This is the present knowledge as far as I know:
http://silver-lightning.com/theory.html#Kill
*How does it kill pathogens*
Now we are getting into an area that is not nearly as clear cut as the
above. That it does kill microbes, and disable viruses is a fact, but
how it does it is still up to dispute. The following are some theories.
1. Silver particles are an oxidizing catalyst
<http://silver-lightning.com/research.html>, and as such oxidize
pathogens killing them. This is how H2O2 works as well.
2. Silver interferes with the microbe's respiration
<http://www.alternativehealth.co.nz/colloidal%20silver/>.
3. Silver ties up or disables the sulfur in the microbe.
3. Silver short out the electrostatic fields in the cell
Most of the above would not apply to viruses though. Instead the
possibilities for disabling viruses are:
1. Silver particles are an oxidizing catalyst and oxidize the virus
killing it.
2. Silver causes the virus DNA or RNA to revert back to being
undifferentiated, and without the proper expression for that host is
disabled.
3. Silver repairs the broken (segment of) DNA of a virus, making it
complete, but no longer a functional virus which by design has an
incomplete DNA.
*
Marshall
*
Norton, Steve wrote:
Beth,
While it has been documented that silver kills many pathogens, I
haven't seen where they have actually determined the mechanism. Here
is a study that shows how silver attaches to HIV in vitro and that the
silver kills the HIV virus but doesn't go so far as to determine how.
http://www.physorg.com/news7264.html
http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/3/1/6
Here us another study that speculates that colloidal silver might kill
bacteria by inhibiting the expression of enzymes and other proteins
essential to ATP production.
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/71/11/7589.pdf
If anyone has come across something more specific I would be
interested in seeing it.
- Steve N
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*From:* Bethany Methven [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2008 4:35 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* CS>Help with some molecular silver information
Hi, there,
Could someone, anyone please, tell me if the following information is
correct? I am trying to learn more about silver ions at the molecular
level. Thanks - Beth Methven
•Silver ions ( Ag+) attract the negatively charged oxygen (-O )and the
negatively charged bacteria (-S-H ) and they all bind together.
•When one oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms come in contact, they form water
( H2O ), which floats away harmlessly.
•The silver ion, then leaves the now harmless sulfur molecule, and
moves on to attack more bacteria.
•
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