The terms good bacteria and bad bacteria have been thrown around here recently, without considering just what is being said. First good and bad are not scientific terms, they are theological terms. Second the use of this term implies that that bacteria are intellegent and have some moral alignment. On the face of it this appears rather ridiculous.
However there are respiration modes of bacteria that tend to separate those that are harmless from those that sometimes cause distress and damage. This is whether the bacteria is aerobic or anaerobic (breath oxygen, or not). Most bacterial diseases are caused by bacteria that are in the anaerobic mode. However anaerobic mode of resipiration does not make a bacteria harmful, all bacteria that are in the gut are in that mode, since there is no free oxygen in the intestines. Also yeast can make fine wines and beers anaerobically, yet can cause distress for many people when growing in the wrong places. And many bacteria that break down dead organic matter in the soil are anaerobic as well. Lastly, many, if not most, bacteria will switch between aerobic and anerobic modes depending on the environment, so it is impossible to impy that one is good and the other bad. Whether they are precieved as good or bad depends more on where they have taken up residence than anything else. As all our tests, and the tests of other researchers have shown, colloidal silver kill all bacteria it contacts, except for a few rare noninvasive ones that can be found in soils where there is a lot of silver present. All our tests and the tests of others have shown that CS loses much of it's effectiveness when it is restrained in it's movement by being in a gell or solid. With this data it seems apparent that the reason why CS is effective against diarrear, yet does not impact bacteria in the gut when healthy, is simply one of mobility, as has been indicated by numberous experiments, and not that colloidal silver can somehow intellegently tell "good" bacteria from "bad" bacteria, when no one else can find a way to separate them except by their action at any particular time. Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
