Ahh, so the body "doesn't" know what to do with silver, hence its low toxicity and fast elimination. Ken
At 11:26 PM 5/26/01 +1200, you wrote: >Roger summed it up to my mind. Argyria and problems associated with silver >are entirely dependent upon the amount ingested or absorbed. > >Unfortunately Dean, if the body knew what to do with minerals there would be >no metal toxicity. >Nothing waits around in the body waiting to be used, unless they are >expressly stored somewhere in a reversible reaction. Silver ions will react >with the first thing that comes along that they able to react with, just >like any element or molecule. And just like any molecule that cannot be >manufactured by the body, there is a constant turn-over, unused elements are >excreted whilst new elements are absorbed. > >Most, if not all metals are absorbed as ions, usually chelated or attached >to proteins or amino acids. Most elemental metals are poorly absorbed. > >Ivan. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dean T. Miller [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2001 09:59 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: CS>Dangers of oral ingestion of CS compounds >> >> >> 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]> > >
