On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:05:37 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >If these are legitimate concerns (and they certainly sound legitimate, even >scary, to me), why don't we still have a problem with ingestion of "pure" CS >because the solution will surely mix with the other contents of your stomach >whenever you drink it? For example, we know that our stomachs secrete a >substantial amount of hydrochloric acid. Why wouldn't the silver solution >react with the HCL in our stomach to make silver chloride? If you drink CS >with a hot dog, why wouldn't you end up with silver nitrate or silver nitrite >coursing through your intestines? Due to the chemical properties of our >stomach, even drinking CS on an empty stomach would logically seem to pose a >danger of formation of destructive silver compounds inside our stomachs, to >thereafter wreak havoc with our innards. > >Are my concerns legitimate or am I missing something fundamental here?
Good question. And one I've been wondering about for years. My suspicion is that the body "knows" what to do with various minerals it encounters in it's intake of food and water. Especially when the minerals are part of the ancestral human diet. Silver happens to be one of those minerals. Water from mountain streams (and the rivers they feed) contain silver and other minerals. The human body apparently can select what parts of the water it needs. The evidence is in the location of the healthiest human populations -- in silver-bearing mountainous areas. I've been concerned about feeding CS to ruminant animals (cows, sheep, goats, llamas, etc). But I'm becoming less concerned as I hear the anecdotal evidence of people curing ruminants through the use of CS. It also helps to know that many ruminants live in areas that have silver in the water -- and soil (thus in the grass they eat). IOW, the silver we (and our animals) ingest probably stays as ionized particles in solution until "needed," when it combines with whatever is necessary for it's use. There are many comments about the silver combining with nitrates, or hydrochloric acid to form a compound in the stomach or intestine. What we have to remember is that, in a solution, the molecules are disassociated. That is, salt in water is a saline solution, consisting of sodium ions and chlorine ions along with the water (which itself is partially ionic). Hydrochloric acid is hydrogen ions and chlorine ions (it's the excess hydrogen ions that makes the solution an acid). So, I suspect the silver ions in a colloidal silver suspension (note: it's not a solution) act as if they were in a solution. Also, it's quite possible that a chelated silver solution might be far more effective at getting silver into the body than CS is -- just as other chelated minerals are apparently more effective for the body. -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- 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]>
