A client recently contacted me for comments about a
product she had discovered. I invite commentary.

http://www.ultrasilver.com 

“Ultra Silver by Bountico is a highly concentrated,
bio available form of colloidal silver. There are many
different sizes and concentrations available depending
on your personal supplement requirements. Ultra Silver
is proven to have a mean particle size of 35.2
nanometers as verified by Beckman Coulter Particle
Characterization.

“The dictionary defines a colloid as "a system in
which finely divided particles, approximately 10 to
10,000 angstroms in size, are dispersed within a
continuous medium in a manner that prevents them from
being filtered easily or settled rapidly."

“Colloids are distinguished from suspensions in that
the dispersed particles of a colloid are much smaller.
They are approximately (1 - 500) X 10 to the -7 power
cm. Because of this small size, the particles do not
settle and cannot be filtered by ordinary techniques
as can suspensions.

“The concentration of our Ultra Silver is one of many
things that distinguish us from the competition. Most
other products on the market are typically between
5-30 ppm. Therefore, Ultra Silver is up to thousands
of times more potent. In some cases, a few drops of
Ultra Silver would make quarts of other brands. There
are some very clear reasons why Ultra Silver has been
formulated at higher strengths. The answer involves
both effectiveness and dosage.

“The reason for this concentration is to achieve a
saturated dose when taken in the body (in vivo). The
most important thing to remember is that the average
individual has approximately 6 pints of blood (2.83
liters) coursing through their system. All low
concentration products will be diluted to a negligible
and ineffective level. However, our Ultra Silver is
specially formulated with this natural dilution
process in mind, so a proper saturation level may be
achieved in vivo.

“Now that a reason for this concentration level has
been established, we may take a look at colloidal
silver dosage. Our superior Ultra Silver comes in four
strengths: 500, 1000, 5,000, and 10,000 [ppm]. Each
has their own dosage recommendation. The key question
here is what does colloidal silver dosage have to do
with concentration? The answer is that higher
concentrations mean lower dosage requirements.”

10,000 ppm! Now that's amazing.

This next site promotes this same product, but makes
other claims.

http://www.health-reports.com/pneumonia.html 

“Let's start out by telling you about a remarkable
product that has had great success in treating
pneumonia and bronchitis, a specially processed liquid
molecular silver formulation with a very small amount
of hydrogen peroxide, called Respiratory Support.

“You can take silver products internally. The silver
product we suggest for internal use is UltraSilver.
However, the best way to knock out pneumonia or
bronchitis fast is to breathe it into the lungs. That
way the silver directly attacks the germs causing the
pneumonia or bronchitis that are residing in the
lungs. Which is what Respiratory Support is designed
to do. It works very fast. It is not uncommon for
bronchitis or pneumonia to clear up in a couple of
days.

[I am surprised they have not received flack from the
FDA over this statement.]

“So if it is so great, why isn’t my doctor telling me
to use silver? There are probably two reasons. First,
generally the medical profession only recommends
drugs. That is what they are educated in and that is
what they know. Most are very skeptical of natural
alternatives to medications. Second. Not all silver
products are of good quality. In fact, a majority of
them are not particularly effective. And some may even
turn you silver!

“The process for making the molecular silver that is
used in Respiratory Support is a unique process that
creates silver particles so fine they disperse through
the body in a similar fashion to how a gas does.
Getting into cells and killing pathogens with greater
ability then ordinary colloidal or ionic silver
products.

“One of the worlds leading physicists, considered to
be the father of electro-medicine today, Robert C.
Beck, tested these three forms of silver for
penetrability. He found that all forms of colloidal
and Ionic silver had a 5% to 6% effectiveness for
penetrating certain membranes. When he tested
Molecular Silver he was astonished to see 100%
penetration!

“Another major distinction between this molecular
silver and all others is that due to its energetic and
etheric nature, it doesn’t break down. Direct sunlight
does not change it’s composition even after years of
exposure.

“Home colloidal silver makers produce, and most of the
commercial colloidal and ionic silver products on the
market are, inexpensive colloidal silver that is not
effective for two reasons. First off, they are mostly
not actually colloidal particles. Rather they are 80
or 90% ionic silver molecules with the remaining 10 or
20% being colloidal sized silver particles.

“The drawback with ionic silver as a pathogen killer
is that it combines with chloride in the body and
forms a silver chloride salt molecule that is not an
effective pathogen killer.

“And of course, neither of them get inside cell
membranes nearly as well as this molecular silver
does. That’s why it is used in Respiratory Support.
Because it has twenty times more penetration into cell
membranes than ordinary silver products do, it has
silver in very small concentrations. This allows you
to used Respiratory Support many times during a day
when you need to get rid of a tough pneumonia or
bronchial infections fast.

“The Special Ingredient In Respiratory Support

“What makes Respiratory Support even more effective
for fighting pneumonia and bronchitis is its second
ingredient, a very small amount of hydrogen peroxide.
Don’t try this on your own. You must have only small
amounts so that it is causes no harm.”

All of the marketing ploys are present here. The “We
have the only effective product, and all the others
are worthless or dangerous” ploy; the use of
scientific-sounding words and phrases (“molecular
silver”, "Bioavailable") that actually are
meaningless; the repeating of widely-claimed
statements that have never been substantiated
(“Microorganisms depend on a specific enzyme to
breathe. Silver particles disable these enzymes, and
as a result the pathogens die. An ordinary antibiotic
kills perhaps a half dozen different disease
organisms; silver is known to kill more than 650
illness-causing microorganisms.”).

It’s disappointing to see.


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