[email protected] wrote: > Chuck: Which, as Ivan has pointed out, is NOT true for typical silver nitrate > preparations. Perhaps THAT'S why, from a purely delivery perspective, only > silver compounds cause argyria. It's not the FORM of silver that causes > argyria (since, according to Ivan, the body can only absorb silver ION), it's > the amount, which, for all practical purposes, can be delivered only by > silver compounds. This idea may help us examine the longer term issues. If > studies can be cited whereby ingesting silver in the form of its compounds > has no ADDITIONAL long term side effects (beyond agyria), it is practically > impossible for CS to have them. If, on the other hand, such studies connect > silver compounds with OTHER long term negative side effects, long term CS > studies would still be needed to demonstrate such a connection. Roger
I still maintain that there is a BIG difference between how a single atom ion of silver, such as you have in compounds, acts as opposed to the multi-atom clump of atoms ion that is in CS. The multiclump atoms are self repelling, and thus do not tend to aggregate in the tissues, and become stuck. They are also not light sensitive as compounds of silver are, which is essential for argyria to develop. I am going to try an experiment when I get a chance. I will soak some tissue in both silver nitrate and colloidal silver and expose to light and see what happens. I bet the silver nitrate tissue turns dark and the CS one does not. How can the CS reduce to metalic silver? It is already metalic silver. Marshall -- 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]>
