FDA Ready to Bring the Hammer Down on Colloidal Silver Vendors?

Anyone who’s been reading my Colloidal Silver Secrets ezine for any length of time, or who’s read my 547-page book The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, knows I’m one of the world’s most ardent advocates for the safe, sane and responsible usage of colloidal silver.

But I’m also a huge advocate of truth.  I try my hardest to keep the record straight and give readers the facts about colloidal silver as best I understand them, based on my 20 years worth of journalistic research into the topic of making and using colloidal silver.

But because there’s so much rank sensationalism and misleading nonsense about colloidal silver being published online these days, sometimes working to keep the record straight is as frustrating as standing on the shore of the ocean and yelling at the waves to stop. 

And that’s especially true since the Ebola crisis started and people began touting colloidal silver as a “proven cure” for Ebola, when in reality it has never been proven to “cure” Ebola at all.

Now, it appears the FDA is striding firmly onto the scene, and making legal threats against companies and individuals who are touting colloidal silver and other natural health products as “Ebola cures.” 

In a previous article, I warned readers that the medical bureaucrats would step into the fray if people didn’t quit falsely claiming colloidal silver is the proven “cure” for Ebola.  Here’s what’s happening now, and why I fear for the freedom of the colloidal silver community if these false claims aren’t stopped soon…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…

As the Washington Post article at this link points out, the FDA is now getting ready to bring the hammer of Thor down on companies that make claims like "colloidal silver cures Ebola."

In my previous article titled “Dr. Rima’s Ebola/Nanosilver Nonsense,” I warned that this would happen.  And I implored readers not to fall for all of the hype about Ebola, and especially not to listen to people claiming colloidal silver is the “cure” for Ebola, since that’s an outright misrepresentation of the facts.

In fact, I stated, “When we start making wild, broad-based claims that simply can’t be substantiated, it’s going to bring the medical bureaucrats into the fray, whose sole job is to protect the interests of the medical monopoly.”

And I also stated, “When we cross the line from stating the facts to claiming cures that have never been proven for something like Ebola, we invite the medical bureaucrats in.  And that’s when the ‘wrath of Khan’ begins, if you get my meaning.”

Now, precisely as I feared, the medical authorities along with authorities from the Federal Trade Commission are knocking on Dr. Rima’s door.  In fact, on September 23, 2014 they showed up at the office of one of the trustees of her foundation with a legal warning in hand, demanding Dr. Rima stop making unsubstantiated claims that her nanosilver product is a “cure” for Ebola. 

Folks, the FDA and the FTC don’t show up at your front door with a legal notice in hand unless they’re very pissed off.  You see, making the claim that "colloidal silver cures Ebola" is tantamount to waving a red flag in front of the FDA and other medical bureaucracies and saying "Come and get us."

If you had clinical proof of such a claim, then fine, tout your proof.  Scream it from the rooftops.  Heck, I'll help you.  I’ll publish your proof…I’ll give you full credit…and I’ll use every resource at my disposal to publicize your proof from here to Tanzania and back. 

But when the supposed "proof" is based on half-truths and sensationalistic exaggerations of the available evidence, then there’s going to be trouble every single time because the medical bureaucrats are always on the lookout for reasons to ban safe, natural substances like colloidal silver that directly compete with Big Pharma’s cornucopia of toxic drugs.  

The Bee in the FDA’s Bonnet

As I mentioned, right now the great big bee in the FDA’s bonnet is the claim that colloidal silver cures Ebola. 

This claim is being spread all over the internet.  It’s not just Dr. Rima, at this point.  It’s everywhere. 

What’s more, people are mindlessly reposting links to the websites making these claims all over social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest and others.  This can only serve to even further enrage the medical bureaucrats.   

Indeed, I just now read a web page called “Cure for Cancer, AIDS and Ebola.”  Links to this site are being posted all over the place.  So what’s the problem?  Well, the site makes spurious claims like “Colloidal silver cures Ebola,” and “UCLA studies show colloidal silver cures every virus known to man.” 

Frankly, it's very frustrating to see web pages like this.  For example, the erroneous claims that "UCLA studies show colloidal silver kills every virus known to man" is a complete crock.  UCLA has not conducted any studies on colloidal silver and “every virus known to man.”  Not ever. 

Now it’s true that back in the late 1980’s a researcher named Larry C. Ford used a laboratory at UCLA for a short period of time to do some private, independent research on a colloidal silver product he was helping another individual develop.

But he didn’t do this work under the auspices of UCLA.  He did it on his own, in private, using a lab at UCLA.  And UCLA later disavowed his research, because it was conducted in private on behalf of a commercial product without their knowledge. 

If my memory serves me right, at the time Larry C. Ford (now deceased) claimed that in his private research the colloidal silver brand he was testing killed somewhere around 105 different pathogens. 

But now, the claims about Larry C. Ford’s private research in a UCLA lab have morphed into the claim that “UCLA has proven colloidal silver kills every virus known to man.”  And many of the liars making this claim are using it as a means of touting colloidal silver as an “Ebola virus cure.”

Nothing could be further from the truth, of course.  Indeed, Larry C. Ford's private research was conducted chiefly on bacteria, not viruses, and certainly not "every virus known to man."

Just today (September 27, 2014), I even read one website that stated with supreme confidence, “UCLA medical lab researchers found silver to be effective on every virus they tested it on including Pseudomonas acruginose.” 

That particular quote made me laugh out loud.  First of all, it’s not Pseudomonas “acruginose.”  It’s Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”  And more importantly, that’s a bacterium, not a virus.  Anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a bacteria and a virus should not be writing health articles. 

It's these kinds of wild, sensationalistic and completely uneducated claims that cause the FDA to go ballistic and start threatening colloidal silver vendors.  

And unfortunately, phony claims like this put everybody in the colloidal silver community under the microscope of the medical bureaucrats, which is why we all ought to be outraged about them. 

Colloidal Silver Does Kill Viruses

Yes, it’s true that colloidal silver has been demonstrated in test tube clinical studies to kill quite a wide variety of viruses, or at least to stop them from replicating (see the clinical studies discussed on the Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses website, at this link).   

And yes, there are reams of anecdotal evidence from people all over the world attesting to the fact that colloidal silver has helped heal a number of different types of viral infections. 

But colloidal silver certainly has not been proven to kill "every virus known to man."  Otherwise, there'd be no AIDS patients, no Ebola victims, no Hepatitis C sufferers, no herpes virus sufferers, etc.  

Viral diseases would have already been completely eradicated if colloidal silver was actually proven to kill “every virus known to man.”  After all, colloidal silver is available in every well-stocked health food store in America, and it has been for decades.  It’s not like anyone in this country is physically stopping others from using it. 

Indeed, if colloidal silver had actually been clinically proven to “kill every virus known to man,” it would be the world’s most popular nutritional supplement.  But the claim is completely false, not to mention ludicrous at face value. 

No Ebola Cure

As Mike Adams pointed out in his great article titled, “FDA Threatens Three Companies with Criminal Charges for Making Ebola Treatment Claims”: 

"Here at Natural News, I've consistently repeated that NOTHING has yet been proven to treat, prevent or cure Ebola. Thus, all medicines -- natural, conventional or otherwise -- are 'experimental and unproven' by definition."

Now, that's the flat-out truth of the matter.  And I applaud Mike for telling it like it is.

The FDA’s so-called “Ebola drugs” are experimental and unproven.  And so are any natural substances said to have antiviral qualities, including colloidal silver.  They’re all “experimental and unproven” in regards to Ebola, because to date not a single human being has been clinically “cured” of Ebola through the use of any of them. 

So to say something like "colloidal silver kills every virus known to man" and “colloidal silver cures Ebola virus,” is so egregiously false, it simply invites the medical bureaucrats to step in and start cracking heads, euphemistically speaking, of course.

Agent Provacateurs?

Sometimes I get the feeling that some of the people making these demonstrably false claims online are, in reality, agent provacateurs whose job it is to give the medical bureaucrats precisely the ammunition they need to bring the hammer down hard on the entire colloidal silver community.

I urge readers to shun websites that are causing this kind of trouble and bringing this kind of unneeded scrutiny upon the colloidal silver community.  Don’t re-post the links to their articles or web pages.  Don’t spread their lies.  Don’t play right into the hands of the medical bureaucrats. 

Let this sensationalistic nonsense die on the vine before the FDA decides to start using these false claims as a reason to have colloidal silver banned from sale as a nutritional supplement, just like the health authorities in Europe did only a few short years ago.

It’s hard enough combating the lies being told about colloidal silver by its detractors.  But when the lies come from people claiming to be colloidal silver advocates, then we’ve got real problems because it always gets the medical authorities involved.   

Let’s keep the colloidal silver community free of unnecessary scrutiny by the medical bureaucrats.  Let’s stick with the science.  And if you want to conjecture about whether or not colloidal silver might be effective for this disease or that – including Ebola -- then dang it, be honest and label it “conjecture” or “opinion.”  But don’t state it as fact, if there’s no solid proof to back it up.

The truth is, colloidal silver is an absolutely amazing, broad-spectrum natural antimicrobial substance.  That’s been proven over and over again clinically, as well as by the personal experiences of tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. 

But as I’ve repeatedly stated over the past 20 years, colloidal silver is not “God.”  It can’t kill every pathogen known to man.  It’s never been proven to “kill every virus known to man.”  And anyone who says it has is a liar, or is empty-headedly repeating someone else’s lie.

Learn More…

If you’d like to read more of my articles on the proven benefits of colloidal silver, just go to the Colloidal Silver Update page on TheSilverEdge.com website.

And if you’re interested in learning how to make your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver -- quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents per quart -- just click the link in this sentence. 

If the FDA ever does step in and attempt to ban colloidal silver, the only way you’ll ever have access to it again is to learn how to make your own.  So it’s quite important to learn how while the information and simple tools are still available.

In light of what’s happening, I urge you to visit the link in the above paragraph.  Or click here to discover how truly simple it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver right on your kitchen countertop. 

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great 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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Debunking the Claim Colloidal Silver Can’t Stop Viruses

In the midst of the so-called “Ebola crisis,” some people on the internet are claiming that colloidal silver has no effectiveness whatsoever against viruses.

Of course, you’d think if colloidal silver were indeed effective against viruses, there’d be plenty of clinical studies backing it up, right?

Well, there are.  Lots of them.  

And I’ve posted links to over a dozen of them below, so you can pass them along to your friends when they read the nonsense on the internet and try to tell you silver has no effect whatsoever against viruses. 

Here’s what you need to know, if you’d like to help set the record straight…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…

A gentleman calling himself “Jim Stone Freelance Journalist” has made quite a splash on the internet over the last few weeks, ever since the so-called “Ebola crisis” started.

He states that while colloidal silver is “great stuff,” it has no effects whatsoever against viruses.

Therefore, he concludes that “a HUGE psy op is underway” and that its purpose is to “fake colloidal silver as a cure for viruses.”

He goes on to say that “…colloidal silver will do nothing against viruses, and huge lies are being hatched right now to misguide people to a false Ebola cure and the alternative media is lapping it up.” 

Stone further asserts that colloidal silver readily “binds with oxygen carriers in bacteria” which has the result of “causing bacteria to quickly die from oxygen starvation.”

But, he warns, “viruses have no metabolic process which require an oxygen carrier, and therefore colloidal silver will be completely ineffective against Ebola.”

Finally, he warns, “Do not let the misinformed in the alternative media fool you by saying colloidal silver is effective against viruses in any way.”

“Bowel Tolerance”

Stone goes on to say that the actual “cure for Ebola” has been passed along to him by an “anonymous doctor.”  And that it’s Vitamin C – extremely large doses of Vitamin C up to 500,000 mg. per day “to reach bowel tolerance.” 

Uh…first of all, I GUARANTEE you that if you take 500,000 mg. of vitamin C in a single day, you’re going to reach “bowel tolerance” rather quickly.

In fact, you’ll be lucky if you have anything left in your bowels at all, as the resulting diarrhea would be rather horrendous. 

And frankly, I’ve just about “reached bowel tolerance” myself, with Mr. Stone’s wild claims.  So maybe I won’t need any vitamin C, at all this week.

Casting aside Mr. Stone’s recommendation for taking such ungodly amounts of Vitamin C, and casting aside the fact that Mr. Stone’s information comes from an “anonymous doctor,” I’ll deal here only with Mr. Stone’s erroneous contention that colloidal silver is not effective against viruses.

Numerous Clinical Studies Showing

Colloidal Silver to Be Effective Against Viruses

Here are just a few of the studies you’ll find on the Clinical Studies page of TheSilverEdge.com website, demonstrating close to 60 year’s worth of research into the effectiveness of antimicrobial silver against a wide variety of viruses:

·       Silver Stops Smallpox Virus

·       Antiviral Action of Silver Nanoparticles Against HIV 1 (AIDS virus)  

·       Silver Effective Against Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, Herpes Simplex Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and Monkey Pox Virus  

·       Silver Reduces Infectivity of Tacaribe Virus

·       Silver Inhibits H1N1 Influenza A Virus  

·       Silver Inhibits Hepatitis B Virus  

·       Silver-coated Condoms Stop Infectivity of HIV and Herpes Simplex Virus  

·       A Clinical Review of Colloidal Silver’s Effectiveness Against Respiratory Viruses

·       Patent for Antiviral Colloidal Silver Composition

·       Using Silver Hydrosol Against Respiratory Viruses – a Clinical Overview

·       Silver Nanoparticles as Broad-spectrum Bactericidal and Virucidal Compounds

·       Silver Nanoparticles as Potential Antiviral Agents

·       Silver Nanoparticles Neutralize Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses (i.e., Ebola)

For those who might still not be convinced that colloidal silver has repeatedly been demonstrated to be effective against viruses, you might want to take a look at some of the documentation on the Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses website.

All Wet

The bottom line is that these clinical studies and clinical overviews clearly demonstrate that the contentions of “Jim Stone Freelance Journalist” are pretty much all wet. 

He claims that because colloidal silver works against pathogens by smothering their respiration, it can’t kill viruses because viruses don't have a respiratory system. 

Sounds good.  But it’s lop-sided logic.  It cleverly skips over the fact that colloidal silver has a completely different mode of operation in viruses, i.e., it penetrates the virus, attaches to its DNA and destroys its ability to replicate.  You can read more about that in my article “Silver Prevents Replication of Viruses.”  

The Real “Psy Ops” Campaign is Ebola,

Not Colloidal Silver

Stone’s website claims the use of colloidal silver for Ebola is a "psy op" (i.e., psychological operations campaign). 

I can only ask, are all of the above studies demonstrating silver’s effectiveness against viruses "psy ops" campaigns as well? 

The only "psy op" going on is the entire Ebola scare, which is based on pure hysteria and gross sensationalism and which is perpetuated by people on the internet selling fear. 

As I stated in my original Colloidal Silver and the Ebola Hysteria article, and again in my article Ebola Mania:  Round II, this entire "Ebola crisis" has been manufactured and designed specifically to allow the federal government to sign into law more regulations allowing the detainment of American citizens for any reason they want, under the guise of a "national health emergency." 

For a disease that has killed an average of only 57 people a year, in a population of 250 million people, over a period of 38 years, to be cast as an earth-shattering crisis that now threatens the entire world, is pure nonsense.

But people will ignore the facts, and listen to the hysteria being promulgated by the government/news media axis and their hysteria machine. 

And meanwhile, they’ll stock up on Vitamin C on the advice of some mysterious “anonymous doctor.” And ignore the powerful antiviral qualities of colloidal silver, because “Jim Stone Freelance Journalist” told them to.

Will Colloidal Silver Really Work Against Ebola?

So is colloidal silver really effective against Ebola? 

As I pointed out in my article on Colloidal Silver and the Ebola Hysteria, the evidence so far looks pretty darned good.

Here’s what I revealed:

Back in 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in conjunction with several other federal agencies quietly conducted clinical research into the use of silver nanoparticles against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses. 

And what they found was astonishing.  They discovered that silver nanoparticles were highly effective against these deadly viruses, including the Ebola virus.

They later presented their findings to federal health regulators and other national health authorities.  But it was all kept top secret.  The presentation was called “Silver Nanoparticles Neutralize Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses.” 

And the gist of the presentation was that silver nanoparticles displayed “powerful neutralizing effects against hemorrhagic fever viruses,” including Arenavirus and Filovirus (i.e., Ebola).

That clinical presentation, made to federal regulators and national health authorities, was later summarized in a printed document, de-classified, and cleared for public release. 

What Researchers Discovered

The researchers tested silver nanoparticles of several different sizes and concentrations on infected cells in vitro (meaning, in the test tube). 

And they concluded that silver nanoparticles were able to neutralize hemorrhagic fever viruses inside the cells by “decreasing S segment gene expression and concomitantly decreasing progeny virus production.”

Translation:  Silver stops the Ebola virus and related hemorrhagic fever viruses from replicating inside the cells.  And when there’s no viral replication inside the cells, there’s no spread of infection!

The researchers had discovered the holy grail Ebola treatments.  But they also discovered that neutralization of the virus by silver occurs during theearly phases of viral replication.

Therefore, they pointed out that for antimicrobial silver to be effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, the treatment would have to be administered PRIOR to viral infection or at least within the first few hours after initial exposure to the virus. 

In other words, for antimicrobial silver to be effective, an exposed person would need to have already been taking it, or at the very least would have to start taking it within a few short hours of exposure to an infected individual. 

Another interesting thing the researchers discovered is that while an enzymatic protein called Cathepsin B has been shown to play an essential role in Ebola virus replication, silver nanoparticles work to decrease cathepsin activity, thus further limiting viral replication in the cell and subsequent spread of the virus to other cells. 

And by far the most interesting thing the researchers discovered (at least, to me) is that only very low concentrations of silver nanoparticles were necessary to prevent replication of the virus.

Indeed, low concentrations of 10 ppm nanosilver appears to have worked better than higher concentrations of 25 ppm or 50 ppm nanosilver.  This means there’s no need for overly high silver concentrations. 

What’s more, the smallest silver particles tested by the researchers worked far better than the larger silver particles tested.

This demonstrates once more that the use of very small silver particles is far more important than the “ppm” or concentration of the colloidal silver solution one is using. 

Simply put, smaller silver particles penetrate cells and tissues easier, and are therefore better able to get to the point of infection before the virus spreads.   

Here's a link to the printed version of the DOD clinical presentation, so you can scroll through it and read it for yourself.  It’s technical.  But if you take your time it’s relatively understandable.   

Thinking Out Loud:

Here’s What I’d Do in Case of Ebola

People have written to ask me, “Steve, how much colloidal silver would you have to take in order to protect yourself from an Ebola infection?”

And of course, the answer is, no one knows for sure.  As I mentioned, the DOD research discussed above was in vitro (i.e., laboratory test tube) research. 

And while it demonstrated that very small particles of silver at surprisingly low concentrations could stop the Ebola virus in infected cells from replicating and spreading, it in no way gives us so much as a clue as to how much colloidal silver a living human being would have to take in order to achieve the same results. 

Now I know that’s probably not what you want to hear.  But just as I refuse to join in with all of the doom-and-gloom hype about the supposed coming worldwide Ebola apocalypse, in like manner I also refuse to join in with those making blanket statements that colloidal silver is the sure-fire “cure” for Ebola. 

Under real-life conditions, it might, or might not prove to be effective. 

And if colloidal silver did prove to be effective, the research seems to indicate it would depend upon getting the right dose of very small silver particles into your body, early enough in the infective process to stop viral replication. 

Indeed, it appears that to have the very best chance of protection, utilizing colloidal silver in small amounts on a daily basis would be the way to go.

In other words, based on the DOD study, daily prophylactic dosing with colloidal silver before exposure to the Ebola virus would appear to provide better protection than dosing after exposure.

This is just one reason why I continue to take my usual one-ounce per day dosage of colloidal silver, which is just about right for my body weight.

(See “How Much Colloidal Silver Can You Take Safely Each Day?” to learn the simple formula for determining your safe daily colloidal silver dosage, based on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver solution you’re using.)

But again, since there’s been no in vivo testing that we know of (i.e., no testing of colloidal silver usage in a real-life human being infected with Ebola) there’s simply no way to know for an absolute certainty if regular oral use of colloidal silver would provide an adequate amount of protection upon exposure to the Ebola virus.

Nebulizing Colloidal Silver

Some people have pointed out that in the event of exposure to the Ebola virus, immediately nebulizing with colloidal silver (i.e., inhaling an atomized mist of colloidal silver into the lungs, using a device called a medical nebulizer) would be a potentially effective way to get colloidal silver into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the human body quickly and effectively. 

And that’s a very good possibility.  Why?  Because just about anything inhaled into the lungs has a far better chance of making it into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the body faster than oral ingestion. 

Indeed, were I to suspect that I’d just been exposed to a person infected with Ebola, probably the first thing I’d do would be to high-tail it back home, break out my medical nebulizer, fill the little basin with very small particle size colloidal silver of 10 ppm concentration, turn the machine on and inhale the colloidal silver mist into my lungs for five or six minutes. 

And I’d probably repeat the process every few hours for up to five or six times.   

(See “Using Colloidal Silver With a Nebulizer” to learn what the experts say about nebulizing colloidal silver, including a brief video demonstration of how easy it is to use a medical nebulizer.)

After that, if the colloidal silver didn’t work, it would be too late anyway, as the viral replication kicks into high gear after several hours, and antimicrobial silver only works during the first few hours according to the DOD report.

Now all of that is pure layman’s speculation on my part in terms of what might work. I'm just talking off the top of my head.  I'm no doctor.  And I'm not "prescribing" for anyone else, of course.  

After all, nobody’s ever had to do this before.  So use of oral doses of colloidal silver for Ebola is an unknown factor in terms of knowing how much to use, how to use it effectively, and when to use it. 

But based on the DOD research, it would seem to me that the key would be quick action utilizing 10 ppm colloidal silver with a very small particle size, and getting it into the cells and tissues of the body as quickly as possible. 

Even more preferable, the research suggests, would be to take a small amount of colloidal silver prophylactically (i.e., before the fact), on a daily basis, so it’s already in the body in the event of exposure to Ebola. 

One More Interesting Thought

My good friend Skip W. wrote to say that if he were in an area where Ebola virus outbreaks were taking place, one thing he’d do is wear a protective face mask any time he had to go out into the public, such as to the supermarket or mall. 

I believe he’s talking about the white surgical face masks, for example, like those you see doctors wearing in the surgical ward.  These light-weight surgical masks are often available on various survivalist-oriented or “prepper” websites. 

In fact, I just now went to Amazon.com, and using their search engine I typed in the search terms “surgical face mask” and “antimicrobial face mask.”  Those two search terms brought up an amazing array of such masks, at fairly reasonable prices. 

Skip also pointed out that he’d saturate the mask on both sides with a fine mist of colloidal silver and allow it to air dry before putting it on to go out into the public.  

And he said he’d also lightly spray his hands and face with colloidal silver at the same time, and allow it to air dry, as well.

Skip explained “I'm asthmatic, and I've done this before as a precautionary measure when going out into the public during flu outbreaks, for example. I may look a bit strange but I seldom ever get the flu.”

Obviously, Skip is a forward thinker.  And it’s probably not a bad idea to take such precautions should the situation ever truly warrant it.  At this point in time, however, it does not. 

In Conclusion

To sum up, at this point in time (August 2014) in the United States the so-called “Ebola crisis” is the modern-day equivalent of Shakespeare’s “Much ado about nothing.” 

While Ebola is a very real danger should one become exposed to the disease, the threat of exposure is not yet very realistic.  In fact, the threat is pretty much nil here in the U.S. where all of the unnecessary panic is nevertheless taking place. 

The only thing this manufactured panic will serve at this point is the very real threat of the federal government stepping in and using the panic to institute even greater restrictions on our fundamental freedoms and liberties.  

As Obama’s old mentor Rahm Emanuel so famously stated, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”  The federal government is certainly following that advice.

Compared to the very realistic threat of acquiring a superbug infection such as MRSA, the threat of Ebola pales in comparison.

Nevertheless, should Ebola ever become an actual threat in this country the DOD report described above gives us some very good hope that colloidal silver could be a bona-fide first-line of defense if used quickly enough at 10 ppm concentration, and in very small particle size.  

·       To learn more about why it’s so important to utilize the smallest colloidal silver particles possible for maximum effectiveness, rather than high concentrations of colloidal silver, see the article “Why Higher PPM Is Not Always Better.”  

·       To learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, quickly and easily, with the smallest silver particles possible, for less than 36 cents a quart, see the article “How the World’s #1 Best-Selling Colloidal Silver Generator Compares to All the Rest.” 

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

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

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

Helpful Links:

FREE Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Report

Colloidal Silver Secrets Group on Facebook

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.999 Pure Silver Wire for Making Colloidal Silver

Subscribe to the Colloidal Silver Secrets Ezine

Videos on Making and Using Colloidal Silver

Real-Life Colloidal Silver Success Stories

Colloidal Silver Update (News & Views)

The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

The Colloidal Silver Secrets Video

Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA

Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses

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Colloidal Silver and the Ebola Hysteria

The spread of Ebola is the big news now. 

And the news media “hysteria machine” (not to mention the end-of-the-world crowd on the internet grapevine) is running full force with scare stories about Ebola’s potential spread -- particularly since it’s been announced that several American victims of Ebola in West Africa are going to be evacuated to the U.S. for treatment.

But do we really have a lot to fear from Ebola here in the U.S.?  I contend we have a lot less to fear from Ebola than we have to fear from the federal government using the Ebola hysteria to rob us of more of our freedoms and liberties under the guise of “protecting” us from a largely manufactured “national health crisis.”  

That’s the bad news.  The potentially good news is this:  Way back in 2008 the federal government itself demonstrated the fact that antimicrobial silver is, under certain conditions which I’ll explain below, extremely effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses. 

In fact, two years ago I was able to obtain from the U.S. Department of Defense formerly classified documents they probably now wish they’d never de-classified. These documents explain the positive results achieved by the DOD when testing antimicrobial silver against these deadly viruses. 

So with all of that said, here’s my somewhat contrarian view regarding the current Ebola “crisis,” as well as what I’ve discovered so far about the potential for colloidal silver’s effectiveness against this deadly virus…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com…

How soon we forget how shrewdly the federal government used the overblown anthrax scare directly after 9-11 to rob us of many of our precious Constitutional rights. 

After the anthrax scare we witnessed the institution of illegal spying on America citizens, unconstitutional search and seizures, and severely diminished due process of law. 

We also forget how the news media later whipped up the so-called “Bird flu” hysteria, followed by the “Swine flu” hysteria. 

Through these manufactured crises, various departments of the federal government were able to pass new “guidelines” and regulations on the detention and quarantine of U.S. citizens

These can now be used by the federal government to restrict travel at a moment’s notice, arrest and detain individuals, and even quarantine entire cities during a declared “national health emergency.” 

That’s why I’m extremely skeptical of the current so-called “Ebola crisis.” 

Yes, I understand how virulent and deadly Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses are. 

And yes, I also understand that the federal government is now said to be bringing Ebola victims to the U.S. for treatment.  And I understand what a threat that could pose should the virus ultimately get loose and go rogue in this country. 

Psy-Ops Campaign

But I also understand how psychological operations (psy-ops) campaigns work, and what the federal government stands to gain from them.

The federal government absolutely loves it whenever they can whip up enough public hysteria that the resulting public outcry to “protect us” allows them to step in as “saviors” and implement more laws that violate our fundamental rights and liberties under the guise of “keeping us safe.” 

And folks, this current “Ebola crisis” is indeed a massive psy-ops campaign.  In other words, the threat is largely being manufactured and planted into the minds of the American public, through the federal government/news media axis. 

Real v/s Realistic

That doesn’t mean the danger from Ebola isn’t real.  Quite the contrary.  It’s very real, if you’re exposed to it. 

But what’s your actual likelihood of exposure?  It’s virtually nil.  Which means while the threat may be “real,” it’s not very realistic. 

Let me explain with an example you can probably relate to:  The deadly, drug-resistant super-pathogen MRSA is also very real.  In fact, it’s just as “real” as Ebola.

But the difference between MRSA and Ebola is that MRSA is a far more realistic threat to the population of the U.S. than Ebola. 

We know that, because the FDA’s own testing has demonstrated that 61% of all meat in supermarkets is already contaminated with the deadly MRSA pathogen (up from 50% only last year).  And independent testing backs those numbers up. 

Largely because of this, some 39,000 Americans now get infected by the flesh-eating MRSA pathogen every single year, and a full 20% of those infected end up dying – constituting more deaths annually than those caused by AIDS.

Now that’s a news story, right? 

After all, you have a proven, deadly, antibiotic-resistant super-pathogen like MRSA contaminating 61% of all meats in supermarkets.  And you buy that meat on a regular basis and bring it home to your family.  Wouldn’t you want to know about that?

Yet there’s not so much as a peep about it in the mainstream news media.  Listen carefully.  The only sound you’ll hear on this issue is crickets. 

On the other hand you have a virus like Ebola, which is largely endemic to West Africa, and which hasn’t caused a single death anywhere in the United States…ever.  Nor has there been a single infection in the U.S.

Yet the mainstream news media drumbeat about the so-called “Ebola threat” is absolutely relentless.  And as a result, people are quite literally going out of their minds with fear over it.

If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the mainstream news media and the end-of-the-world internet fear-mongers chanting, Ebo-la…Ebo-la…Ebo-la…Ebo-la…as if they’re actually cheering it on.

Why the dichotomy? 

Why is there zero fear-mongering over the deadly MRSA super-pathogen, even though it represents an immediate, dire, realistic and already-proven threat to the American populace…

…while in direct contrast, there’s incessant fear-mongering over the Ebola virus, which has not so much as even been detected in this country?

And Now for the Other Side of the Story

Here’s the reality: 

Dealing with the very real threat of MRSA would cost Big Agriculture billions of dollars a year in sales. 

So if the USDA and the FDA publicly acknowledged the growing MRSA crisis, people would stop buying meat out of fear, and foreign markets for our beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, pork and other meat products would also dry up overnight. 

The entire U.S. agriculture industry would crumble.  Billions of dollars would be lost. 

So while community-acquired MRSA infections are now absolutely skyrocketing, we don’t hear so much as a squawk about it from the news media. 

Nothing.  Zip.  Zilch.  Nada.  Pitch black silence. 

There are no talking heads from the FDA, CDC, WHO, or other alphabet soup health agencies making appearances on national TV news to warn the populace about the growing spread of MRSA. 

This is spite of the fact that, for example, some 30,000-plus hospitalizations of children for this deadly disease have taken place over the past few years alone here in the U.S. (which is double the annual rate of child MRSA infections since the year 2000).

Why is there no outcry from the health authorities? 

It’s because the health and regulatory authorities have weighed the astonishing number of annual deaths being caused each year in this nation by MRSA, against the economic havoc that would be caused to the agriculture industry if they went public with this information each night on the national news. 

And the regulators say, “This is an acceptable loss of life.  Let’s keep quiet about it.  We’ll save as many MRSA victims as we can.  And those who die, die.  We can’t risk destroying one of our nation’s largest industries over this.” 

But hyperventilating over Ebola, on the other hand, poses no serious direct economic risk to anyone.  

The feds and their news media lackeys can rile the population up, scare the living bejabbers out of them, and convince everybody they’re our saviors if we’ll just let them “protect us” from the threat, which of course, is largely non-existent.    

The Real Question:

What Will Obama Do?

So the real question is this:  How far is the federal government willing to go with this charade? 

Would they, for example, allow a few controlled Ebola infections to take place in the U.S., as a means of convincing the population that the so-called “Ebola threat” is “real” so new restrictions to our freedoms and new laws for detaining people could be implemented? 

With the anthrax scare of 2001, the Bird flu scare of 2005, and the Swine Flu scare of 2009, the powers-that-be accomplished much of their mission of convincing Americans of the supposed reality of a huge and deadly medical apocalypse directly on the horizon.    

“It’s not a matter of if, but when,” goes the relentless drumbeat from the talking head “medical experts” (most of them being paid, government shills) who have appeared on the nightly news for the past decade and a half to assure us our future is bleak. 

That’s now embedded in the collective psyche of the entire nation.

So with the vast majority of Americans now convinced of a coming medical apocalypse, what next?  What exactly do the powers-that-be have in mind with the latest threat-du-jour known as Ebola? 

I find it quite telling that Obama has already used the so-called Ebola crisis to sign a new amendment to an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ 

According to an article on InfoWars.com:

“Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display, ‘Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled’.”

The InfoWars.com article goes on to explain exactly how ominous this new executive order amendment is:

“Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities.

Although the quarantining of people suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus seems like a perfectly logical move, the actual preconditions for this to happen aren’t restricted to just those suffering from the disease.

As we highlighted earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has measures in place for dealing with an outbreak of a communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of the disease.

In addition, under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, public health authorities and governors would be given expanded police powers to seize control of communications devices, public and private property, as well as a host of other draconian measures in the event of a public health emergency.

When the legislation was introduced, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons warned that it ‘could turn governors into dictators’.”

The $64,000 Question

So why does the government/news media axis downplay a very realistic medical threat like MRSA, with very real deaths, and very real impacts on literally thousands of American families every single year, yet relentlessly hype an unrealistic “medical crisis” like Ebola that’s virtually non-existent in this country?

I don’t ask that question to start arguments or to inspire conspiracy theories.  I ask it only to bring some semblance of sanity to the table in regards to the supposed “Ebola crisis” and the panic and mass hysteria now evolving around it. 

At this point, the so-called “Ebola crisis” is a fabricated one.  And the sooner we realize it, the lower the chances are that the federal government can take further advantage of it by reducing our freedoms under the guise of “saving” us.

Why So Fearful?

If you absolutely need to be fearful, you’d have far more reason to be fearful of a deadly MRSA superbug infection striking your household than you would an Ebola infection.

You can come into contact with the MRSA superbug just about any day of the week – right now -- especially when you shop for meat at your local supermarket.  

What’s more, with MRSA all you need is a small cut or scratch on your body for it to go internal, induce sepsis, cause organ failure and other calamities, giving you a one-in-five chance of living through the infection. 

(But thankfully, colloidal silver cures MRSA with relative ease.  See the clinical and anecdotal evidence presented on the Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA website, and in my article “Does Colloidal Silver Really Cure MRSA?”) 

So your likelihood of coming into contact with the deadly MRSA pathogen is quite high.  But your likelihood of being anywhere near the vicinity of an Ebola victim is just about zero. 

So please think about it. 

My advice is this:  If you’ve got to panic over something, then panic over something that represents a realistic threat, rather than a sensationalistic threat. 

Ebola may be a “real” threat, but it’s not a very realistic threat here in the U.S.  At least, not yet. 

The true threat at this point is the federal government and the new regulations being implemented to give the federal government the power to detain anybody they want, at any time, under the guise of a “national health crisis.” 

Colloidal Silver and Ebola:

What We Know So Far

Which, finally, brings us to the topic of colloidal silver and Ebola.  Here’s the good news:

Back in 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in conjunction with several other federal agencies quietly conducted clinical research into the use of silver nanoparticles against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses. 

And what they found was astonishing.  They discovered that silver nanoparticles were highly effective against these deadly viruses, including the Ebola virus.

They later presented their findings to federal health regulators and other national health authorities.  But it was all kept top secret.  The presentation was called “Silver Nanoparticles Neutralize Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses.” 

And the gist of the presentation was that silver nanoparticles displayed “powerful neutralizing effects against hemorrhagic fever viruses,” including Arenavirus and Filovirus (i.e., Ebola).

This clinical presentation was conducted under the auspices of the DOD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.

And the presentation was given by researchers from the Applied Biotechnology Branch, 711th Human Performance Wing of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

In other words, those are the big guns, folks!   Which is to say, those are the very people responsible for keeping this nation safe from outside threats like bioterrorism.

That clinical presentation, made to federal regulators and national health authorities, was later summarized in a printed document, de-classified, and cleared for public release. 

But there was no news media hoopla surrounding the release of this information.  Not a peep.

And to this very day, to my knowledge, there still hasn’t been a single report in the mainstream news media on the release of this important information, in spite of the fact that Department of Defense researchers found antimicrobial silver to be profoundly effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, under certain circumstances which we’ll discuss below. 

Before we get into the results of this research, as documented in the published version of the DOD presentation, it’s important to note that one of the main tasks of the DOD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency is to “anticipate and mitigate future threats long before they have a chance to harm the United States and our allies.”

In other words, the researchers were specifically looking for ways to stop Ebola or other hemorrhagic fever viruses from damaging our national security. 

And the results they found when using silver nanoparticles for that precise purpose were strikingly positive -- enough so to warrant not just the presentation to health and regulatory authorities, but its later publication and public release.

What Researchers Discovered

The researchers tested silver nanoparticles of several different sizes and concentrations on infected cells in vitro (meaning, in the test tube). 

And they concluded that silver nanoparticles were able to neutralize hemorrhagic fever viruses inside the cells by “decreasing S segment gene expression and concomitantly decreasing progeny virus production.”

Translation:  Silver stops the Ebola virus and related hemorrhagic fever viruses from replicating inside the cells.  And when there’s no viral replication inside the cells, there’s no spread of infection!

The researchers had discovered the holy grail Ebola treatments.  But they also discovered that neutralization of the virus by silver occurs during the early phases of viral replication.

Therefore, they pointed out that for antimicrobial silver to be effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, the treatment would have to be administered PRIOR to viral infection or at least within the first few hours after initial exposure to the virus. 

In other words, for antimicrobial silver to be effective, an exposed person would need to have already been taking it, or at the very least would have to start taking it within a few short hours of exposure to an infected individual. 

Another interesting thing the researchers discovered is that while an enzymatic protein called Cathepsin B has been shown to play an essential role in Ebola virus replication, silver nanoparticles work to decrease cathepsin activity, thus further limiting viral replication in the cell and subsequent spread of the virus to other cells. 

And by far the most interesting thing the researchers discovered (at least, to me) is that only very low concentrations of silver nanoparticles were necessary to prevent replication of the virus.

Indeed, low concentrations of 10 ppm nanosilver appears to have worked better than higher concentrations of 25 ppm or 50 ppm nanosilver.  This means there’s no need for overly high silver concentrations. 

What’s more, the smallest silver particles tested by the researchers worked far better than the larger silver particles tested.

This demonstrates once more that the use of very small silver particles is far more important than the “ppm” or concentration of the colloidal silver solution one is using. 

Simply put, smaller silver particles penetrate cells and tissues easier, and are therefore better able to get to the point of infection before the virus spreads.   

Here's a link to the printed version of the DOD clinical presentation, so you can scroll through it and read it for yourself.  It’s technical.  But if you take your time it’s relatively understandable.   

Thinking Out Loud:

Here’s What I’d Do in Case of Ebola

People have written to ask me, “Steve, how much colloidal silver would you have to take in order to protect yourself from an Ebola infection?”

And of course, the answer is, no one knows for sure.  As I mentioned, the DOD research discussed above was in vitro (i.e., laboratory test tube) research. 

And while it demonstrated that very small particles of silver at surprisingly low concentrations could stop the Ebola virus in infected cells from replicating and spreading, it in no way gives us so much as a clue as to how much colloidal silver a living human being would have to take in order to achieve the same results. 

Now I know that’s probably not what you want to hear.  But just as I refuse to join in with all of the doom-and-gloom hype about the supposed coming worldwide Ebola apocalypse, in like manner I also refuse to join in with those making blanket statements that colloidal silver is the sure-fire “cure” for Ebola. 

Under real-life conditions, it might, or might not prove to be effective. 

And if colloidal silver did prove to be effective, the research seems to indicate it would depend upon getting the right dose of very small silver particles into your body, early enough in the infective process to stop viral replication. 

Indeed, it appears that to have the very best chance of protection, utilizing colloidal silver in small amounts on a daily basis would be the way to go.

In other words, based on the DOD study, daily prophylactic dosing with colloidal silver before exposure to the Ebola virus would appear to provide better protection than dosing after exposure.

This is just one reason why I continue to take my usual one-ounce per day dosage of colloidal silver, which is just about right for my body weight.

(See “How Much Colloidal Silver Can You Take Safely Each Day?” to learn the simple formula for determining your safe daily colloidal silver dosage, based on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver solution you’re using.)

But again, since there’s been no in vivo testing that we know of (i.e., no testing of colloidal silver usage in a real-life human being infected with Ebola) there’s simply no way to know for an absolute certainty if regular oral use of colloidal silver would provide an adequate amount of protection upon exposure to the Ebola virus.

Nebulizing Colloidal Silver

Some people have pointed out that in the event of exposure to the Ebola virus, immediately nebulizing with colloidal silver (i.e., inhaling an atomized mist of colloidal silver into the lungs, using a device called a medical nebulizer) would be a potentially effective way to get colloidal silver into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the human body quickly and effectively. 

And that’s a very good possibility.  Why?  Because just about anything inhaled into the lungs has a far better chance of making it into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the body faster than oral ingestion. 

Indeed, were I to suspect that I’d just been exposed to a person infected with Ebola, probably the first thing I’d do would be to high-tail it back home, break out my medical nebulizer, fill the little basin with very small particle size colloidal silver of 10 ppm concentration, turn the machine on and inhale the colloidal silver mist into my lungs for five or six minutes. 

And I’d probably repeat the process every few hours for up to five or six times.   

(See “Using Colloidal Silver With a Nebulizer” to learn what the experts say about nebulizing colloidal silver, including a brief video demonstration of how easy it is to use a medical nebulizer.)

After that, if the colloidal silver didn’t work, it would be too late anyway, as the viral replication kicks into high gear after several hours, and antimicrobial silver only works during the first few hours according to the DOD report.

Now all of that is pure layman’s speculation on my part in terms of what might work. I'm just talking off the top of my head.  I'm no doctor.  And I'm not "prescribing" for anyone else, of course.  

After all, nobody’s ever had to do this before.  So use of oral doses of colloidal silver for Ebola is an unknown factor in terms of knowing how much to use, how to use it effectively, and when to use it. 

But based on the DOD research, it would seem to me that the key would be quick action utilizing 10 ppm colloidal silver with a very small particle size, and getting it into the cells and tissues of the body as quickly as possible. 

Even more preferable, the research suggests, would be to take a small amount of colloidal silver prophylactically (i.e., before the fact), on a daily basis, so it’s already in the body in the event of exposure to Ebola. 

One More Interesting Thought

My good friend Skip W. wrote to say that if he were in an area where Ebola virus outbreaks were taking place, one thing he’d do is wear a protective face mask any time he had to go out into the public, such as to the supermarket or mall. 

I believe he’s talking about the white surgical face masks, for example, like those you see doctors wearing in the surgical ward.  These light-weight surgical masks are often available on various survivalist-oriented or “prepper” websites. 

In fact, I just now went to Amazon.com, and using their search engine I typed in the search terms “surgical face mask” and “antimicrobial face mask.”  Those two search terms brought up an amazing array of such masks, at fairly reasonable prices. 

Skip also pointed out that he’d saturate the mask on both sides with a fine mist of colloidal silver and allow it to air dry before putting it on to go out into the public.  

And he said he’d also lightly spray his hands and face with colloidal silver at the same time, and allow it to air dry, as well.

Skip explained “I'm asthmatic, and I've done this before as a precautionary measure when going out into the public during flu outbreaks, for example. I may look a bit strange but I seldom ever get the flu.”

Obviously, Skip is a forward thinker.  And it’s probably not a bad idea to take such precautions should the situation ever truly warrant it.  At this point in time, however, it does not. 

In Conclusion

To sum up, at this point in time (August 2014) in the United States the so-called “Ebola crisis” is the modern-day equivalent of Shakespeare’s “Much ado about nothing.” 

While Ebola is a very real danger should one become exposed to the disease, the threat of exposure is not yet very realistic.  In fact, the threat is pretty much nil here in the U.S. where all of the unnecessary panic is nevertheless taking place. 

The only thing this manufactured panic will serve at this point is the very real threat of the federal government stepping in and using the panic to institute even greater restrictions on our fundamental freedoms and liberties.  

As Obama’s old mentor Rahm Emanuel so famously stated, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”  The federal government is certainly following that advice.

Compared to the very realistic threat of acquiring a superbug infection such as MRSA, the threat of Ebola pales in comparison.

Nevertheless, should Ebola ever become an actual threat in this country the DOD report described above gives us some very good hope that colloidal silver could be a bona-fide first-line of defense if used quickly enough at 10 ppm concentration, and in very small particle size.  

·       To learn more about why it’s so important to utilize the smallest colloidal silver particles possible for maximum effectiveness, rather than high concentrations of colloidal silver, see the article “Why Higher PPM Is Not Always Better.”  

·       To learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, quickly and easily, with the smallest silver particles possible, for less than 36 cents a quart, see the article “How the World’s #1 Best-Selling Colloidal Silver Generator Compares to All the Rest.” 

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great 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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Important Note and Disclaimer:  The contents of this Ezine have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantee can be made in regards to the accuracy and reliability thereof.  The author, Steve Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing professionally about natural health topics.  He is not a doctor.  Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this Ezine meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice.  Nothing reported herein is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.  The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage.  Therefore, the information and data presented should be considered for informational purposes only, and approached with caution.  Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction, from other knowledgeable sources such as their doctor, the accuracy and reliability of all reports, ideas, conclusions, comments and opinions stated herein.  All important health care decisions should be made under the guidance and direction of a legitimate, knowledgeable and experienced health care professional.  Readers are solely responsible for their choices.  The author and publisher disclaim responsibility and/or liability for any loss or hardship that may be incurred as a result of the use or application of any information included in this Ezine. 

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