Another Reason You Need Colloidal Silver: 50% of U.S. Meat Supply Tested Now Contaminated With Deadly MRSA Pathogen!

Only a few short weeks ago I reported that as much as 14% of the U.S. meat supply has become contaminated with the deadly MRSA pathogen. Now researchers writing in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases say the figure is closer to 50%! Can colloidal silver help protect you and your family? You bet it can! Here’s what you need to know right now…

What's lurking in the meat you're buying for your family?

Plenty of disease-causing bacteria, according to a new study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Almost HALF of all the beef, chicken, pork, and turkey bought in five U.S. cities and sampled by researchers, was found to contain drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, reports CBS News.

That’s up from only 14% in studies conducted late last year. In other words, the problem with MRSA contaminated meats is growing by leaps and bounds!

Each year, MRSA kills more people in the U.S. than AIDs. Hospitals now take extraordinary precautions to prevent its spread in surgical wards. Schools in a number of states have been closed to stop its spread. Even football games have been postponed when players have become infected. So its spread into the U.S. food supply is extremely problematic.

According to YahooNews.com:

In the new nationwide study, researchers analyzed 136 samples of 80 brands of beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased at 26 retail stores in five cities: Chicago; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Los Angeles; and Washington, D.C.

The results showed that 47 percent of the samples were contaminated with S. aureus, and that 52 percent of the bacteria were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics.

DNA testing suggests that the food animals themselves were the major source of contamination with S. aureus, said the researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix.

The study was published in the April 15 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

"For the first time, we know how much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with antibiotic-resistant Staph, and it is substantial," said study senior author Lance B. Price, director of TGen's Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health.

"The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves, is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today," he added.

Even though cooking kills the pathogen, it is easily spread during the food preparation process. This makes it critical to clean cutting boards, kitchen countertops, food preparation utensils and anything else the meat may have come into contact with (including your hands) with a powerful disinfectant like colloidal silver.

More importantly, you need to have colloidal silver on hand in case you or a family member comes down with a potentially deadly MRSA infection.

Does Colloidal Silver Really Kill MRSA?

Thankfully, numerous clinical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of colloidal silver against the MRSA pathogen.

Let me briefly summarize just four of those studies for you now. You may have seen some of this information in previous ezines I’ve sent, but at this point in time it’s critical to understand how truly effective colloidal silver is against MRSA:

Case #1: A Brigham-Young Clinical Study Proves Silver Kills MRSA – In this study, conducted quietly in October 2006 at the Department of Microbiology/Molecular Biology of Brigham-Young University, and published in the journal Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 7, October 10, 2006, it was found that a number of the antibiotic drugs which formerly killed MDR (multiple drug-resistant) pathogens such as MRSA could actually be restored to full efficacy against the deadly pathogens, but only if a colloidal silver solution was used in conjunction with the drug!

Since these antibiotic drugs had previously lost their effectiveness against the super pathogens, this study clearly demonstrated that the silver was the deciding factor in the deaths of the deadly drug-resistant pathogens!

Case #2: Iranian Clinical Study Proves Silver Increases Effectiveness of Antibiotic Drugs Against Staph – This study, called “Synthesis and effect of silver nanoparticles on the antibacterial activity of different antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.” was conducted by the Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Medical Nanotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of Tehran, Iran. It demonstrated that the addition of silver to three specific antibiotics (vancomycin, amoxicillin and penicillin) almost magically renews their effectiveness against today’s most deadly pathogens, including MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus).

Say what you will about the Iranians, but when they do a medical study, they do it up right. Apparently Iranian scientists were two full months ahead of the Brigham-Young team I mentioned in Case #1 above in proving that the addition of silver particles to antibiotic drugs boosts their ability to kill resistant staphylococcus aureaus – the MRSA pathogen.

Case #3: Taiwanese Clinical Study Proves Colloidal Silver By Itself Kills MRSA – Another study, this one conducted by the Department of Textile Science, Nanya Institute of Technology, Chung-Li, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan and published in the journal Colloids Surface B Biointerfaces in October 2007, also demonstrated that silver colloids kill both MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, another deadly and extremely opportunistic superbug. In this study, a special colloidal silver solution was tested on contact surfaces where the deadly pathogens are known to colonize, and from which they can spread to humans. The silver solution proved to be completely effective against both the MRSA and Pseudomonas super pathogens!

Case #4: Czech Clinical Study Proves Silver Particles Kill MRSA – This study was conducted at the Department of Physical Chemistry at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. It was later published in the prestigious Journal of Physical Chemistry B in August 2006. Titled “Silver colloidal nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and their antibacterial activity,” the study demonstrated that “…silver particles with a narrow size distribution with an average size of 25 nm showed high antimicrobial and bactericidal activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including multi-resistant strains such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).”

The study further demonstrated that very low concentrations of silver could be utilized to destroy MRSA, as long as the silver particles were very small, averaging 25 nm.

Screaming From the Rooftops About Colloidal Silver

Studies like those are just one big reason why I’ve been screaming from the rooftops for several years now, urging people to obtain a high-quality colloidal silver generator such as the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

After all, at this point in time in this Era of Strange Diseases in which we now live, with deadly pathogens like MRSA infecting the food supply and spreading throughout the population, having a good, high-quality home colloidal silver generator is now an absolute must in every American household.

So what makes the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator so uniquely effective? It’s simple: In order to kill the deadly pathogens such as MRSA, you need to use very tiny silver particles under 25 nm (as the “Case #4” Czech study described above demonstrates). In fact, the smaller the better. Anything larger than 25 nm (i.e., 25 nanometers) simply doesn’t get the job done.

That’s because it’s only the smallest silver particles that have the capability to adhere to the enzyme receptor sites on the cell walls of these deadly pathogenic microorganisms, literally cutting off their ability to utilize and transfer energy. In short, the pathogens end up dying for lack of energy metabolism.

Silver Particles So Uncommonly Small,
You Need to Magnify Them 175,000 Times Just to See Them!

Unlike any other colloidal silver generator in existence today, only the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator produces literally billions upon billions of silver particles in every batch, as low as .0008 microns in size, which is a fraction of a single nm (i.e., .8 nm)!

That’s right – silver particles that are a tiny fraction of a single nanometer. That’s so small it takes a multi-million dollar Transmission Electron Microscope operating at 175,000x magnification to see them. There’s literally nothing else like the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator in existence anywhere, at any price!

Best yet, with the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator you’ll be able to make your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for less than 36 cents per quart!

Compare that to the price of high-quality store-bought colloidal silver, which can cost a whopping $5 to $7 per ounce, and you’ll see why making your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver with Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge is literally the only way to go. You’ll be able to make quart after quart after quart of the highest quality colloidal silver with it, for the rest of your life -- for just pocket change!

But does the high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver produced by the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator really work against potentially deadly infectious microorganisms like MRSA?

You bet it does!

Real-Life People Tell Their Honest-to-Goodness Success Stories
Using the New Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator Against MRSA!

Just ask these real-life customers of The Silver Edge, who successfully used micro-particle colloidal silver against some very severe cases of MRSA, and afterwards wrote in with their success stories and gave us permission to print them. [Stories condensed for space.]

Cured Dying Doctor of a Deadly MRSA Infection!

“Thanks for the opportunity to share one of my many experiences with The Silver Edge Micro Particle Generator that I purchased from you in late 2007. In November 2009 I was in the morning breakfast hot spot and as usual I was talking to a friend about his health challenges, unaware that a doctor’s wife was listening.

After my friend left, the doctor’s wife asked me if I knew anything that would cure MRSA. I told her that I made something that should help. She told me that her husband was a doctor and he had MRSA. I offered to give her some Colloidal Silver the next day.

When I arrived at the Nursing Home and met her she was very upset. The doctors overseeing her husband’s case had told her earlier that morning that she needed to let him go because there was nothing more that they could do for him, and that they were withdrawing all his medications. He also had a feeding tube. I told her that I could not tell her what to do for him, but I could tell her what I would do for myself if I were in the same situation. I gave her a dropper bottle of the colloidal silver and said if it were me I’d put two droppers of colloidal silver under my tongue every hour as long as I was awake.

The next day, and thereafter, I would do it every two hours while I was awake. If I had a feeding tube I would apply one tablespoon through the tube three times a day.

After four days she called and said that they had retested him for MRSA and he tested negative. She was one happy lady! I think everyone should own a Micro Particle Colloidal Silver Generator.”

– T. K. Keith, Oklahoma

Heals My MRSA Outbreaks!

“I don't remember when I started using colloidal silver but probably over a year ago. I have MRSA.

My doctor wanted me to get on antibiotics and I refused because they take a toll on my health. I bought the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator and started taking 2 oz. of the colloidal silver 4 times a day for quite a long time.

I discovered I wasn’t using it correctly. I was drinking it. I learned I had to keep it in my mouth and swish it around for a while. It started working then. I am now at the end of MRSA. It didn't show up in my blood the last time I had blood work, and one of those visual blood pictures.

I still take the silver only now am taking 2 oz. morning and 2 oz at night before bed. I also used it topically on my breakouts to help them heal faster.

I think I got the MRSA from my daughter who had a sore on her back for over 2 years. And her daughter got it too, so I am giving silver to them to drink also. Rose is no longer having break outs. She is my granddaughter. My daughter still has a few breakouts, but not many now. They are on the way to being free of it also.

I also use the silver in my laundry for all of our clothes and towels. And also for disinfecting counter tops. I love how it works. I give you permission to use this in your book if you like. I do hope it will help others. Just be sure to keep it in your mouth and swish it around.

Another benefit it has done for me is my teeth used to bleed when I brushed but no longer and they seem to be stronger now. Thank you for all you do.”

– Paula D., Kissimmee, FL

Here’s another dramatic success story, which demonstrates how powerful and effective micro-particle colloidal silver can truly be…

Healed Deadly MRSA Infection and Saved My Friend’s Leg from Amputation!

“I have a dear friend who is well over 500 pounds. My car is the only one that he can ride comfortably in AND tow the trailer with his enormous electric chair. For that reason, I’m the one that takes him to his VA appointments (105 miles away) and his doctor appointments (45 miles away).

He suffered from MRSA in bedsores on his leg that had not healed for 8 years. At a doctor appointment, his doctor said we needed to think about amputation of his lower leg to keep the MRSA at bay.

So I asked the doctor to let me try something for one month and he just said, "At his point we have nothing to lose except his leg." He said he was going to call in a prescription for another high strength antibiotic (Zithromax). History showed us that as long as he stayed on the antibiotics, the progression of the MRSA would slow down. But within two weeks of getting off of it, he would get very ill again.

As we drove home, I explained my colloidal silver idea to my friend. This was on a Thursday, I believe. I gave him a quart of the colloidal silver to drink and a quart for his wounds. I told him to ‘drink approximately 1/4 cup twice a day.’ I also asked him to have his home health nurse (who'd been working with him for years) to soak the bandage with the colloidal silver when she redressed his sores.

On the following Monday, he called the doctor’s office to find out why they hadn't called in the antibiotics. The nurse got on the phone and asked why he wasn't in the hospital. The doctor had assumed that he was going directly to the hospital when we left his office. The nurse told my friend that he needed to get to the hospital right away as the blood work done in the office at his last appointment showed he only had days left to live!!!!

He called me and we rushed over to the hospital and you know what they found? NO MRSA! The doctor couldn't believe it. Over the next few weeks, the home health nurse saw his wounds closing up. She was amazed that the skin was granulating again.

It only took 4 days for his blood work to go from system-wide Septicemia with MRSA to ‘No Detectable Infection’.

As a paramedic, I have a pretty good immune system and will trust silver to take care of any infections that I get exposed to. It is documented that it killed the systemic MRSA, worked topically on the MRSA-laden bed sores, AND lowered his need for hypertensive meds. I am a believer!!!! Actually, I don't just "believe" in it, I KNOW it works!”

-- Gina

Over the past few years we’ve had many people report stories in which friends or loved ones experienced dramatic recoveries from MRSA or other serious infections after starting to use colloidal silver, only to see those recoveries nosedive after some smug doctor or concerned family member took their colloidal silver away. Here’s one example with a happy ending thanks to micro-particle colloidal silver:

She Was Dying, Until She Used the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver!

Last year, my sister, Miriam, had extensive dental work done, which caused her to become infected with MRSA. This led to a heart attack. She was dying. The antibiotics and other medications being administered by her doctors were not working and she was getting weaker by the day.

In desperation, we looked up information on MRSA on the internet, and references to colloidal silver repeatedly came up, so we looked into that and found your generators along with all the information about them. At the same time, we met a lady who had been using one of your generators for many years and was very willing to share the colloidal silver and her knowledge with us until we could order our own generator. We felt that God had led us to this information and this lady.

Immediately, we got the colloidal silver to my sister and she began taking it. Almost at once, her condition improved. She was gaining strength until she told her doctor that she was taking colloidal silver. He reacted so negatively, that my brother-in-law became fearful and refused to allow my sister to have it. She relapsed and became so sick that she couldn't even talk coherently. So weak that she couldn't eat or take care of herself at all. Again she was dying.

It was then that my brother-in-law was called away on an emergency. We took colloidal silver to my sister and within two days, when her husband returned, she had made such a remarkable recovery that he could not deny the truth. Colloidal silver, with God's guidance, saved her life.”
– Wynona Sue Hill, CA

10 Million Colloidal Silver Users Can’t Be Wrong!

An estimated ten million people across North America now use colloidal silver regularly. Colloidal silver is available at any well-stocked health food store in America, at a cost of about $20 to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle.

But why pay that much, which probably won’t last a week during a protracted health crisis, when you can make a full QUART at a time – over and over and over again for the rest of your life -- for less than thirty six cents with a brand new Micro-Particle Home Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge?

The choice is up to you. Eventually, the medical bureaucrats will ban colloidal silver completely at the behest of big business and the drug industry. Earlier this year, colloidal silver was banned throughout the European Union, much to the chagrin of millions of satisfied colloidal silver users there.

What’s more, the Canadian version of the FDA, Health Canada, is now working toward a colloidal silver ban. And in the U.S. colloidal silver vendors on the internet continue to be harassed regularly by the FDA, while the corporate news media is awash with stories attempting to scare people away from colloidal silver usage.

What’s going on? The truth is, the major drug companies simply don’t want the competition from such a safe, inexpensive, all-natural infection-fighting substance as colloidal silver. After all, if word gets around that people are curing potentially deadly MRSA infections with a few dollars worth of colloidal silver, the pharmaceutical companies stand to lose billions of dollars in sales of their failing prescription antibiotic drugs!

Instead, the drug industry wants you to continue to use their prescription antibiotic drugs, rather than using the safest and most effective all-natural infection-fighting agent known to man.

Owning the Means of Colloidal Silver Production
Puts You In the Driver’s Seat For the Rest of Your Life!

As I’ve emphasized over and over again for the past five years, once you own the means of colloidal silver production, they can’t take it away from you. Even if they ban colloidal silver in the U.S., you’ll be able to produce your own high-quality, micro-particle colloidal silver for the rest of your life, for only pennies per batch – thanks to the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from www.TheSilverEdge.com.

You’ll literally be able to afford to give it away to sick relatives and friends…gargle with it to stop a sore throat in its tracks...swish it around in your mouth to eliminate bacterial plaque on teeth and gums...drink a few ounces daily to resolve intestinal infections or cure food poisoning... knock out upper respiratory infections such as colds and the flu...eliminate urinary tract infections...beat Candida yeast infections with ease...and much more!

Cutting edge doctors have demonstrated that when used internally it even works on deep-seated infections that, left untreated, can result in chronic degenerative diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and other serious conditions! So be absolutely sure to read the accompanying Gold Flyer to learn more about the brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, and order one right away. There won’t be a day you’ll regret your decision, I promise!

Save $100 By Acting Today!
(Pays for Itself The Very First Time You Use It!)

Best yet, by acting within the next 10 days you’ll save a whopping $100 off the usual $339.95 cost of the generator.

Yes, instead of paying the usual $339.95, you pay only $239.95 during this special get-acquainted offer. This means your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator will completely pay for itself the very first time you use it, when compared with store-bought colloidal silver.

You see, a typical 4-ounce bottle of high-quality store-bought colloidal silver costs about $30. So a quart (i.e., 32 ounces) would cost you about $240!

By purchasing a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, at the special $100 savings price of only $239.95, your very first one-quart batch will pay for the entire unit.

After that, you’ll be able to make high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart -- which is about as close as you’ll ever come to having FREE colloidal silver for the rest of your life!

PLUS, when you order the brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you get a handy plastic zipper pouch carrying case so you can keep all of your colloidal silver-making supplies together. (It also makes it a breeze to travel with your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator!)

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By the way, making micro-particle colloidal silver with a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is a cinch. If you can use an electric coffer maker, you can use one of these incredible generators. They're literally so easy to operate, we have 85 year old grandmas using them!

And unlike many of the ordinary colloidal silver generators we've seen, the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator has been designed to last for a LIFETIME. It's so sturdily constructed, you'll literally end up willing it to your children someday, if you don't buy them one first!

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Does Colloidal Silver Really Kill MRSA, the Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Form of Staph?

The deadly, antibiotic-resistant MRSA pathogen is now running rampant through society. A new study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that nearly 50% of all meat tested in U.S. supermarkets is contaminated with MRSA.

In some states, schools have had to be closed after MRSA outbreaks have left children infected. In other states, football games have had to be postponed and locker rooms disinfected after MRSA outbreaks have left football players infected. Indeed, MRSA now kills more people annually than AIDs.

Is there anything you can do to protect your family? Thankfully, safe, natural colloidal silver has repeatedly been demonstrated to be remarkably effective against MRSA. Here’s what you need to know right now…

I’m going to get straight to the point. Colloidal silver cures MRSA.

Indeed, numerous clinical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of colloidal silver against the MRSA pathogen.

Let me briefly summarize just four of those studies for you now. You may have seen some of this information in previous ezines I’ve sent, so I’ll keep it short. But at this point in time it’s critical to understand how truly effective colloidal silver can be against MRSA:

Case #1: A Brigham-Young Clinical Study Proves Silver Kills MRSA – In this study, conducted quietly in October 2006 at Brigham-Young University, and published in the journal Current Science, it was found that a number of the antibiotic drugs which formerly killed MDR (multiple drug-resistant) pathogens such as MRSA could actually be restored to full efficacy against the deadly pathogens, but only if a liquid silver solution of colloidal silver was used in conjunction with the drug! Since these antibiotic drugs had previously lost their effectiveness against the super pathogens, this study clearly demonstrated that the silver was the deciding factor in the deaths of the deadly drug-resistant pathogens!

Case #2: Iranian Clinical Study Proves Silver Increases Effectiveness of Antibiotic Drugs Against Staph – This study was conducted by the Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Medical Nanotechnology Research Center at the University of Tehran, Iran. It demonstrated that the addition of silver to three specific antibiotics (vancomycin, amoxicillin and penicillin) almost magically renews their effectiveness against today’s most deadly pathogens, including MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus).

Case #3: Taiwanese Clinical Study Proves Colloidal Silver By Itself Kills MRSA – Another study, this one conducted by the Nanya Institute of Technology in Taiwan and published in the journal Colloids Surface B Biointerfaces in October 2007, also demonstrated that silver colloids kill both MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, another deadly and extremely opportunistic superbug. In this study, a special colloidal silver solution was tested on contact surfaces where the deadly pathogens are known to colonize, and from which they can spread to humans. The silver solution proved to be completely effective against both the MRSA and Pseudomonas super pathogens!

Case #4: Czech Clinical Study Proves Silver Particles Kill MRSA – This study was conducted at the Department of Physical Chemistry at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, and published in the prestigious Journal of Physical Chemistry B in August 2006. The study demonstrated that “…silver particles with a narrow size distribution with an average size of 25 nm showed high antimicrobial and bactericidal activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including multi-resistant strains such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA).” The study further demonstrated that very low concentrations of silver could be utilized to destroy MRSA, as long as the silver particles were very small, averaging 25 nm.

Real-Life People Tell Their Honest-to-Goodness Success StoriesUsing the New Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator Against MRSA!

The above studies are ample evidence that colloidal silver cures MRSA. But real-life examples are important, too.

These real-life customers of The Silver Edge successfully used micro-particle colloidal silver against some very severe cases of MRSA, and afterwards emailed their success stories to us. [Stories condensed for space.]

Cured Dying Doctor of a Deadly MRSA Infection!

“Thanks for the opportunity to share one of my many experiences with The Silver Edge Micro Particle Generator that I purchased from you in late 2007. In November 2009 I was in the morning breakfast hot spot and as usual I was talking to a friend about his health challenges, unaware that a doctor’s wife was listening.

After my friend left, the doctor’s wife asked me if I knew anything that would cure MRSA. I told her that I made something that should help. She told me that her husband was a doctor and he had MRSA. I offered to give her some Colloidal Silver the next day. When I arrived at the Nursing Home and met her she was very upset. The doctors overseeing her husband’s case had told her earlier that morning that she needed to let him go because there was nothing more that they could do for him, and that they were withdrawing all his medications. He also had a feeding tube. I told her that I could not tell her what to do for him, but I could tell her what I would do for myself if I were in the same situation. I gave her a dropper bottle of the colloidal silver and said if it were me I’d put two droppers of colloidal silver under my tongue every hour as long as I was awake.

The next day, and thereafter, I would do it every two hours while I was awake. If I had a feeding tube I would apply one tablespoon through the tube three times a day.

After four days she called and said that they had retested him for MRSA and he tested negative. She was one happy lady! I think everyone should own a Micro Particle Colloidal Silver Generator.”

– T. K. Keith, Oklahoma

Heals My MRSA Outbreaks!

“I don't remember when I started using colloidal silver but probably over a year ago. I have MRSA. My doctor wanted me to get on antibiotics and I refused because they take a toll on my health. I bought the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator and started taking 2 oz. of the colloidal silver 4 times a day for quite a long time. I discovered I wasn’t using it correctly. I was drinking it. I learned I had to keep it in my mouth and swish it around for a while. It started working then. I am now at the end of MRSA. It didn't show up in my blood the last time I had blood work, and one of those visual blood pictures. I still take the silver only now am taking 2 oz. morning and 2 oz at night before bed. I also used it topically on my breakouts to help them heal faster. I think I got the MRSA from my daughter who had a sore on her back for over 2 years. And her daughter got it too, so I am giving silver to them to drink also. Rose is no longer having break outs. She is my granddaughter. My daughter still has a few breakouts, but not many now. They are on the way to being free of it also. I also use the silver in my laundry for all of our clothes and towels. And also for disinfecting counter tops. I love how it works. I give you permission to use this in your book if you like. I do hope it will help others. Just be sure to keep it in your mouth and swish it around. Another benefit it has done for me is my teeth used to bleed when I brushed but no longer and they seem to be stronger now. Thank you for all you do.”

– Paula D., Kissimmee, FL

Here’s another dramatic success story, which demonstrates how powerful and effective micro-particle colloidal silver can truly be…

Healed Deadly MRSA Infection

and Saved My Friend’s Leg from Amputation!

“I have a dear friend who is well over 500 pounds. My car is the only one that he can ride comfortably in AND tow the trailer with his enormous electric chair. For that reason, I’m the one that takes him to his VA appointments (105 miles away) and his doctor appointments (45 miles away).

He suffered from MRSA in bedsores on his leg that had not healed for 8 years. At a doctor appointment, his doctor said we needed to think about amputation of his lower leg to keep the MRSA at bay.

So I asked the doctor to let me try something for one month and he just said, "At his point we have nothing to lose except his leg." He said he was going to call in a prescription for another high strength antibiotic (Zithromax). History showed us that as long as he stayed on the antibiotics, the progression of the MRSA would slow down. But within two weeks of getting off of it, he would get very ill again. As we drove home, I explained my colloidal silver idea to my friend. This was on a Thursday, I believe. I gave him a quart of the colloidal silver to drink and a quart for his wounds. I told him to ‘drink approximately 1/4 cup twice a day.’ I also asked him to have his home health nurse (who'd been working with him for years) to soak the bandage with the colloidal silver when she redressed his sores. On the following Monday, he called the doctor’s office to find out why they hadn't called in the antibiotics. The nurse got on the phone and asked why he wasn't in the hospital. The doctor had assumed that he was going directly to the hospital when we left his office. The nurse told my friend that he needed to get to the hospital right away as the blood work done in the office at his last appointment showed he only had days left to live!!!! He called me and we rushed over to the hospital and you know what they found? NO MRSA! The doctor couldn't believe it. Over the next few weeks, the home health nurse saw his wounds closing up. She was amazed that the skin was granulating again.

It only took 4 days for his blood work to go from system-wide Septicemia with MRSA to ‘No Detectable Infection’.

As a paramedic, I have a pretty good immune system and will trust silver to take care of any infections that I get exposed to. It is documented that it killed the systemic MRSA, worked topically on the MRSA-laden bed sores, AND lowered his need for hypertensive meds. I am a believer!!!! Actually, I don't just "believe" in it, I KNOW it works!”

-- Gina

Over the past few years we’ve had many people report stories in which friends or loved ones experienced dramatic recoveries from MRSA or other serious infections after starting to use colloidal silver, only to see those recoveries nosedive after some smug doctor or concerned family member took their colloidal silver away.

Here’s one example with a happy ending thanks to micro-particle colloidal silver:

She Was Dying, Until She Used the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver!

Last year, my sister, Miriam, had extensive dental work done, which caused her to become infected with MRSA. This led to a heart attack. She was dying. The antibiotics and other medications being administered by her doctors were not working and she was getting weaker by the day.

In desperation, we looked up information on MRSA on the internet, and references to colloidal silver repeatedly came up, so we looked into that and found your generators along with all the information about them. At the same time, we met a lady who had been using one of your colloidal silver generators for many years and was very willing to share the colloidal silver and her knowledge with us until we could order our own generator. We felt that God had led us to this information and this lady. Immediately, we got the colloidal silver to my sister and she began taking it. Almost at once, her condition improved. She was gaining strength until she told her doctor that she was taking colloidal silver. He reacted so negatively, that my brother-in-law became fearful and refused to allow my sister to have it. She relapsed and became so sick that she couldn't even talk coherently. So weak that she couldn't eat or take care of herself at all. Again she was dying. It was then that my brother-in-law was called away on an emergency. We took colloidal silver to my sister and within two days, when her husband returned, she had made such a remarkable recovery that he could not deny the truth. Colloidal silver, with God's guidance, saved her life.” – Wynona, CA

High-Quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver

for Less Than 36 Cents a Quart!

Here’s the bottom line: You can purchase colloidal silver at just about any health food store in America. But it is exorbitantly expensive. A tiny four-ounce bottle can cost between $20 and $30.

On the other hand, by purchasing an inexpensive Micro-Particle Home Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you can produce all of the safe, pure, high-quality colloidal silver you need, any time you need it, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for about thirty six cents a quart or less!

At that price, you can afford to use colloidal for a myriad of purposes. You can literally afford to bathe in it. Indeed, many people with chronic skin conditions (including MRSA eruptions) do just that, and to great effect. They just add a quart or so to their bath water, and skin conditions begin to clear up rapidly!

You can also…

· Spray your store-bought meats and other fresh foods with colloidal silver before refrigerating, to kill any nasty pathogens such as MRSA on the food surfaces!

· Spray colloidal silver onto your cutting boards and kitchen counter tops after you’ve prepared food (especially meat!) to kill germs, mold, mildew and other microbes – yes, including the MRSA pathogen!

· Soak your store-bought fruits and vegetables in it to eradicate potentially harmful bacteria and fungus from the food surfaces!

· Clean and decontaminate faucets, door knobs, and other contact surfaces (including that filthy blade on your kitchen can opener)!

· Add a couple of ounces to your daily laundry as a natural antiseptic agent that will keep clothes, bath towels, dish rags, and other fabrics fresh and germ-free for weeks on end!

· Soak your toothbrush in it to prevent microbial contamination!

· Spray it around sinks, bathtubs and other surfaces to stop mold and mildew in its tracks!

· Spray it topically onto cuts and burns for prevention of infection and to stimulate rapid wound healing

· Add it to your pet’s water bowl to resolve internal infections and help prevent illness!

· Gargle with it to eradicate sore throats!

· Put it into a spray atomizer and sniff it up your nose to eliminate sinus infections!

· Add a drop or two into your eyes to stop Pink Eye or styes in a single afternoon!

And, of course, you can safely use colloidal silver internally to stop colds and flu in their tracks…alleviate intestinal infections…stop urinary tract infections…cure upper respiratory infections…wipe out infection-based prostate problems…and much, much more!

Owning the Means of Colloidal Silver ProductionPuts You In the Driver’s Seat For the Rest of Your Life!

The medical authorities have been trying for years to ban colloidal silver, at the behest of the major pharmaceutical companies. After all, they perceive it as the #1 natural competition to their expensive (and potentially harmful) prescription antibiotic drugs.

But as I’ve emphasized over and over again for the past five years, once you own the means of colloidal silver production, they can’t take it away from you.

Even if they ban colloidal silver in the U.S., as they recently did in the European Union, you’ll be able to produce your own high-quality, micro-particle colloidal silver for the rest of your life, for only pennies per batch – thanks to the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from www.TheSilverEdge.com.

You’ll literally be able to afford to give it away to sick relatives and friends…gargle with it to stop a sore throat in its tracks...swish it around in your mouth to eliminate bacterial plaque on teeth and gums...

…drink a few ounces daily to resolve intestinal infections or cure food poisoning... knock out upper respiratory infections such as colds and the flu...eliminate urinary tract infections...beat Candida yeast infections with ease...and much more!

Cutting edge doctors have demonstrated that when used internally it even works on deep-seated infections that, left untreated, can result in chronic degenerative diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and other serious conditions!

So be absolutely sure to learn all you can about the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge. And then order one right away. There won’t be a day you’ll regret your decision, I promise!

Helpful Links:

Video: Learn How to Make Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver

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Get Your FREE Colloidal Silver “Safe Dosage” Report

Join the Colloidal Silver Secrets Group on Facebook

The New Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator

Subscribe to the Colloidal Silver Secrets Ezine

Make Your Own Colloidal Silver Inexpensively

Real-Life Colloidal Silver Success Stories

Colloidal Silver Update (News & Views)

The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

The Colloidal Silver Secrets Video

Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses

Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA

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Important Note and Disclaimer: The contents of this post 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 post should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this post 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 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 post.

Can Pathogens Develop Resistance to Antimicrobial Silver?

Radical environmentalists claim that antimicrobial silver used in commercial products to prevent the spread of germs will eventually seep into the environment and cause pathogens to grow resistant to it, much as pathogens have become resistant to many modern-day antibiotic drugs.

Therefore, the use of silver in commercial products urgently needs to be banned, the environmentalists say, because its presence in such products will ultimately usher in a new era of powerful, disease-causing microbes that will be virtually unstoppable.

Can this possibly be true? Or is it just another example of anti-silver sensationalism?

Do the radical environmentalists have any valid evidence for their shrill claims that we’ll soon be facing an infectious disease apocalypse thanks to the use of antimicrobial silver in commercial products?

Quite the opposite.

Indeed, it is more likely we’ll be facing an infectious disease apocalypse if we fail to increase the use of antimicrobial silver in commercial products.

The idea that pathogens will eventually grow resistant to silver en masse and become immune to its powerful infection-fighting qualities is just rank speculation and propagandistic sensationalism –

– designed to scare the wits out of an already overwhelmed American public being faced with uncountable infectious diseases and related health challenges.

So what does real science say about the potential for creating silver-resistance in pathogenic microbes?

According to Lucian Lucia, associate professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, and chemist George John of City College of New York, bacteria cannot build up a resistance to silver nanoparticles as they can to antibiotics, because of the way the silver nanoparticle attacks — destroying the structure of the cells and killing them.

Antibiotics, on the other hand, suppress the activity of bacteria but don’t necessarily kill them. “That’s the beauty of silver,” Lucia says. “There’s no way to develop a serious resistance to it.”

Writing in the journal BioMetals in 1998, in a study titled “Multiple Parameters for the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Susceptibility of Escherichia coli to the Silver Ion,” researchers G. Zhao, and S.E. Stevens stated:

“With the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, silver is re-emerging as a modern medicine because pathogenic organisms have generally failed to develop an immunity to it (i.e., the silver ion).”

According to researcher AB Lansdown, writing in the Journal of Wound Care, April 2002:

“Silver products have two key advantages: they are broad-spectrum antibiotics and are not yet associated with any significant drug resistance.”

According to researcher A. Dwight Webster, writing in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, in a study titled “Silver Anode Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis”:

"The silver cation is known to have an exceptionally broad spectrum involving gram-positive, gram-negative, aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms… resistance to silver ions is rare."

According to Herbert Slavin, M.D., founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Medicine, Lauderhill, Florida:

“Reports of any pathogens developing resistance to ionic silver are rare. Some reports indicate it even kills drug-resistant strains of germs. Ionic silver is also a powerful tissue-healing agent, so much so that it has been used topically for decades in burn centers and currently represents one of the fastest growing sectors – if not the fastest growing sector – in wound care today.”

And according to Steve Thomas, PhD, Director Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory Bridgend, Wales, UK, in an article titled, “MRSA and the use of silver dressings: overcoming bacterial resistance”:

“Although some bacteria can develop resistance to silver, this is not regarded as a serious problem as available evidence suggests that most preparations capable of delivering sustained silver-ion release are effective against MRSA and VRE, and as yet no resistant strains have been encountered clinically.

It follows, therefore, that any silver-containing dressing that shows acceptable levels of activity against a range of non-resistant bacterial species should show comparable activity against antibiotic-resistant strains of the same organism.”

As stated by silver researcher S.M. Foran, writing in Therapeutic Properties of Silver: an Historical and Technical Review:

"Another benefit to using silver is that it does not appear to create the same amount of resistance in bacteria as traditional antibiotics.

Ian Chopra, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Leeds, reported in a 2007 article in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy that there are fewer than twenty published reports of silver resistance in bacteria.

Professor Chopra went on to indicate that 'current evidence suggests the clinical threat [due to silver resistance] is low' because of the 'multifaceted mode of action of the silver ion.'’

Silver’s Multi-Faceted Mode of Action

You see, unlike antibiotic drugs which generally kill pathogens through a single course of action, silver works in a multi-faceted manner, attacking infectious microorganisms from many different angles.

Therefore, it is very difficult and extremely rare for pathogens to become “resistant” to silver.

Generally speaking, if one facet of silver’s antimicrobial arsenal fails to work on a specific pathogen, another facet will do the job handily.

Infectious disease specialist Dr. David Weber agrees, arguing that the use of silver in commercial products poses very little danger of creating silver-resistant microbes, due to silver’s multiple modes of operation.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times, in August of 2008:

“…Dr. David Weber, an infectious disease and public health expert at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, isn't convinced that silver resistance will prove much of a problem.

Resistance to antibiotics occurs quite readily in bacteria once prolonged exposure to, say, penicillin, occurs. But there's little reason to suppose that resistance to silver would develop so easily, he says.

An antibiotic like penicillin works by hitting a bacterium in a limited fashion, at specific sites. Because the killing is done precisely, the bacterium has a good chance of developing a mutation that would confer resistance.

In contrast, silver kills microbes in a broad, unspecific fashion -- like tossing a bomb at a bacterium. It hits many essential points such as a bacterium's entire respiratory system. This makes it much more difficult for silver-resistance to develop.

And even if tolerance did develop, Weber says, increasing the dose of silver the bacterium is exposed to will solve the problem in most cases.”

In short, microbes simply don’t grow resistant to silver anywhere near as easily as they do to synthetic antibiotic drugs, thanks in large part to silver’s broad spectrum of action.

And even if a microbe does grow resistant to silver, increasing the dosage tends to take care of the problem!

Can Pathogens Become Silver-Resistant Due to Prolonged Exposure to Silver?

That’s not to say there are no cases whatsoever of silver-resistant microbes. Indeed, there are a small handful of cases.

But out of the 20,000 catalogued pathogens in existence (and millions more that remain uncatalogued), only a very few have been found to be silver-resistant.

In fact, only about 20 pathogens have demonstrated an ability to develop silver resistance, and then, only to varying degrees.

According to the Immunogenic Research Foundation, these include sub-species of the following 20 pathogens, which have been shown to “exhibit various degrees of resistance to the bactericidal effects of silver-based drugs”:

1. Acinetobacter baumani

2. Citrobacter freundii

3. Entamoeba histolytica cysts

4. Enterobacter cloacae

5. Enterobacteriaceae

6. Enterococcus hiraea

7. Escherichia coli

8. Helicobacter pylori

9. Klebsiella pneumoniae

10. Mycobacteria

11. Pseudomonas aeruginosa,

12. E. cloacae

13. Ps. stutzeri

14. Ps. putida

14. Proteus mirabilis

16. Salmonella typhimurium

17. Staphylococcus aureus

18. Thiobacillus ferro-oxidans

19. Thiobacillus thio-oxidans

20. Vegetative B. Cereus Spores

In each case above, only some sub-species of the pathogens listed appear to be able to develop resistance to silver’s antimicrobial qualities.

And again, it is important to note that only varying degrees of resistance have been demonstrated in clinical studies.

In other words, few if any of these strains have demonstrated an ability to become completely resistant to silver. This means switching to a more powerful form of silver, or simply increasing the dosage of silver, will generally kill these “silver-resistant” sub-species.

This extremely rare resistance to silver is the basis of most of the shrill cries by the radical anti-silver environmentalists who claim the use of silver in commercial products will usher in an environmental apocalypse coupled with a new dark age of infectious illness and disease.

Should This Be Any Surprise?

Should it be any surprise that in some rare cases, a sub-species or strain of pathogenic microorganism has demonstrated at least some small resistance to the antimicrobial qualities of silver?

Of course not. No more so that it should be a surprise to find that some rare species of fish can survive out of water for long periods of time, and others can crawl out of the water and walk across dry land.

Nature is just like that. Nothing follows the rules 100% of the time. And no antimicrobial substance on the face of the earth is 100% effective every time it’s used.

For example, generally speaking, silver-based antimicrobials are highly effective against many strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a potentially deadly pathogen that is frequently picked up by surgical patients in hospitals, and is often resistant to Big Pharma’s antibiotic drugs.

But at least one sub-species of Klebsiella has been demonstrated in laboratory studies to become resistant to silver, too, after being exposed to it multiple times.

What researchers did was expose a test tube colony of the pathogen, grown in a saline nutrient broth, to small amounts of silver -- just enough to kill off the weaker pathogens in the colony.

Then they repeated the process, each time adding a tiny bit more silver than the last. By the time they did this multiple times (11 separate times in the study I read, going by memory), the remaining pathogens appeared to be silver-resistant.

This was a test-tube study, of course. But it nevertheless demonstrates the possibility that a subspecies of Klebsiella can actually become silver-resistant under the right conditions of repeated exposure to a silver-based product.

But, that’s not the whole story. It’s just the small part of the story the radical anti-silver environmentalists want you to hear when they moan and groan about silver’s use in commercial products. The rest of the story actually puts the lie to the environmentalist’s senstationalistic claims.

Here’s what researcher L.K. Gupta, from the Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, India stated regarding the silver-resistance developed by a sub-species of Klebsiella, writing in medical journal Folia Microbiologica:

A silver-resistant mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae B-5 was produced by passaging in nutrient broth containing graded concentrations of silver nitrate up to 150 ppm.

The development of silver resistance in the strain resulted in rough colonies, decrease in cell size, carbohydrate content and change in klebocin pattern.

The virulence of the AgR strain as checked by the burn wound model decreased as the mutant could not establish itself in the skin and spleen of the animals and the organism was cleared more efficiently by human lymphocytes than the parent AgS strain.

In other words, using the B-5 strain of Klebsiella, the researchers were able to add increasingly high concentrations of silver nitrate (up to 150 ppm) until they produced a strain that was resistant to the silver.

However, the silver-resistant strain suffered from a significantly reduced cell size, and was considerably weaker in virulence (i.e., ability to cause infection) than the parent strain.

Indeed, the silver-resistant strain, though alive, could no longer establish functional infectivity in the skin and spleen of animals used in the research.

And the body’s natural immune system processes readily cleared the microbe, indicating it had been so weakened by the repeated exposure to silver that it was no longer a significant threat.

So what’s the problem? Thanks to the silver, even the pathogens that didn’t die during exposure to silver still lost their functional infectivity!

As you can see, this is hardly the stuff an impending apocalypse of silver-resistant microbes is made of.

Indeed, based upon this study a reasonable person could easily conclude that it’s simply not worth listening to the radical environmentalists who seem to cry “the sky is falling” every time a new commercial innovation involving antimicrobial silver is brought to market.

The Good News You Won’t Hear About From the Radical Environmentalists

What’s more, the good news the radical environmentalists will never tell you is this:

It is well known that certain strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae have also become resistant to Big Pharma’s antibiotic drugs. But…a whopping 75% of these antibiotic-resistant strains are stopped cold by silver-based antimicrobials!

Once again, writing in the medical journal Folia Microbiologica, researcher N. Kapoor of the Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, India, states:

“Multidrug-resistant (MDR) clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae were checked for their sensitivity toward silver nitrate by the tube-dilution method. Nearly 75% of MDR strains could be successfully inhibited by 5 mg/L of silver nitrate.”

In other words, the vast majority of the strains of this potentially deadly pathogen that are no longer killed by prescription antibiotic drugs have been shown to be inhibited by…(drum roll, please) antimicrobial silver!

Considering the fact that up to 40% of all victims of multiple-drug resistant Klebsiella infections die from their infections, that’s the news that should be trumpeted from the headlines of all of the science magazines and medical periodicals.

Simply put, antimicrobial silver kills most drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella!

But it’s not being trumpeted from the rooftops, because radical environmentalists have already co-opted the silver story. And they’ve decided that silver is substanta non grata – an unwanted substance – regardless of how many lives it could save!

So the real victims of this terrible twisting of the truth regarding silver’s effectiveness are the thousands of hospital patients infected by drug-resistant forms of Klebsiella every year, 40% of who end up dying of their infection when the use of silver may well have saved them!

Poorly Designed Studies

Another interesting point, according to the Immunogenic Research Foundation, is that many of the studies demonstrating silver resistance by pathogens such as Klebsiella have had some serious shortcomings and outright flaws.

First and foremost, the researchers apparently never used nanoscale oligodynamic silver (i.e., small particles of highly bioactive silver). Instead, they used silver salt compounds (such as silver nitrate), which are only mildly bioactive by comparison. So they were operating at a disadvantage from the start.

“The experimental designs typically utilized silver salt compounds, which deliver poor amounts of bioactive silver,” the foundation reports in its white paper titled “Microbial Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR) And Oligodynamic Silver.”

What’s more, in many cases the broth cultures in which the pathogens for these studies were grown were composed of substances (or concentrations of substances) not normal to the human body and which are widely known to negate silver’s effectiveness.

As the Immunogenic Research Foundation white paper points out:

“Another most common problem of these experimental designs was the inadvertent culture contamination with various salts, something which will reduce silver efficacy.”

In other words, some of the salts used in the broth cultures the microbes were being grown in are known to interfere with the antimicrobial effectiveness of silver. Therefore, what appeared to have been silver-resistance developed by the bacteria, was more likely the result of neutralization of the silver by the ingredients in the broth the bacteria were grown in!

The microbes didn’t grow resistant. The silver was simply robbed of its antimicrobial qualities before it could do its job.

This makes sense, since researcher N. Grier, writing in the journal of Disinfection, Sterilization and Preservation way back in 1985, pointed out in an article titled “Silver and Its Compounds” that:

“Some so-called Ag+ resistant microorganisms may result from an apparent neutralization of the metal’s inhibitory action or other assay artifacts.

These include the presence of chelators such as serial amino acids, constituents of hard water, different buffers, light, incubation temperature, and particularly, soluble components of trypticase soy agar (TSA) and tryptose glucose extract agar (TGE).”

Plus, the researcher above points out that other confounding factors such as excessive light and extreme temperatures (silver is hyper-sensitive to both light and temperature, which for example, is why silverware tarnishes) may also have played a role in de-activating the silver.

What’s more, in many cases these particular growth cultures were apparently not comparable to the biological fluids found in living tissues.

According to the white paper from the Immunogenic Research Foundation:

“The colloidal state and dynamics of living tissues is at odds with typical culture techniques and mediums, and brings about the unfortunately situation of requiring readers to compare apples to oranges.”

In other words, the research only demonstrated silver’s supposed reduction in efficacy against these pathogens under artificial laboratory conditions not relevant to typical human biological conditions.

Another Flawed Study

In another study, this time on the use of silver and copper ions in hot water plumbing systems in order to inhibit the Legionella pathogen responsible for Legionnaire’s disease, researchers also claimed to have demonstrated silver-resistance by the pathogen being studied.

But as researcher Dr. Y. Eason Lin pointed out, writing in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 31, Issue 5, in an article titled “Ionization Failure Not Due to Resistance”:

“The claim of Rohr at al. that Legionella developed resistance to silver is unsupported by any data in their report.

However, their data do document that the failure to eradicate Legionella is likely due to insufficient copper and silver ions in the water.

A possible solution might be to increase copper ion concentration to 400 µg/L and maintain sustained copper and silver ions in the water system.”

In other words, what the study data actually showed was that levels of silver and copper ions in the water system fluctuated too much, and were generally far too low to maintain eradication of the Legionella pathogen.

The bottom line is that the conclusion drawn by radical environmentalists from these types of studies – i.e., that repeated exposure to silver by humans will result in the development of silver-resistant microbes – was not even remotely demonstrated by these studies.

According to the Immunogenic Research Foundation white paper:

“More specifically stated, the apparent resistance of microbes to silver-based drugs is typically due to:

(1) an inadequate protocol or procedure, or

(2) neglect of the necessary parameters so carefully reviewed by Goetz, Zhao and a NASA commissioned study.

Hamilton-Miller et al., have reported that bacterial strains completely resistant to the salt speciations of silver have proved erroneous when proper study designs were employed.”

In other words (and this is the real clincher), the results of many of these studies demonstrating bacterial resistance to silver nitrate and other silver salts were not duplicated when better designed studies were conducted.

This is something the radical environmentalists don’t bother to tell you when they go on their all-too-frequent tirades about the supposed dangers of silver-resistance in microbes.

Indeed, it is a typical gambit of the radical anti-silver environmentalists to use flawed studies or to exaggerate the results of studies in order to justify their sensationalistic claims against antimicrobial silver. See here and here for examples.

In Conclusion

Silver is one of the small handfuls of powerful substances nature has provided for man to extract from the environment and use against pathogens. And it has worked very effectively for thousands upon thousands of years.

It’s not perfect. It’s not “God.” But it’s extremely effective against pathogens, including viruses, and even against the emerging superpathogens such as MRSA that are resistant to Big Pharma’s most powerful antibiotic drugs.

Indeed, antimicrobial silver is exactly what’s needed in this Age of Strange Diseases in which we now live.

While more work needs to be done in developing effective protocols for the use of silver against infectious microorganisms and related disease in humans –

– there appears at this point in time to be no significant reason whatsoever to be concerned about the development of silver resistance among pathogens.

As we’ve seen above, studies purporting to demonstrate the development of silver resistance have in many cases been poorly conducted, using less bioactive forms of silver (such as silver nitrate) rather than oligodynamic silver (silver that is highly bioactive in even small amounts).

What’s more, many of the poorly designed studies used substances that are known to neutralize silver, creating the appearance that the microbes became resistant to the silver when in reality the silver had simply been rendered inert by the poorly chosen ingredients, or levels of silver used were simply too low to be effective. Other studies simply didn’t use high enough concentrations of silver.

The bottom line is that once again, the environmentalists are dead wrong about silver. In fact, their sensationalistic claims have simply been blown out of the water by the facts.

Whatever the true motive of the radical environmentalists for denigrating the use of antimicrobial silver in commercial products, their protestations are generally fallacious in nature, and frequently border on the ludicrous.

Therefore, until conclusive evidence for serious silver resistance among pathogens can be demonstrated, the neo-Luddite environmentalists, simply put –

– need to shut their yaps, crawl back into their caves and let science and industry continue to develop effective commercial silver-based products that allow people to take maximum protective advantage of the infection-fighting qualities of silver…

…and that will save millions of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs over the years and decades ahead.

Helpful Links:

Video: Learn How to Make Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver

.999 Fine Pure Silver Wire for Making Colloidal Silver

Get Your FREE Colloidal Silver “Safe Dosage” Report

Join the Colloidal Silver Secrets Group on Facebook

The New Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator

Subscribe to the Colloidal Silver Secrets Ezine

Make Your Own Colloidal Silver Inexpensively

Real-Life Colloidal Silver Success Stories

Colloidal Silver Update (News & Views)

The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

The Colloidal Silver Secrets Video

Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses

Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA

Colloidal Silver Secrets blog

Meet Steve Barwick

Important Note and Disclaimer: The contents of this post 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 post should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this post 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 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 post.