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Super Hero to Combat Germs
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People have long known that silver
can be used as a purifying and preserving age In ancient Greece and
Rome, people used silver containers to keep liquids fresh. Early
American pioneers put silver dollars in bottles of milk to prevent
spoilage. Laboratory workers placed silver dimes in petri dishes to
sterilize them.
Today, more than half of the world's airlines use silver water
filters because they protect against waterborne diseases like
dysentery. NASA uses a silver water-purification system in its space
shuttles. Silver is sometimes used in place of chlorine to purify
swimming pool water. |
And since the turn of the
century, people have been using silver in colloidal form as an
antibiotic treatment. In fact, until 1938, colloidal silver was
considered a mainstream antibiotic treatment. But production was costly
with early technology, and so the use of colloidal silver died out.
Colloidal Silver-A Definition
Colloidal silver is a complicated name for a simple chemistry project. A
colloidal system refers to superfine particles suspended in water. We
all recognize silver as a precious metal. So with colloidal silver, tiny
particles of silver are electrocolloidally suspended in deionized water.
The silver particles and the water are dispersed within and bound to
each other by an electric current. This means that each of the silver
particles is given a positive charge so they repel each other and the
water around them, leaving them suspended in the water. The silver
particles are not dissolved, nor should they sink. They remain suspended
in the solution, held there by the electric charge.
What to Look for in Your Colloidal Silver
The highest-grade colloidal silver is produced by the electrocolloidal
method described above. Colloidal silver can be produced using a grind
method or a chemical process, but these solutions are not nearly as safe
or effective.
99.999% fine silver in particle sizes ranging from .005 to .015 microns
should be used in a quantity of 3 to 5 parts per million (ppm). Silver
gives a golden hue when reduced to that particle size, so your colloidal
silver should ideally be a pale golden yellow.
Darker colors indicate the use of larger particles. The weight of these
larger particles will counteract the electric charge, and they will
collect at the bottom of the container. Colloidal silver which contains
dregs is not a true colloid.
Watch for products that contain a stabilizer-silver will remain
suspended on its own in a true colloid. Look out for trace elements
other than silver or for any added coloring. Your colloidal silver
should be nothing but fine silver and deionized water.
If the product needs to be shaken or requires refrigeration, it is not a
true colloid. Finally, remember that high concentrations of silver do
not kill germs more effectively than the safe range of 35 ppm.
What Colloidal Silver Does
How does silver work? It disables the enzyme that one-celled bacteria,
viruses, and fungi need for oxygen metabolism. In the presence of
silver, these pathogenic microbes suffocate.
In one powerful experiment, 50 gallons of raw sewage were pumped into a
pool without any disinfectant. The E. coli count (a standard measure of
contamination) was at 7,000 E. coli cells per milliliter of water. The
water was exposed to silver electrodes and within three hours, all 50
gallons were free of E. coli.
Colloidal silver is an effective ally in the fight against over 650
disease-causing organisms. These include: bacteria (typhoid, dyptheria,
certain types of food poisoning, and pneumonia); viruses (the common
cold, influenza, and measles); protozoa (malaria, giardiasis, amebic
dysentery); fungi (ringworm, thrush, candida albicans, and athlete's
foot); rickettsiae (rocky mountain spotted fever and Q fever); and
chlamydiae (infections of the eye, the genitals, and the respiratory
system). There is no known microbe that colloidal silver does not
destroy.
It turns out that silver ions are very important for the immune system.
They supplement and support the T-cells in fighting foreign organisms,
almost forming a second immune system. In research done with AIDS, it
appears that silver both protects and defends T-cells, and does their
work for them. There is also a correlation between occurrence of illness
and the level of silver in the body; people who are ill generally
register lower levels of silver in their body.
Besides suffocating unwanted invaders, colloidal silver also helps
injured tissues grow back. It has been useful in cases of severe burns
and broken bones. It reduces scar tissue and helps severe cuts and
wounds heal faster.
Silver vs. Antibiotics
An antibiotic kills a half-dozen different disease organisms. But
because the antibiotic attacks the bacteria directly, and because
bacteria adapt very well, they mutate to over-come the antibiotic. So
every time an antibiotic is used, it becomes less effective for the next
time it is needed.
But silver kills over 650 disease causing organisms, and it can do so
every time. No resistant strains develop with the use of silver.
Researchers speculate that this is because silver does not attack the
microbe directly like an antibiotic does. It decomposes the enzyme
microorganisms rely on to breathe-they can't mutate to counterattack
silver's approach.
Another problem with antibiotics is that they kill beneficial enzymes
while attacking the bad ones; pharmaceutical antibiotics can't
distinguish between good and bad enzymes. This is why the immune system
is especially weak after a round of antibiotics, and why yeast
infections are much more likely after taking antibiotics.
Silver, however, doesn't destroy beneficial enzymes because they are
very different from the enzymes of single-celled life which silver
targets. Silver is nontoxic. Also, colloidal silver doesn't interact or
interfere with other medicine being, taken.
Finally, antibiotics only affect bacteria. Silver disables bacteria,
viruses, fungi, and all other diseasecausing organisms.
In prolonged, very heavy doses, some colloidal silver compounds will
leave deposits in the heavier skin folds, like the knuckles. This
permanent gray coloring of the skin is called Argyria; it is correctable
with laser treatment. Argyria is very rare and most often associated
with products that use particles of silver which are too large to be
flushed out of the body's system naturally. As long as the silver
particle size ranges from .005 to .015 microns in diameter, there should
be no problem.
NSP Differences *
• Most Uniform Particle Size
• Safest and most effective of all colloidal silver products on the
market
• 1 teaspoon provides 70 mcg. of pure silver
• Free from heavy contamination: lead, cadmium, nickel and aluminum
• Tasteless and odorless
• Completely non-toxic (this is not true for many other products)
* Taken from the NSP flyer "NSP Colloidal Silver vs. the Competition"
Silver Shield (4 fluid oz.) – Stock #4074-7
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