I know the Beauty Brains don’t recommend that you take dietary supplements and here’s
yet another reason to avoid them. Colloidal silver can permanently turn your skin blue. According to these health experts the silver can accumulate in your body and give the skin a bluish gray color. And this change is permanent because there is no way to remove the silver. It’s not a serious problem if you take only small amounts but since the product has no benefit anyway, why take it at all?
Do YOU take supplements with the hopes of improving your skin or health? Has your skin ever changed color because of it. Leave a comment and let the entire Beauty Brains community know.
-Mid Brain
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That’s so sad. And I know people who take it.
I don’t take supplements for my skin but I do pop open vitamin E capsules and apply them to my cuticles in hopes of smoothing them. Do you guys think this actually makes any difference?
Colloidal silver is supposed to be used for only short periods of time, such as a week. It is not for long term use. It was being researched at the beginning of the 20th century for use against colds flus and infections. Then they discovered penicillin, and the research dwindled off. I have used colloidal silver, short term use only, to ward off various colds and flus over many years, it does seem to help, and it certainly does not turn me blue. It sounds like you are unnecessarily trying to strike fear into people. I have read medical research that eating excessive amounts of carrots can turn the skin yellow. That does not mean carrots are bad for you, either. The study you quote seems to take a product, then use examples of people being stupid with it and using it incorrectly, and then inferring it must be dangerous. Using aspirin and tylenol excessively, and not following the package directions, nor doctor’s advice, will also make you very ill. Does that mean not to take it? No, it means don’t be stupid.
Also, as far as not recommending any dietary supplements ever, for anything? My doctors have recommended various supplements for me, such as Vitamin E, calcium, omega 3, at various times (only the vitamin E was for skin – re scars).
I would take your advice, and the study that you quote, with a grain of salt. And, by the way, although salt is necessary for the human body, excessive amounts or other stupid uses of it, can prove harmful.
Diane, you are correct that taking an excessive amount of most anything can have negative consequences. The difference between colloidal silver and carrots is that the body will eventually filter the beta carotene out of your system. The body has no metabolic pathway to remove silver so it just builds up in your tissue and can make you turn blue.
I think you missed the part where Midbrain said “It’s not a serious problem if you take only small amounts…”
You also are bold to flippantly disregard a study published by the Harvard Medical School. Authority doesn’t mean much to the Beauty Brains but it is certainly notable that leading experts would say you should be cautious. Perhaps it’s more of a problem (people using the product stupidly) than you know.
One of the things the Midbrain didn’t stress enough is that Colloidal Silver HAS NO BENEFITS! It didn’t cure your cold. It has no positive health benefits at all. The reason people stopped researching it was because they found their answer, it doesn’t do anything for colds or other diseases. Scientists spend their time researching things where they get positive results.
But perhaps my research is incomplete. If you have some published medical research that shows colloidal silver having any benefit for anything, please enlighten me and the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
My roommate drank the KoolAid and foolishly believed that colloidal silver cured one of hundreds of ailments, and so drank massive quantities and colloidal silver. He now has a mild case of argyria, and now when we go places, people say rude things to him (“What are you, a zombie?” “Why are you wearing that grey makeup?” “Dude, you’re totally freaking me out!”). He hasta but all his clothes to try to play down his skin color, but when I’m with him (I’m a healthy shade of pink), by comparison, I make him look pretty bad. I keep thinking up nasty comebacks *afterwards* (“Sir, he’s undergoing chemo”), but I’d like to beat the snot out of him because there was a time when he tried to convince *me* to take colloidal silver (and once I even did, during a nasty bout of pneumonia. It did nothing for the pneumonia).
Colloidal silver is being sold all over the net by snake oil salesmen (aka “alternative health practitioners”), and it creeps me out. I wish they’d *also* post photos of that poor congressman with the full-blown case of argyria to demonstrate what happens to people who fiddle around with nonsense.
Kristy,
Capsule Vitamin E used on your cuticles is not really going to do anything. You need a product made for the cuticles and nails. There are many on the market.
You can find CND’s Solar Oil at salons or go to Sally’s and pick up a Haken cuticle oil in one of many scents.
Mostly the oil from the capsule, like Vaseline. are just barrier oils and will not do much but keep the moisture in your skin and from moisture from getting in.
buenos dias,
Lynnette
I think Diane is right, and “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” is not the intelligent way to treat any supplement where studies have found there to be legitimate use. Please consider the following patent information
Bob, you can apply for, and even obtain, patents for all manner of silly, stupid, useless, and even dangerous things. Just because something is patented doesn’t make it good. See http://www.patentlysilly.com/
Exactly. A patent isn’t an indication of good and reliable science. For medical treatments, nothing short of a publication in a peer reviewed journal would suffice as significant proof.
Proofs in patents are practically worthless.
I’m not sure that I agree that the patent is worthless; if you read the details, it does demonstrate a level of efficacy of the product based on the tests performed.
A demonstration by *whom*, Bob? The whackjobs selling magnets to cure everything from cancer to AIDS can “demonstrate” via all their many happy customers that magnets cured them, too! Yes, silver *does* kill germs, but that doesn’t mean you should ingest it. Clorox kills germs, but you don’t ingest *that*. Apply it to a wound instead.
Taking Lipstick’s argument a little further, prescribed heart medicine is good, but you don’t take nitro pills by the fistful, and monostat’s great for yeast infections, but you don’t ingest it.
However, concerning Clorox, yes it does kill germs, and when you add a couple of drops to a gallon of water, it in fact does purify the water and makes it drinkable, and most everyone who drinks tap water is ingesting a minute amount of chlorine in that water. Better that than the risk of ingesting bacteria, germs and micro-organisms that can cause dysentery, or other gastro-intestinal ailments.
My point is simply, we often ingest or topically apply small amounts of what would otherwise be considered toxic substances for the benefits they convey. Most of those substances are known as “medicine” when applied correctly in the right quantity. To label all viable uses of colloidal silver under the sensationalized heading of “magnet therapy” is simply short sighted.
Consider the “witch doctors” of Africa, most Europeans considered them as complete quacks, however, those open minded enough were able to learn that the use of cocoa leaves by some of those “which doctors” had a narcotic affect for those who chewed them. The numerous products and medicines that resulted from that discovery are too numerous to list here.
Concluding, not all “whackjobs” are “quacks”, and not all “quacks” are entirely off-base. Good things can come from intelligent, open minded scrutiny, with an able to discern & separate fact from fiction. Hence, my original comment of not throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Bob, actually you *can* take oral medications for yeast (I did it for years, and a yeast infection in the throat is called “thrush”), but I’ll not derail the topic further. The entire point of the blog post was that taking too much colloidal silver can result in argyria, a permanent (and super-tragic) skin condition in which your skin turns blue. Given that there’s no proven benefit to drinking colloidal silver, why would anyone risk looking like this man? http://www.doh.state.fl.us/pharmacy/Images/silver1.jpg
Point made, and I agree that argyria is a valid issue for those who foolishly overdose on colloidal silver. However, I don’t concede that there are no benefits to ingesting small, responsible quantities of the supplement. The studies will be ongoing for years I’m sure, touting both the benefits and risks. Thanks for your candid remarks.
I just clicked your link, Bob, and hafta commend you for your measured arguments here. I’m more used to seeing emotional, inflammatory comments demonstrating no critical thinking (“If you’re not on our side, then the medical establishment has brainwashed you and you’re obviously poisoning yourselves with pills!”).
I’ve got a grey-colored roommate who fiddled around with colloidal silver, so it frightens me when people want to drink it instead of apply it to their BandAids.
I appreciate your compliment and can very well sympathize with the plight you’ve experienced with your roommate. It must be hard to live with (the roommate with himself that is).
You’d be inhumane not to be greatly affected by his difficult circumstances and presumable emotional pain.
Yes, argyria (skin greying) is a very real side effect of excessive usage of colloidal silver.
But diabetes, pancreatitis and heart disease are very real side effects of excessive usage of sugar.
Cirrhosis of the liver and heart failure are very real side effects of the excessive usage of iron supplements. ‘
Kidney malfunction, calcification of soft tissue within the body, cellular toxicity and impaired immune function are very real side effects of excess usage of calcium.
Muscle pain, fatigue, irritability, depression, schizophrenia, fever, liver damage and anemia are very real side effects of the excessive usage of Vitamin A.
What’s more, DEATH is a very real side effect of the excessive usage of…water (it’s called “drowning”).
None of those side effects justify being afraid to use the substances mentioned. Why? Because the key phrase involved in each one is “excessive use.” When used in moderation, these substances are not only benign, but helpful. When used in excess, they can cause serious health consequences.
It is exactly the same with colloidal silver. If you use it in moderation it is completely harmless, and in fact extremely beneficial for boosting immunity and warding off infections of all sorts. It even helps the body heal from chronic degenerative diseases such as lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease and a host of others that often are caused by underlying hidden infections. But if used in excess daily over long periods of time, the result can be argyria, or skin-staining. It is a harmless, but cosmetically unappealing condition resulting from silver particles being pushed to the skin (the body’s third major organ of elimination) at which point they oxidize (or tarnish)from exposure to the sun.
Out of the estimated 10 million users of colloidal silver throughout North America, only a very small handful have been naive, ignorant or ill-informed enough to take such excessive quantities over such long periods of time to result in skin-staining. It is ridiculous to blame the substance for the mis-use by the person. That’s kinda like saying water is terrrible for you because several thousand people a year die in it due to drowning.
For anyone interested in learning about safe and common sense colloidal silver usage, please visit our web site at http://www.thesilveredge.com and download our FREE special report titled “What’s the “Safest” Daily Dosage for Colloidal Silver?” which uses the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) own figures to determine how much colloidal silver is safe to take daily. Just use the link in the located in the upper left-hand corner of the home page.
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Spencer, in the document FDA says:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final rule establishing that all over-the- counter (OTC) drug products containing colloidal silver ingredients or silver salts for internal or external use are not generally recognized as safe and effective and are misbranded. FDA is issuing this final rule because many OTC drug products containing colloidal silver ingredients or silver salts are being marketed for numerous serious disease conditions and FDA is not aware of any substantial scientific evidence that supports the use of OTC colloidal silver ingredients or silver salts for these disease conditions.
The Harvard Health Letter says here “brain and nerve damage from silver exposure is rare, but colloidal silver can cause kidney damage, stomach distress, and headaches.”
The Australian government doesn’t like colloidal silver, either: Read this.
I could go on, but it seems you’re here for a sales pitch, and you’re poised to shoot down data anyway.
BTW, silver’s harming the environment, too.
I’ve Personally Used Colloidal Silver For Over A Year And I’m Still White As A Ghost. Also, My Good Friend Has Been Using It For Over 10 Years And He Isn’t Blue Either. My Friend Became Hospitalized With An Illness That Was Later Discovered To Be HCV. My Friend Then Began Inferon Treatment And After Several Months The Doctor Said It Wasn’t Helping And His Viral Load Kept Climbing. It Was 6 Months Later That He Went To Get His Next Viral Load Tests To Find He Was HCV Negative After Being Informed About Colloidal Silver By A Naturopathic Doctor. It’s Been 10 Years Since That Time And He Hasn’t Been Sick To Date And He Still Comes Up HCV Negative.
I’ve Personally Used Colloidal Silver For Candidiasis Albanian Which Spread All Over My Body. I Know Within 2 Weeks Of Using Colloidal Silver It Was Completely Gone.
I Also Plan To See If One Of My Other Friends Would Try It For His HCV To See What Comes Of It.
The True Point Of This Post Is That I Haven’t Turned Blue With Over A Years Use, And My Friend Hasn’t Turned Blue With Over 10 Years Of Use.
Colloidal Silver Should Be Made With A Good Quality Distilled Water To Insure The Smallest Particle Size To Prevent The Particles From Being Pushed To The Skin By The Lymph System.
what if you want blue skin?
You can try all you want, sheeple will not listen.
“CS WILL TURN YOU BLUE, FDA SAID IT!”
All I need to say.
Get Glen Beck’s book, How to argue with idiots.
You dont need some gov. regulator to tell you what to do. The Medical profession can’t cure many problems and their are other alternatives. Many prescriptions for example for Diabetes are later found to kill you and they were approved by the wonderful regulators.
Glen Beck is a comedian isn’t he? You take medical advice from comedians?
In the first place the FDA will never approve a natural product. The medical profession cannot make money off of any product that cannot be patented.
Colloidal Silver was used long before penicillin was discovered to kill bacteria and fight infections, funny how people say now it has no benefits.
As for turning blue. Did you ever wonder where the term “Blue Blood” came from? The Blue Bloods of ancient times hardly ever got sick even during the plagues. They ate off of silver plates and utencils absorbing silver and turning a blue tint. There have been reports that taking Selinium has been effective in eliminating Agyria.
By the way, Colloidal Silver can be manufactured so that the microns are too small to be absorbed by human tissue. They simply pass through killing single celled pathogens on the way. And you won’t turn blue.
@Ken – with all due respect doesn’t this disprove your claim that “the FDA will never approve a natural product”?
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/9096.htm
FTA – Topotecan, to be marketed as Hycamtin by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, is derived from the bark of a Chinese tree known scientifically as Camptotheca acuminata.
Actually, Ken, that theory about the origins of the phrase “blue blood” probably isn’t true:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-blu1.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/69200.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility#.22Blue.22_blood
Sounds like complete bull crap to me. But hey, if you’ll buy that with such confidence that’s your problem, but perhaps you should consider the sources of your information before sharing.
And by the way, people used a lot of shit back in the day before penicillin — and often died when it didn’t work. That’s why penicillin was such a breakthrough, as well as the concept of SCIENCE, i.e. actually testing things in controlled manner instead of making assumptions based on things like “If it looks like a penis, it must be an aphrodisiac.”
Show me scientific evidence of colloidal silver treatments and then you’ll have my attention — not folk etymologies that even if true would provide scant evidence for its effectiveness.
Not at all. The key here is that topotecan is a direvitive of the tree. It has been altered from its composition and therefore can be Patented. It is now a drug. As stated in the site you quoted:”The approval of Topotecan is significant because it is the first of a series of drugs”. http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/9096.htm
Since Colloidal Silver has been in use for hundreds of years, it cannot be patented. Even though the size of the silver microns are so much smaller today.
Hi Liz,
Well, suppose that everyone has their own concept of history. When I was young, Columbus was a great man, now they teach he was horrid. He dies long before someone wrote a new view of him.
I believe the blue blood concept because of seveal reasons. I quote no source.
Silver was used effectivly before penicillin, it was not an assumption.
It doesn’t have to be confirmned by Science for me to believe it. I understand that it does for you. Science can be manipulated to produce a desired outcome. Just like the history thing above.
Fact: I have had a viral substance in my viens and Science tells me that the evidence should show in my blood tests. However, Blood tests taken after consumption of several gallons of colloidal silver (in proper dose and intervals) show no evidence of even the crippled virus. The bugs are dead and gone.
And by the way, I’m not blue. Science insinuates that I should be.
Ken,
There are opinions, and then there are facts. Whether Columbus was a great man or a horrid one is opinion. However, that opinion is shaped based on what facts are presented. American history is very censored, but the censorship is loosening up. I highly recommend that you read Lies My Teacher Told Me. Then you’ll understand how those “concepts of history” have changed so much.
“I believe the blue blood concept because of seveal reasons. I quote no source.” And why is that? Why do you have no source? Is it because your “reasons” aren’t good reasons? The origin of the phrase “blue blood” is well documented and your belief is simply wrong — and can be clearly shown to be wrong by looking at the artifacts nobles used back then and how much silver would come off over time, as well as their health. It seems to me that the only reason that you continue to believe it is that it suits your purposes. But yet again, even if it were true I do not see it as evidence for colloidal silver.
You continue to say that silver was used effectively before penicillin but you have no EVIDENCE. I do not understand how people can just believe things because they sound good and not because there is any evidence.
And fyi, while *studies* can be manipulated, SCIENCE is not. Science requires that studies be repeatable so that they can be checked by other people. If one study says one thing, perhaps it is flawed — and if the flaws are apparent then the researchers should be called out on that by their peers. However, if multiple separate groups perform studies with proper controls and the results are the same then that is good evidence that the results are valid. No, it is not *proof* — science works in evidence, not proof, continually testing and testing.
And no, your anecdotal evidence of it “working” for you is neither proof nor valid evidence. Such anecdotes might be enough for scientists to decide to test the hypothesis in a scientific experiment, but your experience is not the test itself because there may be other unknown variables that can’t be excluded when dealing with just one person (for example, sometimes people just overcome viruses on their own — even HIV in very rare cases).
So again, show me ANY scientific studies that provide evidence that silver is or ever was a good treatment for anything.
I realize that true science cannot be manipulated. But the reported results can.
My beliefs are not based on what can be considered science. If they were, I would call them knowledge. That is why I call them belief. The reasons are good and valid to me, but belief nontheless.
As far as documented scientific evidence of the origin of Blue Blood, there is none either way. There is some belief recorded in your references, but no science. Amazing how you will hang your hat on unscientific info when it suits you. By the way…why would you even consider using wikipedia as a valid source? That is as far from scientific proof as one can get.
BYW. My mother is an 84 year old retired nurse that remembers silver use.
And in some countries still today a form of silver is used in the eyes of infants to prevent blindness. This was also used in the states long ago.
Silver is still a part of the dressings used for burns as it kills bacteria so effectivly.
Not just because they sound good.
As far as the education system loosening up, it also may be that a different view is more popular today so the new view is what is taught.
I never intended to offer my experience as proof, only as my experience and only one of the reasons why I am convinced. Truth is, It doesn’t effect me that you or anyone else is so convinced it can’t work. I’ll continue to take it, believing it kills the bad bugs in my body. You can take the expensive tailor made antibodies that need to be invented anew with each new resistant bug. That is your choice.
The funny thing is that regardless of what anyone tells you, you would not believe that the earth was round. (Or egg shaped) Unless there was a consensus of reputable scientists that agreed.
Maybe they are right about Columbus after all.
All I can suggest is “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it”. That way you are not basing your view on what others have said. Scientific or not.
@Ken,
You might have noticed that I gave THREE sources. The Wikipedia one is included as it has more information. I’m sure there are better sources out there than those online, but I can’t exactly hand you a book now, can I?
And yes, there are some things that we don’t need to test scientifically. We don’t need to make up a scientific test to prove that Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492. That’s accepted as historical fact — at least until contradictory evidence emerges. However, medical treatments CAN and SHOULD be rigorously tested by science whenever possible — especially because of the consequences of inadequate or even harmful treatment.
But again, DO YOU or DO YOU NOT have scientific evidence? ANY studies whatsoever? Or is it just that the studies that ARE out there contradict you and so you’d rather dismiss them completely?
And frankly, why do you think I’d care that your mom saw it used? We’re not debating that it HAS been used. I don’t doubt that. Plenty of snake oil has been sold over the years. We’re debating whether silver is an effective treatment for the things you say it is. And yet again, you have plenty to say but no real evidence.
Liz,
There was an article was published in March 1978 / Science Digest
You can read it here: http://www.cs.kestar.com.au/scidi78.pdf
Since it was published in a Science Digest does that mean that it is reputable?
Should you not care to read it, here is an excerpt: Jim Powell reported in an article, ‘Our Mightiest Germ fighter’ published in Science Digest (March 1978, pp. 59-60):
“Thanks to eye-opening research silver is emerging as a wonder of modern medicine. An antibiotic kills perhaps a half-dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. What’s more, resistant strains fail to develop when using silver. Moreover, silver is virtually non-toxic.”
A researcher named Dr Harry Margraf of St Louis said this:
“Silver is the best all around
germ-fighter we have.”
@Ken – I think what Liz was looking for was scientific research, not science reporting. Research takes the form of serious papers published in peer reviewed journals.
Science Digest is a magazine, not a peer reviewed journal. It doesn’t publish original research. Rather it publishes summaries & opinions.
Could you direct us to any original, peer reviewed research that supports your claims? (You can find most published, peer reviewed medical research indexed at http://pubmed.com)
@Ken
“Since it was published in a Science Digest does that mean that it is reputable?”
No. Just because it has “science” in the title does not make it reputable. I don’t know about currently, but back then Science Digest was well known for psuedoscience and pop science articles. So, no, the name source doesn’t inspire confidence. And 1978? Is that the only thing you could find? Even IF it was considered a good treatment then, I sure as hell hope that other medical treatments have improved in 30 years.
Also, fyi, that’s a magazine article, not a scientific study on its use as a treatment which is what I asked for. Studies are briefly mentioned, but details aren’t given. I may look into them, though, for my own curiosity since you don’t seem able to provide anything better.
With no money allocated to the research, who will spend their own money to research? There is no real money to be made with colloidal silver.
Yes the “article” I sent was written in 1978. I guess the germs colloidal silver killed back then are now immune? And I am glad that you will look into the studies mentioned in the “article”.
But, no, it is my opinion that there has not been nor ever will be an improvement on Colloidal silver.
Some other more recent facts.
Although not consumption of silver.(The following isn’t my 84 year old Mom remembering using snake oil) :
The FDA approved a modified silver for treatments because “it is an effective microbial barrier
“http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf5/K053590.pdf
I tried to locate an online version of AsiaNews for their copy of the sars report below. Perhaps you can.
http://www.silvermedicine.org/colloidalsilverstudytexas.html
First Reported by AsiaNews.it, March 31, 2004
Perstorp, a Swedish manufacturing company based in Italy, manufactures a silver-compound empregnated polymer ( an antiviral and antimicrobial molding compound ) that was successfully tested by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control against SARS
“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…”
You stated earlier “You continue to say that silver was used effectively before penicillin but you have no EVIDENCE. I do not understand how people can just believe things because they sound good and not because there is any evidence.”
It is amazing that there are so many references in medical documents that attest to the germicidal effect silver has and yet you doubt.
Is it because I choose to place this effective germicide in my body in the form of colloidal silver?
As I said earlier. You can be a sceptic.It doen’t change my health practices.
Liz, you asked me earlier
“So again, show me ANY scientific studies that provide evidence that silver is or ever was a good treatment for anything.”
Thanks Left Brain, I went to pubmed and located lots of studies that confirmed that silver is an effective anti-bacterial agent and even known to kill e-coli.
The following titles:
Silver nanoparticle impact on bacterial growth
The first sentence of the above report:
“Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are widely used as antibacterial agents.”
second title
“Silver nanoparticle-E. coli colloidal interaction in water and effect on E. coli survival.”
The first sentence in the report:
“Silver nanoparticles exhibit antibacterial properties via bacterial inactivation and growth inhibition”
Please feel free to study the entire reports. There are lots of studies there. Many more that I would have thought.
I use the new silver solution on a daily basis. It’s not like colloidal silver and has never has had a case of turning someone’s skin blue.
It’s most cases of blue skin and colloidal silver is because there over using it. It also tell me though that it must be working or they would stop using it.
@Silver Solution
“It also tell me though that it must be working or they would stop using it.”
Not so. People have used a lot of “treatments” over the years that turned out to be ineffective or even harmful. And the placebo effect is very real.
@Ken
Thank you for the articles. Very interesting.
However, I should point out that they still do not show silver as a treatment in human infections — which would be necessary evidence to prove your point.
I’m sorry if this sounds knit-picky. I know it may surprise you, but it’s not at all that I don’t want to believe you. I’m not against “alternative” medical treatments. I’ve definitely found some unpatented things that work well for me and I appreciate the availability of such treatments since I am very proactive when it comes to health. However, I just still don’t see evidence, specifically, of it’s effectiveness as an in vivo treatment — and certainly not for the host of things that it’s usually said to treat.
And I do sympathize on the lack of papers on the topic. Trust me, there are MANY things I wish were better researched, but the funding isn’t always there (not that there isn’t some great research being done outside of the patent medicine system, too). I do understand that. On the plus side, if you can find such papers, you’ll may have a very good case to make next time you come across someone like me!
No Liz, It doesn’t surprise me at all. Many people are very stuck in their ways.
I am sorry that you feel I have been trying to prove a point. I have simply been answering your comments extending from my original post.
Despite your impression, I don’t have a point to prove. If you choose not to embrace the benefits you don’t have to.
I noticed last night that there is no scientific evidence that Vitamin C helps one get over a cold. Yet there are many people that will continue to use it.
I said before that I’ll continue to use Colloidal Silver. It hasn’t let me down. I don’t need any more evidence. When used properly, the only side effect that I’m aware of is health.
Have a great life Liz.
@Ken – there is actually evidence that Vitamin C doesn’t help with the common cold. It’s been studied pretty thoroughly. http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colds.html
The other thing to consider in scientific publications is that there is a thing called a publishing bias. It’s extremely rare that someone begins a study and publishes the results if they find out nothing happened. That’s why you never see a study entitled “Second hand smoke doesn’t cause any problems” even though this is likely the results of most studies done.
It is quite likely that people have done controlled, scientific studies on the health benefits of colloidal silver and found no benefit.
I hear this concern a lot about colloidal silver.
I been taking it for years and love this stuff. The only time people have issues with it, is when the silver is not pure.
Be sure to get .9999 silver and no less if you use .999 silver its 10 times less pure! The other BIG issue is dont EVER use salt in your silver water because it will do what you just talked about. Those are the people that end up getting blue skin. I made a bunch of videos on this topic
silvercolloidal.us
I hope that helps,
-Pete
Colloidal Silver should be used only when pure otherwise it can have bad affects. I guess government officials need to put in more effort to promote it. It really has a lot of potential.
Colloidal Silver 3000 PPM, aka Colloidal Silver Atoms, is worthy of your serious consideration for several reasons. Unlike the 40 year old method of making colloidal silver nano particles (which happen to be 29 atoms clumped together to make a single cluster or particle) which requires the use of dangerous chemicals that have turned people blue (only 3 or 4 cases in the last 100 years, I must mention).
That fact alone should be enough of a reason to buy Colloidal Silver 3000 PPM. If that is not enough of a reason then consider this: Colloidal Silver Atoms has the highest PPM in the industry without the use of chemicals or catalysts. While there may be a handful of people that have a higher ppm of 100-500 PPM, they still make it in nano particle size, and they still use chemicals. The more organic the better! Colloidal silver 3000 PPM is clear as water, however due to the small atomic size particles it has NO visual traceable elements. The Tyndall Effect test will NOT work with this product, however the tried and tested method of detection is THE TDS Meter. Only the TDS Meter measures the Parts Per Million Content. I would rather invest in a high PPM product that renders fast results than a low PPM products that is made with chemicals.
Very interesting update to the colloidal silver blue boy phenomena:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtCjkikuYrA
Thats what happens when you make it yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtCjkikuYrA
I’ve just been recently been tested positive for HIV, I have read a few things about colodial silver, although I’m am psitive I do have to wait some time before Istart the meds/treatment , in the mean while I will give colodial silver a try. And get tested again to see if it’s effective against my blood status, I also have sores in my mouth and swollen glands all over my body along with body achs, i will aslo keep track of this to see if any of my symptoms get better, I will plan one taking colodial silver a week from now. And postny changes in my body, also with any change in my energy level since im always exhausted due to my illness…. Anyways what do I have to loose…
You really need to do some proper research before you start telling people not to use colloidal silver. Like anything else, if used excessively it will turn you blue. Roman soldiers used to put silver coins in their wounds because they knew they wouldn’t get an infection.
Silver is already used extensively in everything from door handles to washing machines. Turning blue is only from using colloidal silver that was improperly prepared or by abusing it. Used intelligently you can cure any cold or flu if you take the silver immediately you start to feel ill. Unlike antibiotics that bind to the bacteria, silver kills the bacteria and then goes on to kill the next. Also, silver will kill viruses which antibiotics do not! In a world that is more and more seeing antibiotic-resistent bugs, to tell people not to use this very valuable product is irresponsible. Please check your facts before you go and scare people who don’t have all the information.