In the midst of the
so-called “Ebola crisis,” some people on the internet are claiming that
colloidal silver has no effectiveness whatsoever against viruses.
Of course, you’d think
if colloidal silver were indeed effective against viruses, there’d be plenty of
clinical studies backing it up, right?
Well, there are. Lots of them.
And I’ve posted links to over a dozen of them below, so you can pass them along to your friends when they read the nonsense on the internet and try to tell you silver has no effect whatsoever against viruses.
And I’ve posted links to over a dozen of them below, so you can pass them along to your friends when they read the nonsense on the internet and try to tell you silver has no effect whatsoever against viruses.
Here’s what you need
to know, if you’d like to help set the record straight…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
A gentleman calling himself “Jim Stone Freelance Journalist”
has made quite a splash on the internet over the last few weeks, ever since the
so-called “Ebola crisis” started.
He states that while colloidal silver is “great stuff,” it
has no effects whatsoever against viruses.
Therefore, he concludes that “a HUGE psy op is underway” and that its purpose is to “fake colloidal silver as a cure for viruses.”
He goes on to say that “…colloidal
silver will do nothing against viruses, and huge lies are being hatched right
now to misguide people to a false Ebola cure and the alternative media is
lapping it up.”
Stone further asserts that colloidal silver readily “binds
with oxygen carriers in bacteria” which has the result of “causing bacteria to
quickly die from oxygen starvation.”
But, he warns, “viruses have no metabolic process which require
an oxygen carrier, and therefore colloidal silver will be completely
ineffective against Ebola.”
Finally, he warns, “Do
not let the misinformed in the alternative media fool you by saying colloidal
silver is effective against viruses in any way.”
“Bowel Tolerance”
Stone goes on to say that the actual “cure for Ebola” has been
passed along to him by an “anonymous doctor.”
And that it’s Vitamin C – extremely
large doses of Vitamin C up to 500,000 mg. per day “to reach bowel tolerance.”
Uh…first of all, I GUARANTEE you that if you take 500,000
mg. of vitamin C in a single day, you’re going to reach “bowel tolerance” rather
quickly.
In fact, you’ll be lucky if you have anything left in your
bowels at all, as the resulting diarrhea would be rather horrendous.
And frankly, I’ve just about “reached bowel tolerance” myself,
with Mr. Stone’s wild claims. So maybe I
won’t need any vitamin C, at all this week.
Casting aside Mr. Stone’s recommendation for taking such
ungodly amounts of Vitamin C, and casting aside the fact that Mr. Stone’s
information comes from an “anonymous doctor,” I’ll deal here only with Mr.
Stone’s erroneous contention that colloidal silver is not effective against
viruses.
Numerous Clinical
Studies Showing
Colloidal Silver to
Be Effective Against Viruses
Here are just a few
of the studies you’ll find on the Clinical Studies page of TheSilverEdge.com
website, demonstrating close to 60 year’s worth of research into the
effectiveness of antimicrobial silver against a wide variety of viruses:
For those who might still not be convinced that colloidal
silver has repeatedly been demonstrated to be effective against viruses, you
might want to take a look at some of the documentation on the Colloidal Silver Kills
Viruses website.
All Wet
The bottom line is that these clinical studies and clinical
overviews clearly demonstrate that the contentions of “Jim Stone Freelance
Journalist” are pretty much all wet.
He claims that because colloidal silver works against pathogens
by smothering their respiration, it can’t kill viruses because viruses don't
have a respiratory system.
Sounds good. But it’s
lop-sided logic. It cleverly skips over
the fact that colloidal silver has a completely different mode of operation in
viruses, i.e., it penetrates the virus, attaches to its DNA and destroys its
ability to replicate. You can read more about that in my article “Silver
Prevents Replication of Viruses.”
The Real “Psy Ops” Campaign
is Ebola,
Not Colloidal Silver
Stone’s website claims the use of colloidal silver for Ebola
is a "psy op" (i.e., psychological operations campaign).
I can only ask, are all
of the above studies demonstrating silver’s effectiveness against viruses "psy
ops" campaigns as well?
The only "psy op" going on is the entire Ebola
scare, which is based on pure hysteria and gross sensationalism and which is
perpetuated by people on the internet selling fear.
As I stated in my original Colloidal
Silver and the Ebola Hysteria article, and again in my article Ebola Mania: Round II, this entire "Ebola crisis"
has been manufactured and designed specifically to allow the federal government
to sign into law more regulations allowing the detainment of American citizens
for any reason they want, under the guise of a "national health
emergency."
For a disease that has killed an average of only 57 people a
year, in a population of 250 million people, over a period of 38 years, to be
cast as an earth-shattering crisis that now threatens the entire world, is pure
nonsense.
But people will ignore the facts, and listen to the hysteria
being promulgated by the government/news media axis and their hysteria
machine.
And meanwhile, they’ll stock up on Vitamin C on the advice
of some mysterious “anonymous doctor.” And ignore the powerful antiviral
qualities of colloidal silver, because “Jim Stone Freelance Journalist” told
them to.
Will Colloidal Silver
Really Work Against Ebola?
So is colloidal silver really effective against Ebola?
As I pointed out in my article on Colloidal
Silver and the Ebola Hysteria, the evidence so far looks pretty darned
good.
Here’s what I revealed:
Back in 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in
conjunction with several other federal agencies quietly conducted clinical
research into the use of silver nanoparticles against Ebola and other
hemorrhagic fever viruses.
And what they found was astonishing. They
discovered that silver nanoparticles were highly effective against these deadly
viruses, including the Ebola virus.
They later presented their findings to federal health
regulators and other national health authorities. But it was all kept
top secret. The presentation was called “Silver Nanoparticles
Neutralize Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses.”
And the gist of the presentation was that silver
nanoparticles displayed “powerful neutralizing effects against hemorrhagic
fever viruses,” including Arenavirus and Filovirus (i.e., Ebola).
That clinical presentation, made to federal regulators and
national health authorities, was later summarized in a printed document,
de-classified, and cleared for public release.
What Researchers Discovered
The researchers tested silver nanoparticles of several
different sizes and concentrations on infected cells in vitro (meaning,
in the test tube).
And they concluded that silver nanoparticles were able to
neutralize hemorrhagic fever viruses inside the cells by “decreasing S segment
gene expression and concomitantly decreasing progeny virus production.”
Translation: Silver stops the Ebola virus and
related hemorrhagic fever viruses from replicating inside the cells. And
when there’s no viral replication inside the cells, there’s no spread of
infection!
The researchers had discovered the holy grail Ebola
treatments. But they also discovered that neutralization of the
virus by silver occurs during theearly phases of viral replication.
Therefore, they pointed out that for antimicrobial silver to
be effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, the treatment
would have to be administered PRIOR to viral infection or at least within the
first few hours after initial exposure to the virus.
In other words, for antimicrobial silver to be effective,
an exposed person would need to have already been taking it, or at
the very least would have to start taking it within a few short hours of
exposure to an infected individual.
Another interesting thing the researchers discovered is that
while an enzymatic protein called Cathepsin B has been shown to play an
essential role in Ebola virus replication, silver nanoparticles work to
decrease cathepsin activity, thus further limiting viral replication in the
cell and subsequent spread of the virus to other cells.
And by far the most interesting thing the researchers
discovered (at least, to me) is that only very low concentrations
of silver nanoparticles were necessary to prevent replication of the virus.
Indeed, low concentrations of 10 ppm nanosilver appears to
have worked better than higher concentrations of 25 ppm or 50 ppm
nanosilver. This means there’s no need for overly high silver
concentrations.
What’s more, the smallest silver particles tested by the
researchers worked far better than the larger silver particles tested.
This demonstrates once more that the use of very
small silver particles is far more important than the “ppm” or
concentration of the colloidal silver solution one is using.
Simply put, smaller silver particles penetrate cells and
tissues easier, and are therefore better able to get to the point of infection
before the virus spreads.
Here's a
link to the printed version of the DOD clinical presentation, so you
can scroll through it and read it for yourself. It’s
technical. But if you take your time it’s relatively
understandable.
Thinking Out Loud:
Here’s What I’d Do in Case of Ebola
People have written to ask me, “Steve, how much colloidal
silver would you have to take in order to protect yourself from an Ebola
infection?”
And of course, the answer is, no one knows for sure. As
I mentioned, the DOD research discussed above was in vitro (i.e.,
laboratory test tube) research.
And while it demonstrated that very small particles of
silver at surprisingly low concentrations could stop the Ebola virus in
infected cells from replicating and spreading, it in no way gives us so much as
a clue as to how much colloidal silver a living human being would
have to take in order to achieve the same results.
Now I know that’s probably not what you want to hear. But
just as I refuse to join in with all of the doom-and-gloom hype about the
supposed coming worldwide Ebola apocalypse, in like manner I also refuse to
join in with those making blanket statements that colloidal silver is the sure-fire
“cure” for Ebola.
Under real-life conditions, it might, or might not prove
to be effective.
And if colloidal silver did prove to be
effective, the research seems to indicate it would depend upon getting the
right dose of very small silver particles into your body, early enough in the
infective process to stop viral replication.
Indeed, it appears that to have the very best chance
of protection, utilizing colloidal silver in small amounts on a daily basis
would be the way to go.
In other words, based on the DOD study, daily prophylactic
dosing with colloidal silver before exposure to the Ebola
virus would appear to provide better protection than dosing after exposure.
This is just one reason why I continue to take my usual
one-ounce per day dosage of colloidal silver, which is just about right for my
body weight.
(See “How
Much Colloidal Silver Can You Take Safely Each Day?” to learn the simple
formula for determining your safe daily colloidal silver dosage, based on your
body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver solution you’re using.)
But again, since there’s been no in vivo testing
that we know of (i.e., no testing of colloidal silver usage in a real-life
human being infected with Ebola) there’s simply no way to know for an absolute
certainty if regular oral use of colloidal silver would provide an adequate
amount of protection upon exposure to the Ebola virus.
Nebulizing Colloidal Silver
Some people have pointed out that in the event of exposure
to the Ebola virus, immediately nebulizing with colloidal silver (i.e.,
inhaling an atomized mist of colloidal silver into the lungs, using a device
called a medical nebulizer) would be a potentially effective way to get
colloidal silver into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the human body
quickly and effectively.
And that’s a very good possibility. Why? Because
just about anything inhaled into the lungs has a far better chance of making it
into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the body faster than oral
ingestion.
Indeed, were I to suspect that I’d just been exposed to a
person infected with Ebola, probably the first thing I’d do
would be to high-tail it back home, break out my medical nebulizer, fill the
little basin with very small particle size colloidal silver of 10 ppm
concentration, turn the machine on and inhale the colloidal silver mist into my
lungs for five or six minutes.
And I’d probably repeat the process every few hours for up
to five or six times.
(See “Using Colloidal
Silver With a Nebulizer” to learn what the experts say about nebulizing
colloidal silver, including a brief video demonstration of how easy it is to
use a medical nebulizer.)
After that, if the colloidal silver didn’t work, it would be
too late anyway, as the viral replication kicks into high gear after several
hours, and antimicrobial silver only works during the first few hours according
to the DOD report.
Now all of that is pure layman’s speculation on my part in
terms of what might work. I'm just talking off the top of my head. I'm
no doctor. And I'm not "prescribing" for anyone else, of
course.
After all, nobody’s ever had to do this
before. So use of oral doses of colloidal silver for Ebola is an
unknown factor in terms of knowing how much to use, how to use it effectively,
and when to use it.
But based on the DOD research, it would seem to me that
the key would be quick action utilizing 10 ppm colloidal silver with a very
small particle size, and getting it into the cells and tissues of the body as
quickly as possible.
Even more preferable, the research suggests, would be to
take a small amount of colloidal silver prophylactically (i.e., before the
fact), on a daily basis, so it’s already in the body in the event of exposure
to Ebola.
One More Interesting Thought
My good friend Skip W. wrote to say that if he were in an
area where Ebola virus outbreaks were taking place, one thing he’d do is wear a
protective face mask any time he had to go out into the public, such as to the
supermarket or mall.
I believe he’s talking about the white surgical face masks,
for example, like those you see doctors wearing in the surgical ward. These
light-weight surgical masks are often available on various survivalist-oriented
or “prepper” websites.
In fact, I just now went to Amazon.com, and using their
search engine I typed in the search terms “surgical face mask” and
“antimicrobial face mask.” Those two search terms brought up an
amazing array of such masks, at fairly reasonable prices.
Skip also pointed out that he’d saturate the mask on both
sides with a fine mist of colloidal silver and allow it to air dry before
putting it on to go out into the public.
And he said he’d also lightly spray his hands and face with
colloidal silver at the same time, and allow it to air dry, as well.
Skip explained “I'm asthmatic, and I've done this before as
a precautionary measure when going out into the public during flu outbreaks,
for example. I may look a bit strange but I seldom ever get the flu.”
Obviously, Skip is a forward thinker. And it’s
probably not a bad idea to take such precautions should the situation ever
truly warrant it. At this point in time, however, it does not.
In Conclusion
To sum up, at this point in time (August 2014) in the United
States the so-called “Ebola crisis” is the modern-day equivalent of
Shakespeare’s “Much ado about nothing.”
While Ebola is a very real danger should one become exposed
to the disease, the threat of exposure is not yet very realistic. In
fact, the threat is pretty much nil here in the U.S. where all
of the unnecessary panic is nevertheless taking place.
The only thing this manufactured panic will serve at this
point is the very real threat of the federal government stepping in and using
the panic to institute even greater restrictions on our fundamental freedoms
and liberties.
As Obama’s old mentor Rahm Emanuel so famously stated,
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The federal government is
certainly following that advice.
Compared to the very realistic threat of
acquiring a superbug infection such as MRSA, the threat of Ebola pales in
comparison.
Nevertheless, should Ebola ever become an actual threat in
this country the DOD report described above gives us some very good hope that
colloidal silver could be a bona-fide first-line of defense if used quickly
enough at 10 ppm concentration, and in very small particle size.
·
To learn more about why it’s so important to
utilize the smallest colloidal silver particles possible for maximum
effectiveness, rather than high concentrations of colloidal silver, see the
article “Why Higher PPM Is Not
Always Better.”
·
To learn how to make your own high-quality
colloidal silver, quickly and easily, with the smallest silver particles
possible, for less than 36 cents a quart, see the article “How
the World’s #1 Best-Selling Colloidal Silver Generator Compares to All the Rest.”
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on
colloidal silver….
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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