...will not silver ions that make their way into the blood turn into silver chloride quickly or immediately due to plentiful supply of Cl in the blood at all times?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Fwd: CS>Agryia > > > Gina Gomes wrote: > > I'm waiting for someone to explain to me what causes Agryia and what > > are the known ways to reverse it. > > As most people know, silver is used as the photo-sensitive ingredient in > almost all photographic processes. Silver compounds, when exposed to > light, will often result in the silver being reduced to atomic or > metallic silver. Then in the presence of a developer, any silver > compounds that contact the silver particles will also undergo a > reduction reaction, enlarging the silver particle. > > While this process is essential to photography, it is undesirable in the > skin of a person. It is thought by many that the reason that the royalty > long ago were called blue bloods is because the silver from the goblets > and wares would react with acids in their drinks and foods, then > precipitate out in their skin giving them a bluish color. It is known > that consumption of silver compounds, such as silver nitrate, followed > by exposure to sunlight can result in a graying or bluing of the skin, a > medical condition called argyria (2). As it turns out, a number of > chemicals that can appear in the blood make quite effective developers. > Caffeine and tannin are just two of them (3). > > Fortunately, colloidal silver, when made by the electrolytic process in > pure distilled water without any salts being added, produces no silver > salts. Thus, silver plating out of colloidal silver is not possible; the > silver particles are already reduced to pure silver, and are mutually > repulsed, because of their positive charges. > > > Silver salts do and can cause argyria, that is not in > dispute. The physics is well known and is experienced by everyone as > the standard photographic process. Silver > salts when exposed to light gain an electron producing a silver atom. > Then the silver atom (known as the latent > image in film), will grow when exposed to additional silver salts and a > developer in an alkaline solution (known as > development in photography). When the silver particles grow > sufficiently, they will begin absorbing light and causing > a darkening of the area, whether in a photographic print, or the skin of > an animal. It is impossible to make a > photograph using silver particles to start with, that is the end result > (and if you leave a dark photo which is dark > because it has particles in the emulsion in the light over time it will > tend to fade, not darken). Likewise it is > impossible to cause argyria using colloidal silver which IS silver > particles already. Silver compounds and silver > colloid have nothing in common as far as argyria is concerned, and > despite what many claim colloidal silver does not > only not cause argyria, it can be an effective prophylactic against > argyria. That is if colloidal silver is taken with silver > salts there will be a reduced likelihood of argyria from the salts. The > following reference (5) uses IES to > mean Electrolytically Isolated Silver, which is a combination of both > colloidal silver and ionic silver that > > What happens when you take silver compounds. > A silver compound will typically become silver chloride as soon as it hits > the stomach. The silver chloride > is sparingly soluble, about .8 ppm. The dissolved silver > chloride will move > into the blood stream and once there will be exposed > to chemicals that will induce the silver to plate out on any other silver > particles present. However initially there will be no other > silver particles present, so the silver chloride circulates in the blood > until exposed to light in the skin, where they are photo > reduced to silver atoms. This is the photographic process that occurs when > you take a picture (with a film camera). Once the silver atoms > are produced > in the skin, then the rest of the silver chloride will begin reducing onto > those particles making them grow very fast, and resulting in many of them > getting stuck in the skin. Since the particles are so small, they will > appear as black or blue, giving the skin a bluish cast. This is called > argyria, and can result from taking silver compounds without any colloidal > component. > > > > > If it were 't for my e-mail friend who told me to do research before > > taking colloidal silver, I would not have known there was such a thing. > Everyone here is aware that silver salts can cause argyria. We are > normally only concerned with it when newcomers come in and are taking > are making silver salts. > > > > As long as someone does not explain this, then I am being kept in the > > dark and then when my skin turns grey who do I blame? > If one is concerned, they should watch themselves closely in the > mirror. Also they should take sufficient quantities of selenium and > vitamin E both of which have evidence as a prophylactic. > > > > So is agryia really superficial? > It is cosmetic. Some might consider that superficial, and some might not. > > Marshall > > > > > > */[email protected]/* wrote: > > > > In a message dated 2/4/2007 12:11:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > Therefore your above statement says very clearly that you are > > looking for > > money rather than any assistance with your claimed argyria > > problem. > > > > Good luck to you. Blue and green has long been my favorite > > color combination. > > > > Money will help me afford the laser surgery to help my problem. I > > made a statement similar to yours once before. I stated that > > because of my blue eyes the blue coloring will look ok. Boy was I > > wrong and did I get showed differently. > > > > Plus there are not people here that can help me. They caused the > > harm to begin with and none of those tactics they suggest work and > > they know it. When people come here for help all you folks do is > > bash them. Your more concerned with how much, what kind and how > > long than helping someone with their problem. Because everyone > > knows Argyria is permanent. > > > > *ArgyriaVictim > > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Argyria/* > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Looking for earth-friendly autos? > > Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" > > <http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/;_ylc=X3oDMTE4MGw4Z2hlBF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2B HNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDZ3JlZW5jZW50ZXI-> > at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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