Like everyone taking flu shots?

SteveYo...your comments below about "Big Pharma" and these here about flu shots prove nothing other than the fact that you are clearly a victim of "Big Alternative". You can't make such a gross generalization that pharmaceuticals are all just money grabs and then act like all of the companies that sell alternative medicines and organic foods aren't in business for exactly the same reason. You're delusional if you don't realize that pseudoscience like this silver colloidal, organic farms, vitamin companies, herbal remedy companies, etc are in business for anything other than making money. At least modern medicine has the science to back up their claims. Read up on the history of Snake-Oil salesmen then you'll begin to feel silly that you are a victim of the modern day equivalent.

Learn to understand the difference between true statistical validity and anecdotal "my friends did X then Y happened" evidence.

But what if I want to turn myself blue?

Steve will show you how. He can also show you how to damage your brain, by wearing very tight tinfoil hats.

Then tell me why the hospital my co-worker went to 3 weeks ago for a stint for her heart attack was back in this week so they could but a silver "sponge" in the incision to get rid of the "gift that keeps on giving" [staph or what ever]

People who use "bad stuff" and don't understand silver will probably has issues.

The biggest one is the myth that using salt in the water to help start the process. WRONG

Immediately during the process you are the salt is being broken to Sodium and Chlorine and silver loves attaching to chlorine yielding Silver Chloride -- WHAT THE ARTICLE WAS SAYING but would not.

The only way for you body to deal with SC is to put it under the top layers of the skin.

Then you go outside in the sun and "get exposed" [just like developing film] --- simple chemistry

I and my family have been using silver for over 6 years and give and taught many others how to use it successfully.

Drink a gallon of water with out stopping -- you will probably get a trip to the emergency room and may die.

Any thing in excess and with out knowledge is bad for you [hey Monsanto, GMO's, you listening here]

I had a job where my palms got soaked in Silver Halide too often. My hands got a shade of blue for several years and kept peeling like I had a sunburn. I finally had to wear gloves or keep my hands clenched whenever I was outside. I took almost 2 years to completely clear up.

I love the people here touting "alternative medicine" but they have literally no medical understanding whatsoever, and probably no understanding of biology or chemistry either.

Yes, I am a proponent of western medicine, because I went through years of school to teach me how to practice it properly without killing patients or turning them blue.

Is it perfect? No. But we know what we are doing, and we have science to back it up. Guess what? You don't.

Silver ions are antimicrobial but so is your average hand soap. Nobody in their right mind would drink hand soap, why would anyone drink silver?

Colloidal silver is a miracle drug. I've been using it for 15 years and NEVER get sick. Yes, there is one blue person on youtube, but he was debunked years ago. There is no evidence WHATSOEVER that colloidal silver turns you blue. No surprise. What the article fails to mention is that the standard strength is 15 parts per million.

No. I'm not selling it, and have no association with anybody that's selling it. If you'd like to know how to make it for pennies, lots of good information on youtube and elsewhere.

My two year old daughter has never been sick and has never even had a fever. Anybody else have a two year old like that?

You give your two year old an unproven potentially dangerous alternative medicine and brag about it?!

As an educator and researcher, I'm stating that it has been proven that silver nanoparticles kill
and destroy the HIV1 virus and will virtually kill any virus. The study is here at www.nanobiomedical.com and came from The Journal of Nanobiotechnology. The study was conducted and performed at the University of Texas and Mexico University in 2005 and there are many new studies being conducted. Again, naturally occurring elemental silver and silver nanoparticles cannot be patented and there was no incentive for anyone, especially Big Pharma, to spend millions or possible hundreds of millions of dollars to research silver. Anybody can then compete in the marketplace. In other words, there is no money in developing a non-patentable product, even though it is a natural miracle cure for a host of pathogens. It’s too bad that people’s lives are no more valuable than the mighty dollar. I quickly grabbed a few quick references. You can do a much more in-depth study on Google. There are hundreds of new University studies available about nanosilver.

http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/3/1/6

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1477-3155-3-6.pdf

Colloidal silver water is just another form of delivering silver nanoparticles to the body. It does sound weird to drink silver water, but it looks like the benefits overwhelmingly outweigh the negative propaganda. Throughout history silver has been proven to work. Hospital burn units’ use silver in
the form of silver sulphadiazine and have been used silver compounds as a first line of defense against dangerous pathogens since the late 1800’s. A .025% mixture of silver nitrate (silver dissolved in nitric acid) was administered to all newborn babies’ eyes to prevent blindness from bacteria after birth.
This was a state law for 50+ years and still used today.

A simple colloidal silver generator process uses a glass mason jar, distilled water, two silver wires and a 9 volt battery, and will produce a 10-20 parts per million solutions within 3-24 hours. It cost about 2 cents worth of silver per quart (figured at silver spot price being around $35-50/oz.) It costs almost nothing. There are two different forms of silver that are produced. About 10-20% of the finished silver water is suspended (colloidal) silver nanocrystalline particles (nanosilver) and 80-90% ionic silver. Elemental silver is the same silver that you have in a .999 fine bullion investment bar of silver or for example, a pure silver ring on your finger, except, the particles are engineered to be between 10-100 nanometers in diameter, which is the definition of nanosilver. To give you an idea of how small one nanometer is, if you compared a (one) nanometer to (one) meter (a meter being a little over 39 inches), it would be the same as comparing a child’s marble to the entire world! That is unimaginably small. Bacteria, fungi and viruses are larger in comparison and the silver binds to the pathogens to kill them. The 80-90% ionic portion of the colloidal silver water silver is silver that has bonded onto other minerals in the distilled water. Even though the water is in a distilled state, there are still parts per million of contaminants like chlorine, dissolved minerals, etc. And they produce a variety of silver compounds (or ions of silver) under the simple electrolytic process.

You could possibly cure yourself with less than a dollar of silver and do it yourself. A MRSA infection in the hospital may cost over $50,000 and there are no guarantees that antibiotics will work. You might just die. By the way, ingestion of silver ions could possibly turn a person permanently blue, but look at the facts. It is estimated that millions of people have used or currently using colloidal silver.
Only around 100 cases of Argeria are reported in the last 100 years! They are just trying to scare you away from silver! This article reads “Drinking silver WILL turn you blue…and here’s why”. That
is false! It should read “Drinking silver might turn you blue if not prepared properlyl…and here’s why”, but they don’t want to tell you that. Millions of people throughout the world use silver and only hundreds of cases turn to Argeria. Do the math. The article makes it sound like if you drink
silver water you WILL turn blue. FALSE PROPAGANDA! The evolution of the Internet has opened the truth up to the public.

Tom...
1. Those references say nothing about what silver does inside the complexities of the human body. Many, many medical research projects do X in a test tube and nothing simillar in the human body. Ergo the point that silver coloidals have never been proven of any benefit,but have been proven to have potentially dangerous side effects considering their off the cuff preparations at the hands of random people.

2. A pharmaceutical firm could most definitely patent a use of silver nanoparticles if they developed a controlled effective delivery method where it was proven to work. I can't understand where you get the idea that it couldn't be patented.

3. There is literally no peer-reviewed evidence for silver coloidals having any benefit. Lots of "I've used 'em for a long time and never got sick" anecdotes mean nothing.

Colloidal silver, of course, CAN indeed cause argyria, or skin-staining -- when irresponsible quantities are used regularly for long periods of time (see).

But there are hundreds of drugs and natural substances that can cause far more devastating side effects when used irresponsibly, and I don't see NBC News writing derogatory articles about any of them.

When it comes to colloidal silver usage, NBC News and the rest of the media always fail to put their sensationalistic claims into proper perspective. They tell a partial truth, and blow it out of all proportion. For example, they never mention the estimated 10 million users of colloidal silver across North America alone who have used colloidal silver for years on end, yet have NOT "turned blue" because they use colloidal silver responsibly and in moderation. They don't mention the tens of millions more people across Europe and Asia who have used colloidal silver responsibly and experienced only beneficial results.

No. They only mention the small handful of miscreants who used colloidal silver irresponsibly and to great excess, and suffered the consequences.

What's more, NBC News and the rest of the bought-and-paid-for media never mention the 65 clinical studies demonstrating amazing beneficial healing results from colloidal silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver (). Instead, they simply label colloidal silver as "snake oil" and hope it scares enough people into believing their sensationalistic claims.

And they never interview for their articles any of the hundreds of bona fide clinical and medical experts who strongly recommend colloidal silver ().

Colloidal silver users are quite used to these kinds of journalistic drive-by-shootings disguised as "news." After all, companies like NBC make hundreds of millions of dollars a year off drug company advertising. And part of their job to get that kind of money is to shoot down safe, natural remedies and cures.

For excellent information on safe, responsible usage of colloidal silver see

Steve...do you have any links to back up the claim that there are 10 million users in North America?

I suggest reading Quackwatch in regard to silly alternative medicine claims like colloidal silver.

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

STMiller…

Keep on open mind. There is a lot of new groundbreaking research taking place studying the potential of
silver nanoparticles. You are going to have to do a lot more research to reference the studies. I only referenced ONE study in my last post. While MRSA and other dangeroue pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotic, the scary thing is they really don’t have any answers on the horizon. Thousands of people have died and there are many more deaths to come. Pathogens do not become resistant to silver. That fact has already become medically proven. Would you let YOUR wife, sibling or any other family member die, if there was nothing else the Medical Doctors could do, or would you look into some of the new research about the possibilities of a silver medicines. It’s easy to go along with what you’re told by the established “experts”. Just be aware that it is usually all over the almighty dollar, not your health.

Silver nanoparticles are contained in colloidal silver water. True colloidal silver and silver nanoparticles are pretty much the same thing, by definition. Silver particles between 10 and 100 nanometers are classified as nano materials. True, colloidal silver water is not completely all nanosilver. Colloidal silver, as I stated below, is 10-20% nanosilver and the balance is ionic silver. Both forms of silver serve a function.

Silver metal and silver nanoparticles are naturally occurring in nature and cannot be patented. There
could be many processes where the manufacturing of a lotion that contains silver nanoparticles for the skin could be patented, and you are right, a delivery system could be patented, but the silver nanoparticles are the main ingredient and the rest is pretty much just a carrier. They have been patented like this before, but the patents have run out. Therefore, you will see little research from Big Pharma, because they are only interested in patented drugs and nothing else. Sad, but true.

It upsets me to see articles like this that say “Drinking silver WILL turn you blue”. The writer needs to do
more research, before scaring people away from silver.

Tom...
The use of silver for medical practices was ended almost 70 years ago because it was known to be ineffective in comparison to much more effective antibiotics. As a topical in certain preparations it still has some applications, but is in effective as an antibacterial in comparison to modern antibiotics.

You see some research from, as you say Big Pharma, in the use of silver in bandages, topicals, etc. However, they are aware of its little use internally comparatively. The resurgence of silver among those interested in the Big Alternatives, is a very common example of people rehashing old medicine practices in attempts to sell something that will appeal to a segment of society that is distrustful of pharmaceutical firms. Often these alternatives are nothing more than modern day snake oils. Fr instance, herbal medicines, ear candling, neti pots, etc. I often find it silly that people will regurgitate the contrived concept that "Big Pharma" is somehow taking advantage of them only to turn around and be sucked into wasting ones on unproven pseudoscience under the guise of homeopathic alternatives snake oils.

It's good enough for the Smurfs.

StMiller, I filled my previous post with links, but NBC apparently stripped them out, leaving only parenthesis () in their places. So I'm not going to bother to post them again. Suffice it to say I've collected over 65 clinical studies on the use of antimicrobial silver -- including safety and efficacy studies. And I've collected hundreds of quotes from bona fide medical experts on the use of antimicrobial silver. So you can believe Quackwatch, which is funded by Big Pharma, or you can believe the experts. But I suppose if you don't know who the experts are or where to find their studies, which are on my website but NBC News won't allow me to publish the links here, then you'll just have to live in ignorance on this subject, believing you know something you actually know very little about. It's too bad NBC News won't allow the links to be published. But if you want to go to The Silver Edge dot com, and scroll down to the "Clinical Studies and Reports" link, and the "What the Experts Say" link, and check out some of the other links as well, you might get an unexpected education. BTW, I've been using colloidal silver for some 17 years now, and guess what? I'm not blue. And I've only experienced benefits and no detriments from it. You'd think after 17 years if there was a problem with moderate colloidal silver usage I'd have found it by now.

Steve...that is a cheap shot at Quackwatch. Provide your proof that they are funded by pharmaceutical firms! The only suggestions of that that I could find online are at sites that are questionable sources at best who are themselves nothing more than "Big Alternative" profit machines, Have you even seen Quackwatch? If you think the HTML ramblings that make up the engine of that site are being funded by big money you're delusional. That site looks like and is nothing more than a few dedicated people making sure that the truth is known about all the pseudo science people try to push as medicine these days. You can always email me your links to your proof in the 65 clinical studies and the words of these experts. I'm always curious to see what qualifies as an expert in alternative medicine. It's like saying..."so and so is an expert in dragons".

Wow! A real live Smurf. Why would anyone want to drink silver in the first place?

Go to a real doc when you need meds. Going to some nut with sugar, salt, and silver to feed you for a cure to your problem is just dumb.

A friend of mine in Cali went to one of these quacks and sold her a bottle for salt pills to lose weight. She never lost weight, and I told her if she wanted to lose weight, exercise, eat right, and stop eating all that junk food. She paid a quack 30 buck for salt tabs and to check her out, I gave her the best advice and got nothing.

Pfffffft... oh well, she's lost some weight and we are still friends. lol

Eric "Yes, I am a proponent of western medicine, because I went through years of school to teach me how to practice it properly without killing patients or turning them blue.

Is it perfect? No. But we know what we are doing, and we have science to back it up. Guess what? You don't."

It's nowhere near perfect, otherwise, western nations wouldnt be so damn sick, now would they?

what i've come to appreciate about doctors, for the most part, is that they are sincere in wanting to help people. what i've come to loathe about doctors, is that in general, if they didnt learn it in a class or in their text books, it isnt real.

I developed allergies about 5 years ago, had a migraine for 3 months straight - to the point where if I owned a gun I would have blown my head off (not joking). my family doctor didnt really TRY to figure out what was causing it, just kept giving me different migraine meds - none of which worked:

THIS is an example of how doctors arent so interested in finding the problem and solving the problem, but simply MASKING the problem - WESTERN MEDICINE AT IT'S FINEST (and im not wholly convinced this reality isnt driven by patients who dont give a sh!t either).

When I demanded that we figure out what was causing the migraine and stop trying to mask it, she sent me in for bloodwork, an CT Scan, and to a physical therapist.

The Bloodwork showed a whole bunch of allergies I had never had before, so I was also sent to see an allergist.

The Physical Therapist was CERTAIN that my migraine was caused by poor posture (which, yes my shoulders hunch some, but I work at a desk on a computer, who's shouldnt dont hunch a little?)...at nearly $50 per 1/2 hr session I finally asked (after only 2 sessions) = is there a reason I cant do these exercises at home, on my own? turns out I could...but they dont make money if I do that. Sucks for them.

Anywho, stretches and sitting up straight didnt take my migraine away. RATS.

Onto the Allergist: he studies my bloodwork, see's that i've had a ct scan that showed nothing, does the prick test to see which ones give me hives...and concludes "lets send you for another CT Scan, this one of your nose, I think you have a sinus infection".

So, we go for another CT scan, less than 2 weeks from the last one (which is a higher dosage than most people should be exposed to, but we gotta figure it out right?)

ah yes, he see's the sinus infection - wants to put me on antibiotics. But im allergic to those, so all the "good ones" I cant take, and all the not-so-good ones I can take, never work. But, despite my objections, we try it anyway. The meds run their course, I still have a migraine, and a sinus infection.

I say "hey doc, whats the chance that one of these allergies are causing my migraine"...well, since most are food allergies, he doesnt think any of them could be. He's never heard of a food allergen causing a migraine before, and he certainly didnt learn about it in his education. It's just not possible you see.

after he told me it wouldnt help anything to eliminate all the foods I was allergic to from my diet, I decided I would do it anyway. I figured I didnt have much to lose.

I re-introduce the foods back in one by one to see what would happen.

Turns out, Onions caused a sinus infection (or inflammation really) and bad headaches.

Peanuts caused migraines.

I went back to him after figuring this out, and flat out told him I would NEVER be his patient again, and that he apparently needs more education - or an ability to think outside of the box, because he did literally NOTHING to help me...and he essentially refused to listen to me.

that is simply ONE example I have.

My spouse also has Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that still baffles the science community in the most basic way - what causes it, and how do we treat the sypmtoms and the disease, not just the symptoms.

suffice to say, my spouse no longer uses the injection medications and instead relies on alternative medications and therapies, as such, we cant find a neurologist in our area to be her doctor. it doesnt fit their "education on MS" so they have no clue how to handle her...though, admittedly the last neurologist we saw said that my spouse was doing better than almost all of her patients who've had MS for the same amount of time, and as many lesions as he has on her brain (and the locations). She only did traditional western medication for 3 of the 10 years. The first 3 years she was on meds, she was the absolute sickest, relapsing every 3 months, steriod treatments almost every 3 months, it was absolutely horrible.

Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to her was her insurance company essentially "not paying for it" anymore...and forcing us to find an alternative and cheaper option:

Diet, Exercise, Stress Management/Reduction - and yes, marijuana. (and complete elimination of alcohol).

The last 7 years, she's had approx 3 relapses, all of them coming at times of extreme stress (unexpected deaths) and while it has taken her longer to recover from those relapses, and one of them has left permanent damage...she's overall, more healthy and more capable of living a fuller life.

It seems, neuorologists would want her as a patient, to compare to their other patients...

who knows, they might actually LEARN something their teachers and books never knew how to tell them.

also forgot to mention, she goes once a month for acupuncture (for stress reduction).

her acupunturist also asks questions everytime we go, to gauge her progress and to address any new issues. from an Eastern Medicine perspective, most things are connected - so when one part of our body is out of whack, it will have an affect on other parts.

as such, she targets the acupuncture to these current issues.

you'll note, eastern medicine does not take a "one size fits all" approach like western medicine does, and most importantly, it's focus is the underlying problem and how to treat it - not focused wholely on the symptoms and how to mask them.

and this is why i believe western medicine is SICK CARE not HEALTH CARE.

we develope medications to treat the symptoms...and it does nothing to eliminate the actual problems. and furthermore, our medicines arent based on 100% success rates, but rather, 30% in most medication is considered "success"...leaving 70% of the people without adequate treatments.

what messed up society would ever consider that success?

thankfully, it does seem that portions of the medical industry is understanding this now and figuring out a better way to target the differences, we are seeing these advances in cancer treatment...when one medication works really well for SOME people, but not all...we've come to understand, one size fits all leaves a lot of people with subpar treatment.

Mike_P101--I have NEVER heard of anyone purposely consuming mercury--what are you referring to?

Jessica.... Explain something. If "eastern" medicine were, overall, more effective than "western" medicine wouldn't lifespans in countries predominately practicing those methods not be appreciably longer when using those medicines? Japan has the highest lifespan in the world and is not a large practioner of so called eastern medicines. As a matter of fact India is probably the country with the most established practiced use of eastern medicine and it has a woefully low overall lifespan. All of the countries at the top of the life expectancy list, including the three Asian ones, are highly developed countries with highly developed "western" medical practices.

BTW...I dislike the terms eastern vs western since I fully acknowledge that those are the childlike terms used by the alternative medicine crowd. Many, many Asian countries have been at the forefront of medical science termed "western".

Lisa .. It was used for treating Syphilis up until the early 1900's and good sense put that to an end. Now it's making a comeback with some from the colonics groups, mostly outside of the US (the idea that heavy metal solutions in the colon will absorb them out of the system) and some groups promoting it as a cure for autism (the idiotic idea that mercury will attract other mercury lingering in the nervous system that children were exposed to during immunizations.) Online groups get someone who posts something crazy that insists it's the magic cure and desperate people rush to find someone who will do it in an effort to find a cure. So when someone comes in with mercury poisoning it's helpful to ask if they've been receiving medical tx outside the us.

Mike--thank you for your response--I did not know that! Wow, what people will believe when they are desperate!

Lisa, yeah.. desperation can lead to significant stupidity. I've seen way too many patients these days that think just because it grows in or is dug directly from the ground it must be organic therefore somehow healthy. Even when they're poisoned they insist that it was because they overdosed or somehow mixed it incorrectly.

People also don't seem to grasp that just because certain teas, colored vegetables, and even red wines are beneficial for the immune/vascular/respiratory/etc system that in NO ways means they cure cancer, autism, alzheimers, etc. And taking even more through various oral, iv, or rectal methods is not going to magically "cure" them. It's really sad when someone with cancer is getting chemo and starts drinking some herbal tea, they start to improve and insist it's the tea (because that makes them feel better vs. chemo makes them feel worse) so stop their chemo. It's not just the poor and uneducated certain very wealthy Americans have went the alternative route to only find it didn't work and then turn to Western medicine but too late for it to cure them.

Hi Mike--thank you for your reply. I have to admit that I am big on organic gardening, and it seems to me that the more we can do without herbicides and pesticides the better. And the better I take care of myself, the better my immune system, circulatory system etc is going to be so that if ever I DO need the Western Medicine big guns, my body will have a better chance of utilizing those big guns with fewer side effects. I believe that complimentary medicine can help, especially in helping to lessen some of the side effects of things like chemotherapy--for instance, acupuncture in helping with pain management. And anything one can do to help ones immune system be stronger is good. But the first rule of thumb is to first do no harm to oneself (to borrow from your Hippocratic Oath). So I believe that if people will be sure by asking their physician if what they are doing supplement wise is contra-indicated for either their medical condition or contraindicated for humans in general--like a mercury colonic would be! Gees, a mercury colonic--I can't even imagine that!! Well, to get back to what I was saying--if people will consult with their doctor to be sure that what they want to do will not hurt them, it would be so much better!

The deeper layers of the skin aren't shed and replaced.

Otherwise tattoos wouldn't be permanent either.

His skin will remain blue for life (even if he never takes another drop of the silver solution) the same way a tattoo will remain for life. It may fade a bit, but a tattoo is permanent for the exact same reason.

Actually, all the cells in your body are replaced. I believe the oldest being about 7 years. But the silver particles stay for the same reason tattoo ink stays. We don't literally shed from the outside in all the way down to our bones. Just our outer layer of skin. Our other cells are simply replaced, in place, when it's time so the cells are rebuilt around the foreign matter and it just stays in place unless it something your body can breakdown which metals aren't.

"The reference dose, published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1991, which recommends the estimated daily exposure which is unlikely to incur an appreciable risk of deleterious effects during a lifetime, is 5 µg/kg/d; meaning 5 microgram of silver per kilogram of weight per person each day – about 1 litre of 10 ppm colloidal silver per month for a 66 kg person."

In other words, you could drink about a quart of 10 ppm (parts per million) PER MONTH with NO DELETERIOUS EFFECTS during a lifetime, if you weighed about 150 pounds.

Most of these people who turn blue decide to make their own brew...This article is deceiving.

I take it intermittently for colds, virus, and infections, clears them right up. Sorry big Pharma.

Harry you obviously didn't read the article right. taking colloidal sliver internally is precisely what turns people blue. NOT applying it topically.

Silver drugs, such as silver sulfadiazine, are used in hospital intensive burn units around the world for over 100 years for serious burns. The white sulfadiazine cream always turns blue after a day or so because of the photoreactive reaction with light, but it is on the outside of the skin. Sometimes the skin will also turn blue, but the skin will regenerate and the blue goes away. Why would they use silver on the skin in every hospital in the world, if it didn't work? There are other forms of silver that are extremely effective also. One of them being properly produced colloidal silver!

WOW-The ignorance on here is amazing. Some people will believe any snake-oil salesmans pitch they hear! While there may have been a place for siver's use in medicine 70 years ago, (and to a very small extent, used in topical medicines for short time use today) like many things, that has gone the way of the cocaine ointments/elexcirs, snake oil etc. I suspect these are also the same people who quote similar pseudo scientific studies of floridation in our water too. You will not convince someone, who probably has a limited education, that their backwoods remedies don't work, but please do your research (from reputable sites/companies) before using something like this "Country-Bumpkin Medicine".

FlaNative, I hate to say but in this case, the people believing the 'snake-oil salesman' are the ones that believe this article is anything but an attempt to scare people off from a remedy that Big Pharma doesn't produce. Someone will say that 'anecdotal evidence' isn't evidence, but I had a painful bladder infection that subsided within an hour of taking some colloidal silver (and has NEVER returned). It has been over 10 years. It stops sinus and upper respiratory infections in their tracks. You go from starting to feel a little sick to not feeling at all sick (I haven't needed antibiotics in years). I don't advocate taking it all the time as a preventative, but for me it does wonders if taken when I actually need an immune boost. Oh, and I don't have a 'limited education'. You know, it is possible to disagree without being insulting.

You are exactly right, Steve! It's just amazing all of
the BS I've been reading on MSNBC lately. I think that Big Pharma is getting a
little worried about people finding out the real truth about silver and they're
using their "buddies" (MSNBC) to spread untrue propaganda. The
article is total garbage. Lies, and very
misleading! Colloidal silver, when make properly will not turn you blue. But people who consume mass amounts or make it improperly absolutely take a chance of truning PERMANENT blue. This is very true. Since the 1930's there have been less than
100 people who have the actual condition Argeria.
Most of them got Argeria from solutions of silver nitrate and other
silver compounds prescribed by MD's before the 1930's. I know a woman who has been taking colloidal
silver for 40 years now, every day. She's in her 70's and there is not a tinge of blue to her. There are now millions of people who use colloidal silver. It must be doing some good for them.

FACT: In a
groundbreaking study in 2005, the University of Texas and Mexico University
found that silver will kill ALL VIRUSES including HIV-1. Silver also kills over
650 pathogenic bacteria, but does not hurt the body's healthy multi-cell
bacteria and kills all fungus and mold within seconds. Big Pharma can't make money with a product
like silver is naturally occurring and because it is "non-patentable". So, they will try to kill it by writing
articles like this before it gets too popular. Homemade brews of colloidal
silver are sometimes botched and should be kept to the professionals or homemade
according to the proper directions. Some
people add salt to the electrolysis process to speed it up and produce a white
substance called silver chloride.
Silver chloride will change to silver oxide if left in light. It is extremely photo reactive (like film –
that part is true). Also, the article states that "stomach acids "dissolve"
silver in the gut and make silver ions or silver compounds. This is also not true. Only a strong oxidizer, such as nitric acid,
will dissolve silver. Ionic silver compounds in the gut can change to silver by
adding the chlorine atom to the silver atom.
The HCL in the stomach will not! I'm an inorganic chemist and have worked with
the precious metals all of my life. I
know the precious metals inside and out.

Would you rather trust Big Pharma? Remember, they are the ones that kills 97% of
people with chemotherapy and radiation and other allopathic drugs? Our DNA has been perfect for hundreds of
thousands of years; otherwise man would not be around and would have died off
long ago. Do you think that the drug
companies, which have been around for less than 100 years, have the
answers? No, THEY are the ones that make
the BILLIONS not the health stores!
Silver was used prior to antibiotics in the 1930's in forms of colloidal
silver or inner muscular injections of a compound called silver arsphenamine. When patentable antibiotics came out, silver
waned and was pushed aside by the huge power of the drug companies. What's proven and old is not coming
back. SILVER!

Now, bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics and
people with MRSA and other serious pathogens are dying every day and there is
nothing the hospitals can do. The answer
is sure not the drug companies. I don't think
that they really want to cure anything.
Just take care of the symptoms and manage the disease. Do a little research and find out the real
truth about silver. Unless there are
billions of dollars in a patentable drug, the drug companies will not test the
effects of colloidal silver. FDA
approval can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and outside of Big Pharma; no
one can afford the testing and approval.
Think for YOURSELF and don't believe everything you hear. I'm sure that I'll get flamed from the drug
company writers and the uninformed "know-it-alls". Just
my 2 cents worth!

I apologize for mistakes on my last comment. I meant to say that “what is proven and old is NOW coming back." I wrote the comment in MS Word and pasted it into this MSNBC article. Being in a hurry, I mistakenly pasted a rough draft, rather than my finished comment. Lots of mistakes, sorry. I had changed it to say that I do believe that there are a lot of good drugs made by the drug companies that do save lives, but I also know that there is a battle to bury silver and it could be the way to save lives when nothing else works. If you do research on Google from new studies done at Universities and private intitutions, you can find it out for yourself. Look up nanosilver or silver nanoparticles. They have a real chance as a possible cancer cure.

Your tinfoil hat is mighty tight today, Steve. It may not be advisable to continue doing so, as it may cause brain damage. Oh, that's right, it's already too late. Never mind.

Tom,

Did you really just cite a study that claimed colloidal silver will cure HIV? And you want to be taken seriously?

Please read the recent book "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients" by Ben Goldacre, known for his "Bad Science" column in The Guardian (in the UK), which he has written since 2003. Look up "Bad Pharma" in Wikipedia. Just like the "Military-Industrial Complex", there is also a documented "Medico-Pharmaceutical Complex", for many of the same reasons.

Very nice. Never could do poetry. Always come up with stuff like:

Roses are red

this man is blue

his silver is high

but not his IQ!

Oh well, I have other talents.

Reminds me of the classic...

Johnny was a Chemist's son,

but Johnny is no more.

For what Johnny thought was H-2-O,

was H-2-S-O-4.

A silver dollar in cabbage when you are boiling it keeps the smell down and gets rid of the SOUR taste. No more silver dollars around so I use a 1oz silver bar these days.

I'm still alive. I didn't have to color myself blue.