Hi Nancy, Sorry about the sarcasm, but over the years there have been many, many messages posted from the quackwatch site. Even though Barrett and company have been losing in court, they (and their Canadian cohorts) keep pushing the agenda of the pharmaceutical companies.
Even if your friends were using a little salt to make their CS, *and the CS was the normal 10 to 20 ppm* strength that low-voltage (battery) generators make, it would take at least 70 GALLONS of 10 ppm CS daily for over 6 months to get the amount of silver into the body that could cause argyria (which is a cosmetic problem, and doesn't have a negative effect on the functioning of the body). Needless to say, that's not even close to being possible. In addition, tests have been made with (non-salt added) CS that shows the body eliminates practically all of the silver within a few days, with much being eliminated within 12 hours. IOW, for CS to be most effective, a little amount must be taken throughout the day. Silver is NOT a "heavy metal" in terms of biological activity, and there are reports that it acts as a chelating agent, releasing true "heavy metals" into the blood stream for elimination. (In that sense, gold is also not a heavy metal, though I've seen no reports that imply is also has the chelating effect). Also, there is practically NO MD that knows anything about the effects of silver in the body. Most MDs get their info from pharmaceutical salespeople or hearsay from other MDs (who get their info the same way). All of the materials safety agencies say that silver METAL (or ionic silver) is safe in almost any quantity -- there is no practical toxic level. Note that applies ONLY to silver metal (or ionic silver) -- NOT silver compounds. You can look up the data sheet for Silver Metal at: <http://www.espi-metals.com/msds's/silver.pdf> You might also want to look at some other information about the safety/toxicity of silver. Please take care to note whether the info you read is for ionic/colloidal (pure metal) silver or for silver compounds. Most of the scare stories refer to silver compounds, and are carefully written to imply that the information is for colloidal silver. See: <http://www.silvermedicine.org/safetyinformation.html> and <http://www.asapsolution.com/silversafety.html> for example. There's a discussion of the toxicity of silver, with many good links, at: <http://www.clspress.com/tox.html> On Fri, 16 May 2003 07:42:26 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >In a message dated 5/15/2003 9:18:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > >> TO LIST MEMBERS: Sorry for being so sarcastic, but, IMO, this entire >> message seems to be very contrived. It looks like it's intended to >> scare people who are new to CS so they won't even investigate the >> reported benefits. >> > >Dean, >This was not a story to scare any one...Laurelle is very frightened with her >results and a very intelligent lady/nurse. >Kathi, Laurelle and I are personal friends for years...all three of us >started CS about 5 years ago. >I will add....we were instructed to make CS with salt! >Malcolm had brought that to light. >It was when I joined this list...I warned Kathi and Laurelle that we were not >making it right by adding salt!!!! >I am hear to learn all I can, not scare anyone away! >All I asked, was for your opinions and Malcolm made alot of sense with his >letter. >Regards, >Nancy > -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
