Where is your proof that it does????
My understanding is that silver ions and particles must be able to
contact bacteria, viruses, and fungi in a liquid medium to kill them.
In the lower intestines of humans where our "beneficial" gut bacteria
normally live the intestinal contents are too dry for silver to kill
them in any significant way. In the upper GI, stomach, small
intestine, where the gut contents are still liquid--any bacteria
there are pathogens and I am happy to kill them off if they are
trying to colonize there.
I used to have a link to a sloppy and improperly done "study"
claiming that silver will not kill so called "beneficial" gut
bacteria, but since it was done with the silver imobilized in the
agar/gel medium they grew the "beneficial" bacteria on, it only
proved that in a solid medium silver won't kill anything. It is not
that silver cannot kill our gut bacteria, it just doesn't because of
the non-liquid state of the contents where those bacteria normally
live. This is also why silver isn't very good at killing candida in the bowel.
Marshall and others here can explain it better than I can, and will,
I hope, correct me if I am in error, but my personal experience with
taking large quantities of CS daily for 2.5 years or more is that it
does not harm the lower gut bacteria.
I'm sure someone here may have references, I no longer have actual
references, gone in various computer crashes over the years, but I am
confident in my personal experience even without references.
The "must be in liquid" hypothesis is re-inforced by the fact that a
large slug of CS taken for diarrhea stops it very quickly--in me
within 30 min to a max of an hour or so. The reason it can do that,
is that when real water diarrhea is present, a glass of CS can pass
clear through the gut. Or that is the idea. I've never seen it come
out the other end, LOL, because the problem stops so fast.
YMMV,
but this is my opinion and experience,
sol
t 09:41 AM 2/13/2010, you wrote:
Are you sure, Sol? Where is your proof?
John
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, sol
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Nope, it does not. Not in humans.
sol
