The most frequently
asked question I get is “How much colloidal silver can I take safely each day?”
Of course, the answer
varies from person to person. It depends
upon a number of factors, including body weight, overall health, and even
antioxidant levels.
I personally like the
Silver Safety Guideline published by the Silver Safety Council, which I discuss
below.
They have a very
conservative method for calculating your maximum daily safe dosage level for a
lifetime of colloidal silver usage.
Here’s what they
recommend…
According to the Silver Safety Council, the
formula for determining your maximum safe dosage level if you plan on using
colloidal silver DAILY as a nutritional supplement is as follows:
First, multiply your body weight by 12. And then divide that total by the ppm of the
colloidal silver solution you're using.
This
will tell you how many DROPS (i.e., from an eye dropper) of colloidal silver
you can take each day, safely, for a lifetime, without fear of ending up with
argyria (i.e., skin-staining).
For example, if you're 125 pounds, and you're using a 10 ppm
colloidal silver solution, you'd multiply 12 times 125 = 1,500. Then divide 1,500 by 10 (ppm), which is
150.
So at a body weight of 125 pounds, you can safely take 150
drops of colloidal silver per day, for your entire life, according to the
Silver Safety Council. That's a little bit over a teaspoonful a day.
My Personal Daily
Dosage
Obviously, people have taken more colloidal silver than
that, daily, for years on end – and have done so without incurring any harm.
For example, I'm tall and nearly 240 pounds. So my daily dosage should be about two
teaspoons full, based upon the Silver Safety Council’s conservative calculation.
But I take about an ounce of colloidal silver daily, and
I've done so for nearly 20 years as part of my ongoing nutritional supplement
regimen.
However, I also take regular "colloidal silver
holidays" during which I purposely abstain from colloidal silver usage for
a week or two – sometimes even for a month or two.
And regardless of whether or not I’m taking colloidal
silver, I always drink plenty of fresh, pure water each day to help flush any
excess silver from my system.
What's more, I always take a daily multi-vitamin/mineral
supplement that includes 400 IU of Vitamin E, 200 mcg of selenium, and about
500 mg of NAC (N-acetyl cysteine).
Why? Because cutting
edge medical practitioners like Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D. say these particular
antioxidant supplements are necessary to help process silver out of the body
effectively.
As Dr. Wright has written previously:
"Silver belongs to the family
of metals that also includes copper and gold (both of which can also have
numerous health benefits when they're used properly).
One of the primary concerns people
tend to have about using these metals is the risk that they'll accumulate in
the body and lead to heavy metal toxicity.
But if you have plenty of
antioxidants in your diet, such as selenium, vitamin E, and amino acids like
N-acetyl cysteine, you're safe from any harmful effects from this family of
metals. Germs, however, are not."
-- Dr. Jonathan Wright, MD
Naturally, Dr. Wright is not saying you can take all of the
colloidal silver you want, as long as you have plenty of antioxidants in your
diet.
He’s simply saying the body requires antioxidants in order
to process silver effectively. And if
you’re low on antioxidants, you’re at greater risk of silver accumulation, even
at normal daily dosage levels.
The bottom line is that I take great pains to make sure my regular
colloidal silver usage – though slightly above average for my body weight –
does not become abusive.
Just Trying to Make a
Point
So
please understand: I'm not trying to dictate how much colloidal silver anyone
can use. It's not
my business.
Some people tell me they’re taking anywhere from four ounces, to
six ounces, to eight ounces, or even 16 ounces of colloidal silver a day. If you want to abuse your body and take big
risks by ingesting astronomically larger than recommended dosages like that,
that's up to you.
Just
be sure you're willing to take personal
responsibility for it. Once you end up with argyria – the blue-gray
skin-staining that typifies long-term excessive usage of colloidal silver – you
can't switch gears and start blaming others for it.
So what I am trying to do is this: Make the point that when people say they're
taking 4 ounces, or 6 ounces, or 8 ounces or in some cases even 16 ounces of
colloidal silver per day…
…and they've been doing this for months on end when a
responsible daily dosage would be closer to somewhere between a teaspoonful and
an ounce a day…
…then it's clear to me they're operating WAY outside of the bounds
of safety (and sanity) in terms of the very real risk of ending up with argyria.
Those kinds of overly-high dosage levels – which are 400%,
600%, 800% and even higher than normal levels – are not just excessive. They're
downright abusive, particularly when
taken regularly, over long periods of time.
Another Colloidal
Silver Blue Man
I spent nearly a half hour on the phone today with an
elderly colloidal silver user who's face and neck are now colored, in his own
words, "pastel blue."
It was heart-breaking. He says children snicker at him in
the stores. People stare at him in
wonderment everywhere he goes and point fingers at him.
And nurses have actually stopped him on the street and asked
if they can call him an ambulance, thinking he's suffering from cardiac hypoxia
-- i.e., lack of oxygen to the body when the heart isn't pumping strongly
enough, which can cause the face to turn blue.
How did he end up in that condition? Well, his heart is just fine. But he drank a quart of colloidal silver a
day, he told me, for two years straight.
And why? Because
someone told him you can drink all of the colloidal silver you want and it
can't hurt you.
Listen to me, please.
Argyria from excessive, daily long-term colloidal silver usage is very
real. It’s not a joking matter. And it
will change your life forever, and most definitely not for the better.
What’s more, it doesn't matter what kind of colloidal silver
you're taking. Don't let anyone ever tell
you they have a special kind of colloidal silver that "can't cause
argyria." It's a crock.
There’s simply no such thing as a form of colloidal silver
that can’t cause argyria if used at excessive levels for long periods of
time.
They key to successful colloidal silver usage – regardless
of which kind you use -- is the responsible
use of the substance.
Safe, Sane and
Responsible Usage
I've been a very vocal advocate for the safe, sane and responsible usage of colloidal silver
for nearly 20 years now, ever since colloidal
silver saved my wife’s toes from amputation after she came down with a
nasty bone infection called osteomyelitis.
What’s more, I’ve seen colloidal silver used as a
nutritional adjunct to help the body heal literally hundreds of incidences of infection and disease over the past 20
years, like those you’ll find at the Colloidal Silver Success
Stories website.
But over these past 20 years, I’ve also seen a handful of
cases of arygria – sometimes in people who drank as little as four or five ounces
of colloidal silver a day, for only a few short years in a row.
Listen, there’s ZERO need to take such excessive daily
amounts of colloidal silver for months and years on end. A few days here and there, when really needed,
perhaps.
But if you have a health condition and you're taking huge
amounts of colloidal silver as a nutritional adjunct for it, and you’re doing
so for months and years on end, and it hasn't
helped your body heal itself of that condition...guess what? It ISN'T
going to!
You're taking the silver for NOTHING. And you're putting yourself at big risk for
argyria. And if you’ll just be honest
with yourself, you’ll see that you really need re-evaluate your obsessive
desire to take so much of this otherwise very beneficial substance.
I’m Staggered
I don't know what else I can say.
I'm absolutely staggered by some of the things I've seen
posted on the internet lately from people taking huge amounts of colloidal
silver on a daily basis for months or even years on end, and worse yet, urging other people to do the same.
When I gently chastised one of these abusive users of
colloidal silver, recently, I was brusquely informed by him, “I’ve done my
research. I know what I’m doing. I’m convinced taking this much colloidal
silver is safe for me.”
Well, so be it. As Forest Gump says, “Stupid is as stupid
does.”
In another instance, a man who was clearly in the beginning
stages of argyria on his face and neck was confronted by a friend of mine and
handed a copy of the Colloidal
Silver Safe Dosage Report. The man
threw the report down and, after admitting he was taking high daily dosages of a super-concentrated colloidal silver solution, said, “I’ve read that report. It’s crap.
I know what I’m doing.”
Well, I know what
he’s doing, too. He’s turning himself
blue from taking huge daily dosages of colloidal silver.
Very Real Dangers
As a long-time vocal advocate of responsible colloidal silver usage, I’ve written emphatically about
the dangers of excessive colloidal silver usage over
and over and over again.
And I’ve even posted the well-known clinical study on
argyria, titled “Exposure-Related Health Effects of Silver and Silver
Compounds: A Review,” here.
I’ve also repeatedly tried to make the point that if you started
taking two vitamin tablets a day, and they helped you feel better, you're not
going to increase your dosage to half a
bottle of vitamin tablets a day, right?
I think just about everyone would agree it would be crazy to
take such an excessive amount of vitamins.
So why in the world would you take 100 or 200 times the normal amount of
colloidal silver each day?
That’s NOT safe, NOT sane, and NOT responsible. It’s obsessive.
So if you’re one of those people who are taking such large
daily amounts of colloidal silver, and intend to keep on doing so, please reconsider. That's all I can ask of you.
If you haven’t done so already, you can learn more about the
safe, sane and responsible usage of colloidal silver by obtaining a FREE copy
of the Colloidal
Silver Safe Dosage Report.
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,
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Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience
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journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage. Therefore, the information and data presented
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