I agree.  I recieved the spam also.
Dave Reese

Connie wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
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> 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.
> 
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