I received unsolicited SPAM from this website....Healix. Notice they spell Argyria wrong all through the site. What crap!!
http://www.heallix.com/ionizedsilver.htm HEALlix Ionized Silver Fulvic Acid ARGERIA Health Conditions Antibiotics Super Bugs Suggested Use Contact Us IONIZED SILVER The only active ingredient in electrolytically produced colloidal silver is the amount of dissolved silver that goes into solution. Dissolved silver is referred to as "ionized" silver. Colloidal silver is not ionized silver. Only ionized silver can destroy pathogens [a specific causative agent (as a bacterium or virus) of disease] in the human environment. COLLOIDAL SILVER Colloidal Silver is defined by Webster as "a substance that consists of particles dispersed throughout another substance which are too small for resolution with an ordinary light microscope but are incapable of passing through a semipermeable membrane". When prepared chemically the integrity in the size of the particles is protected by a protein coating and the product is referred to as "Silver Protein". The smaller the particles the more effective the product and the longer the shelf-life. For most purposes, chemically produced colloidal silver is inferior to electrolytically produced silver and is seldom used for supplemental purposes. The bulk of colloidal silver products now being marketed as food supplements are electrolytically produced. EARLY RESEARCH Researchers agree that the safest form of silver ions are those produced by electrolysis. This method of preparation was introduced and published prior to 1916 by G. Van Amber Brown, M.D. Case histories of patients treated intravenously with electrolytically generated colloidal silver, demonstrated conclusively its superiority over chemically produced colloidal silver. SILVER BY ELECTROLYSIS When produced electrolytically each particle of silver receives a charge that repels every other particle and contributes to the stability of the product. Although electrolytically generated colloidal silver is superior to chemically produced silver... it too eventually loses its charge and settles out. RELATIONSHIP OF IONIZED SILVER TO COLLOIDAL SILVER Colloidal silver is not ionized silver. Only trace amounts of ionized silver are found in the colloidal silver products now being marketed... or produced by home generators. We get a much cleared picture of the silver question when we understand that these products usually contain less than 15 parts per million of colloidal silver, and that it takes approximately 5,000 parts per million of colloidal silver to yield 1 ppm of ionized silver. Remember: it is only the ionized silver that destroys pathogens. ROBERT O. BECKER, PhD The internationally recognized authority on Electromagnetic Pollution, Robert O. Becker, PhD; outlined in his book "Cross Currents" the experimental discipline successfully used to combat infections in wounds that would not respond to conventional treatment. It involved patients; "who not only had large open wounds with exposed and infected bone but also had unhealed fractures of the bone in the infected site." Through the use of electrolytically generated silver ions, Dr. Becker & associates not only controlled the heretofore uncontrollable infection, but achieved a startling added bonus as well. He states; "What we had actually done was rediscover the fact that silver killed bacteria, which has been known for centuries... The electrically generated silver ion was doing something more than killing bacteria... it was also causing major growth stimulation of tissues in the wound." When they finally traced down exactly what was happening they found that as human fibroblast cells were exposed to electrolytically generated silver ions, they changed back into primitive or embryonic cells... which in turn changed into whatever specific cell types was needed to heal the wound. He further states; "So what we were in fact doing was turning on regeneration in human tissues, which I had thought we would never be able to do." SILVER TEST A common test for determination of the presence of colloidal silver is to pass the beam of a laser light through a clear bottle containing the solution. If colloidal silver is present there will be a solid beam of light reflected from the suspended particles. You will be able to see a beam of light. Solutions containing only ionized silver will not display this phenomenon since there are no un-dissolved particles of silver present to reflect that light. With solution containing only ionized silver there is no beam of light. BREAKTHROUGH Recent major breakthroughs in processing technology has made possible the complete ionization of electrolytically generated colloidal silver. It renders obsolete the long standing method of fractional ionization of colloidal silver by standard methods. With new technology that produces 100% ionized silver, the product is stabilized against drop-out and gives a shelf-life of years instead of days, weeks, or months as in conventional colloidal silver products. ARGERIA Argeria is the only known side-effect from the use of pure silver. It is a cosmetic darkening of the skin and cellular tissue caused by a build-up of un-dissolved silver particles (colloidal silver) in the tissues. Ionized silver does not cause Argeria; only excessive use of colloidal silver causes Argeria. ELECTROLYSIS AND HUMAN HEALTH Medical researchers have long known the vital role of electrolytes in human health. Only after the discovery of a method to dissolve and attach electrolytically generated silver to naturally occurring electrolytes, was non-toxic, ionized silver made available to the public. Of this naturally occurring electrolyte, Dr. William R. Jackson, in his well documented book "Organic Soil Conditioning", has stated: "the physical well being of the organism, whether plant or animal, can be expressed in terms of electrical potential. Fulvic acid has proven to be a powerful organic electrolyte, serving to balance cell life. It is available at times as a donor and at other times as an acceptor, based on the cell's requirements for balance. If the individual cell is restored to its normal chemical balance and thereby, in turn, its electrical potential, we have given life were death and disintegration would normally occur within the plant and animal cells." ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL OF THE CELL Death in the cell occurs when the electrical potential of the cell membrane is reduced to zero. This was effectively demonstrated by Dr. Crile. An amoeba (a one celled animal) and an auto synthetic cell was used to demonstrate the vital function of electrical potential in all living cells. When an equal and opposite electrical charge to that of the amoeba reduced the electrical potential of its cell membrane to zero and astonishing change occurred comparable to death. Amoeboid movement was arrested and the amoeba became spherical in form. The outer cell membrane then ruptured and granules could be seen floating out into the surrounding fluid. Before the tears in the membrane became too excessive, the researchers reversed the process and restored the electrical potential of the cell membrane again to normal. They then witnessed a remarkable demonstration of the vital role of electrical potential in all living cells. The amoeba's form was reconstructed to a viable, living organism and it again became active and healthy. Reestablishing the cell's normal electrical potential had given life where death and disintegration would otherwise have occurred. SUPER BUGS & IONIZED SILVER It is believed that the effective use of silver as an anti-infective agent is due (at least in part) to its ability to reduce the electrical potential of the invasive pathogen's cell membrane to zero, thus destroying the pathogen. This may explain why there are no known cases of virulent pathogens mutating into strains which are resistant to ionized silver. With the harmonious marriage of a known disease fighter (ionized silver), and a non-toxic electrolyte and cell nutrient (fulvic acid), researchers have reached a new plateau in the fight against the virulent, disease-causing "Super Bugs". Offering a non-toxic bio-nutrient and electrolyte containing 100% ionized silver has put the product light years ahead of competition. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. 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