Nice find, Faith.
Dr R.O.Becker was a brilliant researcher.
"The Body Electric" is a fascinating read.

                                                Chuck
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On 6/26/2008 11:38:18 AM, Faith Gagne ([email protected]) wrote:
> "Currently there is no federally recognized 'minimum daily requirement' for 
> silver in the human body.  In 1940, R.A. Kehoe reported that under normal 
> circumstances, the average daily intake of fruits and vegetables would 
> provide between 50 - 100 mcg of silver as a trace element. Since that time, 
> the commercial farm soils of this country have become extremely deficient in 
> trace minerals. According to the Earth Summit Report issued in 1992, the 
> levels of soil based minerals in North America have dropped over 85% in the 
> last 100 years.
> 
> So, assuming that our ancestor's diet used to contain significant trace 
> amounts of silver, and that our diet probably has greatly reduced levels 
> today, there is a reasonable argument for supplementing with colloidal silver 
> daily, in spite of the fact that there is no official 'recommended daily 
> allowance' (RDA) rating for CS. Researchers say two teaspoons of 5 ppm 
> colloidal silver provides about 50 mcg of silver and could be considered a 
> 'nutritional' amount if taken on a daily basis. Additionally researchers say 
> any amount above 4 teaspoons a day, or 100 mcg, should be considered a 
> 'therapeutic' amount.
> 
> That said, it should not be assumed that electro-colloidal silver is 
> equivalent to or has the same metabolic effect as receiving trace silver from 
> dietary plant sources.
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