Zoe said, > OK my question is, is this [water] good enough to be making CS or should I just use it for drinking purposes? <
Any water is good enough (except for water with toxic chemicals). The point is to try to make clear CS (or as clear as you can). If your water turns yellow or murky after a certain amount of brewing time, brew slightly less time the next batch. As long as it is clear or nearly clear, the silver particles are too tiny to be of any concern. The more minerals are in your water, the sooner it will acquire a color or become murky while brewing (from the silver particles aggregating to the minerals). The simple, fool-proof CS-brewing principle is: brew it as long as you can while still ending up with clear or near-clear CS. It does not matter what water you use or what minerals are in the water if your CS is clear. If your water is so full of minerals that you cannot brew more than a minute or so before it becomes cloudy, you can still brew perfectly good, perfectly safe CS, but it will have less actual silver in it and you may need to drink more of it to get the same benefit. If you use something like well-water (full of minerals), it would measure at a high PPM, but not all of that PPM will be silver. Wendy said, > I know we've talked about vitamin A supplementation recently. Does anyone have links or information on 'how much' we and our children REALLY need or can handle.< I quote from a site: "100,000 IU per day can be tolerated by adults with no serious side effects but children who ingest 50,000 IU per day do show toxicity." http://foodsupplements.homestead.com/A.html When you look at government standards of optimal Vit A dosages, the same thing occurs as when you look at what the government says about colloidal silver. The government/medical/pharmaceutical folks absolutely refuse to make any distinction between silver compounds (which are technically colloidal) and pure, water-and-silver, electro-colloids. With Vit A, they also refuse to make any distinction between natural, fish-oil Vit A and synthetic, unnatural substances such as retinyl or retinol palmitate (made from retinoic acid). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinyl_palmitate There was a doctor some years ago who was treating cancer with mega-doses of Vit A. (Ive lost the book, so cannot remember his name.) He gave his patients 3 million I.U.s of fish-oil-derived Vit A every day with no sign of overdose. He said every recorded case of Vit A overdose was from synthetic Vit A. He also had such success with cancer he was persecuted. The Inuit Eskimo Indians who live far north and never see a white man (nor eat his diet) average 650,000 I.U.s of Vit A per day all winter with never a sign of overdose. Even with its toxicity, retinoic acid has benefits. See: http://lungdiseases.about.com/b/a/166861.htm www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/05/1044318669710.html www.breastcancer-treatment.us/news/latest-news/vitamin-a-and-c-synergistically-fight-breast-cancer-cell-growth.html www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/01/wu_vitamin_a.html On the subject of cancer, see this very good site: http://www.longislandpress.co.uk/fightingcancer/ Terry Chamberlin Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
