Tuesday, July 30, 2013

2 Clinical Studies on the Germ-Fighting Effects of Silver Ions

It’s now well-known that silver ions are the active, infection-fighting “specie” of silver. 

But exactly how to silver ions kill bacteria and prevent infection from spreading? 

We’ll examine that question in this brief article…

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There have been numerous studies on the bactericidal effects of silver ions, which are the acknowledged infection-fighting “specie” of silver.

Here are two accounts, from two separate clinical studies:

The first if from a study published in December 2000 in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Volume 52, Issue 4, 15. 

It’s titled, “A Mechanistic Study of the Antibacterial Effects of Silver Ions on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.” The study states, in part:

“Silver ions have long been known to have strong inhibitory and bactericidal effects as well as a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities.

Some forms of silver have been demonstrated to be effective against burns, severe chronic osteomyelitis, urinary tract infections, and central venous catheter infections…

…To investigate the mechanism of inhibition of silver ions on microorganisms, two strains of bacteria, namely Gram-negative Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), were treated with AgNO3 and studied using combined electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis.

Similar morphological changes occurred in both E. coli and S. aureus cells after Ag+ treatment. The cytoplasm membrane detached from the cell wall.

A remarkable electron-light region appeared in the center of the cells, which contained condensed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules.

There are many small electron-dense granules either surrounding the cell wall, or depositing inside the cells.

The existence of elements of silver and sulfur in the electron-dense granules and cytoplasm detected by X-ray microanalysis suggested the antibacterial mechanism of silver:

DNA lost its replication ability and the protein became inactivated after Ag+ treatment.”

What this means, in essence, is that silver ions are able to target the cell walls of the studied microorganisms, and cause the cytoplasm membrane to become detached. 

This opens the microbe up and exposes its DNA to the silver, which deposits itself inside the bacterial cell, destroying the ability of the bacterial DNA to replicate.  Hence the bacteria cannot reproduce and spread. 

The second clinical study was published in April 2008, in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 74, No. 7. 

Titled "Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of the Silver Ion in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli," it states, in part:

"Since ancient times, the silver ion has been known to be effective against a broad range of microorganisms.

Today, silver ions are used to control bacterial growth in a variety of medical applications, including dental work, catheters, and the healing of burn wounds.

…The mechanism of the antimicrobial action of silver ions is closely related to their interaction with thiol (sulfhydryl) groups, although other target sites remain a possibility.

Amino acids, such as cysteine, and other compounds containing thiol groups, such as sodium thioglycolate, neutralized the activity of silver against bacteria.

By contrast, disulfide bond-containing amino acids, non-sulfur-containing amino acids, and sulfur-containing compounds, such as cystathione, cysteic acid, L-methionine, taurine, sodium bisulfate, and sodium thiosulfate, were all unable to neutralize the activity of silver ions.

These and other findings imply that the interaction of silver ions with thiol groups in enzymes and proteins plays an essential role in its antimicrobial action, although other cellular components, like hydrogen bonding, may also be involved. 

Silver was also proposed to act by binding to key functional groups of enzymes. Silver ions cause the release of K ions from bacteria; thus, the bacterial plasma or cytoplasmic membrane, which is associated with many important enzymes, is an important target site for silver ions.

In addition to their effects on bacterial enzymes, silver ions caused marked inhibition of bacterial growth and were deposited in the vacuole and cell wall as granules.

They inhibited cell division and damaged the cell envelope and contents of bacteria.

Bacterial cells increased in size, and the cytoplasmic membrane, cytoplasmic contents, and outer cell layers all exhibited structural abnormalities.

Finally, silver ions interact with nucleic acids; they interact preferentially with the bases in DNA rather than with the phosphate groups, although the significance of this in terms of their lethal action is unclear."

While the science behind this study is a bit more complex to understand, boiling it down, it basically draws the same conclusion as the first study mentioned above, i.e., that silver ions damage and then penetrate the cell walls of the pathogens, and then inhibit bacterial growth and replication by binding to the DNA of the microbes.

Other Studies

Other studies have demonstrated that silver ions damage the cell wall of pathogens through the release of nascent oxygen, which inactivates microorganisms through a process of catalytic oxidation.

As Albert T. McManus, MD, Chief of Microbiology, Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston Army Burn Center, Houston, Texas, observes:

"Silver kills bacteria by simple catalytic reduction/oxidation by reacting with any available negative charge...Any organism that is available to the powerful catalytic activity of silver for oxidation is inactivated”.

As stated in the report, "The Development and Functions of Silver in Water Purification and Disease Control," by Richard L. Davies and Samuel F. Etris of The Silver Institute in Washington, DC:

"Atomic (nascent) oxygen adsorbed onto a bed of silver atoms or ions in solution readily reacts with the sulfhydryl (H) groups surrounding the surface of bacteria or viruses to remove the hydrogen atoms (removed as water) causing the sulfur atoms to form an R-S-S-R bond; respiration is blocked and the bacteria expire."

And a 2011 study titled Control of Microorganisms in Drinking Water Using Ag-Cu/C Catalysts, which was conducted by the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in conjunction with researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New Yorkdraws a similar conclusion:   

“Silver in its atomic state, has the capacity to absorb oxygen and act as a catalyst to bring about oxidation.

Because oxygen is more electronegative than sulfur, atomic (nascent) oxygen absorbed onto the surface of silver particles in solution will readily react with hydrogen attached to sulfur in the sulfhydryl (- S- H) groups surrounding the surface of bacteria or viruses.

The removal of hydrogen atoms (as water) causes the sulfur atoms to condense to form R- S –S- R bond. This blocks the respiration and causing the bacteria to expire.”

Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D. Explains

Harvard educated Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D., of the famous Tahoma Clinic in Washington State, insightfully summarizes and explains the process, in his article “Stop Supergerms in Their Tracks With One Powerful Silver Bullet”:

"Silver attacks all three of the germ's vulnerable targets at once.

First, the silver ions easily rupture a germ's outer membrane when present in the right amounts, causing the germ's vital internal components to be exposed in the bloodstream to our white blood cells.

While the white blood cells attack the internal components, the micro-particulate silver continues to destroy these vital internal components by cutting up vital enzymes.

The silver ions then easily attack the germ's third vulnerable target: its delicate gene pool. Silver ions have the ability to reach into the nucleus of the germ, where its gene pool is located.

Once they combine with the genes, the genes become paralyzed, and the germ cannot replicate itself...

In 1909, the Journal of the American Medical Association was the first medical journal to point out that colloidal silver could actually increase our immune cells' phagocytic index.

In the past few years, more studies have shown that silver ions greatly enhance the essential second part of the phagocytic index-the part where the germ is digested by our immune cells.

This is brought about because silver ions increase the "digesting juices" (what you know as hydrogen peroxide) of these immune cells."

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that silver ions are widely acknowledged to be the active, infection-fighting “specie” of silver (see Experts: It’s the Silver Ion That Gives Colloidal Silver Its Antimicrobial Power,).

And they stop infection by first attaching to the cellular membrane of pathogens and disrupting its function through a process of catalytic oxidation utilizing nascent oxygen stored on the surface of the silver atom.

The silver ions then penetrate the pathogen’s cellular membrane, entering the nucleus of the cell and binding with the pathogen’s DNA in order to stop the pathogen from replicating.

Make Your Own Ionic Silver

To learn how to make your own therapeutic-quality colloidal silver (i.e., pure ionic silver), quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents a quart, just click the link in this sentence. 

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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How the Infection-Fighting Power of Silver Was Re-Discovered

The history of the medical and therapeutic use of silver is a fascinating one, going back many centuries. 

Here’s a brief overview taking you from 425 B.C. to the present day, and demonstrating conclusively through historical documentation that colloidal silver is indeed the world’s most effective natural infection-fighting agent…      

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The phenomenal healing and infection-fighting qualities of silver have been known quite literally since before the time of Christ. 

Indeed, according to the records of Herodotus, written in 425 B.C., ancient Persian kings such as Cyrus the Great insisted their water was carried in silver vessels when going off to war, in order to prevent it from becoming contaminated. 

Of course, since this was long before the realization that microbes are the cause of infection or contamination, the silver was being used empirically.   It was simply observed that water did not become impure and make you sick when you drink it, if it was stored in silver vessels.

In his study published in the journal Surgical Infections, J. Wesley Alexander writes:

“The ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and others also were recorded to have used silver in one form or another to preserve food and water from spoiling. 

The application of silver plates to achieve better wound healing was used by the Macedonians, perhaps the first attempt to prevent or treat surgical infections.

Hippocrates used silver preparations for the treatment of ulcers and to promote
wound healing”

And in 78 A.D. Pliny the Elder wrote, “"[Slag of silver] has healing properties as an ingredient in plasters, being extremely effective in causing wounds to close up."

What’s more, it’s said that early American pioneers always placed a silver dollar into buckets of milk in order to help keep the milk for spoiling quickly. (You can see a short video demonstrating a modern-day version of this phenomena, here.) 

And for centuries, long before the advent of refrigeration, the people of India have pounded silver into thin, delicate sheets called varakh, which are about one hundredth of the thickness of a sheet of paper.

These sheets of silver are used to wrap candies and foods in order to prevent them from spoiling in the country’s hot outdoor food bazaars.

Traditionally, the food is eaten foil and all, because of its ability to prevent stomach infections that can be caused by eating the unrefrigerated foods.

The Advent of Colloidal Silver

After Edison showed the world how to harness and utilize electricity in 1879, scientists quickly discovered that they could suspend silver rods in pure water, and sinter tiny silver particles off of them by running electricity through them.  

This became known as electrically-generated colloidal silver.  Chemical processes were also invented for making a variety of colloidal silver solutions. 

And by the late 1930's – well before the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs -- colloidal silver in its various forms had become one of the most popular infection-fighting substances among doctors, being sold under the names of Collargol, Protargol, Electrargol, Lunasol and many others.  

As Robert Bartholow wrote of silver’s infection-fighting qualities in A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, way back in 1908:

“As a topical agent, silver may be used in surgical diseases, wounds, injuries, and in cases of septic decomposition.

Wherever diseases— either pure or mixed infectious—are caused by the staphylococcus, the streptococcus, and other forms of low organisms, this remedy is effective in a high degree.

And as Dr. William Halstead, M.D., one of the founding fathers of modern surgery, stated of silver in 1913:

"We may only have scratched the surface of silver’s medical brilliance! Already it is an amazing tool!

It stimulates bone - forming cells, cures the most stubborn infections of all kinds...and stimulates healing in skin and other soft tissues.

I know of nothing which could quite take its place, nor, have I known anyone to abandon it who had thoroughly familiarized himself with the technique of its application. "

As the British Medical Journal stated in February 1917:

“Colloidal silver has been used successfully in septic conditions of the mouth including pyorrhea alveolysis, throat, ear, and in generalized septicemia, leucorrhea, cystitis, whooping cough and shingles."

As Alfred E. Searle, author of Colloids in Biology and Medicine wrote in 1919:

"Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results...it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to microbes without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable. It protects rabbits from ten times the lethal dose of tetanus or diphtheria toxin.” 

As Dr. Henry Crooks, M.D. stated in 1921:

"I know of no microbe that is not killed by silver in laboratory experiments in six minutes."

And finally, according to The National Druggist, Vol. 50, page 388, in August 1920:

"Colloidal silver is powerfully destructive of toxins of bacterial origin…Experiments on rabbits show that colloidal silver renders subject 'immune' from the effects of large quantities of tetanic or diphtheritic serum.

…colloidal silver has proved its value in combating the following ailments among others -- tonsilitis, gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis, spring catarrh, pustular eczema of scalp, septic ulcers of legs, boils, chronic cystiitis, ringwork, soft sores.

But we must not prolong the list of the good works of colloidal silver. Suffice it that at the present time it is the most extensively used in medicine of all the sols."

The Rise and Fall of Antibiotic Drugs

But after the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs in the late 1930’s, colloidal silver usage gradually fell out of favor with doctors. And antibiotic drugs were widely embraced in its stead.  

However, by the 1970's -- less than 40 years after the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs – the antibiotics were already losing their luster, due to the ability of pathogens to mutate and adapt to them.  

In other words, it was already being documented by medical science that antibiotic drugs began to lose their effectiveness against pathogens relatively rapidly, as the pathogens mutated in response to their presence.

This lead researchers and cutting edge doctors to begin looking for alternatives to prescription antibiotics.  

Some doctors began researching the older medical literature, asking themselves, "How did we treat infections prior to the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs?"  

And as a result, interest in silver slowly began making a comeback. 

Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.

By the mid-1970s, a surgeon named Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. began his groundbreaking research at Syracuse Medical University, which would lead to the widespread re-discovery of silver as an effective antimicrobial substance.

He had been attempting to demonstrate his theory that small micro-currents of electricity could be used to make stubborn bone fractures heal, if electrodes could be temporarily surgically implanted into the fractures.

During the course of his experiments, he began using silver electrodes in order to take advantage of silver’s well-known propensity to conduct electricity. But what he discovered in the process took him completely by surprise.

You see, not only did the micro-currents of electricity trigger the bone fractures to heal just as he had expected, but the tiny, electrically generated silver particles that were driven into the bone and surrounding tissue from the silver electrodes healed ALL nearby infections as well.

Even rare and potentially deadly bone infections such as osteomyelitis were rapidly healed! Dr. Becker later concluded in his best-selling book The Body Electric:

 “What we have done was rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, a fact which had actually been known for centuries ...

…All of the organisms we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics...In no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent.”

Yes, indeed. Dr. Becker had re-discovered a fact that medical researchers of old had once known, but that had become lost to medicine ever since the age of prescription antibiotic drugs had been ushered in by the global pharmaceutical conglomerates during the 1940’s.

He had re-discovered the fact that silver – one of the world’s oldest and most powerful natural antibiotic substances – could kill just about any pathogen exposed to it. Even the most virulent of pathogens succumb to it with ease!

Since that time, colloidal silver has once again become the world's most popular and effective natural antibiotic substance.  

As Harvard educated Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D., of the famous Tahoma Clinic in Washington State has written:

"Silver attacks all three of the germ's vulnerable targets at once.

First, the silver ions easily rupture a germ's outer membrane when present in the right amounts, causing the germ's vital internal components to be exposed in the bloodstream to our white blood cells.

While the white blood cells attack the internal components, the micro-particulate silver continues to destroy these vital internal components by cutting up vital enzymes.

The silver ions then easily attack the germ's third vulnerable target: its delicate gene pool.

Silver ions have the ability to reach into the nucleus of the germ, where its gene pool is located. Once they combine with the genes, the genes become paralyzed, and the germ cannot replicate itself.”

As Dr. Herbert Slavin, M.D., founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Medicine in Lauderhill, Florida has stated:

"...Colloidal silver is emerging as the new antimicrobial wonder in dealing with bacterial as well as, yes, viral conditions too, both in medicine and in industry...

Colloidal silver was actually a commonly-used antimicrobial 100 years ago, before the advent of modern antibiotics, which only address bacteria and are becoming largely obsolete while posing risks related to resistant super-germs.

Colloidal silver is increasingly being recognized for its broad-spectrum antimicrobial qualities and the fact that it presents virtually none of the side-effects related to antibiotics.”

As Dr. Joseph Weissman, M.D., board certified Immunologist and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical School has stated:

"Today, many antibiotics are losing the battle with germs.

Fortunately, the best germ killer, which was discovered over 2,000 years ago, is finally getting the proper attention from medical science - natural silver.

I sincerely recommend that everyone have electrically generated colloidal silver in their home as an antiseptic, antibacterial and antifungal agent."

And as biochemist James South, MA has written:
“...Electrically-generated colloidal silver [Ag(e)] has been shown to kill dozens of bacteria, including Providencia stuartii, a germ already resistant in the 1970's to all antibiotics except amikacin, as well as two strains of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacter cloacae that were isolated from burn patients...

… It has also proved adept at killing various yeast/fungus species at very low silver concentrations, including Candida albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. pseudotropicalis, Torulopsis glabrata and Aspergillus niger. 

Electrically-generated colloidal silver has also been shown to kill cysts of the common water-borne protozoal parasite Entamoeba histolytica.  It has also killed the protozoa Paramecium when exposed to 2.2 ppm silver, as well as the protozoa Varicella at 5.9 ppm. 

…The most amazing case of colloidal silver usage which I’ve had personal knowledge involved an 83 year old woman who was suffering severe septicemia (infectious blood poisoning).

Her doctors were unable to control the raging infection and had sent her home, expecting her death in 48-72 hours.

Her husband contacted an intermediary, through whom I recommended trying colloidal silver. The woman was immediately put on one tablespoon of 5 ppm colloidal silver three times daily.

Within 24 hours her septicemia began to disappear, and within 48 hours her septicemic crisis was over, and she did not die as expected."

Where to Get Colloidal Silver

Electrically generated colloidal silver can be purchased today in nearly any well-stocked health food store. 

But costs can be a bit on the exorbitant side – as much as $20 to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle of this safe, natural, healing and infection-fighting substance. 

Thankfully, you don’t have to pay those exorbitant health food store prices.  Indeed, you can make your own high-quality electrically-generated colloidal silver, quickly and easily, with a simple device called a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

The low-voltage Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is based on the ground-breaking work of Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. 

And it allows you to make your own high-quality colloidal silver in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents a quart!
Learn more about making your own high-quality colloidal silver with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, by clicking the link in this sentence. 

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


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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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Silver Prevents Replication of Viruses

The astonishing anti-bacterial qualities of colloidal silver have been known for decades.  And so have its anti-fungal qualities. But colloidal silver’s anti-viral properties are far less understood. 

Thankfully, new studies are shedding more light on this topic, demonstrating that silver’s interaction with viral DNA and RNA helps shut down the replication process used by the virus to spread from one cell to another.  Here’s the story…

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Viruses represent one of the leading causes of disease and death in the world today. 

According to the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses, there are 2,480 known species of virus in 395 genera, 95 families, and 6 orders.  However, new viruses are being discovered all of the time.

Even more interesting, according to a study in the Journal of Virology, in each cubic meter of air we breathe, there are between 1.6 million to 40 million viruses, depending upon the time of year, weather conditions and other factors. 

So at any point in time, we’re quite literally wading through a soup of viruses, and breathing them in. 

Thankfully, most of them are plant and animal viruses.  But since we breathe in approximately 0.01 cubic meters of air each minute, this means we likely inhale at least several hundred thousand viruses every minute, according to science journalist Malcolm Tang.

Silver and Viruses

While there’s no argument that colloidal silver is the world’s most powerful natural antibacterial and antifungal agent, its ability to protect against viruses is little understood.

However, as more research is conducted, the anti-viral qualities of silver are becoming better known. 

Previously, on the Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses website, I’ve documented the famous HIV study in which it was demonstrated in vitro (i.e., in the test tube) that tiny silver nanoparticles were able to prevent the AIDS virus from replicating, by binding to its DNA.

Other studies have helped confirm this hypothesis. 
For example, in 2011 the science journal Molecules published an extensive review of medical studies demonstrating silver nanoparticles to be effective against viruses, including:

·       HIV I
·       Herpes simplex I
·       Paramyxoviridae (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
·       Poxviridae (Monkey Pox Virus)
·       Orthomyxoviridae (Influenza Virus)
·       Arenaviridae (Tacaribe Virus, otherwise known as Hemorrhagic Fever virus)
·       Hepadnaviridae (Hepatitis B Virus) 

The study is titled Silver Nanoparticles as Potential Antiviral Agents, and its authors concluded:

“Metal nanoparticles, especially the ones produced with silver or gold, have proven to exhibit virucidal activity against a broad-spectrum of viruses, and surely to reduce viral infectivity of cultured cells.

In most cases, a direct interaction between the nanoparticle and the virus surface proteins could be demonstrated or hypothesized.

…Besides the direct interaction with viral surface glycoproteins, metal nanoparticles may gain access into the cell and exert their antiviral activity through interactions with the viral genome (DNA or RNA).

Furthermore, the intracellular compartment of an infected cell is overcrowded by virally encoded and host cellular factors that are needed to allow viral replication and a proper production of progeny virions.

The interaction of metal nanoparticles with these factors, which are the key to an
efficient viral replication, may also represent a further mechanism of action.”

In other words, silver’s anti-viral activity begins at the virus surface, and appears to continue as the silver particles penetrate the virus and begin to interact with viral DNA and RNA, thus preventing viral replication. 

And as the old saying goes, “No replication.  No infection.” 

Silver and Hepatitis B

In another study, this one conducted by scientists at the University of Hong Kong, and published in the journal Antiviral Therapies in 2008, it was also demonstrated in vitro that very tiny silver particles have the ability to reduce viral DNA formation by more than 50%.

According to the Hong Kong researchers, the silver appeared to interact with viral DNA in such a way as to prevent replication.

What’s more, this phenomena takes place whether the virus is inside the host cells (i.e., inside human cells, where viruses would normally replicate) or outside the host cells.

This is especially important, because it implies that silver not only prevents viruses from infecting cells, but can also stop cells that are already virally infected from spreading the infection. 

Here’s the Story…

According to a research abstract from the University of Hong Kong, the scientists examining the action of silver particles on the Hepatitis B virus “hypothesized that the direct interaction between these nanoparticles and HBV double-stranded DNA or viral particles is responsible for their antiviral mechanism.” 

The scientists point out that this only demonstrates the effectiveness of very tiny silver particles against the HBV (i.e., hepatitis B virus), and not necessarily other viruses.

Nevertheless, once again we have a study demonstrating conclusively that very tiny particles of silver have the ability to interfere with viruses, preventing them from interacting with human cells and causing infections. 

According to a news article about this study, the researchers discovered that:

“Hepatitis B is one of the worst killers as it chronically infects over 400 million people worldwide, with certain developing countries and regions hit hardest.

…ultra-tiny silver particles could reduce the extracellular DNA formation of HBVs by over 50 percent, and could check their intracellular RNA formation, too.

'Silver nano-particles have special properties such as larger active surface and porosity so that they can easily bind with small molecules'…

The researchers said there are currently only two kinds of drugs approved for treating chronic HBV infection, namely immunomodulators and nucleoside analogues. But their uses are affected by side effects and drug-resistant mutations.

Silver nano-particles have an additional distinct advantage. It is unlikely that HBV can become resistant to silver nano-particles because the interaction is determined by the physiochemical properties of the tiny particles.”

Learn More…

For more information on the little-known but quite substantial anti-viral qualities of colloidal silver, see the Colloidal Silver Kills Viruses website.

To learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart, with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, here, just click the link in this sentence.

Also, be sure to get your FREE copy of the Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Report, to learn how to calculate your maximum safe daily dosage level based on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver you’re using.  

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


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Why Has the FDA Has Banned Information On Colloidal Silver?

Here’s the inside scoop you won’t find anywhere else on the FDA’s ban on information about the astonishing infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver. 

Don’t remain in the dark. The day is rapidly approaching in which any information not “approved” by the medical bureaucrats simply won’t be available.  Here’s what you need to know, right now…

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Over the past decade thousands of Americans have quietly abandoned the use of prescription antibiotic drugs and have turned instead to the use of safe, natural colloidal silver.

In fact, when people discovered they could cure the vast majority of their own infections – quickly, safely and effectively with just a few dollar's worth of colloidal silver – word began to spread rapidly among the American public.

Why Big Pharma Sucks

The giant pharmaceutical companies quickly realized they would soon be losing tens of millions of dollars annually in sales of their expensive prescription antibiotic drugs if they didn't do something about it.

Initially, they demanded that the FDA ban the sale of colloidal silver altogether. But try as they might, the FDA couldn't find sufficient grounds for a ban.

After all, colloidal silver has a fully documented 90-year medical history of safety and effectiveness!

Not to be stopped, the big drug firms rapidly switched gears:  They began pressuring the FDA to restrict the public's access to information about colloidal silver.

They simply didn't want any more people to learn how powerful and effective colloidal silver really is against infectious microorganisms and the deadly diseases they can cause.

Final Ruling…

And in a move that has stunned the medical community, the FDA promptly bowed to the wishes of the global pharmaceutical giants, placing into law the infamous new “Final Ruling” on colloidal silver in July 1999.

In spite of its medically documented 90-year history of safe and effective use, the FDA actually ruled that colloidal silver can no longer be sold in the United States if it is described as an infection-fighting agent!

Instead, it can now only be described as a “mineral supplement.”

If it is described as anything else in the advertising and labeling, the FDA can shut down the offending company and confiscate its inventory!

In essence, the FDA has ruled that the American public no longer has the right to know what a powerful and medically proven infection fighting agent colloidal silver is!

How Could This Happen?

How could this happen in America today?

The truth is, it has become abundantly clear that the FDA is now little more than the enforcement arm of the major drug companies!

Literally billions of dollars in profits are pocketed annually by these pharmaceutical giants thanks to the monopoly they hold on the sale of expensive prescription antibiotic drugs.

And safe, natural colloidal silver is considered to be the biggest threat of all to that multi-billion dollar annual monopoly on prescription antibiotics.

Of course, anything that threatens those kinds of profits – and promises to put the power to heal infections back into the hands of average Americans – must be regulated into oblivion.

And the FDA's perverse “medical Gestapo” now uses the infamous 1999 “Final Ruling” to do just that!

The First Amendment Rules!

Thankfully, the word about the phenomenal medical history behind colloidal silver, and its amazing proven infection-fighting qualities still manages to leak out under the First Amendment.

Through books, news articles, newsletters, and independent media that are not beholden to Big Pharma, the public is gradually catching on.  The facts are slowly emerging. 

And today, an estimated 10 million people throughout North America use colloidal silver to heal their own infections, and to stimulate immunity and heal illness and disease.

But the day is rapidly dawning in which all health information will be controlled by the medical bureaucrats, in spite of the First Amendment. 

That’s why it’s more important than ever to learn all you can about the amazing healing and infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver, while the information is still freely available.

One thing you can do is check out The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, which, at a whopping 40 chapters and 547-pages, is literally encyclopedic in scope.  In fact, it’s now the #1 best-selling book in the world on making and using colloidal silver!

If you’d like to watch FREE short videos on making and using colloidal silver, just click the link in this sentence. 

Don’t Be Left in the Dark

There’s only one way to stay ahead of the medical bureaucrats.  And that’s to educate yourself while the information is still freely available. 

So don’t be left in the dark. 

Instead, do all you can to learn about the powerful, infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver. 

And then learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents a quart, by clicking the link in this sentence.

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


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