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Important Note and Disclaimer: The contents of this Ezine have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantee can be made in regards to the accuracy and reliability thereof. The author, Steve Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing professionally about natural health topics. He is not a doctor. Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this Ezine meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice. Nothing reported herein is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage. Therefore, the information and data presented should be considered for informational purposes only, and approached with caution. Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction, from other knowledgeable sources such as their doctor, the accuracy and reliability of all reports, ideas, conclusions, comments and opinions stated herein. All important health care decisions should be made under the guidance and direction of a legitimate, knowledgeable and experienced health care professional. Readers are solely responsible for their choices. The author and publisher disclaim responsibility and/or liability for any loss or hardship that may be incurred as a result of the use or application of any information included in this Ezine.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Half-Gallon Ball Canning Jars for Making Colloidal Silver

Most people make colloidal silver in one-quart glass containers.

But if you’d like to make larger than one-quart batches of colloidal silver, here’s some good news…

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It's canning season again, and Walmart has the half-gallon Ball canning jars on sale.

So if you like making larger than one-quart batches of colloidal silver at a time, these half-gallon sized canning jars are perfect for the job.

I just picked up this case of six half-gallon Ball canning jars for $11.47 at Walmart. That works out to about $1.91 apiece -- a great price!

You can also find them online through some of the sources listed in my article, “Online Sources for Glass Containers for Making, Storing and Using Colloidal Silver,” at this link. But buying them at Walmart saves you the shipping costs.

I’m told that Ace Hardware also carries these over-sized canning jars. And if they don’t have any in stock, they’ll order them for you.

Longer Silver Rods

Keep in mind that the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is designed to make one-quart batches of colloidal silver.

So when you increase the size of your glass production container to the half-gallon size, you have to use longer silver rods, due to the higher water volume and larger container.

The silver rods need to reach from the bottom of your generator to about an inch from the bottom of your glass production container.

Of course, that’s not a problem because you can easily get five foot rolls of the pure .999 fine 12 gauge silver wire from TheSilverEdge.com, and cut your rods to length as needed with a simple pair of tin snips or wire cutters.

See this link for ordering bulk rolls of silver wire at special discount pricing: www.999PureSilverWire.com.

Longer Production Time

You also have to increase your production time when making larger batches of colloidal silver.

For example, if you’re using a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you’d usually let the machine run for three hours for a one-quart batch of 10 ppm colloidal silver.

But if you use a half-gallon sized glass production container, you’ll need to let the generator run for six hours, instead.

The basic, rule-of-thumb is to let the generator run for three hours for every quart of colloidal silver you’re making.

If you’d like to learn how to make even larger, gallon-sized batches of colloidal silver, watch my short video explaining exactly how to do it, at this link.

Silver Oxide Coating

Also keep in mind that due to the longer production time required for making significantly larger batches of colloidal silver, your silver rods will probably produce a little more silver oxide coating than usual, which is quite normal.

I’ve made full, one-gallon sized batches in which the silver oxide coating on the silver rods actually began to look like little gray “hairs” growing off the silver rods.

Again, this is perfectly normal, and it’s why we supply the little green “scrubby pad” with each generator, so you can clean your silver rods after each batch.

If some of the silver oxide happens to "fleck" off of the silver rods into your colloidal silver solution toward the end of the production run, just pour the finished batch through an unbleached paper coffee filter, available at any supermarket. It’s very simple to do. Here’s how:

First, use a rubber band to fasten an unbleached paper coffee filter to the lid of a wide-mouthed glass jar (see photo).

Then, slowly pour the finished colloidal silver solution through the paper coffee filter. (See short video on how to do it, here.)

The tiny submicroscopic silver particles will go right through the porous paper coffee filter, but any silver oxide “flecks” and larger silver particle agglomerates will be filtered out.

Making Your Own Colloidal Silver

If you’ve never made your own colloidal silver, you should definitely consider doing so. After all, a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator costs only $239 right now if you take advantage of the current $100 savings deal. (Don’t hesitate, the price is going up soon.)

And with this generator, you can make a half-gallon batch of colloidal silver for about 76 cents!

By comparison, a tiny, four-ounce bottle of colloidal silver in most health food stores runs anywhere from $20 to $30 or more. That means a half gallon’s worth of colloidal silver at health food store prices would cost you close to $320 or more.

So with a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, you’re first half-gallon batch literally pays for the entire cost of your generator, and then some!

And after your first few batches, it’s as close to “free” colloidal silver as you can come!

Indeed, it’s so inexpensive to make, you can literally afford to bathe in it, if you wanted to. In fact, many of our customers pour a quart of colloidal silver into the bathwater during a tub soak for its soothing and youth-enhancing effects on the skin.

And hot tub users will find they can totally replace their chlorine or bromine treatments with a quart of colloidal silver added to the hot tub every week or so.

What’s more, because you can make your own high-quality colloidal silver so inexpensively, you can literally afford to give it away to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers when they’re feeling ill or under the weather.

In fact, most people who purchase a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge suddenly find themselves to be the most popular person on the block – particularly during cold and flu season!

Everybody suddenly wants colloidal silver. So it truly comes in handy to learn how to make larger batches of colloidal silver at a time!

To learn how to obtain a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge while they’re still on sale for $100 off, just click this link.

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Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on making and using colloidal silver…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

90% of Ground Turkey Meat Contaminated With Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Fresh on the heels of the recent admission by health authorities and news media outlets that 50% of all beef and pork tested in supermarkets are contaminated with potentially deadly MRSA bacteria…

…Consumer Reports is now reporting that 90% of all raw ground turkey meat tested by their researchers turned out to be contaminated with up to five different bacterial pathogens, most of which were drug-resistant forms.

Can colloidal silver help? Here’s the good news…

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According to a news article published in the Science section of Business Insider:

“Ground turkey bought at retail stores nationwide contains disease-causing bacteria, a new study by Consumer Reports suggests.

At least one disease-causing strain of bacteria was found on 90% of ground turkey samples.

They tested 257 samples of ground turkey from 21 states and 27 different brands for the presence of five different bacteria: campylobacter, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus; Enterococcus; and Escherichia coli.

These bacteria can cause food poisoning but also urinary, bloodstream, and other potentially serious infections.” (See the Consumer Reports testing results, here.)

Even scarier, almost all of those bacteria were resistant to at least one — and usually multiple — antibiotic drugs, the report says.”

Is Colloidal Silver Effective?

Fortunately, the five bacteria named in the report, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus and Escherichia coli have all been demonstrated to one extent or another to be susceptible to antimicrobial silver.

Here’s what you need to know:

Campylobacter –There’s not a lot in the medical literature about colloidal silver and Campylobacter. However, the company that produces Axen 30, an EPA-approved topical disinfectant composed of a stabilized form of ionic silver, had their product independently tested in accord with EPA standards, and found that it killed Campylobacter as well as numerous other pathogens in both two minute and five minute test periods. Another topical disinfectant product, called IV-7, also claims that it’s stabilized ionic silver product produces “complete kill” against Campylobacter jejuni.

Salmonella – Researchers at Brigham Young University tested colloidal silver against Salmonella and found it to be highly effective at very low concentrations. What’s more, a clinical study titled “Colloidal Silver as a New Antimicrobial Agent” published in the International Journal of Microbiological Research, found that colloidal silver was highly effective against Salmonella typhi, as well as three other disease-causing pathogens. You can read my previous article on Colloidal Silver and Salmonella, documenting these fascinating studies, here.

Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli – Numerous clinical studies have demonstrated antimicrobial silver to be highly effective against both Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (i.e. E. coli). See for example, this study and this study and this study and this study. Even multi-drug-resistant forms of these two pathogens have been demonstrated to be susceptible to antimicrobial silver (see this study). For even more studies, you can read my previous article on Colloidal Silver and E. coli, here. And finally, see the clinical evidence for colloidal silver’s effectiveness against the drug-resistant form of Staphylococcus aureus, here.

Enterococcus – While there’s not much clinical literature on the use of colloidal silver against Enterococcus, a water quality company called NVID International tested ionic silver against numerous pathogens including Enterococcus faecium, and found it to be highly effective. What’s more, a time-kill study conducted at the University of North Texas found colloidal silver to be highly effective against Enterococcus faecalis. Finally, the EPA-approved topical disinfectant silver products mentioned earlier, Axen-30 and IV-7, both claim their products have tested effective against VRE, the drug-resistant form of the Enterococcus pathogen (see here and here).

Keep in mind that all of these eye-opening studies were in vitro laboratory studies (i.e., test tube studies), or topical disinfectant studies, or water quality studies. They were not internal ingestion studies.

Nevertheless, these studies strongly indicate the astonishing effectiveness of antimicrobial silver against the five pathogens now know to be contaminating up to 90% of the ground turkey meat found in supermarkets.

How to Protect Your Family

Most people understand that cooking raw meat thoroughly after preparation is the safest and most sure-fire way to kill these pathogens and avoid food poisoning. It is handling the meat before cooking that can be problematic.

As Dr. Tara Smith, an assistant professor of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa has stated, “Anyone handling raw meats should be careful about cross-contamination of cooking areas or other food products, and should make sure hands are washed before touching one's face, nose, lips, etc."

In other words, while thoroughly cooking the meat may well kill the pathogen, it can nevertheless get spread all over your kitchen during the preparation phase, contaminating cutting boards and counter tops, sinks and faucets and even kitchen utensils while you’re preparing the meat for cooking.

And the pathogens can quite easily get transferred from the raw meat to your hands, and then to your face, giving them access to your body through your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc.

Dr. Stuart Levy, M.D., a Tufts University Professor of Microbiology, points out that food-borne pathogens often thrive on the surface of skin, so you can end up contracting an unwanted infection simply by touching contaminated raw meat.

What’s more, such an infection can go invasive if you have a cut on your hand, or if you unconsciously touch your contaminated hand to your eye, ear or nose.

Patting your child on the head as he or she walks by while you’re preparing raw meat products for cooking can also transfer the pathogens from you own skin onto theirs.

What’s more, family members can also contract the pathogens by inadvertently touching the kitchen countertop or cutting board where you were preparing the meat before cooking, or even by touching the kitchen sink or faucets, or any of the utensils you used.

Here’s Where Colloidal Silver Comes in Handy

This is where having plenty of colloidal silver on hand can come in handy.

Simply spraying kitchen countertops, cutting boards, sinks, faucets, and other “touch surfaces” with colloidal silver before and after handling raw meats in the kitchen can go a long way toward eliminating the potential for infection.

Washing your hands in warm soapy water, and then washing the cutting board, the kitchen counter top, and any utensils involved in the meat preparation process will help clean the pathogens away, to a great extent.

But for maximum protection, spraying one’s hands with colloidal silver after washing, and then spraying the kitchen cutting board, countertop, utensils, sink and other contact surfaces with colloidal silver after washing will provide a powerful added layer of protection that will let you sleep soundly at night.

Simply by keeping a pump spray bottle full of colloidal silver next to your kitchen food preparation area, and using it when preparing meats and other foods, you can do much to protect your home and your family from potential infections and food-borne illnesses.

Plus, if you or a family member were to ever contract a nasty food-borne infection from one of these bacteria (God forbid!), you’ll likely be able to cure it yourself with your homemade colloidal silver. (Warning: Food-borne infections can be very serious. Never wait too long to see a doctor if a serious infection takes place.)

As I mentioned in my previous article on MRSA-contaminated meats, you simply can’t afford to wait for the meat processing industry to do something about the growing problem of bacteria-contaminated raw meat. It’s a problem that’s likely going to get a lot worse before it ever gets better.

You have to take matters into your own hands, for the safety and well-being of your family.

Make sure colloidal silver plays a central role in your after-preparation food clean up, and you’ll slash your family’s risks of food-borne illness dramatically.

To learn how to make your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents a quart, just click the link in this sentence.

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on colloidal silver…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

First Ever Colloidal Silver Human Ingestion Safety Study

American Biotech Labs has just released what is believed to be the first ever human ingestion safety study on a colloidal silver supplement.

The published abstract for the study states that ingestion of the patented ABL nanosilver product showed no negative effects on any tested system in the body.

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One of the charges commonly laid against colloidal silver supplements by critics and natural health skeptics is that there have been no “double-blind, placebo-controlled human ingestion studies” conducted on the substance.

Well, now one has.

American Biotech Labs has just released the preliminary data from a double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over phase study conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, at Salt Lake City.

Study Details

The new study is titled An In Vivo Human Time-Exposure Investigation of a Commercial Silver Nano-Particle Solution.

In the study, healthy volunteer subjects ingested American Biotech Labs 10 ppm colloidal silver solution for periods of three days, seven days and 14 days.

There were 36 subjects in all, 12 per each of the three time-exposures studied.

The study subjects took one tablespoon of the American Biotech Labs colloidal silver product per day (15 mL/day) for their assigned period.

Afterwards, at the end of each phase, they underwent extensive tests for:

· Metabolic rate

· Blood and platelet count

· Urinalysis

· Sputum hyper-responsiveness and inflammation evaluation

· Physical examinations

· Vital sign measurements

Plus, the researchers conducted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations of the chest and abdomen at baseline, and at the end of each phase.

According to the study authors:

“No clinically important changes in any metabolic, hematologic, or urinalysis measure identified were determined.

No morphological (or structural) changes were detected in the lungs, heart (cardiac function) or abdominal organs.

No changes were noted in sputum reactive oxygen species or in pro-inflammatory cytokines.”

Important Data

These results are important, because critics often charge that colloidal silver ingestion harms blood cells, kidney function or function of other organs in the body.

And some critics even falsely charge that ingestion of colloidal silver boosts the body’s production of potentially dangerous free radicals and inflammatory cytokines.

Of course, in previous in vitro clinical studies (i.e., laboratory test-tube studies), colloidal silver has actually been demonstrated to protect human nervous system cells from harm.

Colloidal silver has also been demonstrated in in vitro clinical studies to prevent blood clots without causing harm to red blood cells.

What’s more, in another in vitro clinical study, researchers found that instead of colloidal silver causing an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines, it actually reduced them.

And on page 235 of The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, I write extensively about a recent in vitro clinical study demonstrating silver’s ability to significantly quench free radical activity in brain cells, rather than cause it as critics so often charge.

Finally, a 2011 oral ingestion study and a 2012 oral ingestion study, both using animals, demonstrated that even relatively high doses of silver nanoparticles taken over short periods of time caused no mortality or acute toxic signs in the animals tested.

So the shrill cries of the skeptics, critics and colloidal silver naysayers remain completely unfounded to date.

Now, the positive results determined by this University of Utah human ingestion study constitute another milestone in negating the hyperbolic accusations of the critics of colloidal silver.

As the study authors conclude:

“In-vivo oral exposure of a commercial 10-ppm silver nano-particle solution over 3, 7, and 14-day exposures does not exhibit clinically important changes in metabolic, hematologic, urine, vital sign changes, physical findings or imaging changes visualized by MRI.

Further study of increasing time-exposure, dose, and additional organ systems, including cytochrome P-450 enzymes, is warranted.”

In short, this first preliminary study demonstrated that the daily consumption of the colloidal silver product tested was safe for the time exposures studied, and indicates that longer-term human ingestion studies need to be conducted for further insight.

No Silver Deposition

As a prelim to the human ingestion study, Keith Moeller, a managing director at American Biotech Labs who has been taking small amounts of colloidal silver almost daily for over 15 years, volunteered to be checked for silver deposition in his body.

The researchers did an array of blood tests, as well as a full body MRI scan that took nearly two hours while they checked each organ looking for evidence of silver deposition in his body.

No silver residue was found anywhere in Moeller’s system. No harm to his bodily functions was discovered. No abnormalities were found.

In short, properly made colloidal silver, used responsibly in small daily amounts, appears to be abundantly safe even over the long-term.

The Bottom Line:

Widely Used With Amazing Safety!

The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of oral colloidal silver doses are used every month in the United States with no significant adverse effects or detrimental consequences.

Now, for the first time ever, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover phase study has demonstrated conclusively what’s already been demonstrated for the past 60-plus years in uncountable numbers of real-life situations, i.e.,:

Colloidal silver when properly made and responsibly used has one of the safest toxicological profiles of any nutritional supplement.

In contrast, prescription drugs, even when properly used, result in an average of 106,000 deaths per year, plus untold adverse reactions and side effects, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

While the critics ignore the above data and tout the very small handful of cases in which negative effects were attributed to colloidal silver after it was used abusively over long periods of time, they will now have to admit that responsible use of colloidal silver has no serious clinically discernible negative consequences.

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Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
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