Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Colloidal Silver Beats Mycoplasma Infections

 Learn more about the astonishing infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver at www.TheSilverEdge.com
Virtually all human being are infected with mycoplasmas, which is one of the most insidious, disease-causing pathogens known to man, and may well be responsible for most of the so-called “incurable” diseases know to man.

But the good news is that colloidal silver is known to be highly effective against mycoplasmas pathogens. 

Here’s what the experts are saying about this little-known yet very serious threat to your health and well-being.  And why they say colloidal silver is the best natural remedy.  You’ll be surprised at what you learn, I promise…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com

Mycoplasmas are said to be the the smallest free-living organism known on the planet. And because of that they’re extremely difficult to detect in humans. 

While some species of mycoplasma are considered to be relatively benign, others are known to be highly infectious and can cause or otherwise trigger serious chronic degenerative disease.

Indeed, according to Dr. Garth Nicolson, M.D. of the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, CA, and other noted researchers, these debilitating "stealth pathogens" are now implicated in the onset of numerous chronic degenerative diseases including some forms of cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's colitis, Type II diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Wegener's disease, and collagen vascular diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis and Alzheimer's.

In fact, what Dr. Garth Nicholson has discovered in the course of his research with DNA-PCR testing has blown the science behind chronic degenerative disease wide open.

He found that virtually ALL forms of chronic degenerative disease have at their very basis these tiny, difficult-to-detect microorganisms that literally wreak havoc on the human body from deep inside the tissues and cells, causing virtually every form of chronic degenerative disease known to man.

Yes, virtually all of the “incurable” diseases – and many others – are now thought by cutting edge researchers like Dr. Nicholson to have these tiny microorganisms as their root causes!

‘Genetic Experiments’
Within Your Body

Unlike conventional pathogens, mycoplasmas are unique in that they lack a rigid cell membrane. Instead of the traditional rigid bacterial cell membrane, they have a very fluid, gel or lipid-like outer surface.

This lack of a rigid cell wall enables them to change form at will, and move through the body in ways that other pathogens cannot, colonizing tissues, invading other cells with impunity and playing “hide and seek” within the body’s immune system.

According to Dr. Lida Holmes Mattman, these “cell wall deficient forms easily move between groups of cells and fuse together to facilitate ‘genetic experiments’ within your body,” frequently triggering or exacerbating numerous types of illness and disease.

According to Donald Scott, MA, MSc, President of The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation:

“The mycoplasma acts by entering into the individual cells of the body.

Depending upon your genetic predisposition, you may develop neurological diseases if the pathogen destroys certain cells in your brain, or you may develop Crohn's colitis if the pathogen invades and destroys cells in the lower bowel.

Once the mycoplasma gets into the cell, it can lie there doing nothing sometimes for 10, 20 or 30 years.

But if a trauma occurs like an accident or even a vaccination that doesn't take, the mycoplasma can become triggered.”

Many other prominent medical researchers now agree with the doctors quoted above.

For example, Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and one of America’s top mycoplasmas researchers, now forthrightly asserts that the various mycoplasmas are causative agents in numerous illnesses including cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s colitis, Type II diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, Wegener’s disease, and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer’s (see Nexus Magazine, Volume 8, Number 5 August-September 2001).

D.J. Fletcher of the famous San Diego Clinic concurs, saying, “Practitioners at San Diego Clinic have seen evidence that mycoplasma are highly active in 80% of their cancer patients and are also involved in the autoimmune process, playing a role in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.”

And even Dr Charles Engel, who is with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, stated at an NIH meeting on February 7, 2000:

I am now of the view that the probable cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and other forms of chronic degenerative disease is the mycoplasma...”

Tag – You’re Infected!

But that’s not all. According to Nexus magazine, Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, has recently stated that this insidious disease-causing agent is now carried by virtually everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.

And how did we all get infected with this tiny but potentially deadly disease-causing pathogen?

The emerging consensus among cutting edge medical researchers is that most humans were inadvertently vaccinated with them.

Some of the more common contaminants of commercial vaccines are mycoplasmas,” asserts Dr. Garth Nicholson in a research paper he recently delivered to some of the nation’s top medical authorities.

He continues:

These tiny microorganisms do not have rigid cell walls like most bacteria; instead they possess fluid lipid outer surfaces like tiny jellyfish, and because of this they can squeeze, bend and move into tight spaces.

They can also slide right through laboratory and hospital filters used to produce or maintain sterility – making them one of the most common contaminants in diagnostic laboratories and vaccine manufacturing.”

Dr. Nenah Sylver, author of The Rife Handbook, further explains:

When a mycoplasma emerges from a cell, it can take a piece of the host cell membrane with it.

Later, the immune system attacking the mycoplasma cannot differentiate the mycoplasma from the body’s own cells and attacks the host cells, too.

This is the beginning of all types of autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, fibromyalgia, thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and others.”

As you can see, mycoplasma are serious, disease-causing agents that may well be at the root of most of not all chronic degenerative disease.  And virtually everybody is infected with them!

Colloidal Silver to the Rescue

Thankfully, many natural health experts attest that colloidal silver is one of the best natural infection-fighting remedies against mycoplasma pathogens. 

For example, it's been widely reported that Dr. Darryl See, M.D., former co-director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Clinic at the University of California at Irvine has had incredible success using micro-particle colloidal silver to treat patients with chronic degenerative diseases suspected of being caused by the mycoplasmas pathogens.

In published reports Dr. See says he has witnessed the DNA-PCR tests of patients with known mycoplasmas infections turn from positive to negative with the use of ultra-small particle colloidal silver (see Arthritis and Infections: The Hidden Link, Health Sciences Institute, Vol. 2, #10, April 1998.)

The key, he says, is the size of the silver particles.  They have to be small enough to penetrate deep into the cells and tissues where these insidious “stealth pathogens” are know to hide.  This means only very specialized forms of colloidal silver will be effective – in other words, only those colloidal silver solutions with the smallest known silver particle sizes will work.

Nevertheless, I believe this discovery offers profound hope to millions who suffer from such debilitating hidden infections and the subsequent chronic degenerative diseases these insidious microorganisms can cause!

Here’s what other experts are saying:

“Many people successfully treat mycoplasmas infection by drinking colloidal silver.”

-- Dr. Nenah Sylver, Ph.D

“Mycoplasma seems to respond especially well to the colloidal silver treatments.”

-- Gwen Scott, N.D., author of Natural Medicine: A Survivor's Guide

“Doxycycline and rifampin are among the medications used to treat mycoplasma, but I also have success with natural agents such as colloidal silver.”

-- Nicola McFadzean, N.D., Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment (BioMed Publishing Group)

“We have found colloidal silver to be quite effective against all mycoplasma-related organisms that we have tested in vitro.”

-- Brooks Bradley, Harborne Research Foundation

Interestingly, if you call a laboratory to be tested for mycoplasmas infection, one of the first things they'll tell you is that they won't do the test unless you’ve refrained from taking even small amounts of colloidal silver for at least six weeks

In other words, the testing labs all know that colloidal silver is so effective against mycoplasma, these insidious pathogens quite literally can't be detected in your system if you're using it. 

When I called one of the top testing labs on the west coast and asked about colloidal silver usage, their spokesperson told me that they had found that colloidal silver suppresses mycoplasmas infection so well that it can skew the results of the DNA-PCR test. 

In other words, you might have a mycoplasmas infection, but if you've been using even small amounts of colloidal silver for another purpose, in advance of your testing, the levels of the pathogen could end up being so low that the tests will turn up negative. 

This certainly attests to the astonishing level of effectiveness of colloidal silver against mycoplasmas infections. 

What One Colloidal Silver User 
Recently Told Us…

Certain mycoplasma bacteria can cause upper respiratory infections with ease.  Indeed, one --particular specie of mycoplasmas is known as Mycoplasma pneumoniae due to its propensity to cause pneumonia in humans.

Here’s what one colloidal silver user – a victim of Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), with mycoplasma co-infections -- recently stated about her experience with Mycoplasma pneumonia:

“Every winter I always got bronchitis and my doctor would find mycoplasma in my blood, which causes pneumonia.

So I would have to be very careful so I would not fall back into Epstein-Barr Virus. The relapse that I experienced in 2000 was caused from getting bronchitis to begin with in that year. I have fought with the fear ever since of possibly relapsing again, since it happened to me back then.

I purchased my Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge and made my first batch of colloidal silver on 4/3/2010. Prior to that, I purchased colloidal silver from an online site.

This winter 2010-2011 is the first winter I've gone through in 35 years that I didn't get bronchitis, which in itself...is a miracle.

I'm no longer afraid that I may fall back into getting EBV or CFIDS again. It's nice to have the energy levels that I once had prior to EBV/CFIDS some 20 years ago.

I also use this colloidal silver instead of sinus spray to clear my sinuses and keep from getting sinus headaches/migraines. I just emptied out a saline solution bottle and spray it in my nose in the morning and it works great.

This is a wonderful product and I'm so glad to be able to have my own generator and make my own."

-- MJS, Lansing, MI

Why Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver?

The new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is designed to produce ultra-small silver particles capable of deep penetration into the cells and tissues of the human body where "stealth pathogens" such as those in the mycoplasmas family are known to hide.

A conventional colloidal silver generator simply cannot produce the tiny silver micro-particles consistently produced by the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com.  Nor do most commercial brands of colloidal silver contain such small silver particles.

Indeed, these tiny, submicroscopic silver particles are as small as .0008 microns, which is .8 nm – in other words, a fraction of a single nanometer.

But conventional colloidal silver generators produce silver particles as large as 200 nm to 1,000 nm in size, and even larger!

You can see this for yourself in micrographs of the laboratory slides below.  They give you a good visual comparison of tiny silver micro-particles produced by the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator v/s the overly-large silver particles produced by a conventional colloidal silver generator.

Micro-particle colloidal silver
at .8 nm in size -- a fraction
of a single nanometer and fully
bioavailable!
 
You might have to put on your reading glasses and look very hard at the micrograph to the left to see the tens of millions of tiny silver micro-particles, produced by a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator.

That’s because even though these submicroscopic .8 nm silver particles have been magnified a whopping 175,000x they’re still smaller than a fraction of a pinprick to the naked eye.  What’s more, this micrograph shows the number of tiny silver micro-particles that appear in a single drop of colloidal silver. 

But in the second micrograph directly below, you’ll have no problem at all visibly seeing the oversized silver particles ranging in size between 200 nm to 1,000 nm (or even larger).

Conventional colloidal silver
particles ranging between
200 and 1,000 nm -- far too large
to be bioavailable.
These were produced by a conventional colloidal silver generator and magnified only 50,000x.

As you can see, the silver particles from a conventional colloidal silver solution are HUGE by comparison -- even though they’ve only been magnified 50,000x!

(If you have trouble viewing the micrographs, click here to be taken to a web page where you can see them a little better.)

Not only are these silver particles huge, but they’re agglomerated, to boot.

This means the silver particles are so large and so poorly formed that they’ve bonded together into what can only be described as “blobs” rather than remaining singular microscopic particles with their own distinct electrical charge. 

Clearly, the difference between colloidal silver produced with a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator and colloidal silver produced with a conventional colloidal silver generator is like the difference between night and day.

But you can only tell the difference when you look at it under a powerful Transmission Electron Microscope.  So most people using conventional colloidal silver solutions have no idea what poor quality colloidal silver they’re actually consuming!

What’s So Darned Important
About Particle Size?

Of course, the size of the silver particles is critical, because clinical research clearly demonstrates that the smaller your silver particles are, the more bio-available they are.

This means smaller silver particles are easier for your body to absorb, distribute throughout the body, utilize for healing, and afterwards to expel through the normal channels of elimination. 

On the other hand, the larger your silver particles are, the more difficult it is for your body to absorb and utilize them for healing. 

In fact, larger silver particles are treated by the body much as eating dirt would be treated, i.e., they go in one end and out the other, and sometimes even lodge in the bowels and intestines.

The body considers larger silver particles to be of no nutritional value, so they’re not efficiently absorbed and distributed throughout the cells, tissues and organs where they would otherwise be able to work their healing magic. 

But the body is quite easily able to absorb, distribute and utilize ultra-small silver particles.

Indeed, the body sees them as a “nutrients” (which they are) and utilizes them accordingly, sending them into the cells, tissues and organs, and afterwards expelling them just as it would any other nutrient once it’s been used. 

The Bottom Line…

The bottom line is that micro-particle colloidal silver produced with a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator can be used for everything standard colloidal silver is used for.

But because of its dramatically smaller particle size and deeper penetration capabilities, it can also be used in situations where it’s suspected that deep-seated infections caused by "stealth pathogens" such as those from the mycoplasmas family may be contributing to acute, long-term chronic degenerative disease.

This unique colloidal silver generator – now the world’s most popular and #1 best-selling colloidal silver generator -- makes one full quart of high quality 7-10 ppm Micro-Particle colloidal silver solution per batch.

That means you can make eight of those tiny four-ounce bottles you’d normally buy at health food stores for up to $30 apiece – but your cost, when you make it yourself, is less than 36 cents for the entire quart

In other words, your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator quite literally pays for itself with the very first one-quart batch you make!

And you can make quart after quart after quart for the rest of your life when you own a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge! 

Simple to Use

What’s more, the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is extremely easy to use. Anyone can do it!

The New Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver Generator
from The Silver Edge.  See

www.TheSilverEdge.com
You simply place the generator on top of a quart jar of distilled water, set the timer for three hours, plug the unit in, and walk away (see photo above).

It makes a perfect batch of micro-particle colloidal silver every time, and shuts itself off when the batch is finished.

To see for yourself how profoundly simple it is to operate a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator just look at the brief pictorial at this link, or watch the following short video

You can even learn how to make extra-large, gallon-sized batches of colloidal silver with your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator by watching the following short video

What Makes the Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver Generator Different?

If you’d like to learn more about the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com, here's a short article explaining in more detail how this remarkable new breakthrough in colloidal silver-making technology differs from conventional colloidal silver generators.

You’ll learn how the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is constructed with specialized technology that not only allows it to produce uncommonly small silver particles as low as .8 nm, but also prevents silver particle agglomeration, or bonding, from taking place. 

This means you won’t have over-sized “globs” of silver atoms sticking to each other, as shown in the second micrograph earlier in this article. 

Instead, each tiny, sub-microscopic silver micro-particle is singular in nature, and suspended in the solution by its own distinct electrical charge.  

What’s more, the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator includes a built-in bubbler mechanism that constantly bubbles air into the colloidal silver solution during the colloidal silver-making process. 

This is a critical process all other colloidal silver generator manufacturers leave out, even though the germ-killing power of colloidal silver is largely dependent upon how much nascent oxygen each silver particle as absorbed during the colloidal silver-making process.

You can learn more about why oxygenation of your colloidal silver solution is so crucial to its effectiveness, in my article Silver: Nature's Efficient Carrier of Nascent Oxygen.


And you can learn more about making your own high-quality, ultra-small particle colloidal silver, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and for less than 36 cents a quart, by clicking this link.

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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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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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Colloidal Silver and the Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Swindle

 Learn more about the astonishing infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver at www.TheSilverEdge.com
I've written several times recently about the so-called “antibiotic-resistant superbug” crisis.    

One thing I can’t emphasize enough is that this crisis – while quite real – has nevertheless been manufactured for a specific purpose, centering around raw greed and avarice. 

Here’s what you need to know about the true cause of the antibiotic-resistant superbug crisis, and how colloidal silver can help…  

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com

Once again we’re seeing screaming headlines throughout the western world’s news media, claiming that the crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs is going to kill us all because antibiotic drugs are becoming “useless” against infectious microbes.

For example, The Telegraph recently reported that the antibiotic crisis is “bigger than AIDS” and that in the very near future even common infections will kill people. 

According to the article:

“Over the last 30 years no new types of antibiotics have been developed, the WHO said.

Dr Danilo Lo Fo Wong, Senior Adviser Antimicrobial Resistance at WHO Europe, told the Telegraph:

‘A child falling off their bike and developing a fatal infection would normally be a freak occurrence, but that is where we are heading.’

Dr Wong warned that antibiotic resistance was bigger than the 1980s Aids crisis because ‘everyone is potentially in danger’.”

What’s the Truth?

Naturally, the article goes on to blame human patients for taking antibiotic drugs inappropriately, claiming this is what has led to the current crisis.

But as I've exposed repeatedly, the relatively small amount of antibiotic drugs most people take from time-to-time when they get an infection is NOT the cause of this growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. 

Instead, it's the literally TONS of antibiotic drugs (quite literally some 13 million tons per year, or 80% of antibiotic usage in the U.S.) that the USDA and FDA are allowing the big agriculture conglomerates to pump into cattle, pigs, chickens and other food animals each year in order to fatten them up and get them to market faster, so as to vastly increase both sales and profits. 

That’s more than four times the amount of antibiotic drugs prescribed for human use each year.

These antibiotic drugs are then passed on to each and every one of us in very small amounts every single time we eat meat -- which for most of us is every single day

As a result, these constant low levels of antibiotic drugs we unwittingly ingest each day begin to kill off the weak bacteria in our bodies on a regular basis, leaving only the strongest bacteria to survive. 

Over time, these strong bacteria become resistant to antibiotics altogether.  So when we ultimately come down with an infection, and are given antibiotic drugs to combat it, the drugs don’t work. 

Not only that, but the low-dose antibiotics we’re ingesting through our breakfast, lunch and dinner meats slowly kill off the good bacteria (i.e., probiotics) our digestion depends upon, leaving a huge void for the antibiotic-resistant pathogens to step in and fill, which of course, they do. 

The situation has gotten so out-of-hand that the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association have all warned about it, explaining that “the routine use of antibiotics in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health.”

FDA and USDA Complicity

But the FDA and USDA simply will not heed the calls to put an end to this travesty that now takes some 34,000 lives per year in the U.S. alone.  Instead, they stand behind Big Pharma’s phony campaign to blame antibiotic-resistant pathogens on the supposed “indiscriminate human use” of antibiotics. 

Indeed, the big drug-makers are so emboldened by the lack of action from the FDA and the USDA, that they routinely advertise their antibiotic drugs for use in fattening up farm animals, with drug companies like Novartis claiming one of their antibiotics provides farmers with a “4:1 return on investment” thanks to the added weight it puts on the farm animals.

The FDA, under pressure from Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York, had actually at one point last year agreed to pass new regulations governing the use of antibiotic drugs on farm animals, and making the drugs available to farmers solely for use in fighting infections.  But then they made those new regulations “voluntary” under pressure from the agriculture industry. 

As stated by Chris Moran on the Consumerist website, “In the wake of the FDA guidance, representatives for both the livestock and drug industries shrugged off the pointless new not-quite-rules, with antibiotics makers stating that they didn’t believe the changes would have any impact on their bottom lines.” 

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter stated, “This latest effort to undermine regulations on antibiotic use in agriculture proves that the FDA’s voluntary guidance is riddled with loopholes and completely inadequate to halt the growing antibiotic resistance crisis in this country.” 

Wake Up to the Truth…

You can read more the true cause of antibiotic-resistant superbugs here, in my previous article “Colloidal Silver and the True Cause of Drug-Resistant Superbug Infections.” 

But there’s actually quite a bit more to the story.  You see, Big Pharma has purposely held back developing new antibiotic drugs for human use for the past 30 years.  Why?  They claim it’s because new antibiotics are “too costly to develop,” and they can’t easily make their money back on them. 

But what’s the real reason they’ve held back on developing new antibiotic drugs for some 30 years now?  It’s because they actually want this superbug crisis to grow to epidemic proportions.    

You see, the long-time goal of Big Pharma has been to force the governments of the world into making the taxpayers of each country pay for the research and development into new classes of antibiotics.  That saves them hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs. 

So the FDA and Big Pharma hype the very crisis they've helped create, while the drug companies work tirelessly behind the scenes to get new laws passed forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for the development of the new antibiotic drugs. 

And then consumers have to pay for these new drugs again when they're prescribed!  In other words, the taxpayers pay to have the drugs developed.  And then they pay again when they need the drugs prescribed to fight off an infection.  This increases the profits of the big pharmaceutical development and sales companies by billions upon billions of dollars annually. 

And this is precisely why you’ve seen so many headlines lately screaming about the antibiotic-resistant bacteria crisis.  The drug companies are using fear tactics to force governments into tapping the taxpayer trough to pay for the development of new antibiotics.  Don’t believe it?  You can read the evidence for yourself, here

Colloidal Silver:  Your Last Line of Defense

There’s not much we can do about the corruption, greed and avarice of Big Pharma and Big Agriculture.  They apparently don’t care that some 34,000 people per year end up dying – in the U.S. alone -- from superbug infections caused by their utter disregard for human life.  What they do care about is making money from the crisis.

Thankfully, a simple, natural nutritional supplement known as colloidal silver is highly effective against many of the antibiotic-resistant superbugs ultimately being created by Big Pharma, Big Agriculture and Big Government. 

·       First of all, colloidal silver vastly boosts human immunity in numerous ways, so you’re more resistant to infection from the superbugs growing in your own body.  To learn more, read my article Does Colloidal Silver Boost Immunity?

·       Secondly, numerous clinical studies have demonstrated colloidal silver to be highly effective as an antimicrobial agent against a startling number of the new superbugs.  Read my article, Colloidal Silver versus the Superbugs to learn more. 

·       Another clinical study has demonstrated colloidal silver to be highly effective against some of the most deadly pathogens we now face.  See my article 7 Deadly Microbes Killed by Colloidal Silver at Very Low Concentrations.  

·       Finally, 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 – with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.  Just click the link in this paragraph to learn more.

While Big Agriculture reaps billions of dollars in extra profits every year by using antibiotic drugs to fatten up cattle, chickens and other food animals faster, and Big Pharma seeks to make billions more in extra profits by forcing taxpayers to pay for the costs of the development of new antibiotic drugs, your life and the lives of those you love quite literally hang in the balance.   

One way you can help even the odds is to learn more about making and using colloidal silver – nature’s powerful natural antibiotic that even the superbugs are susceptible to.  So do your research.  Look at some of the above-provided links.  And then take the appropriate action.

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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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. 


Copyright 2014 | Life & Health Research Group, LLC | PO Box 1239 | Peoria AZ 85380-1239 | All rights reserved.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Using Colloidal Silver on Your House and Garden Plants

 Learn more about the astonishing infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver at www.TheSilverEdge.com
I’m frequently asked what’s the best way to use colloidal silver on one’s house and garden plants.

Truth be told, it’s very simple.  You can add small amounts of a diluted colloidal silver solution to the root system, to help nourish the plant and prevent root rot. 

Or you can spray a diluted colloidal silver solution on the leaves and flowers – particularly if there’s a problem with plant blight or aphid infestation.

Colloidal silver sprayed onto tomato plants gets rid of tomato fungus, fast.  And it’s a sure-fire cure for just about any bacterial, viral or fungal attack on plants.

Here’s the straight scoop…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com

In his book, Colloidal Silver:  the Hidden Truths, Dr. Keith F. Courtenay (U.L.C., USA) points out that colloidal silver is known to heal bacterial, viral and fungal attacks on plants.  He states: 

"For all bacterial, fungal and viral attacks on plants, flowers and fruit, simply spray diluted colloidal silver on the leaves; also, add to water, mixing one tablespoon per liter.

I put silver in my hydroponic system to eradicate root rot. A friend of mine grows very rare orchids; these are sold overseas for a large amount of money. He was getting a fungus growing on some of them and they became worthless.

We came up with the idea that the silver might eradicate the fungus, as it does on humans and animals. So why not give it a try?

It worked and he is a very happy man.  He has now put a spray system in and all his flowers are sprayed at regular intervals and have never had any trouble since."

In her great article, Using Colloidal Silver for Healthier Fruits and Vegetables, natural health and wellness author Angela Kaelin wrote:

“Whether you have a small family garden, or a larger operation, spraying colloidal silver onto your plants and on the soil around your plants is a highly economical way to keep them healthy and pathogen-free.

Only very small amounts of colloidal silver need to be used. If you purchase colloidal silver at health food stores or through online sources in high concentrations, ranging from 20 ppm to 500 ppm or more, you’ll generally save money and you can dilute it with distilled water to 5 ppm for use on your plants.

Better still, by purchasing an inexpensive home colloidal silver generator you can make your own high-quality colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart. This means you can use generous amounts of colloidal silver when necessary, or cover larger crop areas, and you’ll never have to worry about affordability.

Use a simple plastic plant mister available at any Wal-Mart or local gardening outlet to lightly mist all of your garden plants with the diluted colloidal silver. (Don't use plant misters with metal canisters, as the silver will fall out of suspension in solution and adhere to the sides of the canister.)

If your plants are experiencing infections of any kind, spray the affected area thoroughly. Multiple applications are safe.

Spraying silver on tomatoes can reverse blight after just one treatment. More severe cases of infection may require daily spraying until the problem is alleviated. Spray the plants when you first notice signs of damage.

If you’re into sprouting, you can also dramatically reduce mold growth in sprouts by using colloidal silver diluted to 5 ppm in your sprouting tray when you prepare your seeds, either for planting or for eating in soups, salads and other recipes.

Don't forget to spray your indoor house plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, as well. This not only improves the health of the plants, but it reduces bacteria and fungi that can cause indoor allergies.

In the garden, be sure to mist lightly with colloidal silver around the soil of your plants, too. You can do so several times a week if you like. This way, the tiny silver particles enter the soil and are absorbed by the plants, making them healthier and hardier, and better able to withstand any onslaught from fungal, bacterial or viral pathogens.

Just don’t saturate the soil with silver, as that could cause a die-off among the many kinds of beneficial microbes that continuously turn organic materials into compost. A little bit of silver misted lightly over the topsoil won’t hurt, and will provide many added benefits to your plants.

Organic gardening is a great way to get your entire family involved in a fun activity while learning greater self-reliance. And using colloidal silver in your garden helps make your efforts more successful and productive and your home-grown foods significantly safer than store-bought foods.”

Learn More About Colloidal Silver…

You can learn more about using colloidal silver for gardens and crops in the following article:


This article reveals the startling details of a recent clinical study which proves beyond any shadow of a doubt how beneficial colloidal silver can be for keeping plant crops safe from infection and disease, and increasing the size and quality of vegetable crops as well.

For those who might be concerned about the potential environmental impact of using colloidal silver in the garden, be sure to read the following article:


The bottom line is that silver comes from the environment in the first place, and quite literally for millennia it has been nature’s secret disinfectant, not harming the environment but instead protecting it. 

You can also use colloidal silver around the house.  If you’d like to learn how to use colloidal silver as a safe, natural household disinfectant, see Jodi Todd’s great article, “Colloidal Silver: the Safe, Natural, Non-Toxic Home Disinfectant.” 

And, of course, literally millions of people around the world use colloidal silver as a safe and effective nutritional adjunct to help heal their bodies of infectious illness and disease.  You can learn how they do so by reading these remarkable, real-life colloidal silver success stories

Finally, you can learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, quickly and easily, for less than 36 cents a quart, with a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, simply by clicking 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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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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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Colloidal Silver and Silver-Resistant Pathogens

 Learn more about the astonishing, infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver at www.TheSilverEdge.com
Are some pathogenic microorganisms resistant to colloidal silver?
The answer is “yes” and “no.”  And it depends largely on who you’re listening to, and how their studies were conducted.   
Indeed, it turns out that many reported cases of bacterial resistance to silver have been either exaggerated, mistaken or based on poor study design by researchers.
Here’s the bare-bones truth no one else is telling you…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com...
Some resources claim there are only eight pathogens that are resistant to the infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver.  Others say there are 20. 
Actually, it’s a little more complex than that. 
There are over 20,000 catalogued pathogens in existence, and probably 20 million uncatalogued pathogens. 
So it’s quite inevitable that sooner or later you’ll run across a silver-resistant pathogen, which is to say, a pathogen that will not be killed by oral or topical use of colloidal silver. 
After all, colloidal silver is not “God.”  It’s just a natural substance that happens to have some very powerful antimicrobial and disinfectant properties.
Researchers claim antimicrobial silver is effective against over 650 different pathogenic microorganisms, whereas most traditional antibiotic drugs are effective against only several dozen pathogens, at best. 
So this certainly makes antimicrobial silver the most broad-spectrum of all natural infection-fighting agents.  But it cannot kill every single pathogen on the face of the earth.
The “complex” part is that while a certain species of pathogen might be quite susceptible to silver, a sub-species of that same pathogen might demonstrate at least some degree of resistance to silver.  
Partial Truths…
So, for example, you have some researchers claiming that the Enterobacteriaceae pathogen is silver-resistant.  (See “Colloidal Silver Medical Research Before 1940”)
But that’s only a partial truth, because it is only a sub-species of that family of pathogens that clinical studies have demonstrated to be silver-resistant. 
On the other hand, there are multiple other sub-species of Enterobacteriaceae that are very susceptible to the antimicrobial qualities of colloidal silver, including some of the antibiotic-resistant “superbug” forms.  (See “Colloidal Silver Versus Antibiotic-Resistant CRE Bacteria”)
There are also researchers who claim colloidal silver is ineffective against E. coli.  (See “Colloidal Silver Medical Research Before 1940”)
But this too is only a partial truth, because it’s only a sub-species of E. coli that’s been demonstrated in a handful of studies to be silver-resistant.
Indeed, many other strains of E. coli have been demonstrated to be very susceptible to the antimicrobial qualities of silver.  (See “Colloidal Silver and E. Coli” as well as “7 Deadly Microbes Killed by Colloidal Silver at Very Low Concentrations: Study”)
I’m not trying to complicate the issue; it just is what it is.
Just because a bacterium is said to be “silver-resistant” doesn’t mean every single member of that family of pathogens is silver-resistant.  It might only be a single sub-species that’s demonstrated silver-resistance, as in the above-mentioned cases.
When “Silver-Resistant” Pathogens Aren’t Really Resistant…
The situation gets even more confused, because some – and perhaps a majority -- of the research that’s ostensibly demonstrated silver-resistance in pathogens turns out to be misleading. 
In some cases, for example, researchers have labeled a certain pathogen as being “silver-resistant,” when in reality the pathogen was only resistant to the type of silver being used in the study. 
According to a clinical research white paper from the Immunogenic Research Foundation titled Microbial Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR) and Oligodynamic Silver:
“Over the past two decades, multiple studies with differing designs and speciations of silver-based drugs have indicated that certain bacterial species and strains have physiological mechanisms that circumnavigate silver’s toxicity.
These mechanisms are essentially plasmid based or chromosomal based; the later expressing as ATPase translocating mechanisms.
In neither case did investigators employ nanoscalar oligodynamic silver.  Instead, the experimental designs typically utilized silver salt compounds, which deliver poor amounts of bioactive silver.”
In short, in studies that supposedly demonstrated there to be silver-resistant pathogens, the type of silver used was typically a silver salt compound such as silver nitrate, rather than “nanoscalar oligodynamic silver,” meaning electrically-generated ionic silver with very small particle size. 
This is true as well of other silver compounds.  For example, at least one sub-species of the common Enterococcus pathogen is known to be resistant to silver sulfadiazine cream.  So you’ll find many clinical resources listing this pathogen as being “silver-resistant.” 
Yet other clinical researchers have found that the very same pathogen is killed quite easily by electrically-generated colloidal silver (i.e., ionic silver).
This makes sense, because the Enterococcus is a very hardy pathogen.  And silver sulfadiazine cream is designed to release a very slow trickle of silver ions to help keep microbial populations from spreading throughout burn wounds.
But Enterococcus is not easily affected by such a slow release of silver ions.  On the other hand, if you expose this same pathogen to higher quantities of silver ions by applying enough pure, unadulterated electrically-generated colloidal silver, it dies rapidly. 
That’s because electrically-generated colloidal silver is composed chiefly of pure silver ions.  And silver ions are the active, infection-fighting “specie” of silver
So “carpet bombing” a pathogen like Enterococcus with pure silver ions all at once, rather than exposing it to a very slow stream of silver ions being released from a silver compound like silver sulfadiazine (which you could think of as a weakened solution), does the trick. 
This means the pathogen is not silver-resistant at all.  It’s simply that the right “specie” of silver must be utilized, and the right dosage of silver must be utilized, if the pathogen is to be effectively killed.
Bacterial Culture Contamination
Another problem that’s confused the issue is when researchers neutralize silver’s antimicrobial qualities before the silver can kill the bacteria in a Petri dish.
This usually happens when the researchers grow the bacteria in a nutrient growth media containing substances such as strong salts, minerals, sugars, amino acids and proteins such as soy casein. 
When silver is applied to pathogens being grown in such laboratory nutrient media, these substances tend to bond strongly with silver and reduce its effectiveness. 
In essence, the researchers unwittingly dampen silver’s effectiveness without realizing it. They then conclude they’ve discovered another type of bacteria that’s become resistant to silver. 
But if the silver were to be applied to the very same pathogens outside of the presence of the artificial growth medium, it would easily destroy the pathogen.
As revealed in the clinical research white paper from the Immunogenic Research Foundation, Microbial Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR) and Oligodynamic Silver:
“Another most common problem of these experimental designs was the inadvertent culture contamination with various salts, something which will reduce silver efficacy.
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 nutrient growth media used in laboratories to grow bacterial colonies is quite different from living tissue. 
So all the researchers have actually demonstrated is that silver won’t work as well against the bacteria being tested when they’re grown in the laboratory in an artificial growth media that reduces silver’s effectiveness
Indeed, as far back as 1983, in a study titled Silver and Its Compounds (pg. 335; Disinfection, Sterilization and Preservation), a researcher named Grier demonstrated the fact that:
“Some so-called silver-resistant microorganisms may result from an apparent neutralization of the metal’s inhibitory action [by assay artifacts – ED]...
…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 soy agar (TSA) and tryptose glucose extract agar (TGE)”
Once again, in artificial laboratory growth media there can be components that neutralize silver’s antimicrobial qualities. 
On the other hand, in the human body there are transport mechanisms such as the  metalloprotein transport system that are specifically designed to “escort” silver intact through harsh chemical environments so it can do its work when it comes into contact with a colony of pathogens. 
According to the above-cited clinical research white paper, Microbial Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR) and Oligodynamic Silver:
“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, when pathogens that had previously been demonstrated to be “silver-resistant” were instead raised in a growth medium that didn't neutralize silver, and when proper procedures were followed by the researchers, the supposed “silver resistance” suddenly vanished, and the pathogens were killed.  
In such cases, the supposed “silver resistance” of the pathogen was actually non-existent.
Dosage Also Matters
In other studies in which researchers claimed to have discovered silver-resistant pathogens, the dosage used in the study was simply not strong enough for that particular pathogen. 
Indeed, when later studies were conducted using stronger-than-average doses of silver, these same pathogens were either killed outright, or so badly disabled they could no longer create infection. 
In other words, in some cases the original researchers who claimed to have found “silver-resistance” in the pathogens simply hadn't used a strong enough dose to fully affect the pathogen. 
Finally, in some studies unusually weak forms of antimicrobial silver were used, when stronger forms were called for.  So killing the pathogens would simply have been a matter of switching to a more powerful form of silver.  But the researchers instead concluded that the pathogens had become “silver-resistant” when in fact they hadn't.
What this means is that of the very few instances of silver resistance on record, at least some of them – and perhaps a majority of them -- were not even true.
Additional Information…
Back in the 1980’s when researchers compiled the list of 109 pathogens and related medical conditions shown in the older medical literature (pre-1940’s) to be treatable with antimicrobial silver, they included a list of eight pathogens known to be silver-resistant. 
You can find that list of eight pathogens that are said to be silver-resistant in my article “Colloidal Silver Medical Research Before 1940”. 

Of course, that was previous to 1940.  And in truth, only certain sub-species of those eight pathogens have been demonstrated to be silver-resistant in clinical studies, and as I’ve pointed out above, some of those studies demonstrating “silver-resistance” are highly suspect, at best.
At this point in time (2014) there are now said to be some 20 different pathogens (out of the 20,000 catalogued pathogens) that have been demonstrated in clinical studies to “exhibit various degrees of resistance to the bactericidal effects of silver-based drugs.” 
But “various degrees of resistance” is not the same as actual silver-resistance.  It just means that in many cases, higher doses or stronger forms of silver would do the trick.
For a more complete overview of the issue of silver-resistant microbes – including a list of the 20 bacterial sub-species that are said to “exhibit various degrees of resistance to silver” -- you might want to read my earlier and much longer article “Can Pathogens Develop Resistance to Antimicrobial Silver?” at this link: 
Make Your Own High-Quality Colloidal Silver
Making your own high-quality, electrically-generated colloidal silver is one good way to make sure you have the most effective colloidal silver solution possible.
Many commercial brands of colloidal silver are adulterated; one study demonstrated that only about 43% of bottled colloidal silver products tested actually contained the concentration of microscopic silver particles listed on the label. 
Some colloidal silver products contained no silver particles at all!
In other cases, the silver particles in the commercial solutions have proven to be so large, they’re extremely difficult for the body to absorb, assimilate, distribute and afterwards excrete.
And in other cases, the potency of the colloidal silver solution has been demonstrated to be extremely weak because the solution had been sitting on store shelves for so long the silver particles were beginning to precipitate out of suspension and fall to the bottom of the bottle!
But when you make your own colloidal silver with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com:
·       You get fresh, pure batches every time!
·       You control the strength and potency!
·       You get uncommonly small, completely bioavailable silver particles as low as .8 nm -- a fraction of a single nanometer!
·       No hidden fillers, dyes, protein or gelatin coatings or other additives, just fresh, pure colloidal silver!
·       You get the superior ionic form of colloidal silver!
·       You can make it fresh, whenever you need it for maximum potency!
·       Your total cost is under 36 cents a quart, compared to health food store prices of up to $30 for a tiny, 4-ounce bottle!
To learn more about making and using colloidal silver with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, just click the link in this sentence.
Or watch some of the short colloidal silver videos at the link in this sentence. 
And don’t forget, I’ll be back next week with another eye-opening article on colloidal silver.  So be sure to stay tuned…
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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