Brilliant post Ode, I am keeping in case anyone asks if silver is safe again! dee
On 3 Dec 2009, at 10:49, Ode Coyote wrote: > > > What would be the chances of a Tankersley that doesn't know a very > interesting old guy in Florida named Larry? > > EIS Electrically Isolated Silver... a phrase coined here to distinguish home > made and most commercially available CS from the rest by manufacturing > method....mostly contains charged particles aka ions and some uncharged > particles in ratios up to ~ 80% ionic in solution and ~20% colloidal in > suspension...a colloid/solution mix...generally not over 20 -30 PPM > > Pure colloids: > Most 400 PPM is MSP or Mild Silver Protein....a commercially available > powder mixed with water....something to stay away from and said to be 1/50th > as effective due to large particle size and the protein coating on them > hiding most of what surface area the particles have. The protein coating > disables the silver enough that microbes have been found growing ON the > particles IN the bottle. > > A new one from the lab supply houses is Nano Silver Powder derived by > chemical processes or electro-sputtering...pretty rare in the "supplements" > field so far and not much known about it...could be made very strong...might > be pretty good...but be careful and watch that total. > Its intended purpose is for glazes, anti bacterial coatings and paint > additives etc. > > Then there's Meso Silver which no one knows how to make it or what it really > is, but Frank Key...a good guy with a big secret. Some swear by it, some at > it. Certainly something to try if a home brew isn't working. > A semi pure colloid [ 90+% ? ] > > Then the non colloids tossed into the colloid basket, the impure ionic > solutions such as Silver Citrate, Silver Acetate, Silver Nitrate...can be > made very strong. > > While Silver isn't toxic, playing no nutritional role and having no > biological niche, nor is it a "Heavy Metal" and "normally" is eliminated from > the body at a pretty fast rate... some is always retained in the > tissues..so.. at very high consumption rates over a period of time, the > retained silver "can" cross a threshold and turn you blue [Argyria] but even > so, it's not a "health issue" as would be too much copper retention. > > Many metals in colloidal form will kill microbes, [copper, zinc, bismuth, > mercury and several others ] but most play a biological role and levels high > enough to be effective would be quite toxic. > Silver is an exception. > > A worst, Argyria is a very rare occurrence even at extreme silver exposures, > but something to bear in mind. > At around 20 PPM and under, the water the silver is in would be too toxic to > survive that long if your metals elimination system is anywhere close to > normal. > > The toxic in very small amounts trace element [micronutrient] Selenium is key > to the control of levels of both copper and silver. Selenium can be fairly > rare in soils, so even foods that would normally contain it can be deficient. > Logically, if you have any nerve problems and live were copper is overly > common, it might be copper toxicity and it would pay to check into Selenium > levels before indulging in the use of a lot of Silver. > > A study done at Brigham Young University showed that water can be sterilized > by silver in concentrations as low as 3 parts per billion...just that 3 parts > per million did it much faster. > > Silver will kill just about any microbe it encounters. The tricky part is > getting it there for an encounter. > Inhalation is the next best thing to an injection. > Even inhaled silver DUST will make it though the blood stream and ~94% come > out the other end within 28 days. > > Ode > > > At 08:45 AM 12/2/2009 -0600, you wrote: >> I -- 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: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
