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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Colloidal Silver Causes Evacuation of an Entire Hotel!

In November a Gainesville, GA man found out that traveling with your colloidal silver generator might be problematic -- particularly if someone sees it, and mistakes it for a piece of “meth lab” equipment.

Here’s the story, along with a few eye-opening tips that might help you avoid similar difficulties when traveling with your colloidal silver-making equipment…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...

This has got to be my favorite news story of the year.

Apparently, on November 28, 2012, a hotel housekeeper at the Paramount Plaza Hotel & Suites in Gainesville, GA entered a hotel room when the guest wasn’t there, and found a "suspicious device" and a "suspicious substance."

The police were called, and afterwards the Sheriff's bomb squad and a Hazardous Materials team joined the investigation on the premise that a dangerous "meth lab" may have been discovered in the hotel room.

The entire hotel was evacuated as a precaution, as authorities pursued their investigation.

Colloidal Silver the Culprit

Then, two hours after the evacuation, the surprised hotel guest returned to the hotel. He apparently explained to authorities that the "suspicious substance" they’d found in his room was a Big Gulp cup half full of colloidal silver!

Although the news article doesn’t specifically say so, apparently the "suspicious device" found in the room was a colloidal silver generator.

I don’t know who should be more embarrassed, the snoopy hotel staff, the over-reactive police, the Sheriff’s bomb squad, the Hazardous Materials squad, or the guy who apparently left his hotel room with his colloidal silver generator running, not expecting any hotel staff to enter the room.

According to a Gainesville Police Department spokesman, “We would much rather take all safety precautions anytime a suspicious device is found to ensure safety than not do enough.”

Well said. But nevertheless somebody oughta be awfully darned embarrassed over this incident.

Crazy, Crazy World

Folks, we now live in a crazy, crazy world where you have to be darned careful for just about everything, apparently including where you take your colloidal silver generator.

Frankly, this story did not surprise me in the least, because I experienced a similar event not too long after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on this country.

Indeed, shortly after 9-11 an investigator from the Office of Naval Intelligence show up at the doorstep of my office asking why I’d just purchased 200 wall timers from a local electrical supply house.

Apparently, with a few modifications, wall timers can be used by terrorists as makeshift explosive devices. And the authorities were apparently worried that I might be some nutcase who was getting ready to blow up half the little town I lived in at that time.

Of course, in reality, the wall timers were for the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generators sold by my company, TheSilverEdge.com.

A wall timer is included with every Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator sold (see photo, left), so customers can set the timer for the requisite three-hour production time, and leave, not having to worry about being home to shut the generator off later. The timer makes shut-off automatic.

So I buy hundreds of these timers at a whack, in order to fulfill customer orders for the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator.

But you should have seen the disbelieving look on the investigators face when I tried to explain all of this to him.

I literally had to unpack an entire box full of pre-packaged Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generators in front of the investigator, and then set one of them up and run it for him, so he could see the entire process.

And just so he knew for sure that I was not some nutcase, I gave him an autographed copy of my bestselling book on colloidal silver, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual.

Unnerving…

Now I’ve been around the military most of my life, because my dad was a career Marine. I’ve lived on military bases. And I’ve even worked on a military base as a young adult. So I’m quite used to the military way of life.

But believe me, when you have an investigator from the Office of Naval Intelligence show up at your doorstep demanding to know why you’re buying electrical apparatuses in bulk, it’s more than just a little bit unnerving, to say the least.

And even more so afterwards, when you realize that somewhere in the intelligence community, in some obscure file cabinet, there’s a file with your name on it, associated with a federal terrorism investigation. Not fun!

Thankfully, the investigator was a swell guy once he figured out I was on the up-and-up. He was fascinated by the concept of the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, and said he’d give the copy of my book to his wife, who was “into alternative medicine.”

And since that time I’ve never had a bit of trouble even though I’ve had to purchase thousands upon thousands of pieces of electronic equipment now that the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator has become the world’s #1 best-selling colloidal silver generator.

A Few Helpful Tips on Traveling

With a Colloidal Silver Generator…

People email me all of the time asking about travelling with their colloidal silver generators.

Now I suppose these little machines are most frequently referred to as “home” colloidal silver generators because that’s where they belong, i.e., in the home.

But I understand that sometimes when you’re going to be away from home for an extended period of time, you might want to bring your generator with you so you can make fresh batches of colloidal silver wherever you’re visiting.

This is often true, for example, when you might be visiting out-of-town (or out-of-state) relatives or friends, and you want to show them your colloidal silver generator in operation, and let them sample some freshly made colloidal silver.

So my #1 suggestion is that if you’re going to be traveling away from home for any extended period of time – particularly if you’ve chosen to travel by air or by any other form of public transportation such as train or bus -- simply package and mail your colloidal silver generator to the address you’ll be staying at.

Don’t take it with you on the airplane, train or bus. The baggage inspectors are just too hyper-vigilant about electronic appliances they’re not familiar with. And the likelihood your colloidal silver generator will be confiscated for “further investigation” is high.

So send your colloidal silver generator by UPS or FedEx, and be sure to pay the extra small fee for shipment tracking.

By shipping your generator to your destination via UPS, FedEx or some other reliable shipping service, you won’t have to worry about having it confiscated at the airport, bus station or train station if some lughead TSA wannabe in the baggage inspection department confuses it for a portable “meth lab” or an explosive device.

And by purchasing the shipment tracking service, you can keep track of where your package is at at any point in time while you’re traveling. How? Simply by using your laptop computer or smart phone to log into the website of the shipping company you’ve chosen, and enter your package’s shipping number into the tracking system.

Also, when shipping your colloidal silver generator anywhere, it’s important to make sure it’s clearly labeled.

The label should identify the machine as a home colloidal silver generator. And it should include the name of the company that manufactured it, and plenty of contact information for the manufacturer, such as the company’s phone number, email address and regular mail address.

After all, shipping companies like UPS and FedEx are now as hyper-vigilant about package contents as airports, trains and bus stations are about luggage contents.

Most shipping packages are now x-rayed as they come down the conveyor belt before being loaded onto the delivery truck. And suspicious packages are opened and thoroughly inspected.

So you want to make it as easy as possible for some overzealous security inspector to see that the electrical apparatus in your package is a safe and benign consumer product, so he won’t confiscate it or sequester it as something needing further investigation.

That’s why I also suggest you keep your generator in its original packaging, with corroborating materials such as the Operating Instructions Guide (see photo, left), and even the business card of the company you purchased your colloidal silver generator from.

For example, TheSilverEdge.com includes in the packaging with every Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator a printed Operating Instructions Guide, plus Special Reports on making and using colloidal silver, as well as two business cards featuring complete contact information for both the Sales Department and the Tech Support department.

These are the kinds of printed materials that will go a long way toward identifying your colloidal silver generator as a benign consumer product should it somehow fall into the hands of an over-vigilant package inspector during shipping.

Even if you prefer to travel by car, and stay at hotel rooms with your colloidal silver generator, by following the above-described labeling and packaging advice you’ll go a long way toward preventing some snoopy hotel room housekeeper from mistaking your generator for a piece of equipment from a "meth lab" operation and calling the cops.

However, no matter how well labeled your colloidal silver generator might be, I certainly don't recommend leaving your hotel room with the machine sitting out in the open, and running. That’s likely what happened in the recent hotel incident described at the beginning of this article.

Obviously, it could turn into an embarrassing situation for you should a not-so-bright hotel housekeeper enter the room and think you're brewing up an illegal concoction.

Learning More About Colloidal Silver…

To learn more about making and using colloidal silver, just click the link.

Or, feel free to watch some of these short videos on making and using colloidal silver.

You can also learn more by reading some of my in-depth articles on colloidal silver, including this article on “7 Good Reasons to Make Your Own Colloidal Silver.”

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another brand new article on colloidal silver…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Reason #7 to Make Your Own Colloidal Silver: You’ll Always Be Able to Produce The Superior Ionic Form of Colloidal Silver!

It has recently become quite a fad among many commercial colloidal silver vendors to sell silver particulates, which are also known as “metallic” colloidal silver or “particulate” colloidal silver.

These vendors frequently use the patently false claim that particulate silver is the only “true” colloidal silver in existence, and that it is superior to ionic colloidal silver in every way.

Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

Indeed, the particulate form of colloidal silver, while faddishly popular thanks to the marketing hyperbole that goes along with it, has in reality been demonstrated to be one of the weakest forms of colloidal silver available, particularly in terms of microbial killing power.

Keep in mind that colloidal silver has been around since Edison harnessed electricity in the late 1800’s. And many hundreds of tests and studies on colloidal silver have been conducted over the past eleven decades by legitimate laboratories, well-known research facilities, hospitals, major university medical departments, and even by the U.S. military and the U.S. government.

And to my knowledge, no one…and I repeat, no one…has found particulate colloidal silver to be superior to ionic silver, except for the internet promoters who constantly claim their bottled particulate colloidal silver products are superior to all others.

Isn’t that interesting?

In the newly updated, 547-page edition of my book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual I list over 158 different medical studies conducted over the past thirty years demonstrating the incredible effectiveness of the ionic form of colloidal silver. These include studies by the U.S. Army Burn Center, major medical universities, famous scientists, respected doctors, and more.

But the only studies I’ve been able to find on the so-called particulate form of colloidal silver have been the one’s conducted by a single, supposedly “independent” laboratory that, upon further examination, turns out to be owned by the main company that manufactures and sells the particulate form of silver.

That’s hardly what I’d call “independent.”

On the other hand, a respected company called Natural Immunogenics recently hired scientists to test the two forms of colloidal silver -- ionic v/s particulate – against each other using stringent FDA testing standards.

The results were astonishing.

In these tests, the ionic form of colloidal silver was demonstrated to be up to 1,000 times more effective than the particulate form when tested against pathogenic microorganisms.

The study showed that virtually all claims of effectiveness made for the particulate form were the exact opposite of the truth. Far from being more effective, the particulate form of colloidal silver turned out to be a small fraction as effective as the ionic form.

While these results shocked some people, they should not have been surprising. After all, when Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. did his groundbreaking work at Syracuse Medical University on the infection-fighting and tissue-regenerating power of electrically generated silver in the 1970’s and ‘80’s, it was the ionic form he used.

If you read his two New York Times bestselling books, The Body Electric and Cross Currents, you’ll see that he constantly refers to the silver ion as being the major infection-fighting and tissue-regenerating factor in all of his well-known medical studies.

What’s more, Albert T. McManus, MD, the Chief of Microbiology at the U.S. Army Burn Center, which is operated by the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, states forthrightly regarding silver’s ability to prevent infections in burn patients, “…conversion of silver to silver ions is necessary for efficacy”.

In short, it is the silver ion that produces the microbial “killing power” of colloidal silver.

And the good news is this: When you make your own colloidal silver with a high-quality colloidal silver generator you will always get the ionic form of colloidal silver.

So don’t let commercial colloidal silver vendors lead you down Primrose Lane with their marketing hyperbole.

When you make your own colloidal silver with a high-quality generator, you are producing the same type of colloidal silver proven over and over again in medical studies to be the most effective!

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Reason #6 to Make Your Own Colloidal Silver: You’re Not Dependent Upon the Manufacturer to Control the Silver Particle Size!

When you purchase colloidal silver from a health food store or through an internet vendor, you have no way of knowing what the silver particle size is.

Sure, there will probably be some label claims regarding particle size. But if nearly half of the commercial colloidal silver brands tested had lower concentrations than what was stated on the label (see Reason #2, above), then how many of those companies are also lying about the particle size?

The truth is, even when the particle size is listed on the label, it is often an arbitrary, or even completely exaggerated figure.

In fact, in one recent case we discovered a company selling bottled colloidal silver that included a label claim of a .0007 micron particle size. Now that’s an unusually small particle size. And some very special equipment is required in order to make silver particles that small.

So when we ran across this company at a health food show, we questioned them about the equipment used to make their bottled colloidal silver product. And guess what we found out? They didn’t know what equipment was used!

That’s right. They were buying their colloidal silver in bulk in 55 gallon drums from a manufacturer on the east coast, and didn’t have a clue as to how it was made. In other words, they were simply making up their label claim in regards to the size of their silver particles.

When we asked “How do you know the silver particles in your product are .0007 microns?” they answered, “We don’t. But you know how things are in the colloidal silver business. You have to tell the customers what they want to hear.”

Arrrgh!

That’s one more good reason why it’s so important to own a high-quality colloidal silver generator, i.e., you can control all of the factors that determine particle size:

First of all, you control the water quality. By using only pure steam-distilled water when you make colloidal silver (available inexpensively at just about any Wal-Mart or large chain supermarket), you’ll dramatically reduce your particle size.

That’s because any other form of water, including filtered water, alkaline water, structured water and even R/O (i.e., reverse osmosis) water all contain varying degrees of mineral content that will cause silver particles to agglomerate (i.e., electrically bond together) into larger particle clusters.

By using only pure steam-distilled water, your silver particles won’t cluster or bond excessively into larger particle agglomerates.

Secondly, as mentioned in Reason #4 above, you control the additives. If you want the smallest silver particles possible, you should never use any additives when making colloidal silver. This includes salt, MSM, cayenne pepper, aloe vera, flavor enhancers, color enhancers, or any of the other popular additives that have been used by various commercial colloidal silver vendors.

This is a very simple yet vital maxim: Additives cause the formation of larger silver particles and particle clusters.

By making your own colloidal silver, you can eliminate all additives and thereby dramatically reduce the production of larger silver particles and particle agglomerates!

Third, by making your own colloidal silver you are in control of the electrical current and therefore you control the rate and size at which silver particles leave the silver electrodes and enter the solution.

Generally speaking, commercial colloidal silver manufacturers are all about speed-to-market. In other words, the quicker they can get their product made and get it to market, the faster they can make money.

Therefore, they frequently use excessively high electrical currents that “blow” silver particles off the silver electrodes quickly, often resulting in overly large particles.

But by making your own colloidal silver with a high-quality, low-voltage DC colloidal silver generator such as the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com, the silver particles trickle slowly and gently off the silver electrodes over a period of hours rather than being “blown” quickly off of the electrodes by excessive electrical current.

And this allows you incredible control over the size of your silver particles.

The bottom line is that overly high electrical currents can create colloidal silver quickly, but they also produce overly-large, chunk-like particles of silver. But a low, gentle electrical current produces extremely small silver particles that the body can absorb, utilize and excrete afterwards with amazing efficiency and effectiveness.

And finally, you can control the electrolysis, which means the build-up of electrical current in the water over time as more and more silver particles enter the solution.

Excessive electrolysis presents a two-fold problem: One, it causes silver particles to bond together into large clusters. And two, it causes silver particles to be “pulled” (for lack of a better word) from the silver electrodes at a faster pace and a larger particle size.

So you’d think commercial vendors would do everything possible to limit electrolysis when making colloidal silver. But most don’t. Why?

Again, it’s because commercial vendors are all about speed-to-market. They don’t bother to limit electrolysis because it dramatically slows down the colloidal silver-making process.

But it’s simply the right thing to do if you are concerned about controlling the particle size in your colloidal silver solution.

That’s why we recommend making your own colloidal silver with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com. The new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator has been specifically been designed to automatically limit electrolysis during the entire colloidal silver-making process.

In fact, it comes with a built-in “bubbler” that thoroughly aerates the solution during the colloidal silver-making process. You see, air is one of nature’s least electrically conductive substances. By thoroughly aerating your solution during the colloidal silver-making process, you dramatically reduce electrolytic buildup in the water, and thereby prevent the formation of excessively large silver particles and particle clusters.

Yes, it takes a little longer to make a good batch of colloidal silver (about three hours, with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator), but it is well worth the wait!

Unfortunately, we have not found a single commercial manufacturer of colloidal silver that aerates their solutions during the colloidal silver-making process. Just goes to show: If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.

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