But the
truth is, clinical studies on the safety and effectiveness of numerous forms of
antimicrobial silver – including colloidal silver -- are abundant. You just have to know where to look. And thankfully, the internet makes it easy to
find these supposedly non-existent studies, and share them with others.
Here’s the
inside scoop on the myriad of studies demonstrating the safety and
effectiveness of antimicrobial silver.
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
Years ago, when I was very young man first starting out as a natural
health journalist, I asked one of my editors how to handle it when skeptical
readers wrote back claiming there’s no evidence for the safety or effectiveness
of nutritional supplements.
My editor lowered his head slightly, looked me square in the eyes and
said, “You stuff their throats with
footnotes.”
That sounded awfully crude at the time.
But it didn’t take me long to catch on.
What my editor was alluding to was the fact that there’s plenty of bona-fide clinical evidence
available for nutritional supplements.
And when skeptical readers balk at your claims, simply direct them to the evidence and let it
speak for itself.
Colloidal
Silver:
Clinical
Studies and Reports
That’s one reason I’ve spent the last three years compiling clinical
studies, white papers and reports on the safety and effectiveness of colloidal
silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver.
Now, when skeptics challenge me with questions like “Where’s the proof of
silver’s safety and effectiveness?” I simply refer them to the Clinical Studies and Reports page on
TheSilverEdge.com web site.
There, they’ll find over 60 clinical studies, white papers and
reports on antimicrobial silver from top medical, research and scientific
sources.
Of course, I don’t think such a treasure trove of clinical studies and reports
are going to change the minds of hardened skeptics.
After all, most of them have an underlying agenda anyway. And the only
thing served by “stuffing their throats with footnotes” is to send them packing
with their little tails between their legs.
But every once in a while a skeptic will get back to me and say something
like “I really had no idea there was such a large body of clinical work on antimicrobial
silver until I saw all of the studies on your web site. Thank you for letting me know.”
And frankly, that makes it all
worthwhile.
7 New
Clinical Studies and Reports
Below you’ll find seven of the latest clinical studies I’ve posted to the
Clinical
Studies and Reports page at TheSilverEdge.com over the past few weeks
alone.
If you want to read any of the actual studies, just click the link in the
paragraph above, and you can scroll through the brief synopses of all 60-plus studies until you find the specific
studies you’re most interested in, and then open up the PDF file.
Or, click on any of the headlines directly below to read the specific
study being discussed.
Here, for example, is a study, demonstrating that a typical ionic colloidal
silver product similar to those found in most health food stores is not in the
least bit toxic to human cells:
Skeptics continuously
claim colloidal silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver are toxic to human
cells.
In fact,
hardly a week goes by that I don’t see this claim being made by medical doctors
and their bureaucratic counterparts, or by environmentalists, so-called
“quackbusters” and other notorious naysayers.
So in this in
vitro clinical study conducted in June 2007 at The Faculty of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen University, the researcher set out to
discover whether or not a specific brand of colloidal silver known as Ionosil (i.e., Sweden's leading brand of
colloidal silver) is toxic to human cells.
The
researcher compared the effects of Ionosil to atomic gold and silver quantum
clusters on human cells, looking for cytotoxicity (i.e. cell damage),
inflammation and DNA damage.
And guess
what? The colloidal silver demonstrated zero toxicity…zero DNA damage…and zero inflammation!
Amazing,
isn’t it?
In short, the
science demonstrates precisely what
colloidal silver users have known for decades, i.e., colloidal silver has a superb toxicological safety profile.
Which is to
say, when used correctly it’s no more toxic than any other natural mineral
supplement on the face of the earth!
Naysayers and
skeptics also continuously claim that colloidal silver and other forms of
antimicrobial silver are toxic to little critters in the environment.
In this
study, researchers tested mice and guinea pigs using a staggering 5,000 ppm
colloidal silver nanoparticles (i.e., extremely tiny particles of colloidal
silver).
The
researchers were looking to see if the colloidal silver caused acute oral
toxicity, eye irritation, corrosion or dermal toxicity.
But after 24,
48 and 72 hours of exposure to these super-high levels of antimicrobial silver,
blood chemistry analysis and other tests showed no differences in any of the
parameters examined.
In other
words, there were no significant differences in the health and well-being of
the mice and guinea pigs treated with 5,000 ppm colloidal silver, versus the
mice and guinea pigs that were not treated with colloidal silver.
According to
the researchers “There was neither any
gross lesion nor histopathological change observed in various organs.” In
other words, there was no significant organ or tissue damage from these wildly
excessive levels of colloidal silver.
The
researchers also concluded that colloidal silver nanoparticles administered orally or topically to the little
animals at a whopping 5,000 ppm appear to be relatively safe.
When you
consider that most people are considerably larger than mice and guinea pigs (at
least, I am), but tend to use colloidal
silver in comparatively very low concentrations of only 10 to 20 ppm, you can
understand the significance of this very important new study!
In this 2011 study, researchers demonstrate that colloidal silver nanoparticles
not only have a profound antifungal effect on two forms of Candida yeast, but are
also effective in destroying the biofilms
produced by these fungal pathogens.
Biofilms, of course, allow pathogens to adhere to cell walls inside the
body and form colonies that are largely protected from the human immune system as
well as from any natural predators such as your body’s beneficial
bacteria. You can think of a biofilms as
a fortified castle for microbes.
Indeed, in many cases biofilms are what stymie modern prescription drug-based
therapies from actually getting to the pathogen, because the drugs can’t
penetrate the biofilm barrier.
Thankfully, colloidal silver nanoparticles seem to have no problem whatsoever
busting through these protective fungal biofilms to get at the disease-causing
pathogens!
Is
antimicrobial silver effective against viruses?
The above
study is a clinical review from the science journal Molecules. In it, researchers review a number of studies
demonstrating the potent antiviral effects of silver nanoparticles.
Indeed, as
the review points out, a growing number of in
vitro studies have found antimicrobial silver to be effective against
HIV-1, hepatitis B virus, herpes simplex virus, respiratory syncytial virus and
even monkey pox virus.
The study
concludes that silver and other metal nanoparticles “may provide opportunity to
develop novel antiviral therapies with lower levels of resistance compared to
conventional antiviral drugs.”
Gee…ya
think?
Eye disease
can be debilitating. But silver
nanoparticles are being discovered to have profound therapeutic properties in
certain diseases of the eyes that can result in visual impairment or even
irreversible blindness.
This clinical
study review shows that silver nanoparticles may play a successful role in
reversing pathological retinal
angiogenesis, one of the most feared complications among diseases of the
retina.
According to
the study authors, "Recent findings
made by us on therapeutic applications of biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) against VEGF induced retinal endothelial cells, elucidates the
effectual inhibitory activities of AgNPs over the downstream signaling pathways
(Src and AKT/PI3K) leading to retinal angiogenesis."
In plain English,
that means antimicrobial silver stops the progression of the eye disease dead
in its tracks. The researchers concluded
that present clinical research "consequently
affirms the futuristic application of silver nanoparticles as a boon to ocular
therapies."
Well,
considering the fact that I’m getting to that age where my eyes don’t work quite
as well as they used to, I certainly look forward to these new silver-based eye
therapies!
Meanwhile, I
just spray a tiny bit of colloidal silver into my eyes each morning with a
glass pump spray bottle with a fine mist head on it, and guess what? No more itchy, scratchy eyes, and no more of
those painful sties. Sweet!
In this
animal study using mice, the researchers investigated the wound-healing
properties of silver nanoparticles and found that “rapid healing and improved cosmetic appearance occur in a
dose-dependent manner.”
In other
words, the wounded mice treated with silver nanoparticles not only healed more quickly
than the controls, but the scarring
was significantly improved also. And the
more silver nanoparticles used, the better the healing turned out!
The
researchers stated, “…through
quantitative PCR, immunohistochemistry, and proteomic studies, we showed that
silver nanoparticles exert positive
effects through their antimicrobial properties, reduction in wound
inflammation, and modulation of fibrogenic cytokines.”
In other
words, the silver nanoparticles prevented infection in the wounds, and reduced
inflammation by decreasing negative aspects of the healing process.
The
researchers conclude: “These results have given insight into the
actions of silver and have provided a novel therapeutic direction for wound
treatment in clinical practice."
Well, that’s
nice. Very nice.
But of
course, the wound healing properties of colloidal silver have been known all of
the way back to the late 1800’s when medical practitioners found that surgical
wounds closed up with sutures made of fine silver wire tended to heal much faster
than normal sutures. What’s more, the
surgical wounds failed to become infected.
So it’s good
to see modern medical researchers finally
catching up with the past!
Here's an
interesting clinical study demonstrating the effectiveness of antimicrobial silver
against the pathogen most commonly responsible for toenail fungus. According to
the study authors:
"Spherical silver nanoparticles
(nano-Ag) were synthesized and their antifungal effects on fungal pathogens of
the skin were investigated.
Nano-Ag showed potent activity against
clinical isolates and ATCC strains of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Candida
species."
Of course, for
decades women have been using oral doses of colloidal silver to heal vaginal
Candida yeast infections.
And numerous
colloidal silver users attest to the fact that colloidal silver obliterates
topical yeast infections such as toenail fungus and athlete’s foot, as well.
So, once
again, it’s nice to see modern science catching up with the past!
Many More
Studies
Of course, there are many more clinical studies, medical reports and
White Papers available on the Clinical Studies and Reports page on The
Silver Edge website – over five dozen,
all told.
And I have many more to post over the weeks and months directly ahead, so
please stay tuned! Meanwhile, I urge you to check out the available studies for
yourself by clicking the above link.
And whenever someone tells you “There’s no proof for the safety or
effectiveness of colloidal silver,” just smile politely, and email them the
above link.
Of course, you’ll probably never hear from them again, because by nature
most skeptics can’t admit they’re wrong.
But hey, that’s okay. At least
you did your part and showed them the
science (aka, “stuffed their throats with footnotes”).
Finally, if you’d like to learn more about the phenomenal infection-fighting,
immune-boosting and wound healing benefits of colloidal silver, and see why an estimated 10
million people throughout North America now use colloidal silver regularly,
just click the link!
I’ll be back next week with another great article. In the meantime, I remain…
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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