to owning the means of colloidal silver production.
How?By obtaining a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from our good friends at www.TheSilverEdge.com.
What Happens When You Own the Means of Colloidal Silver Production?
When you own a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from www.TheSilverEdge.com, the bureaucrats can pass any laws they want regulating colloidal silver…they can even ban it from being sold at health food stores or on the internet -- BUT they won’t know what you’re doing in the comfort and privacy of your own home.They simply can’t stop you from making and using your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver, once you own the means of colloidal silver production.
To learn more about making your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, check out the links at http://www.TheSilverEdge.com/.
Astonishing!36 Cents a Quart for Superior Quality Colloidal Silver
You’ll learn that owning a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator puts you in the driver’s seat, allowing you to produce all of the high-quality colloidal silver you could ever want, any time you want, for about 36 cents a quart. And because it's micro-particle colloidal silver (as low as .0008 microns in size) it's superior in quality and effectiveness to just about everything on the market.
So why pay exorbitant health food store prices of $20 and $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle of colloidal silver, when you can make even higher quality micro-particle colloidal silver for just a few pennies per quart?
With colloidal silver now constantly under attack by Big Pharma, the medical bureaucrats, the media and misguided environmentalists who are pushing to have it banned, now is the time to own the means of colloidal silver production.With the price of bottled colloidal silver brands now skyrocketing, it just doesn’t make sense to do anything but make your own.
In October you'll witness the largest mass vaccination program in U.S. history.
The vaccine is:
Unproven
Poorly tested
Full of squalene adjuvant, one of the world's most potent neurotoxins and autoimmune disease triggers
Being used against a virus that has already lost much of its punch
What's more, infectious disease expert Dr. Kent Holtorf, M.D., (see above video) says the vaccine is so potentially dangerous, he won't allow it to be given to his own children.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
During the 1976 mass Swine Flu vaccination, 500 people developed the painful and debilitating neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), and some even died.
Though it was a different strain of Swine Flu, scientists to this day have still not figured out why the vaccine caused GBS in so many people, or what to do in order to prevent it from happening again.
The Question
The question is, will you willingly participate in this risky exercise in the hopes of avoiding Swine Flu?
Or will you utilize natural means to strengthen your immune system and protect yourself from viral infection?
Colloidal Silver
Here are the facts, as we best understand them:
Numerous medical studies have shown that safe, natural mineral silver is one of the most powerful natural antviral agents on the face of the earth: See http://www.colloidalsilverkillsviruses.com/ for full details.
Numerous well-known medical doctors and other experts are now recommending the use of colloidal silver against the Swine Flu, including virologist Dr. Gordon Pedersen: Click here to learn more.
Preventing Swine Flu with colloidal silver is simpler and safer than taking the risky and potentially dangerous vaccine: Click here to learn more.
It's All About Choice
Unless the government declares a state of emergency and begins a forced-vaccination program, the choice of whether or not to vaccine with this unproven, poorly tested and potentially harmful vaccine is up to you.
No one can make the choice for you.
So weigh the facts carefully. And act in your best interest, and the best interest of your family.
Recently, MSNBC conducted a very interesting follow-up broadcast with Paul Karason, the so-called “Colloidal Silver Blue Man.”
Paul is the man whose skin turned blue after he ingested incredibly excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily, for over a decade.
Once again, Matt Lauer, the MSNBC TV host of The Today Show, interviewed Karason. And overall, he treated Karason with respect and dignity.
More importantly, Lauer got the story right.
He carefully noted that Karason’s doctors had given him a clean bill of health, and accurately stated that none of the rigorous medical tests Mr. Karason had undertaken could find any harm to his internal organs or nervous system from the excessive levels of colloidal silver he’d been ingesting daily for over a decade.
Mike Celizic Blows It
Unfortunately, afterward, MSNBC news journalist Mike Celizic really blew it when he published a news article based upon Matt Lauer’s interview with the colloidal silver “blue man.”
If his article is any indication of his journalistic prowess, Mike may have to go back to journalism class and take a refresher course in fact-checking, and also in errors of omission, before continuing to write for MSNBC News.
Here’s a brief excerpt from Celizic’s article:
"Colloidal silver is a suspension of silver in a liquid base — in this case, distilled water. Silver has antibacterial properties and has been used to fight infection for thousands of years. But it went out of use when penicillin, which is far more effective, was developed.
It continued to be used in some over-the-counter medicines until 1999, when the FDA banned it because it causes argyria, which is a result of the silver reacting with light the same way it does in photography. The silver collects in the skin and other organs and does not dissipate. Karason is blue for life."
What’s wrong with the above statements?
First of all, penicillin is not “far more effective” than colloidal silver. It may have been at one time. But the truth is -- and Celizic should know this -- pathogens have been mutating so rapidly that penicillin today is a mere shell of itself in terms of its effectiveness against the very pathogens it had previously been used to treat.
In fact, some pathogens have developed such a profound immunity to penicillin they can actually feed on it with no adverse effects. This is precisely why the big drug companies have had to come out with increasingly stronger alternatives to penicillin.
What’s more, a 2006 clinical study from BYU (published in Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 7, 10 October 2006) documented the fact that adding colloidal silver to an antibiotic drug such as penicillin actually increases the efficacy of the antibiotic by a factor of as much as tenfold when used against antibiotic-resistant microbes.
In other words, the study demonstrated that standard antibiotics – including penicillin -- tend to work significantly better against antibiotic-resistant microbes when colloidal silver is added!
That should tell you that the antibiotics simply aren’t as effective against today’s new mutated breeds of pathogens, but colloidal silver is still just as effective as ever.
In fact, since way back in the late 1800’s when medical researchers first learned how to run currents of electricity through pure silver wire suspended in water and created the first crude colloidal silver solution, colloidal silver has never lost its powerful infection-fighting qualities against the myriad of pathogens it’s been used to treat.
Even though pathogens are constantly mutating against common antibiotic drugs like penicillin and becoming immune to them, there has been no significant pathogenic immunity developed against silver. Colloidal silver still kills pathogens just as quickly and effectively as it always has.
No FDA “Ban” on Colloidal Silver (At Least, Not Yet)!
Another serious journalistic infraction committed by Mike Celizic in his MSNBC news article was his claim that the FDA had “banned” colloidal silver in “over-the-counter medicines” back in 1999.
Of course, the FDA never “banned” colloidal silver in 1999, or at any other time. No such thing ever happened, folks. And again, MSNBC news writer Mike Celizic should know this, or at least do his homework on claims before printing them.
In reality, the FDA merely wrote and published a position paper in 1999 stating that colloidal silver could not be sold by manufacturers or other vendors with accompanying printed health claims, such as “cures colds and flu” or "natural antibiotic" or "kills germs, fungi and viruses."
In other words, the FDA banned label and advertising claims for the powerful, antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral qualities of colloidal silver, but not the actual sales of the product.
In fact, to this very day, colloidal silver is still sold in every well-stocked health food store in America, throughout Canada, as well as throughout eastern and western Europe, Mexico and South America. Its sale or use has never been “banned.”
But Mike Celizic’s erroneous claim is now being quoted around the internet by people using it as evidence that the FDA has “banned colloidal silver” when nothing of the sort has happened. In my view, that’s a far cry from the concept of responsible journalism.
Why Did FDA Ban Label and Advertising Claims for Colloidal Silver?
So why did the FDA outlaw label and advertising claims for colloidal silver’s powerful antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral qualities back in 1999?
The FDA says it was to prevent the public from being misled into thinking that colloidal silver is an approved over-the-counter drug, rather than a mere nutritional supplement.
But critics say it was because millions of people were turning to relatively inexpensive colloidal silver in place of expensive and potentially dangerous antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral drugs.
In other words, many people believe the FDA banned health claims about colloidal silver, in order to protect drug company profits! (You can read more about it, here.)
10 Million Colloidal Silver Users Can’t Be Wrong
Today, colloidal silver usage is surging. There are an estimated 10 million regular colloidal silver users throughout North America alone, according to published sources. And millions more people who use colloidal silver only periodically, when they’re feeling a bit under the weather, so to speak.
Indeed, the FDA’s 1999 ban on label and advertising claims for colloidal silver actually drew more public attention to the substance than any other single factor in its 100 year history. This helped make colloidal silver one of the most popular nutritional supplements in America virtually overnight.
Even big business has been busy incorporating silver into products because of its powerful antimicrobial benefits. You can read more about it in the article "Big Business Moves Into Silver-Based Antimicrobials in a BIG Way" at this link.
Celizic Got At Least One Thing Right
At least MSNBC news journalist Mike Celizic got one thing right when he wrote that Mr. Karason passed his medical examinations "with flying colors, and was given a clean bill of health."
This clearly demonstrates that the excessive amounts of colloidal silver Paul Karason took daily for over a decade caused him no apparent physical or medical harm, except for the blue-tinted skin.
You may remember all of the predictions of nervous system damage and organ failure made by doctors back in February of 2008, when Paul Karason’s story first came to public attention. Not one of those predictions has come to pass. The only consequence Mr. Karason has suffered from his decade long bout with excessive colloidal silver usage has been the blue skin.
Irresponsible v/s Responsible Usage
Of course, we’re not advocating or making excuses for excessive use of colloidal silver. On the contrary, while some overly enthusiastic colloidal silver advocates have claimed colloidal silver is “harmless at any level,” we have always been advocates of the safe, responsible usage of colloidal silver.
We believe it’s important for natural health advocates to remember that taking any substance in excess, for long periods of time, is generally going to result in some kind of health problem.
If, for example, you drink excessive amounts of carrot juice daily, for long periods of time, your skin will actually turn orange.
But that shouldn't stop you from drinking carrot juice from time to time if you like it. In responsible amounts, carrot juice is extremely healthy for your eyes and skin, your immune system, and for healthy organ function as well.
If you drink water in excess, for long periods of time, you can end up with water intoxication leading to a condition known as hyponatremia. That’s a sodium imbalance that can trigger a massive heart attack.
But of course, responsible daily intake of water is essential to good health and well-being.
Similarly, if you take too many aspirin daily, for long periods of time, you'll end up with bleeding ulcers. You could even end up bleeding to death internally.
But responsible usage of aspirin can relieve pain, protect against blood clots, and even save you from a heart attack.
I could go on and on naming the serious detriments that can be caused by the irresponsible usage of common, everyday beverages, foods, medicines and, yes, even nutritional supplements, all of which are extremely good for you in moderate, responsible dosages. But I think you get the point.
Colloidal Silver Is No Different
Colloidal silver is no different. Used responsibly, it boosts immunity and heals bacterial, fungal and viral infections of all sorts. It even kills the deadly antibiotic-resistant MRSA pathogen (see the medical studies at http://www.colloidalsilvercuresmrsa.com/).
However, used irresponsibly, in excessive dosages for long periods of time, it can turn your skin greyish-blue.
That’s because when colloidal silver is used in excess, your liver and kidneys are unable to flush out all of the silver particles you’ve ingested. And your body ends up pushing the excess mineral silver out toward your skin. There, it can turn grayish blue upon exposure to ultraviolet light (i.e., sunlight).
In other words, sunlight tarnishes the silver that ends up in the skin of people who have used excessive amounts for overly long periods of time. And that is what causes the skin discoloration.
The condition is caused argyria. As we’ve seen from the story of the colloidal silver “blue man,” it is generally a harmless condition, albeit cosmetically unappealing.
Paul Karason, for example, has admitted in previous interviews that he was brewing up extremely concentrated batches of colloidal silver (perhaps as concentrated as 50 to 100 ppm) and drinking between 10 and 20 oz of this highly concentrated solution per day. And he apparently did so for years on end.
That’s a perfect example of the irresponsible (albeit, in his case, unwitting) over-usage of colloidal silver, particularly considering the fact that most experienced users ingest only a teaspoonful to a couple of ounces a day, depending upon whether they are just taking it for general health and immunity purposes, or are battling an active infection.
“The Dose is the Poison”
As Paracelsus, a physician living over 400 years ago who is often referred to as the "Grandfather of Pharmacology,” wisely observed, “The dose is the poison.”
This means that just about anything can be harmful to you, if you take a high enough dosage for a long enough period of time.
FREE “Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage” Report
The key to responsible colloidal silver usage, obviously, is the dosage.
That's why I recommend that people who want to use colloidal silver for its powerful antimicrobial, anti-infection and immune boosting properties download a free copy of the "Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Report" at http://www.thesilveredge.com/.
This FREE report will help you determine the proper dosage of colloidal silver for your body, based upon your own body weight.
What’s great about the report is that the calculations are based upon official EPA figures for maximum safe daily silver intake over an entire lifetime. So thanks to the EPA, you can actually calculate very closely how much colloidal silver you’ll be able to drink each day for the rest of your life, without risking argyria!
Colloidal Silver’s Astonishing Benefits
By the way, brand new medical research indicates that responsible colloidal silver usage may even help prevent blood from clotting, which could prove to be a boon for heart patients.
Learn More About the Responsible Use of Colloidal Silver
If you'd like to learn more about the responsible use of colloidal silver to boost immunity, heal infections and even prevent and cure illness and disease, you might want to consider obtaining an inexpensive copy of the brand new, full-color, 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets Videofrom Life & Health Research Group.
The video is chock full of hands-on demonstrations showing you exactly how to use colloidal silver for a myriad of beneficial purposes, such as to heal eye infections, ear infections, sinus infections, sore throat, toenail fungal infections, infected cuts, scrapes and burns, and even intestinal infections, upper respiratory infections, and much more!
It’s the perfect guide for beginning colloidal silver users and for those who simply want to know more about colloidal silver and its many healing and even life-changing benefits.
And for those who may want usage information on colloidal silver that is absolutely encyclopedic in scope, be sure to check out the newly updated, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, the world’s #1 best-selling guidebook to responsible colloidal silver usage.
This phenomenal book is the result of over 13 years worth of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage, and over 2,000 interviews with experienced colloidal silver users including medical doctors, naturopaths, nurses, dentists, clinical researchers, and even missionaries who use it to treat natives in foreign lands where antibiotics are scarce.
You’ll find 40 in-depth chapters, including three full chapters on specific dosages for specific diseases!
The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that you can’t trust everything you read or hear about colloidal silver in the mainstream news media. Some of it is true. And a lot of it is blatantly false.
Journalists often regurgitate information they receive from other sources, without checking the facts. And sometimes they also end up omitting important information that would otherwise throw an entirely different light on the subject matter.
So you have to be careful, and study for yourself important issues that could impact your health and well-being. Don’t let the mainstream news media be your sole source of information. After all, it’s your life and health that’s at stake.
[The following post was taken with kind permission from the Secrets of Natural Healing blog. Copyright 2009, Life & Health Research Group, LLC...]
Detoxifying Naturally from Mandatory Flu Vaccines
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what to do if the government orders mandatory vaccines in order to help stem the spread of the so-called “Swine Flu.”
This is a legitimate concern, particularly considering the fact that the World Health Organization has now announced that the outbreak is “a global threat to public health” and has now declared a Phase V Alert, which is one step before announcing that a global epidemic is taking place.
The subhead in a news headline at MSNBC.com today reads, “Global outbreak considered imminent; vaccine efforts will be ramped up.”
Personally, my greatest fear is that the powers that be are drumming up this panic just like they did during the swine flu scare of 1976 -- only this time instead of offering voluntary flu vaccinations, they will push for mandatory flu vaccinations, under the guise of “protecting the public health.”
Detoxifying Naturally
Because there are so many different toxins in vaccines, most people who write want to know how to detoxify their body afterwards, if they are forced to take the flu vaccine. So I contacted George Foss, a well-known nutritional supplement formulator and former general manager of Kayser’s Nutrition Center in southern California, and asked him which natural methods for detoxifying from flu vaccines he’d recommend.
George recommends taking NAC, along with Chlorella, Silymarin, Vitamin C, Oscillococcinum, and Colloidal Silver.
NAC, i.e., N-acetyl Cysteine -- a sulfur-bearing amino acid which binds and removes mercury and other metals found in vaccines from the body; also breaks down toxic substances in liver; available at local health food stores or through internet sources.
Chlorella – (use broken cell wall Chlorella); major all-around cellular detoxifier and cleanser; available at local health food stores or through internet sources.
Silymarin – i.e., the Milk Thistle herb, a well-known liver protector and detoxifier (take as directed on bottle); available at local health food stores or through internet sources.
Vitamin C -- 2 grams/day for immune support and for chelating metals used in the vaccines; start taking several days before vaccination if possible, and for at least a week afterwards; available at local health food stores or through internet sources.
Oscillococcinum – a homeopathic remedy that eliminates unwanted flu and flu vaccine symptoms; this is the #1 flu medication in France; it provides significant symptomatic relief from the trauma to the body caused by the flu and flu vaccines; it is carried online by CVS Pharmacy at www.CVS.com – use their online search engine to find it.
Colloidal Silver – For adults, take two ounces per day, minimum, for immune support, and to inactivate any viral fragments or attenuated viruses (i.e., weakened viruses) from vaccines; take colloidal silver it for at least several days before and for at least a week after taking a vaccine. (Children should not take more than two teaspoons full per day; check with your trusted health care practitioner.)
By the way, colloidal silver is a great flu preventative. Numerous studies have demonstrated its powerful antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal qualities. Taking it daily during a flu outbreak can provide significant protection against the flu.
You can make your own colloidal silver for about 36 cents a quart (rather than paying $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle in health food stores), by obtaining a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from our good friends at TheSilverEdge.com.
Or, if you cannot afford a colloidal silver generator right now, and you are concerned that you may have been exposed to the flu through vaccination or contact with other flu victims, you can make a crude emergency-use-only batch of colloidal silver by following the instructions on this web page.
In spite of an FDA crackdown on companies touting colloidal silver as a Swine Flu preventive and remedy, a number of high-profile medical researchers and related experts have been recommending colloidal silver as a first-line of defense against the Swine Flu and other viral pandemics.
These include Dr Eric Gordon, MD, Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, DO, Major General Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine III (former commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command), Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, Dr Rebecca Carley (the vaccine expert) and many others.
Even Pravda, the top newspaper in Russia, recently recommended colloidal silver for the Swine Flu, stating:
“The best defense against swine flu, or any flu, is the age old remedy of colloidal silver. The metal silver in its colloidal state can be safely consumed and used in the body. Bacteria and viruses cannot develop resistance to colloidal silver. Silver disables a vital enzyme and mechanism in all bacteria and pathogens so that they cannot survive. It is good to take a few teaspoons of colloidal silver daily to maintain health. More colloidal silver should be taken if experiencing illness.”
Dr. Gordon Pedersen Recommends Colloidal Silver
Dr. Gordon Pedersen, Ph.D., an expert in toxicology and virology who is associated with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and is Director of the Institute of Alternative Medicine, has joined the ranks of those advocating for colloidal silver usage in the face of coming viral pandemics.
In his new article, Swine Flu Influenza Type A/H1N1 Protection for Health Care Practitioners and Their Patients, published in the Anti-Aging News Journal, he repeatedly recommends silver to stop not only the virus itself, but also the secondary bacterial infections that cause diseases such as pneumonia, which set in after the body has been weakened by the virus.
(Note:It is often the secondary bacterial infections that seriously disable or even kill the patient, rather than the virus itself which often only weakens the patient allowing other more opportunistic pathogens to move in and take hold.)
Here are some examples of what Dr. Pedersen has to say about using Silver Sol (a commercial colloidal silver preparation) against Swine Flu, other viral pandemics, and secondary infections:
“Influenza viruses are the respiratory viruses of greatest public health importance, particularly Influenza A .Every year 36,000 people die from Influenza making it the 6th leading cause of death in America.”
“Silver Sol provides proven prevention and treatment against viral and bacterial infections, while there is nothing else with such broad spectrum benefits. In addition, Silver Sol can be safely taken every day for prevention where it has been shown to provide protection against the very dangerous Bird flu H5N1.”
Medically Proven, But Overly-Expensive
Dr. Pedersen is right, of course.Silver is literally the world’s most powerful natural antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent.
Unfortunately, commercial colloidal silver solutions are extremely expensive.A tiny 4-ounce bottle of colloidal silver solution can cost as much as $20 to $30 in health food stores and through internet vendors.
And frankly, four ounces may barely be enough to help a single, severely afflicted individual through even just a few days during a serious viral pandemic, much less an entire family that might be sick.
Make Your Own High-Quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Instead, for Just Pennies!
With a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, you can make all of the high-quality colloidal silver you could ever want, one quart at a time, in the comfort and privacy of your own home.And you can make it for about 36 cents a quart.Yes, I said 36 cents a quart!
And because you own the means of colloidal silver production, you’ll never have to worry about running out of colloidal silver during a serious health crisis such as a global flu pandemic.
What’s more, because it’s so easy and inexpensive to make (see the free 3-minute demonstration of how it works, here), you can use it for all of the purposes recommended by Dr. Pedersen above, without all of the expense!
Make Multiple Quarts for only PenniesPer Quart!
As Dr. Pedersen points out in his article, during a serious viral pandemic, in which people are dying, you can give colloidal silver along with antibiotics, because it can increase the effectiveness of the antibiotics by up to 10 times.
This helps stop the deadly secondary bacterial infections that always set in when a mutated virus has weakened your body.
I personally think the colloidal silver alone will do the trick, based upon my own usage, plus 13 years worth of feedback I’ve received from literally thousands of experienced colloidal silver users, and all of the studies I’ve read while doing the research for my 547-page book, the Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual.
But if people are dying, I agree with Dr. Pedersen: You need to throw everything you’ve got at the nasty little pathogens.
So wouldn’t it be great to have multiple of quarts of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver pre-made and stored away, in case of just such a situation?
And instead of your colloidal silver costing you between $160 and $240 per quart from health food store or internet sources, it will cost you about 36 cents a quartinstead!
Spray Household Filters with Silver for Just Pennies!
In his article, Dr. Pedersen also mentions using expensive HEPA air filters in your home during a pandemic, “to effectively kill 99% of all bacteria and viruses in minutes.”
Now that’s a great idea.But whole-house HEPA air filtration systems can cost thousands of dollars, plus hundreds of dollars more just to replace the silver-impregnated filters every few months.Same with buying individual HEPA filters for each room in your home.
So instead of paying through the nose for HEPA air filtration, why not do something that’s just as effective, but costs you only pennies?
You can simply remove the paper or fabric filters in your home’s heating and air conditioning ducts and lightly spray them with a few cents worth of colloidal silver, and allow them to air dry before replacing them, in order to give your family whole house protection from germs and viruses?It’s true!
It’s far cheaper than having to buy an expensive HEPA filtration system that can cost thousands of dollars, and then have to replace those expensive silver-impregnated HEPA filters all of the time at $60 to $80 a pop!
If you have the money to burn for a HEPA system, then fine.But if you don’t, and you still want top-notch protection for yourself and your family against viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens, then you should really consider owning the means of colloidal silver production, so you can make all of the colloidal silver you want, any time you want, for just pennies, and use it liberally throughout your entire household.
When you make your own colloidal silver with a high-quality quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, it only costs three or four cents to spray your household duct filters about once a week or so, in order to achieve whole house protection against germs, viruses and fungal pathogens.
And if you have a conventional room air filter, too, you can do the same thing:Simply remove the paper or fabric filter in it, spray it with colloidal silver, and allow the filter to air dry before replacing it.It will now kill viruses, bacteria and other pathogens in your home, all day long!
Expensive Silver Water Filters?Why Bother?
Dr. Pedersen also recommended getting a silver-impregnated water filter to help keep viruses out of your home water supply.
That’s great, if you’ve got the money to pop for such a system, and to replace those expensive silver-impregnated water filters all of the time.
A simpler solution is to mix a few teaspoons full of colloidal silver into your drinking water every time you put a new container of drinking water into the refrigerator.
If you own a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you’ll be able to make colloidal silver so inexpensively, it will cost you only two or three cents to add a little colloidal silver to your drinking water – a tiny fraction of the cost of buying expensive silver-impregnated water filtration systems and water filters.
What’s more, if you have an emergency home water storage program, you can do the same thing.Just add a few teaspoons full of colloidal silver per gallon to your stored water, to keep it safe from pathogens of all kinds.It’s dirt cheap to do so, once you own a high-quality quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.
Make Your Own Silver Gel Disinfectant, for Pennies!
During times of viral pandemic, Dr. Pedersen also recommends using silver sol gel (i.e., colloidal silver gel) four times a day as a topical disinfectant.
This is truly good advice, because viruses and germs are spread in large part by hand.So by using a good silver-based topical disinfectant gel, you can dramatically decrease the spread of pathogens.You protect yourself, and everyone around you, to boot.
But…have you seen the prices of those silver gel products?Some of them run $20 or $30 a tiny two-ounce or four-ounce tube of silver gel that wouldn’t last a small family even a day or two if everyone were applying it to their hands four times a day!
Yet you can easily make your own powerfully disinfectant silver-based gel – quickly and inexpensively -- simply by adding a few tablespoons full of high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver to 1/2 cup of pure aloe vera gel (available dirt cheap from Wal-Mart).
It works like a charm…and with a high-quality quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, the colloidal silver for your germ-killing “silver gel” will only cost you a few pennies per batch.
Frankly, it’s so inexpensive, you’ll be able to give the healing and potentially life-saving silver gel away to family members, friends, neighbors and even co-workers during a serious viral pandemic, and help prevent the spread of pathogens everywhere you go.
Spray Your Surgical Face Masks, Home Contact Surfaces With Silver Too, for Just Pennies!
If things get really bad during a pandemic, and you have to resort to wearing those little surgical face masks when you go out in public, be sure to lightly spray your face mask with colloidal silver first, and allow it to air dry before wearing, in order to give it powerful antiviral and antibacterial qualities.
And while you’re at it, be sure to spray all of the contact surfaces in your home with colloidal silver at least several times a day during a pandemic.I’m talking about door knobs, countertops, tables and chairs, water faucet handles, toilet seats, and more.
Of course, you couldn’t afford this level of protection if you had to do it with expensive, commercially purchased colloidal silver from health food stores or internet vendors.But by obtaining a high-quality quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, it’s dirt cheap to do so, and the protection is unsurpassed!
And be sure to read more of the articles on this blog, which will give you a crash course in the many, many ways you can protect yourself and your family with colloidal silver.
And remember, once you own the means of colloidal silver production, you no longer have to worry about how expensive colloidal silver is in health food stores or through internet vendors.When you can make your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver for only pennies per quart, you can use it for literally hundreds of purposes.For example:
You can put a few drops in your eyes to eliminate eye infections overnight
Put a few drops in your ears to eliminate earaches in a single day or two
Spray it on cuts and scrapes to prevent infection and stimulate rapid healing
Spray it on burns to soothe the skin and stimulate rapid healing
Spray it on shingles to quickly eliminate the pain and rapidly trigger healing
You can also drink a few teaspoons full a day to boost immunity and prevent infections
You can drink a few ounces at a time to rapidly eliminate food poisoning or other “tummy bugs”
Brush your teeth with it to prevent decay and bacterial plaque buildup
Put it into a spray bottle and “huff” it to help quickly heal nasty upper respiratory infections…
And much, much more!
The healing and potentially life-saving uses for colloidal silver are endless.But unfortunately, if you don’t own the means of colloidal silver production, it simply costs too much to take advantage of all of its wondrous healing properties and protective benefits.
But once you own your own high-quality quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, and start making your own colloidal silver, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for only about 36 cents a quart, then your life will never be the same again.
What Others Say…
As a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator owner recently wrote:
“This Colloidal Silver stuff really works. I've been using for what over a year haven't had a cold ( I always either had a cold was getting one or just getting over one). My ex wife had psoriasis real bad all her life, big thick patches. She has been to dermatologists,used soaps, and lotions you name it even wrapped herself in Saran Wrap, nothing worked. I gave her a couple bottles of the silver water and two weeks later the psoriasis is gone and so is she -- she's in Jamaica getting a suntan. My youngest son went to the Dominican Republic this last spring and got a severe rash there. They tried everything, he was with a registered nurse at the time, no one knew what it was, it was leaking puss just gross. When he got back he used colloidal silver and in a week it was gone. A friend of his got a staph infection with open sores all over. I gave her a couple bottles, seen her 3 days later and it was a lot better.”
Another Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator owner recently wrote:
“I personally have overcome shingles that I had for 5 years, and chronic bronchitis that I had since moving to Nevada in 1991, probably nine months out of the year.It's been months since my last cold.So I am very thankful for the generator.And just to make sure I would always have one, I purchased the second one.”
Another Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator recently wrote:
“I hope you receive this email. I wanted to share with you that I love using the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver machine… We are making at least 1 qt of colloidal silver daily right now so we have it on hand for ourselves and our friends and whoever else might need it. I work as a cashier for a family grocery store that is very busy - there are 9 of us cashiers and we each do about $8,000 to $10,000 worth of business daily - that means we see alot of people, touching alot of money, groceries and equipment! I keep a jar of colloidal silver with me all the time and when I feel a sore throat, or stomach problems coming on - I sip on it while I am working. Some days it is all that saves me from going home early! It keeps the Dr away! I don't like seeing Dr's - I am a Natural Health Care Practitioner also. I am sharing the news about your Micro-Particle machine - especially with the scare of the Swine Flu.”
And another Micro-Particle Generator owner recently wrote:
“After several days of my husband having a cold, I came down with a bad cold the day after I tried to make the first batch with the new generator.Usually, when I would feel a cold coming on I would take a teaspoon of colloidal silver in the morning and one teaspoon at night, and that would knock it right out.So, I wasn't sure how effective the colloidal silver would be since my cold had already bloomed fully. I just started taking it maybe three or four times a day, and, I don't exaggerate when I say that I improved literally hour by hour.It had started to go into my chest and started to give me a deep cough, but within a day, it was not only arrested but reversed.By the way, my husband, who was the first one with a cold, still has it.Hopefully, he's becoming convinced.”
And even another Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator owner recently wrote:
“Unbelievable! When my generator arrived I was down for the count, having caught some kind of virus. While my head was plugged up and body aching, I hurriedly created my first batch of Colloidal Silver. I took 4 ounces the first day and felt 50% better in less than 8 hours! The second, day I again took 4 ounces; incredibly I felt the same overwhelming results. By the third day, I had risen from my bed and returned to work! The massive amount of energy I now receive from taking an ounce a day has brought new life to this old 53 year old man! If I had never purchased your video I would never have known about this wonderful elixir. Thank you so much for your research, newsletters and providing me with the best Colloidal Silver Generator on the planet! I am driving my friends crazy telling them about it!”
The Real Deal
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Famous internet doctor says he can’t recommend colloidal silver usage for Swine Flu because it can result in a ”cytokine storm”; but are his contentions even remotely true?
Recently, a famous internet doctor who had previously indicated he would recommend colloidal silver as a Swine Flu remedy, reversed course and stated that he could no longer entertain the idea of recommending colloidal silver.
Why? Because, he stated, colloidal silver usage could cause a potentially deadly “cytokine storm” in the body in “healthy individuals.”
Here is what he stated on his web site:
"While silver will likely work to kill the swine flu virus, in many healthy individuals it is likely to elicit a severe cytokine storm reaction. This is basically a severe allergic inflammatory reaction that can occur in your lungs, and could be fatal."
True, or False?
Is that statement true? Can colloidal silver really cause a "cytokine storm" in your lungs (i.e., severe inflammation leading to blocked breathing)?
Well, the good doctor who made the statement failed to provide even a single piece of documentation for his contention. No medical study citations, no quote from a renowned authority, nothing.
As a natural health researcher, I sure wanted to know the truth.
After all, I’ve been using colloidal silver for well over 13 years now. I’ve drank it (had an ounce of it just this morning)…put it into my eyes, ears and nose…sprayed it down my throat…and I’ve even “huffed” it into my lungs using a pump spray bottle.
What’s more, when I’ve had colds I’ve put it into my cold steam humidifier at night and breathed the cool vapors all night long while sleeping. And when I’ve had a severe upper respiratory infection I’ve also used a medical nebulizer for short periods of time to inhale the colloidal silver mist deep down into my infected lungs.
And guess what? I’ve never personally experienced a “cytokine storm” or any other kind of inflammation. In fact, in just about every case, the only thing the colloidal silver usage did was help me get well in record time.
2,000 Colloidal Silver Users Interviewed; No “Cytokine Storm”
In the course of my research for writing the Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual(547-pages, Life & Health Research Group, LLC), I interviewed over 2,000 active colloidal silver users, asking them how they used colloidal silver, and how it affected them.
Not one of them reported experiencing a “cytokine storm” reaction, or lung inflammation of any kind from their colloidal silver usage.
So when the good doctor’s brief but decidedly negative anti-colloidal silver rant appeared on his web site last week, I had one of my top internet researchers take an entire afternoon out and search the internet for any kind of evidence that the good doctor’s contentions were true.
He could find none.
The next day, I searched the internet myself, and could not find a single medical study indicating that colloidal silver usage has ever caused a “cytokine storm” reaction in anyone.
Now, that doesn’t mean it’s never happened. It just means that if it has, the medical citation for it is so obscure it would take Sherlock Holmes to find it.
Later, a quick search of Pubmed.gov for the term “Cytokine Storm” yielded 189 results, but not one single case of silver being the cause. A second Pubmed.gov search using the term “Cytokine Storm Silver” yielded…nothing.
New Study Says Silver Actually Reduces Cytokine Production
We did find one important study, so all of our efforts were not in vain:
This was a 2007 study published in the journal International Immunopharmacology [Int Immunopharmacol. 2007 Dec 15;7(13):1813-8. Epub 2007 Sep 21.] that clearly mentioned silver in relation to “cytokines.”
But instead of demonstrating that silver causes a “cytokine storm,” it quite the contrary demonstrated that nano-silver significantly reduces cytokine production. Indeed, it appears to reduce cytokine inflammation to such a degree, the authors of the study recommend studying it as a treatment against inflammation.
That’s a big difference. Big enough to drive a tractor trailer truck through.
The authors of the study concluded that "These experimental data suggest that nano-silver could be used to treat immunologic and inflammatory diseases."
In other words, quite the opposite of the famous internet doctor’s apparently spurious contentions on his web site that silver can trigger a cytokine storm (massive inflammation) in the lungs, silver appears to actually control or reduce cytokine production.
Here’s an excerpt from an article on the study about silver and cytokines:
“Silver has for centuries been used to treat and prevent infection, and its wound-healing properties are well known. Less well understood is exactly how the metal acts as such an effective antimicrobial and healing agent. Kenneth Wong and others at the University of Hong Kong recently investigated the wound-healing properties of silver nanoparticles, and have shown that they do more than simply kill bacteria.
Wounds heal following a complex combination of blood coagulation, tissue inflammation and remodeling, and the best medical interventions are those that prevent or at least minimize scarring.
Silver has long been used to treat a variety of diseases, and silver’s antibacterial effect is thought to be due to its penetration of cell walls and alteration of microbial DNA.
But the new research...indicates that silver goes further than this and modifies cytokines – the enzymes involved in cell growth and movement – leading to reduced inflammation and an increased rate of healing.
…MIT-based medical scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke regards the Hong Kong group’s research as groundbreaking, saying: “Silver has been used for over a thousand years in traditional Chinese medicine for wound healing, but this is the first time that a hint of the true mechanism has been shown.”
So much for silver causing cytokine production (i.e,. excessive inflammation). In reality, it modifies cytokine production, “leading to reduced inflammation and an increased rate of healing.”
Update: Famous Internet Doctor Removes His Anti-Colloidal Silver Rant from Online Article
I just checked and it appears the famous internet doctor who claimed that colloidal silver could cause a “cytokine storm” has now removed that section of his online article.
It seems to me that his inflammatory statement must have caused a storm of its own. Sometimes, that’s what happens when you don’t check your facts first.
Good , Rock-Solid Info on Colloidal Silver and Its Usage
It’s sad that even famous internet doctors occasionally get it wrong about colloidal silver usage. This guy wasn’t the first, and he won’t be the last.
But if you want some good, rock-solid, non-misleading information on colloidal silver and its usage, then go back through the archives of this blog and read the various articles.
You’ll learn about studies demonstrating the amazing antimicrobial powers of colloidal silver…you’ll see colloidal silver myths and misconceptions demolished…you’ll read what the various experts say about using colloidal silver to treat serious illness and disease…
…you’ll learn how to stop earaches, toothaches, eye infections, food poisoning, intestinal infections, and more many other ill-health conditions dead in their tracks with colloidal silver…you’ll learn about pets and colloidal silver usage…using colloidal silver in the garden and on houseplants…and much, much more.
2 More Great Resources on Colloidal Silver
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For beginning colloidal silver users, there’s the brand new, studio-quality, full-color, 60-minute, Colloidal Silver Secrets Video, which gives you all of the basics of colloidal silver usage and even teaches you how to make a “quickie” colloidal silver generator out of a simple nine-volt battery and two strands of pure .999 fine silver wire.
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These resources are based on over 13 years worth of journalistic research and personal experience in colloidal silver usage, as well as over 2,000 interviews with experienced colloidal silver users including doctors, nurses, naturopaths, chiropractors, dentists, as well as many average folk like you and me who have used colloidal silver to heal everything from colds and flu, to Epstein-Barr viris/chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, to Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus, to sepsis, intestinal infections, eye infections, earaches and ear infections, burns, serious viral conditions and much more.
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Exposed: More Environmentalist Claptrap Against Colloidal Silver
The Friends of the Earth, as well as other environmental groups that have been taking thousands of dollars, and in some cases even millions of dollars in contributions from Big Pharma, continue to bombard the internet with shrill reports warning of the "evils" of what they call "nanosilver," which is essentially their code word for colloidal silver.
Please note that their article, which is titled "Health risks from silver nanoparticles a growing threat to consumers and workers" actually contains not a single shred of evidence demonstrating that silver -- in any form, "nano" or otherwise -- is a "growing threat" to anybody.
Instead, as per usual, the article is rife with conjecture and speculation, and peppered with sensationalistic terms like "grave threat," "growing human threat," with constant references to silver as a "hazard."
A Surprise Admission that They Have No Evidence Against Silver
But here's the interesting part:Buried deep in the article their own top scientist, Andrew Maynard of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, reluctantly admits:
“There is no indication that silver at the nano scale goes wild in the body. However, it is known that silver becomes more toxic at the nano level. That does not mean it always does more damage.”
The truth is, silver is known to become more toxic to pathogenic microorganisms at the nano level, which of course, is exactly why so many millions of people across North American use it.Tiny silver particles simply work better against pathogens than larger particles.
But there is not a single shred of evidence anywhere that silver is somehow toxic to humans, particularly at the relatively miniscule levels humans normally ingest when using colloidal silver.
The Clear Evidence that Silver Aids the Body in Many Vital Functions
On the other hand, silver receptors have recently been discovered on human nervous tissues -- indicating that, far from being a health threat, silver is actually an essential part of human nervous system function.Perhaps this is why people report feeling significantly better, mentally and physically, after only a few days of colloidal silver usage.
Silver also performs other vital functions in the human body, including stimulating the body's all-important lymphatic system.According to Dr. Stephen West, DL, PMD, son of Dr. C. Samuel West, DN, ND, renowned chemist and internationally recognized lymphologist:
“Silver ions stimulate the lymphatic system by cleaning out the dead cells and bringing oxygen to the healthy cells.”
You see, like iron, silver has the capacity to carry nascent oxygen to throughout the human body.As revealed in chapter 10 of the Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual:
"Not only do silver ions have proven antimicrobial properties to fight the fungi and bacteria growth in the lymph fluid, silver ions also carry nascent oxygen on their surface. When the silver attacks a microorganism, this oxygen is released. This can aid the RES lymphatic system in two ways; 1) extra oxygen helps restore the natural pH of the lymph fluid and 2) oxygen helps oxidize toxic waste.Any leftover oxygen would eventually be picked up by the hemoglobin in red blood cells and thus becomes available for other oxygen dependent needs in the body such as cellular respiration."
Far From Harming Human Cells, Silver Helps Produce Them!
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual goes on to document, through medical study after medical study, that far from harming cells or tissues, silver has long been known to aid the human body in the production of our crucial white and red blood cells.
Here's another eye-opening quote from the manual:
"Silver’s ability to aid the immune system has been well documented for more than 100 years.For example, in 1909, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that electrically generated silver ions increased white blood cell production.As we noted earlier in our overview of the human immune system, white blood cells are critical factors in human immunity, aiding the body in the destruction of cancer cells, viruses, bacteria, and other invaders.
"In 1939, researchers Hill and Pillsbury made similar findings, demonstrating an increase in white blood cells after silver usage.[See: Hill, WR, D Pillsbury, Argyria: The Pharmacology of Silver, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1939; p. 48.]
"And over fifty years later, researchers Remes and Williams found that silver ions appear to “prime” white blood cells to go on the offense against a variety of biological insults. [See Remes, A, Williams, DF, “Neutrophil Polarization and Immunoelectrophoresis Assays in the Study of Complement Activation by Biomaterials,” Biomaterials, Aug 1991; 12(6):607-13.]
"In 1919 Dr. H. Bechold, writing in “Colloids in Biology and Medicine,” cited evidence that silver ions increased both red and white blood cell counts.
While white blood cells are the defenders of the body, red blood cells carry life-giving oxygen to all tissues and organs.So silver apparently aids in both immune defense and in the support of life itself, by boosting both our body’s red and white blood cells counts.
"In their study Argyria - The Pharmacology of Silver (Williams & Wilkins, 1939), researchers W. Hill & D. Pillsbury reported that 16 rabbits were injected with silver of arsphenamine at intervals from three to seven days. (The silver content of the drug was 14.5%.)A majority of the rabbits showed a gradual increase in oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and red blood cells during the experiment.
"In more recent studies, such as Treatment of Orthopedic Infections with Electrically Generated Silver Ions by Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D., it is reported that silver ions give a healthy boost to human blood cell production.This may be related to the fact that silver is a “transitional element” giving it the ability to form complex ions. This attribute gives silver the potential to interact on a cellular level in the same way as other complex ions such as vitamin B-12, chlorophyll, and heme (iron), a component of red blood cells.
"More recently, researchers Berger, Marino and Spadaro confirmed that electrically generated silver ions boost human blood cell production.
"These findings lead to the obvious conclusion that while low white blood cell counts open the door to serious immune system risks, and low red blood cells lead to oxygen starvation of the body’s tissues and organs, electrically generated silver ions may help successfully counter these risks by stimulating both white and red blood cell production."
The Bottom Line...
As you can see, far from harming the human body, silver is widely known to aid many important biological functions.The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual goes on to document that silver:
·Stimulate white blood cell production, thus boosting the body’s ability to attack cancers and pathogenic microorganisms.
·“Prime” white blood cells to go on the offensive against harmful foreign invaders.
·Stimulate red blood cell production, thus boosting life-giving oxygenation of the body’s cells, tissues and organs.
·Stimulate the reticulo-endothelial system, also known as RES, which allows the body to purge itself of harmful wastes and toxins.
·Stimulate the production of ROS (reactive oxygen species), thus helping the body rid itself of toxins and foreign invaders through oxidation.
Quench Free Radical Activity in Brain Cells
What's more, on page 235 of the Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, a brand new medical study is revealed that demonstrates silver's incredible ability to quench free radical activity in brain cells.In other words, once again, far from harming human cells, it actually protects them from harm.
As respected drug and nutritional supplement formulator George Foss stated regarding this eye-opening new study:
"It certainly could have tremendous benefits for victims of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.But keep in mind that if colloidal silver quenches free radical activity in brain cells, as this new study appears to demonstrate, then it would likely do so in other cells in other parts of the body as well.So this newly published research actually has tremendous beneficial ramifications for all of us."
Learn More...
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Act Quickly and Decisively…
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We fully expect the EPA to decide to regulate the over-the-counter sale of colloidal silver, by claiming it is a "pesticide" under their antiquated FIFRA regulations.But once these new regulations for silver are released, there is no telling whether or not the little generators will still be legal to sell.
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“Ban All Colloidal Silver Products, or Regulate Them as Drugs,” says environmental group Friends of the Earth
Promises made by Friends of the Earth (FOE) not to pursue a ban on over-the-counter colloidal silver products turn out to be bald-faced lies; newly issued FOE position paper reveals their true intentions to have colloidal silver banned and regulated as a drug…
“We believe that all over-the-counter colloidal silver
products should be immediately withdrawn from the market and their sale should be banned (unless approved as a drug by the appropriate regulatory agency).
-- Friends of the Earth (FOE), June 2009 report “Nano and Biocidal Silver,” pg. 13
An old joke says, “How can you tell when a politician is lying?”Answer:“When his mouth is moving.”
I’m beginning to wonder if the kernel of truth within that joke doesn’t also apply to the leaders of environmental groups like Friends of the Earth (FOE).
After all, back in January, February and March of this year when a consortium of environmental groups including the FOE first began pushing a legal petition to have the EPA regulate nanosilver as a “pesticide,” I exposed the fact that this petition, if adopted, would ultimately result in a de facto nationwide ban on the sale of most if not all colloidal silver products.
Directly afterwards, many concerned FOE members who were also long-time colloidal silver users emailed FOE asking if my contentions were true.“Why would an environmental group be trying to ban simple, natural colloidal silver?” FOE members asked their organization’s hierarchy.
FOE representatives, in turn, emailed back, assuring their members that they had no intention whatsoever of pushing for regulations that would ban “traditional colloidal silver products” from the marketplace.They were only concerned, they claimed, with new products that incorporated “nanosilver” into their makeup such as computer keyboards, clothing and other textiles that were impregnated with nanosilver for antimicrobial purposes.
FOE explained in these emails that they were also concerned with other “big ticket” products that could potentially release tiny silver particles into the environment, such as washing machines that squirt small amounts of colloidal silver into the rinse cycle for bacterial control, or devices that release silver particles into swimming pools and hot tubs for the same purpose.
A number of FOE members forwarded those email replies from the FOE hierarchy to me, and seemed satisfied with the seemingly sincere assurances of the organization’s leaders.
The Evidence Pointed Otherwise
But as I dug deeper into the story, I found that the evidence pointed otherwise.I discovered that the petition FOE was backing in conjunction with the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and other environmental groups, had an appendix that named the top three colloidal silver brands in America as being products that need to be pulled from the market immediately until they could prove they posed no “harm to the environment.”
I also discovered that many other, less well-known brands of colloidal silver were listed on that petition addendum.
And I found that legally, if the EPA adopted the environmentalist’s petition as proposed, the listed colloidal silver products would be among the first to fall under the new regulatory grasp of the EPA, which would in turn be obligated to regulate them as “pesticides,” and ban their sale until they could prove through costly and time-consuming environmental impact reports that they presented “no harm to environmentally sensitive microogranisms.”
That, I found, would be the first step in a massive campaign against the sale of colloidal silver products.If adopted by the EPA, the “nanosilver” petition would ultimately become law, in effect resulting in a backdoor ban on colloidal silver products.
What’s more, I emailed the main petition sponsor, the environmental group ICTA, and asked what their intentions were toward colloidal silver products.Their all too carefully worded reply, which I published, made it clear to me that the environmental groups behind the petition were ultimately working to force the EPA to “investigate” and “regulate” virtually any product containing tiny silver particles for antimicrobial purposes.
Clever New Definitions
In later blog posts I also demonstrated how the environmental groups had, in effect, cleverly swept most major brands of colloidal silver under the “nanosilver” umbrella, by pushing a definition of nanosilver as being any product composed of silver particles up to one hundred nanometers in size.I pointed out that this was like claiming a gallon of milk is defined as being any container of milk up to 100 gallons in size.
Why have the environmentalists pushed this revised definition?
Over the past few decades, as colloidal silver-making technology has improved, most major colloidal silver manufacturers have switched to producing smaller silver particles, compared to the overly-large silver particles that had been widely used in colloidal silver products since the early 1900’s.
That’s because the human body is better able to absorb and utilize smaller silver particles for health and nutritional purposes.And it is also better able to excrete the smaller particles after the body utilizes them, so potential silver buildup in the body is far less of a problem.In other words, smaller silver particles are not only better absorbed by the body, and work much better, they are also much safer to use than products containing overly large silver particles.
But because most of the top colloidal silver manufacturers have switched to producing such small silver particles, the revised definition of “nanosilver” being pushed by the environmentalists would effectively and automatically re-classify most major brands of colloidal silver as being “nanosilver” products – the very target of the environmentalists’ EPA petition.
In short, once again, colloidal silver has always been the target of the environmentalist’s anti-silver campaign.
Hidden Pharmaceutical Company Funding
Finally I published a devastating investigative report by ace natural health journalist Tony Isaacs, who unveiled irrefutable evidence that environmental groups behind the petition to force the EPA to regulate silver as a “pesticide” had been taking thousands, tens of thousands, and in some cases even millions of dollars in funding from foundations associated with huge, multi-national pharmaceutical conglomerates like Merck and Pfizer – some of the very drug companies that have the most to lose if safe, natural silver is ever allowed to become a mainstream natural treatment for infection and disease.
I also independently discovered and documented the fact that several large pharmaceutical companies who specialized in the production of prescription antibiotic drugs were directly associated with clinical research groups behind studies being cited by environmental groups such as FOE as “evidence” that silver could harm the environment.
In other words, everywhere you look it appears that Big Pharma is a driving force behind the environmentalist campaign to eliminate colloidal silver and other silver-based products from the marketplace!
(As an aside, the environmental groups never get around to addressing the fact that silver comes from the environment in the first place, and that when nanosilver or any form of colloidal silver is returned to the environment, it loses most of its powerful antimicrobial properties due to agglomeration with other minerals.In essence, it becomes inert, environmentally speaking.Which means it is ultimately harmless to the environment.It cannot harm tiny, environmentally sensitive microorganisms, or fish, or humans, or anything else, for that matter.)
What Are Environmental Groups Doing in Bed With Big Pharma?
So why in the world are environmental groups taking such staggering sums of money from Big Pharma?It just doesn’t make sense.After all, a recent investigative report from Associated Press states that, “U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceutical drugs into waterways that often provide drinking water for millions of Americans — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked…“
In other words, Big Pharma is polluting the environment with drugs.But rather than opposing Big Pharma, the environmentalist groups are taking money from them.What’s more, environmental groups are ruthlessly attacking silver – the most popular natural health alternative to the prescription antibiotic drugs produced by Big Pharma.
Are you starting to get the picture?
According to the Associated Press report, “…trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies…pharmaceuticals have now been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans.”(Emphasis mine.)
The report goes on to state, “Most cities and water providers still do not test. Some scientists say that wherever researchers look, they will find pharma-tainted water.”
What’s more, the AP report also noted that “Pharmaceutical makers typically are excused from having to submit an environmental review for new products, and the FDA has never rejected a drug application based on potential environmental impact.”(Emphasis mine.)
In short, Big Pharma can produce hundreds of billions of dollars a year worth of prescription drugs, and in spite of the fact that millions of pounds of these drugs annually end up polluting the environment, the environmental groups remain silent.There is not a single call to regulate Big Pharma’s drugs as environmental pollutants.
In fact, according to the AP report, Big Pharma doesn’t even need to submit environmental reviews for their drugs, which are now contaminating the drinking water of tens of millions of American men, women and children.
But colloidal silver, which has never been demonstrated to contribute to environmental pollution, is being singled out by the environmental groups (backed by their Big Pharma paymasters) for extreme and completely unwarranted environmental regulations that will literally drive most if not all colloidal silver manufacturers and vendors completely out of business.And it’s all being pulled off in the name of “protecting the environment.”
Clearly, the hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.If you’re Big Pharma, you can pollute the environment with impunity, and the Environmental Protection Agency and major environmental groups look the other way.But if you produce a relatively safe, natural product that’s considered by Big Pharma to be a direct competitor to their prescription antibiotic drugs, they’ll sic the environmental watchdogs on you, and drive you out of business.
The environmentalist groups like ICTA and FOE are simply doing the bidding of Big Pharma…for money.They have sold out to the dark side.Pure and simple.
Enviros Openly Admit They Want to Ban All Colloidal Silver Products
I give you all of the above as background.What I’m about to tell you next demonstrates that, in spite of many feigned protestations to the contrary from the environmental groups like Friends of the Earth (FOE), the goal of the environmental groups all along has been to ban the over-the-counter sale of colloidal silver.
Indeed, in a brand new position paper entitled Nano and Biocidal Silver: Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health, published in June 2009 by FOE, it is made abundantly clear that the true aim of the environmentalist campaign is a complete ban on all colloidal silver products.
Of course, FOE is one of the main environmentalist co-sponsors of the petition to have the EPA regulate nanosilver as a “pesticide.”But their 48 page position paper makes it abundantly clear that conventional colloidal silver is their true target.
Their new position paper is without a doubt one of the most magnificent pieces of subterfuge and deception ever to see the light of day.The use of hyperbole, obfuscation, misdirection and exaggeration in an attempt to paint colloidal silver products as being harmful not just to the environment, but to mankind in general, and to children in particular, has been taken to heights previously unrealized.You could say FOE has made an art form out of deception with their latest report, and that would be an understatement.
In just a moment I’ll show you some examples of the deception and exaggeration used in the new FOE position paper.But first, I’ll simply bottom-line it for you.On page 13 of their new report, the FOE states, clearly and unequivocally, that their intentions are to bring about a complete and immediate BAN on ALL over-the-counter colloidal silver products, and that colloidal silver should only be sold if it is regulated as a drug.Here is a direct, word-for-word quote:
“We believe that all over-the-counter colloidal silver products should be immediately withdrawn from the market and their sale should be banned (unless approved as a drug by the appropriate regulatory agency).
-- Friends of the Earth (FOE), June 2009 report, Nano and Biocidal Silver:Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health,” pg. 13
Even the title of their position paper, Nano and Biocidal Silver: Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health, tells you what they’re after.
“Nano” of course, refers to silver products composed of very tiny particles of silver.But “Biocidal” refers to ANY type of silver that kills microbes.
In other words, the environmentalists are no longer even attempting to hide their true motives in attacking silver.They have labeled all silver products “a growing threat to public health.” Now they admit forthrightly they seek nothing less than a total ban on all over-the-counter silver-based products, including colloidal silver.
Environmental Flim-Flam
In the recent past, one of the most effective techniques the environmentalists have used in their ongoing campaign against silver-based products is to cite clinical studies they (falsely) purport demonstrate some significant danger to humans from contact with silver.
For example, in March of this year, just before the EPA closed the door to public comments on the campaign to regulate silver as a “pesticide,” the environmentalists published an article claiming that a “major new clinical study” had proven that silver harms human cells.
What the environmentalists failed to report in their article was most enlightening.First of all, it turned out that the study they cited was hardly “major.”Indeed, it was a very small study conducted by a virtually unknown research group in Red China.
Secondly, it turned out that the group conducting the study was in cahoots with two major pharmaceutical companies who are major producers of prescription antibiotic drugs.And finally, the study itself merely demonstrated the well-known fact that silver kills e. coli bacteria by damaging its cellular structure and preventing it from replicating.
In other words, the study was on bacterial cells, not human cells.Yet in an act of subterfuge and deception that, in my opinion, took the art of misdirection to a completely new level, the environmentalists used that study to promote the idea that silver is somehow harmful to human cells.
Similarly, their new position paper, Nano and Biocidal Silver:Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health, is rife with such deceptive tactics.For example, the paper repeatedly cite studies conducted on bacterial cells to justify their contention that colloidal silver harms human cells, even though no such harm has ever been demonstrated.
In fact, when Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. of Syracuse Medical University conducted his groundbreaking research on colloidal silver in the 1980’s, during which he used an electrical apparatus to drive tiny, submicroscopic silver particles directly into the bones and surrounding tissues and organs of his patients who were suffering from incurable infections, he not only demonstrated that silver cured every infection, but that no harm whatsoever was caused to the patients’ cells, tissues, organs or bones.In fact, he stated at the time:
“What we have done was rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, a fact which had actually been known for centuries...All of the organisms we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics...In no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent.”
In short, the new FOE position paper makes colloidal silver -- one of the safest natural substances on the face of the earth – out to be the single-greatest threat to mankind since nuclear weapons.You’d think it was plutonium the environmentalists are talking about, instead of silver.
This is environmental flim-flam at its worst.
Duplicitous Diatribe
The FOE position paper also repeatedly contradicts itself.For example, in one section of the paper the FOE states:
It is presently not known how to determine if the human central nervous system is vulnerable to silver toxicity and at what dose. While there is some evidence that silver may cross the blood brain barrier (at least in rats), the evidence is inconclusive and silver deposits do not appear to result in detectable neurological damage (Landsdowne 2007).
Yet in another section of the position paper, the FOE states categorically of silver-based preparations:
However there is plenty of evidence that such preparations are dangerous, may cause argyria, have been implicated in neurological problems and may even result in death (Landsdown 2007).
Which is it?Silver either doesn’t cause neurological problems, or it does.The evidence is either “inconclusive,” or there is “plenty of evidence.” You can’t have it both ways.And if you’re going to state that a substance like colloidal silver “may result in death,” you’d better have the facts to back it up.Not surprisingly, they don’t present a single shred of evidence for this sensationalistic contention.
Toxicity?
Under a glaring headline that reads “Silver Can Be Toxic To Humans” the FOE is only able to come up with a single obscure case in which an unnamed person with burns over 30% of his body had “liver toxicity,” allegedly from wearing “nanosilver coated wound dressings.”
Of course, we are not told by FOE how extensive the liver toxicity was, nor how it was determined that “nanosilver coated wound dressings” were the actual cause of this toxicity.We are not told whether the liver toxicity was permanent or transient (most cases of liver toxicity are transient, with the liver returning to normal after the offending substance is eliminated).
What’s more, we are not told if there were other offending substances involved.For example, we can only assume that the individual was on powerful painkillers such as Demerol, considering the fact that he had burns over 30% of his body.He was probably on muscle relaxants, considering the fact that serious burn patients have to remain still for long periods of time in order to allow their skin to heal.We can only assume the patient was on other prescription drugs as well, to help alleviate discomfort and speed healing.
So could a cocktail of drugs or other medical substances have contributed to the reported liver toxicity?FOE doesn’t tell us.They simply assure us that this single obscure case is evidence that “Silver Can Be Toxic to Humans.” Oh, my.
The remaining paragraphs under that glaring headline have nothing whatsoever to do with silver toxicity, but instead are a re-hash of the same tired old ad nauseum charges about silver usage producing “argyria,” a type of skin discoloration caused when people drink extreme and completely unwarranted amounts of colloidal silver over long periods of time – something no experienced and knowledgeable colloidal silver user would ever have to worry about.
There is much, much more deception, exaggeration, misdirection and outright fabrication in this slick, glossy, full-color 48-page position paper from FOE.But I won’t bore you with the excruciating details, except to say anyone with even a modicum of critical thinking can see that FOE’s entire anti-silver campaign is based on an empty foundation of raw speculation and rank sensationalism.The unfortunate problem, however, is that these days most people have lost their ability to think critically, and will likely fall for the deceptive and sensationalistic propaganda tactics employed by FOE.
The Final Insult:“Do It for the Children”
It’s been said in the distant past that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.This doesn’t mean that patriots are scoundrels.It simply means that scoundrels have long been known to wrap themselves in a cloak of patriotic fervor whenever they try to pull a con on the general public.The aura of patriotism frequently blinds people to the con being pulled on them.
My contention, however, is that patriotism no longer works very well as a smokescreen for deception.Modern-day scoundrels have learned that it’s far more effective to jump on the “do it for the children” bandwagon in order to sell a con to the general public, than to wrap themselves in the flag. That’s because children are an emotional topic that anyone can relate to.So these days, shrewd con artists play on the public’s heartstrings, claiming they are “doing it for the children” whenever they want to pull a fast one over on the public.
What does this have to do with the new FOE position paper?Interestingly, its cover features a large color photograph of an innocent, doe-eyed baby sucking on a baby bottle next to the blaring title of the paper --Biocidal Silver:Extreme Germ Killers Present a Growing Threat to Public Health.
By the time you scroll to page five, you’ll discover what I call the final insult:the new theme adopted by the environmentalists in order to scare the public into supporting their call for a ban on silver-based products is that we have to do it for the children.
You see, prominently featured on page five is another large photo.This one is of a cute little girl of about four years old, holding a fluffy teddy bear.Printed in big letters next to her image is the following dire warning:“By exposing children to increasing quantities of biocidal nanosilver, we may very well be robbing a child’s need to mature his or her immune system.”
Ah, yes.You probably didn’t realize that all of those evil colloidal silver-swigging parents out there have apparently been painting their children from head to toe with “biocidal nanosilver” before sending them off to school each day, thereby depriving them of being exposed to all of the pathogens they need in order to “mature their immune systems.”At least, that’s what the environmentalist groups like Friends of the Earth (FOE) would have you believe.
Of course, there’s no mention of the literally tons of antibiotic drugs being dumped into the water supply of 51 million Americans by Big Pharma.Surely that kind of environmental pollution is not playing any role in “robbing a child’s need to mature his or her immune system.”No siree.No problem there.It’s those damned silver nanoparticles being impregnated into the fabric of the new “Benny the Bear Plush Toy” the kids need protecting from, according to the new FOE report.
You probably think I’m kidding.But I’m not.That’s exactly what the new FOE report contends.They even name several makers of “plush toys” for children that contain the dreaded silver nanoparticles the environmentalists now contend will somehow prevent children’s immune system’s from developing correctly by keeping too many pathogens away from them.
I swear to you, that’s what they’re now claiming.Yes, we’ve got to ban colloidal silver or our children will be deprived of all of those nasty pathogens they need.We’ve got to do it for the children.
Lions and tigers and bears…oh my!
The Coming EPA Decision
Considering the tenor, tone and timing of the new FOE position paper, and the expense they’ve gone through to put it together and distribute it, the EPA must be getting ready to make their announcement as to whether or not they are going to adopt the ICTA/FOE legal petition calling for all products containing silver nanoparticles to be heavily regulated as “pesticides.”
As I’ve repeatedly warned, if adopted, this petition will force manufacturers of silver-based products – including most major colloidal silver products -- to prove through expensive environmental impact reports that their products won’t harm “environmentally sensitive microorganisms.”
And because those environmental impact reports can run into the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, this means most colloidal silver vendors will be put out of business for good by the environmentalists.
The new FOE position paper says it all.It’s not just “nanosilver” products they’re after, but a total ban on colloidal silver preparations as well.
What’s The Solution?
Back in January, February and March of this year (2009), natural health proponents and colloidal silver users did all they could to let the EPA know how they feel about the environmentalist’s plans to force EPA to regulate silver-based products, including colloidal silver, as “pesticides.”
Thousands upon thousands of people emailed, called, wrote and phoned the EPA offices to let them know of the disdain and disgust they held for the actions of the environmental groups, who are clearly on the payroll of Big Pharma.
Now, the only foolproof solution left to protect your access to colloidal silver is to make sure you literally own the means of colloidal silver production by obtaining a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.
With a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you’ll be able to make all of the safe, natural, high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver you could ever want, any time you want it, in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
You’ll be able to make high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver for about 36 cents a quart – which is astonishingly inexpensive considering most health food store colloidal silver costs about twenty bucks or more for a tiny four-ounce bottle.
What’s more, making micro-particle colloidal silver with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge is as easy as brewing a pot of coffee.(See 3-minute demonstration film, directly below.)
Indeed, when you own the means of colloidal silver production, it won’t matter whether or not the EPA bans the over-the-counter sale of colloidal silver, as environmental groups like ICTA and FOE are pushing them to do.They can ban colloidal silver into oblivion, and you’ll still be able to make all of the high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver you want, any time you want, with a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.
What that means is that if you want to own the means of colloidal silver production, you’re going to have to act quickly and decisively.This is certainly no time to be indecisive.Once you own a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, they cannot take it away from you.
But if they ban the little generators, too, then access to colloidal silver will be a thing of the past for the vast majority of people.
Only those fortunate few who saw the handwriting on the wall and acted accordingly by purchasing a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator and some extra pure silver wire from The Silver Edge will have access to the world’s most powerful natural antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent, colloidal silver.
A word to the wise is sufficient.The time is growing late.If you’ve ever wanted to own a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, now is the time to do so. Please don’t wait until it is too late to obtain one legally.
Are Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles Harmful to Human Cells?
Anti-silver environmentalist groups such as the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Friends of the Earth (FOE) claim that silver nanoparticles are harmful to human cells.
But the idea that silver nano-particles are harmful to human cells is ridiculous at face value.
In fact, as far back as the 1970's and 80’s the late Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. conducted groundbreaking research at Syracuse Medical University using tiny, electrically generated, sub-microscopic silver particles. And in human trials he found absolutely no harm to cells or tissues.
This, even though in many cases he generated the tiny nano-sized silver particles directly into the tissue and bone of his patients using a low-voltage electrical device and pure silver mesh, or silver electrodes that were surgically implanted into his patients' infected wound sites.Not only did the silver nano-particles cure the infections (including many antibiotic-resistant cases of osteomyelitis), they also triggered bone healing and tissue regeneration -- hardly a harmful result.
Becker would later write, "“What we have done was rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, a fact which had actually been known for centuries...All of the organisms we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics...In no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent.”
Even the latest medical research demonstrates no harm to cells from nanosilver. In fact, research published in the June 2009 issue of the prestigious medical journal ACS Nano demonstrates that nanosilver in the bloodstream acts to prevent blood clotting, and that the presence of silver in the bloodstream causes no apparent harm to cells. (See the blog post below titled “NanoSilver Prevents Blood Clots; Doesn't Harm Cells.”)
You can read more about the benefits of colloidal silver nano-particles in human health and nutrition in the newly updated 547-page book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual at http://www.UltimateColloidalSilverManual.com
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 below referenced study, scientists have now demonstrated that small amounts of nanosilver can reduce blood clots by as much as 40%.
This thoroughly discredits the wild claims by the anti-silver environmentalists who state that silver somehow harms human cells, and that it actually causes blood to "clump" or thicken.
In fact, the study authors state, "Nanosilver appears to possess dual significant properties critically helpful to the health of mankind -- antibacterial and antiplatelet -- which together can have unique utilities, for example in coronary stents."
In other words, nanosilver can prevent infections from taking place in coronary patients who may have stents implanted in their arteries, and it may also keep the blood platelets from clotting up and clogging the arteries leading to the heart.
Now, please don't go injecting nanosilver into your veins in order to reduce blood clotting. That can seriously harm you, because injectible solutions need to be prepared isotonically by a professional in order to make them compatible for the human body.
What's more, parts of the study were apparently conducted on mice (i.e., in vivo), and other parts of the study were apparently conducted in vitro, meaning in the test tube and not in a living organism. Therefore much more research has to be done in order to confirm these important results for human beings.
Nevertheless, this brand new study does help put the lie to the sensationalistic claims of the anti-silver environmentalists, which are mostly based on extrapolations from bacterial studies conducted by clinics being funded by pharmaceutical companies. This independent medical study represents one more nail in the coffin of the anti-silver environmentalists.
-- Spencer
New Research: NanoSilver Prevents Blood Clots
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.
Writing in the June 23 issue of the journal ACS Nano the researchers stated, "Nanosilver appears to possess dual significant properties critically helpful to the health of mankind - antibacterial and antiplatelet - which together can have unique utilities, for example in coronary stents."
If confirmed, the results may represent a breakthrough in the treatment and prevention of blood clots, giving patients a natural alternative to aspirin and anticoagulant drugs, some of which have caused serious side effects such as bleeding.
Dr. Paul Farber’s Successful Experiences Using Colloidal Silver
Dr. M. Paul Farber is widely credited with bringing the powerful qualities of colloidal silver against Candida yeast infections and Lyme Disease to the attention of the general public, in the 1990’s.
In his book, The Micro-Silver Bullet, he goes into great detail regarding his battle against Candida yeast infection and Lyme Disease, which he was able to cure using a form of colloidal silver called Mild Silver Protein (i.e., silver particles bonded to a protein stabilizer).
While we are not big fans of silver protein preparations -- chiefly because more recent medical studies have demonstrated the fact that free silver particles have greater effect than do silver particles bonded to another substance -- Farber’s story nevertheless offers many great insights into the powerful infection-fighting qualities of silver.
Here is a synopsis of his story, written in his own words:
“In July of 1992 I was bitten by the Deer Tick (Ixodes Scapularis) which according to Dr. Thomas Craig, D.V.M. of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology carries the Spirochete which is the causative agent of Lyme disease.
After my diagnosis was confirmed a medical doctor, who is a neurologist, put me first on Penicillin orally for two weeks, and then intravenously for four weeks. The results to my symptomatology were minimal and I experienced many side effects including Candida Yeast Infection because of the penicillin's destructive effect on the friendly acidophilus bacteria in my stomach and colon .
Since this treatment did not work, the neurologist prescribed a cephalosporin called Rocephan. Unfortunately, this treatment accomplished no more than the penicillin, had many unpleasant side effects, and worsened my candida yeast infection.
Not knowing what to do, or where to go next I was led to a Dr. Joeseph Cardot from Colorado*. Dr. Cardot from Colorado told me that Mild Silver Protein was helpful against spirochetes and suggested a regiment to follow.
I began with two tablespoons a day for the first month holding it under the tongue sublingually for a minute, swishing it around the mouth for ten seconds, and then gargling and swallowing. I did the same thing for the second and third month, but only one tablespoon per day.
By the end of the first two weeks my 35 different symptoms, including extreme pain, paralysis, and numbness were about 25% relieved with no side effects.By the end of the first month I was over 50% well.By the end of the second month I was 75% well.
After 3 months of treatment I was 100% well. I have been 100% well for over 2 years. Was I cured from Lyme disease and candida yeast infection?
In my opinion and the opinion of Dr. William Burgdorfer, Scientist Emeritus who discovered the spirochete as the causative agent of Lyme disease, and Dr. John Parks Trowbridge, M.D. an author and expert in the field of candida yeast infection, I appeared to be CURED.
Dr. Burgdorfer, who became a close friend, then shared with me that the world would not believe my results without scientific documentation.
It seems that there is enough testing from universities, and reports from practitioners that the Mild Silver Protein* not only works on Lyme disease but a good deal more bacterial, viral and fungal infections.”
Dr. Farber went on to conduct extensive scientific research on colloidal silver (i.e., the mild silver protein form) at Temple University, eventually writing his well-known book, The Micro-Silver Bullet, documenting both his personal experiences and his studies on the powerful antimicrobial effects of silver.
Farber’s book is quite dated now. And some have complained over the years that it contains too much information about his religious views. Nevertheless, it is a good read for those who want to know about some of the early research on colloidal silver, candida yeast infections and Lyme Disease, and one man’s successful battle against these debilitating diseases.
For More Information...
Farber’s The Micro-Silver Bullet is often available on Amazon.com for those who may want to obtain a copy.
If you are new to colloidal silver usage, and would like a great 60-minute video overview, including hands-on demonstrations for making and using colloidal silver at home, consider an inexpensive copy of the brand new Colloidal Silver Secrets Video, at www.ColloidalSilverSecretsVideo.com
Or, for in-depth information on colloidal silver usage that is absolutely encyclopedic in scope – including three full chapters of specific dosage information for specific diseases -- you might want to consider getting a copy of the newly updated, 547-page book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, available at www.UltimateColloidalSilverManual.com.
Also, if you are interested in learning about more modern forms of colloidal silver, such as the new micro-particle colloidal silver which contains particles as low as .0008 microns in size, and how to make your own micro-particle colloidal silver with a simple implement known as a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, be sure and click through on the links in this paragraph, or simply go to http://www.thesilveredge.com/.
Finally, be sure to check out www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com for information on the four new medical studies documenting colloidal silver’s phenomenal effectiveness against the dread new antibiotic-resistant MRSA pathogen, which is now causing over 90,000 new infections in the U.S. each year, and resulting in more deaths annually than the AIDS virus.
Is NanoSilver Really the “Silver Bullet” Against Potentially Deadly Viral Infections?
The recent outbreak of the strange new so-called “Swine Flu” hybrid virus has just about everybody in the natural health community asking the same two questions, i.e., What’s the single-most powerful all-natural anti-viral substance in existence, and where can I get some?
And they’re asking these two important questions with very good reason. After all, flu vaccines are worthless against mutant viruses. And as has now been widely reported, the popular prescription flu drug Tamiflu is also worthless against most viruses, and in fact has never been shown to be effective against the so-called “Swine Flu” virus.
What’s more, Tamiflu has been known to cause startling mental disturbances in patients taking it, including psychotic episodes leading to death, particularly in young children and teens. The nation of Japan has even banned Tamiflu use by children and teens after 18 deaths were reported. And in some countries warnings of Tamiflu’s brain-altering effects must be posted by law on packages of the flu drug.
Safe, Natural, Highly Anti-Viral
Fortunately, as you will learn in this report, safe, natural mineral silver, in a variety of forms, including colloidal silver, has nearly three decades worth of solid medical research behind it, demonstrating its powerful anti-viral qualities.
Indeed, newer research demonstrates that silver is so powerfully effective against viruses, it even stops the deadly HIV (i.e., the AIDs virus) from infecting human cells. And older research dating back to the 1980’s demonstrates that silver can stop numerous types of viruses from replicating, simply by bonding to them. In fact, silver altogether decimates many viruses, simply from being in close contact with them.
The key, as you’ll discover throughout this report, is in the size of the silver particles. They must be very small silver micro-particles – i.e., what is more commonly known as “nanosilver” -- in order to exhibit such powerful anti-viral qualities.
In this special report, you’ll discover some of the most convincing medical evidence demonstrating that nano-scale sized silver particles – which is to say, very small particles of silver measured in nanometers (nm) -- are the single-most effective all-natural anti-viral substances on the face of the earth.
And you’ll come to understand why colloidal silver – the popular nutritional supplement known as the world’s most powerful natural anti-bacterial and anti-fungal agent – is very likely your best bet for personal and family protection against potentially deadly viral agents, too, as long as it contains nano-scale sized silver particles.
You’ll also learn about one more interesting fact about colloidal silver, which I’ll save for last, even though it may well be the most important and potentially life-saving fact of them all. We’ll get to that later, since it has such important repercussions for people who may have extended families, or other friends and loved ones they are responsible for outside of their own family unit.
The Famous HIV Study
So let’s start with what is perhaps the most important new medical study ever conducted on silver and viruses – the recent HIV study demonstrating silver’s powerful anti-viral qualities against one of the greatest scourges of mankind, the AIDs virus. And then we’ll take a look at many other studies, too, demonstrating silver’s potent virucidal qualities.
In June 2005 The Journal of Nanobiotechnology, published a ten page study that rocked medical science. The study was the result of seven scientists’ exploration into the virus inhibiting qualities of nanosilver – very tiny, invisible particles of silver measured in nanometers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or one-ten thousandth of a hair’s breadth.)
What the study demonstrated is that these tiny nano-scale particles of silver were able to inhibit HIV-1 (i.e., the AIDS virus) from binding to host cells, in vitro.
What this means is that in the test tube, when they placed the AIDS virus alongside human cells in a medium that would normally allow the virus to bind with the cell (and thus cause viral infection), the introduction of tiny nano-particles of silver into the medium prevented the binding from taking place.
In other words, the silver particles stopped the infection from taking place.
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.”
While silver’s well-known toxicity to a wide range of bacterial and fungal pathogens has been thoroughly documented in previous research by many leading research facilities, this study takes the previous research to a whole new level.
For the first time, the long-proven antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles were applied to a highly infectious form of virus with no known cure. And the interaction between the metallic particles, the virus and the cells were studied.
The scientists tested a variety of particle sizes. And they also tested the idea of coating the tiny silver particles with several different surface chemistries including a “foamy carbon matrix,” a polymer and a protein molecule. The goal was to determine if any of these substances would help stabilize the silver particles and aid the silver’s anticipated reaction with the virus.
What they discovered, however, is that only the ‘free surface’ silver nanoparticles in the range of 1 to 10 nanometers interacted with the HIV-1 cells.
Silver Nanoparticles Rule!
This basically means the silver needed no help from the other substances. In fact, anything added to the basic silver nanoparticle served only to prevent the metal’s interaction with the viral microorganism!
What’s more, according to the study, only the very smallest silver particles inactivated the virus’ ability to bond with the host cells. Larger particles did not.
Ultimately the study found that the tiny silver nanoparticles no larger than 10 nm were able to bond to the deadly viral microorganisms and prevented the virus from bonding with the host cell. No bonding to host cell, no viral infection!
A Silver Cathode-Electrode That Helps Fights AIDS and Other Serious Blood Borne Infections!
Actually, silver’s unique ability to inactivate deadly viruses such as the AIDS virus has been known for several decades. The above study merely confirmed what had already been known among cutting edge medical researchers.
For example, three years before the above study was completed, a Reading, PA company called Arrow International, Inc. developed and patented a new catheter-electrode system that uses a low-intensity electrical current to push bacteria and virus-fighting silver ions directly into the human bloodstream. According to the company press release:
"The catheter combines a silver electrode inserted into the patient's blood stream with a second electrode placed on the nearby skin. The combined action releases silver ions into the blood for immediate reaction with pathogens such as HIV viruses. The silver ions do not attack normal human cells because these cells have protective walls, which is not the case for bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Studies revealed in U.S. Patent, No. 6,066,489 assigned to Arrow International, Inc. of Reading, Pennsylvania show improvement by HIV patients treated with in-blood silver ions. One patient prior to treatment had over two million copies of the HIV virus per milliliter of blood and had an infection fighter cell (T4 cells) count of 18. The patient was experiencing serious kidney malfunction. Within 24 hours after silver ion treatment, the HIV virus count dropped to about one million copies and T4 cells fell to 11. One month after treatment began, the HIV virus count was again halved and the Patient's overall health improved.
The catheter-electrode system is intended to be a universal aid in treating blood-borne infections otherwise extremely difficult to treat or cure once infection has begun. Blood-borne viruses can completely overwhelm a patient, defeating the immune system and leading to death. The catheter electrode is 97.8 percent silver, 2 percent Platinum, and 0.2 percent copper. The silver supplies the active silver ion; platinum acts as a catalyst to aid in the release of the silver ions and prevents a buildup of oxides on the electrode. Copper controls the release rate of the silver from the electrode. The small amount of silver introduced into the patient's bloodstream, and the extremely low levels of current, are both highly effective and physiologically safe."
Fascinating, right? But wait a minute. That particular technique for destroying the AIDS virus in the human body was actually invented a long time ago. Only it used pure silver electrodes rather than silver, platinum and copper electrodes. Here’s the story…
Silver Ions Used to Successfully Treat and Cure AIDS in Mexico
According to this article by Dr. Dr. Charles D. Beal, M.D., a system involving the use of electrically generated silver ions delivered via a medical catheter and silver electrodes inserted directly into the bloodstream of AIDS victims has successfully been used in Mexico to treat and cure AIDS patients, as far back as 1989.
It all started with a Dr. Philip Burris, Ph.D., decided to apply the technique invented by the renowned physician and electro-medical researcher Dr. Robert O. Becker, MD of Syracuse Medical University. Becker had discovered a way to use low intensity direct electrical current (LIDC) to produce silver ions inside of the human body, in order to heal infections. He had used the technique to cure numerous so-called “incurable” bone infections (i.e., including antibiotic resistant osteomyelitis) simply by surgically opening the patient up, debriding the infected area of bone, stuffing silver mesh into the infected area, and attaching low-voltage electrodes to the silver mesh, thus using micro-amps of electricity to drive tiny pure silver ions deep into the infected tissue and bone of his patients.
Dr. Burris wondered if a similar technique could be used successfully to treat AIDS victims. He started by talking a research veterinarian into applying the technique to a cat that was dying from the Feline Leukemia Virus (FLV). The treatment consisted of using a catheter to insert a length of pure silver wire into the superior vena cava, through a jugular vein. The researcher then ran a low-intensity electrical current through the silver wire so that silver ions were produced directly into the cat’s bloodstream. Within weeks of the treatment, the cat made a full recovery.
Later, Dr. Cesar Garcia Ramirez, MD, decided to try the same treatment on some of his dying AIDS patients. Quoting the article:
“Cesar Garcia Ramirez, MD, practicing in Tijuana, became aware of the FIV treatment, and felt that it would be a compassionate act to at least try the therapy on some of his dying AIDS patients. He obtained permission from the Baja California Division of Public Health, as well as agreement for the treatment protocol from a group of physicians serving as the Institutional Review Board (Human Studies Committee). Volunteer patients were fully informed and signed consent forms. Initially, three very ill patients were chosen.
Silver electrodes in silicon rubber catheters were placed in arm veins and passed up as far as the vena cava, or near to it. Each patient was treated for 12 minutes at 2.5 microamps, then for 72 hours at 125 microamps except that one patient was treated for only 48 hours. All three patients felt better by the second day, and considerably better by Day 5. Viral loads dropped precipitously, almost to zero in one patient and much lower than the initial count in the other two.”
This took place sometime after 1989. But several years before that, a patent was filed with the US Patent Office for another novel method of using silver against AIDS – this time to prevent the AIDs virus from infecting a person during the sexual act. Here’s the story…
A Patent for a Novel Method of Using Silver to Prevent AIDS Infections During Sex
In 1988, this patent for “A method of inhibiting the transmission of AIDS virus in humans upon sexual intercourse which comprises topically applying an effective antiviral amount of silver sulfadiazine to a sexual canal of a human prior to or during sexual intercourse” was filed with the US Patent Office, application number EP19880301620.
The patent is based in part on a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 132, No. 1, July 1975, pages 79-81, titled, "In vitro activity of silver sulfadiazine against Herpesvirus hominis," which apparently demonstrated the effectiveness of silver sulfadiazine against human herpes virus.
Silver sulfadiazine, of course, is the well-known silver-based prescription cream known commercially as Silvadene, which in burn wards around the world is routinely applied to the skin of burn victims in order to prevent their burnt flesh from becoming infected. It is composed of 1% solution of silver suspended in a water-soluble cream base.
According to the patent:
“…silver sulfadiazine is an antibacterial agent useful in treating burns in man and animal. Silver sulfadiazine is also known to be effective against certain viruses, such as herpes simplex and herpes zoster. Silver sulfadiazine is further known to be effective against treponema pallidum [i.e., syphilis – ED] and gonorrhea, and is spermicidal.
It has now been found quite unexpectedly that silver sulfadiazine is an effective antiviral agent against the AIDS virus. Accordingly, the method of the present invention of inhibiting the transmission of AIDS virus in humans upon sexual intercourse comprises topically applying an effective antiviral amount of silver sulfadiazine to a sexual canal of a human prior to or during sexual intercourse. The known effectiveness of silver sulfadiazine against gonorrhea assists in its effectiveness in inhibiting the transmission of AIDS virus.
As noted above, the method of the present invention of inhibiting the transmission of AIDS virus in humans upon sexual intercourse comprises topically applying an effective antiviral amount of silver sulfadiazine to a sexual canal of a human prior to or during sexual intercourse. The sexual canal can be a vaginal canal or an anal canal.”
In other words, according to the patent holder, simply applying this particular form of silver cream to the sexual canal prior to sexual intercourse, or during sexual intercourse, inhibits the transmission of the AIDS virus!
Amazing, isn’t it? Silver has clearly been known by modern medical science to be effective against serious and even deadly viruses such as HIV since the 1980’s. But it’s not just the AIDs virus that silver has been demonstrated to be effective against in studies. Many other viral pathogens are also either completed inactivated or even destroyed by silver.
Colloidal Silver Shows Efficacy Against Smallpox Virus
In this study, published in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal back in September 1992, it was found that that several different preparations of colloidal silver showed amazing efficacy against the smallpox virus.
Two medical colloidal silver preparations were used, one called Collargol, and one called Protargol. The latter was apparently a diluted preparation.
The study showed a 700 times reduction in the concentration of viral particles when Protargol was applied, and by a whopping 11,000 times reduction in viral particles when the more highly concentrated Collargol was applied.
Silver Inactivates Herpes Simplex Type I and II
Going back even further, a study conducted in 1972 at Department of Microbiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, it was 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.
EPA Approves Use of a Colloidal Silver Spray Disinfectant that Kills Viruses on Surfaces
Moving forward to recent years, even the EPA is now approving silver for certain virucidal purposes.
As reported by the Silver Institute (a group which keeps silver investors appraised of all of the new uses for silver in business and industry), the EPA has recently approved the use of a product called Axen30, a liquid spray disinfectant similar to colloidal silver, for use in child day-care centers, preschools, schools, gymnasiums and children's activity centers.
Axen30 is a dilute formula consisting of 30 ppm silver used as a spray disinfectant. But here's the interesting part:
The EPA-approved advertising claims for Axen30 include a 30-second kill time and a 24-hour residual kill on standard indicator bacteria, a two-minute kill time on the resistant bacteria MRSE and VRE, a 10-minute kill time on fungi, a 30-second kill time on HIV Type I, and a 10-minute kill time on other viruses.
Now that’s amazing – a 30-second kill time against HIV (i.e., Human Immunodeficiency Virus, aka the AIDS virus), and a ten minute kill time against other viruses!
Silver Compound in Countertops Eliminates SARS Virus
Perstorp, a Swedish manufacturing company based in Italy, manufactures a special polymer from which countertops are made. What makes the Perstorp countertop unique is that extremely tiny nanosilver particles are impregnated into the polymer.
Upon human contact, the nanosilver-impregnated polymer begins emitting silver ions. This unique silver ion-emitting polymer was developed for use with products such as toilet seats, door knobs, and other common contact surfaces.
According to news reports, the compound that was successfully tested by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control against SARS, which has a particular interest in public safety due to the SARS virus outbreaks of the past few years in China.
Zhang Panhe, professor at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China, recently stated, “We tested the compound against a four-hour, eight- hour, and 24-hour exposure period and found no surviving SARS virus upon 24 hours of exposure to the polymer...”
In other words, when the polymer was purposely contaminated by the SARS virus, it began killing the virus within four hours, and had killed all SARS viruses on the surface within 24 hours.
This special silver-impregnated polymer is now in use in many hospitals, laboratories and medical research facilities throughout China. What’s more, many variants of silver-impregnated polymers are being used in similar medical-related facilities around the world, in order to help stop the spread of potentially deadly bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens.
Infectivity of Monkeypox Virus Inhibited by Silver Nanoparticles
According to this study published in volume 3, number 4, April 2008 edition of Nanoscale Research Letters, very small silver particles (10 nm in size) significantly inhibited the infectivity of the Monkeypox virus.
The study was conducted in conjunction with the Applied Biotechnology Branch, Human Effectiveness Directorate of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The study’s authors concluded, “These results demonstrate that silver-based nanoparticles of approximately 10 nm inhibit Monkey Pox Virus infection in vitro, supporting their potential use as an anti-viral therapeutic.”
According to Wikipedia.com, monkey pox virus is usually transmitted to humans from rodents, pets, and primates through contact with the animal's blood or through a bite. Its symptoms can be difficult to distinguish clinically from smallpox (to which it is closely related) and chickenpox (to which it is not related).
You may remember news headlines back in 2003 regarding an outbreak of monkey pox virus in the U.S. midwest, among owners of pet prairie dogs.
What this demonstrates is that very tiny micro-particles of silver, known as nanosilver, are even effective against exotic viruses such as those coming from animals! If that doesn’t put you in mind of the recent “Swine Flu” scare, in which the infectious agent was shown to be a hybrid of swine, bird and human viral parts, I don’t know what will.
Silver Shows Anti-Viral Efficacy Against Hepatitis B Virus
In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Hong Kong, it was demonstrated in vitro (i.e., in the test tube) that very tiny silver particles have the ability to interact with viral DNA in such a way as to preve
Antibacterial Nanosilver and Those Sneaky Environmentalists
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