Yeh, this is true of almost anything. Try taking a lifetime of sugar or even water in one day and it will mess you up too. They play by different rules when they want to scare people away from something.
Marshall "Dean T. Miller" wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:20:39 EDT, [email protected] wrote: > > >I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE United States of America Environmental > >Protection Agency Recommendations, From Federal Register, Vol., 56, No. 20, > >30 January 1991, p3573, Silver: > >Derivation of SMCL for Silver > >The cosmetic DWEL is calculated assuming 1g of silver administered I.V. will > >produce a mild argyria in the most sensitive individuals (Gaul and Staud, > >1935; Hill and Pillsbury, 1939). Assuming 4 percent absorption of silver > >(Furchner et al., 1968) following oral exposure, the I.V. dose corresponds to > >an oral dose of 25g (1g/0.04 = 25g). This dose is then averaged over a > >lifetime, assumed to be 70 years: > > Huh? What is this craziness? An I.V. of 1 gram silver produces > *mild* argyria in the *most sensitive* individuals? That's a whopping > amount of silver -- and it produces mild argyria? > > Most people using CS wouldn't get 1 gram in their lifetime (hmm, I'd > better calculate that out :) [calculating] > > 25,550 days in a lifetime times 0.00001 grams daily (that's 1 > liter/quart of 10 ppm CS if it's absorbed 100%) comes out to about 1/4 > gram of silver over a lifetime. Maybe I messed something up, but even > if I'm low by a factor of 10, it's only 2.5 grams of lifetime silver. > > And that would be only if the body stored the silver, which it doesn't > (according to tests by Roger Altman). > > >Lifetime > >25 g* ---------------------- = 978ug/day > >25,5 50 days > >Based on an adult body weight of 70Kg, this corresponds to 14ug Kg/day (978 > >ug /day / 70 Kg=14 ug /Kg/day). > > What BS!! > > > >>2l/day = assumed water consumption by an adult. > > >Why is it divided by 21 days? > > It's not. That figure is 2 liters of water per day, not 21 days. > (and we all know that we should be drinking at least 3 liters of water > per day :) > > -- 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]>
