----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > Ivan: Thanks very much for taking the time to respond, and your willingness > to stick your neck out... Let's just call it your working hypothesis until > more data become available. I must admit that I'm still a little confused. > > I mentioned that I was taking the 2.3 mg of CS per day for 5 1/2 months > BEFORE I stopped and started the main part (phase two) of my silver > elimination/retention study. Wouldn't my body have had enough time during the > prior 5 1/2 months to have synthesized enough of these metal scavenging > proteins so that when I started the main part of my study, most of the > retained silver in my body would have ALREADY started reporting to the liver > and finally to fece? However, it took several more weeks for the silver > elimination to BEGIN to shift toward fece. Does the body need THAT much time > to synthesize these scavengers, or is there another explanation for this very > late shift? Roger
I am at a loss to explain these events Roger. In all the reports I have seen the large majority of silver was found in the faeces and little in the urine. Perhaps other factors were involved, diet, supplements and so on. > Ivan: Are you saying that systemic protection is difficult to achieve > because residual CS is bound too tightly to cells ? > > Ivan's Response: I don't believe that free silver ions are found in the body > fluids for > long after ingestion, that the silver, which probably quickly becomes > silver chloride, then would bind with the sulphur groups of proteins in > the blood plasma and so may not be available to react with pathogenic > cells. I should think that within a couple of hours little silver would > remain in the blood stream. > > > Ivan: > > My urine and fece sampling went on for months. The fact that during most of > that time by far the greatest proportion of silver was STILL found in urine > would mean -- based on your reasoning above -- that there was plenty of free > silver in the bloodstream to protect my body systemically. So I don't > understand how you arrived at the conclusion that "within a couple of hours > little silver would remain in the bloodstream." Doesn't my study support the > opposite? If it does, wouldn't the following explanation of my results be > correct? Roger, having silver in the urine implies having silver in the kidneys. Having silver in the kidneys implies that the silver has been complexed and removed from the plasma and is awaiting elimination. One would need to test the blood for free silver ions in order to determine the amount in circulation vs time. I will do this, as I can test for silver ions, if I can get hold of some syringes. > When I took 2.3 mg CS/day, most of it remained in my bloodstream to provide > systemic protection because my body was not able to produce enough metal > scavengers to bind up the CS and make it unavailable to interact with > pathogens. When I stopped taking CS, my body had an opportunity to "catch up" > (or quite possible my body didn't react to the greater presence of silver in > the first place because it "knows" -- through millions of years of evolution > -- that CS is harmless) because there was a declining presence of CS, and, > therefore, more and more of it was bound up by these metal scavengers where > it was sent to the liver and on to the gut where it was eliminated in the > fece. > > If the above paragraph is correct then in order to get systemic CS protection > take about (the exact amount is unknown until more research becomes > available) 0.023 mg.CS/kilo of body weight of a good quality CS. > > Roger You may be correct Roger, but that is a pretty long bow you are drawing. Ivan. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
