To clear that up a bit:
ANY sort of silver can cause Argyria if enough of it is "retained"
It's just that with a normal elimination rate and the maximum concentration
of properly made Ionic Silver being at about 25-30 PPM , retaining that
much would take longer than a lifetime..or, that much water would make your
life very short and your body would turn blue...but not from silver.
..and an *abnormal* elimination system is EXTREMELY rare. [But it may be
possible to marginalize a normal system by overloading it with other metals
that share the same system...like copper in drinking water ]
Research papers linked to from Rosemary Jacobs site [the blue lady..the
links are gone now, so I can't find the exact paper and can only summarize
] indicated that when purposefully trying to make animals blue in order to
study the condition, they failed to do so even when using repeated
injections of mega doses of silver compounds at thousands of PPMs and went
to the Silver Industry for information...in utter frustration.
What was found was, that even in situations where exposure to a LOT of
silver was 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for decades, the Argyria rate was
one in 2,000 workers...and... the industry had a lower absentee rate for
colds and flu than any other industry.
Taken as an average sample of an overall population of 300
million....what is the total number at risk, and how many of them use
Silver in any form, at any concentration, in any amount?
At WORST case, it would seem there only 5 or 10 cases out of several
hundred thousand instances of ignorance and excess.
It's not that 400 PPM MSP... WILL turn you blue, it's that it "can" turn
you blue.. IF.. you are one of those rare people.
But that much silver at 20 PPM and under..the water would kill you first,
*even if * you were one of those rare people and it wasn't Ionic.
But, MSP has that protein coating and it takes a [rumored ? ] 50 times as
much silver to do the same job.
Not to mention some little bit of logic: [Well, OK, I did]
A particle so large that it can't get in...needn't get out.
And unless it got bigger inside, if it got in, it can also get out.
[Phalen and Morrow 1973] " Dogs excreted approximately 90% of an inhaled
dose of metallic silver particles [finely ground dust...meaning
comparatively HUGE particles and a lot of them] in the feces within 30 days
of exposure.
**Normal** elimination rate for oral doses is 94% to 99% in 24 hours [US
EPA 1985, Newton and Holmes 1966 and 1980].....regardless of the form of
silver, although Ionic might be faster and primarily in the urine vs the
feces, as Roger Altman related a while back.
BTW Copper is a potent nerve toxicant and far more common in the
environment than silver...almost as common as Aluminum.
Both Copper and Silver have an affinity for damaged nerve tissues and are
used as diagnostic tools [cupro/silver staining], not that those metals
"caused" the damage, but that is drawn to there and may lead to an assumption.
While it takes very little of too much Copper to damage the nerves, it
takes a LOT of Silver.
One key transporter for both is Selenium...which is NOT common in the
environment and is itself deadly toxic if you get too much.
Ode
At 05:43 PM 1/23/2010 +0000, you wrote:
Most people on this list have been taking CS for years and years with
nothing but good results Joanne. I am a newbie and have been taking it
for five years. Correctly made CS (NOT silver salts or mild silver
protein) but ionic plus colloidal silver has never been found to be
toxic. Argyria is caused by the ingestion of silver salts or MSP and even
that (which causes the blue colour) is not toxic only aesthetically
displeasing. We all give it to our dogs, cats, bunnies, birds etc., with
no ill effects, only good ones. dee
On 22 Jan 2010, at 20:31, <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] wrote:
I understand,
Now I am wondering if I should treat my mare with this or not ? I read
an article referencing that "Blue Man" and his issues and experiences ...
someone please speak up.
JoAnne
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