In my experience,
there are three different types of colloidal silver users.
There’s the type who
use colloidal silver only when they’re sick with an infection.
There’s the type who
use colloidal silver in small amounts, on a daily basis, to help boost immunity
and prevent future infections.
And finally, there’s
the lunatic fringe, which is to say, the type who use colloidal silver
indiscriminately, irresponsibly and without any common sense limitations
whatsoever.
Which type are
you? Here’s my strictly layman’s take on
how colloidal silver should be used for maximum safety…
I've received an inordinate number of questions regarding my
recent article
quoting the famous natural health guru, Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D. on colloidal
silver.
Most inquirers noted that Dr. Wright does not recommend
regular, daily usage of colloidal silver, but only occasional use of small amounts of colloidal silver, on an “as
needed” basis for helping the body defend itself against infections and related
disease processes.
And they asked why I would quote someone who disagrees with
my own regular, daily colloidal silver usage.
Well, my goodness, folks, it would be a heckuva world if we
all agreed with each other on every topic, wouldn’t it? We quite literally wouldn’t have anything to
talk about, except to say “I agree” to anything anyone else said.
“Nice day.”
“I agree.”
“Lots of clouds out.”
“Yep.”
“Might get chilly later tonight.”
“Uh huh. I think so,
too.”
Blechh! What a
horribly boring world that would be.
The bottom line is that without differences of opinion,
there would be no need (nor room) for experimentation, research, and new
findings.
Quoting the Experts
So although I’m the guy who quite literally “wrote the book
on colloidal silver” (see The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual,
547-pages, Life & Health Research Group), I refuse to fall into the trap of
thinking I’m the only person worth listening to on the subject.
That’s why, in addition to my recent article on Dr. Jonathan Wright, M.D. and
colloidal silver, I’ve also researched and written articles on:
- The early, pioneering work of Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.
on the use of electrically-generated silver ions for healing stubborn
infections.
- The early, pioneering work of Dr. M. Paul Farber, on
healing the underlying infections behind Lyme Disease and other chronic
degenerative diseases with colloidal silver.
- The early pioneering work of Dr. Bob Beck, Ph.D., on his
four-part protocol for healing serious and even life-threatening diseases.
- The innovative work of Dr. Victor
Marcial-Vega, who pioneered the use of colloidal silver in nebulizers for
lung and upper respiratory infections.
- The transformation of TV’s Dr.
Oz from a detractor of colloidal silver usage (during his “Oprah” days), to
a staunch national advocate of colloidal silver usage.
- And I’ve also maintained a web page with quotes on
colloidal silver from literally hundreds
of other top experts, doctors and clinical researchers.
Each of the prestigious individuals I’ve written about have had
their own unique thoughts and protocols for using colloidal silver. And they don’t always agree with me (or with
each other) on every aspect.
But I generally prefer to let readers see there are indeed differences
of opinions among even the most knowledgeable of colloidal silver users. In fact, I consider it crucial for readers to understand that no one has an absolute
“lock” on knowledge and understanding about colloidal silver and its usage.
So Dr. Wright believes colloidal silver should only be taken
occasionally, when fighting a budding or active infection. And I believe it can be taken as a daily preventive
– and quite safely – as long as excessive dosages are not used.
Does that difference of opinion preclude me from ever
quoting Dr. Wright on the topic of colloidal silver? God forbid.
I value Dr. Wright’s opinion, and I take it into consideration when
deciding upon my own colloidal silver regimen.
3 Types of Colloidal Silver Users
To that end, let’s look for just a moment at what I call the
“safe, sane and responsible” use of colloidal silver. There are basically three types of colloidal
silver users in the world today:
1.) The kind who only use colloidal silver when there’s a
clear and present need for it, such as a budding or active infection. (This is what Dr. Wright suggests,
basically.)
2.) The kind who use small
daily doses of colloidal silver in order to help strengthen immunity and prevent
infections, or help lessen the severity and duration of infectious outbreaks from
an underlying disease condition, such as Lyme disease, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and others.
3.) And finally, there’s the
lunatic fringe, which is composed of
people who claim you can ingest all of the colloidal silver you want, as often
as you want, and as long as you want, and it can’t ever hurt you as long as it’s
been “made right.”
Most colloidal silver users belong to group #1 above. And that’s perfectly fine with me. Using colloidal silver only when there’s a budding infection, or an active infection, is
wise. If you’re otherwise relatively
healthy, there’s simply no real need to
consume colloidal silver regularly, even in small amounts.
Many other colloidal silver users – including me -- belong to group #2
above.
Like me, many of these individuals have an underlying
chronic degenerative disease such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia,
Lyme disease, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, or others.
And because the immune systems of people with chronic
degenerative diseases are often worn out from having to deal with the
underlying illness, these individuals also frequently have to endure a constant
barrage of secondary infections from
opportunistic pathogens not related to their underlying condition.
This can range from frequent colds, flu, bronchitis and
other upper respiratory infections, to sore throats, sinus infections, UTIs, Candida
yeast infections, H. pylori infections and more.
So instead of taking colloidal silver only when they’re fighting
an active infection, these individuals might take small daily doses of colloidal silver on a prophylactic basis, to:
a.) aid their weakened immune system in keeping the underlying
infectious illness or chronic degenerative disease under control, and/or…
b.) aid their weakened immune system in warding off secondary
infections before they get started.
If I did not suffer from Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (and its concomitant underlying infection with Epstein-Barr virus and
Cytomegalovirus) I’d probably also be in group #1 above, taking colloidal
silver only at those rare times when I have an budding or active infection,
such as a cold, flu, sore throat, or even a bout with food poisoning.
But instead, I’m in group #2 because my personal experience
is that I have far fewer “sick days” each year if I take a little bit of colloidal silver each day.
And as icing on the cake, when I consistently take my
regular small daily dose of colloidal silver (along with my other daily nutritional
supplements) I also have far fewer incidences of the overwhelming fatigue and
malaise that characterizes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which I’ve battled for
over 30 years now.
So in the first two groups above, we have people who take
colloidal silver only when they’re trying to fight off a budding or active
infection, as well as people who take small daily amounts of colloidal silver on
an ongoing basis in order to help
prevent recurrent infections.
That leads us to the third group, which I refer to as the lunatic fringe.
The Lunatic Fringe
The people from the group #3 are the only ones I won’t listen to at all, or quote, because they’ve been
proven so wrong, for so long now, that their contentions on colloidal silver
usage are actually dangerous.
This fringe group of colloidal silver users simply can’t get
enough colloidal silver. They’re not
just enamored with it, but instead, are absolutely emotionally and mentally obsessed with it.
Indeed, these individuals are mesmerized by colloidal silver.
They take extremely large doses of colloidal silver every day. And they’re quite vocal about their excessive
usage, claiming it can’t possibly hurt them, because “silver can’t hurt you
when it’s made right.”
Well, that sounds awfully good. But it’s simply not the truth. There’s no
substance on the face of the earth – natural or unnatural, and no matter how
well made -- that’s not internally accumulative and toxic at some level of exposure or
ingestion.
The ancient physician Paracelcus (1493 to 151) used to
teach, “Toxicity is in everything, and no
thing is without toxicity. The dosage makes it either a toxin or a remedy.”
In other words, there's no substance on the face of the
earth – natural or man-made -- that's not toxic or otherwise harmful at
some dosage level.
For example, the mineral iron, when used in excess, can
accumulate in the body and cause toxicity and disease. The mineral selenium, when used in excess,
can accumulate in the body and cause toxicity and disease. So can vitamin A. Even vitamin D has toxic levels.
And frankly, so can any
otherwise harmless vitamin, mineral, amino acid or herbal product if taken in
excessive quantities for long enough periods of time. And that includes
colloidal silver.
As I’ve repeatedly stated over the years, even something as
innocuous as plain old drinking water can be toxic if too much is
ingested. It’s known as water
intoxication, or hyponatremia,
and in severe cases it can lead to headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting,
frequent urination, mental disorientation and yes, even death.
Colloidal silver is not
exempt from this basic truism that excessive usage of any substance can cause
unwanted side effects. And anyone who
claims colloidal silver is exempt
from this truism is either grossly ignorant of the facts, or is a bald-faced liar.
Just as the mineral iron is only safe when used at non-toxic levels, and the mineral selenium is only safe
when used at non-toxic levels, and
vitamins A and D are only safe when used
at non-toxic levels (I could go on and on through all of the vitamins and
minerals, but I’ll spare you) so colloidal silver is only safe when it’s used at non-toxic levels.
As I’ve pointed out over
and over and over
again, it’s excessive usage of
colloidal silver for long periods of time that cause problems like argyric
skin-staining, or in rare cases, kidney or liver toxicity.
The Sugar Analogy
The truth is this:
The human body has a perfectly good mechanism for utilizing and
afterwards excreting small amounts of
colloidal silver.
Likewise, and for the sake of analogy, the human body also has
a perfectly good mechanism for utilizing and afterwards excreting small amounts of sugar.
But if you were to start ingesting egregious amounts of
sugar every day, and you did so for months and years on end, sooner or later
you’ll overwhelm your body’s ability to process and eliminate the sugar and
protect itself from the deleterious effects such as lowered immunity, rotting
teeth, gum disease, obesity, chronic yeast infections, diabetes, etc.
Similarly, if you were to ingest egregious amounts of
colloidal silver every day, and you did so for months and years on end, sooner
or later you’ll end up overwhelming your body’s ability to effectively process
and eliminate silver and protect itself from deleterious effects such as internal
accumulation in the tissues leading to argyric skin-staining and possible
kidney or liver toxicity.
Continuing with the sugar analogy, most people who consume excessive amounts of
sugar each day won’t admit they have a problem until their doctors tell them, “Look, you have low immunity, rotting teeth,
obesity, chronic yeast infections and diabetes.
Your excessive sugar usage is causing it. You have to quit.”
Until that point, most sugar junkies believe they’ll be able
to continue using all of the sugar they want, every day, for the rest of their
lives, without harm to themselves.
Likewise, most people who consume excessive amounts of
colloidal silver each day won’t admit they have a problem, until…well…until their skin turns blue, or until the
doctor tells them they have kidney or liver damage consistent with excessive
colloidal silver intake.
Until that point, most colloidal silver junkies believe
they’ll be able to continue consuming all of the colloidal silver they want,
forever, without harm.
Cringe-Worthy
I just cringe when I look at the blogs and Facebook groups
where colloidal silver users tend to congregate, and see all of the people
claiming things like “I’ve been drinking 12
ounces of colloidal silver a day for four years now, and it’s never harmed me.”
It’s much like a sugar addict claiming he’s been drinking
five or six cans of soda pop a day for years on end, and it’s never harmed him.
Or a cigarette smoker claiming he’s been smoking a pack and
a half a day for eight or ten years now, and has never gotten cancer.
Or an alcoholic who drinks two six packs a day for years on
end, and has not yet experienced the inevitable liver damage.
That, of course, is because the harm being caused by excessive
ingestion of these substances is almost always incremental, gradual and cumulative. In fact, in many cases it’s barely noticeable
until the day arrives that it’s irreversible.
Colloidal silver is no different. If you ingest excessive amounts, regularly,
sooner or later the harm will appear.
But it might take months, or even years in some cases. And then there’s very little that can be done
about it.
Choose Where You
Stand
and Take Personal
Responsibility
So you have to choose where you stand on the issue, and take
personal responsibility for your
choice.
You might be in group #1, group #2 or group #3 above. Or perhaps you’re somewhere in-between. Whichever you choose is fine with me, as long
as you take personal responsibility
for it.
I listened to a lady last week in an online forum complaining about having
argyria. She was urging other argyria
victims to take colloidal silver manufacturers to court and sue them.
When I asked her “How much colloidal silver did you take
each day before you noticed the first signs of argyria?” she replied, “Six ounces a day, for six months.”
Folks, that’s a bottle and a half of colloidal silver, per
day.
In other words, if one teaspoon full of colloidal silver is
a normal adult daily dosage for prophylactic usage, but you’re drinking a
bottle and a half of it per day instead (i.e., six ounces, or 36 teaspoons),
then you’re taking 36 times the normal
daily dosage level.
That’s not smart, for long-term daily usage.
And listen: You might
be able to do take such egregious levels of colloidal silver for months or even
years on end without every noticing any harm.
But once you’ve overwhelmed your body’s normal mechanism for effectively
processing and eliminating small amounts of silver, you’re sooner or later
going reap the negative consequences of such obvious abuse.
The argyric lady I spoke with was absolutely livid about her
condition. She swore up and down that
every colloidal silver “expert” she consulted told her she could drink as much
colloidal silver as she wanted, and it could not harm her. She said no one ever tried to tell her
otherwise.
Well, folks, here I am telling you otherwise.
You CAN’T drink as
much colloidal silver as you want each day, and expect there to be no price to
pay, later. This goes equally for any nutritional supplement on the face of the
earth. If you overdose yourself on a
substance, you’re going to pay the price for that overdose.
Dosages are established for your safety and well-being. Yes, there might be a time when you need to
take a far higher dosage of colloidal silver than normal, for example, when
fighting an active infection such as a nasty cold, flu or even a bout of food
poisoning.
But afterwards, you can always take a “holiday” away from
colloidal silver, and drink plenty of fresh pure water so as to help your body
flush out any residual silver.
But if you take higher-than-usual daily dosages continually, for months and years on
end, you’re just asking for problems. Sooner
or later you’ll overwhelm your body’s ability to effectively process small
amounts of silver.
And it does not matter at all how many other people told you
it was okay to drink all of the colloidal silver you want.
I guarantee you, those people won’t be there for you later, when you turn blue, lose your job,
and your kids are looking at you like you’re a horrifying Smurf version of the
Frankenstein monster.
Nope. The “experts” who told you to drink all of the
colloidal silver you want each day will disappear and flee to Canada to avoid
legal repercussions, like one self-appointed colloidal silver “guru” did some
years back after enough of his followers tried to sue him when they turned blue
from following his advice to drink 16 ounces of colloidal silver per day.
Beyond that, I just don’t know what else to say, because
some people are so obsessed with excessive colloidal silver usage that they
can’t (or won’t) hear anything to the
contrary.
Their knee-jerk reaction is to simply ignore (or attack) anyone trying to tell them
they’re inevitably harming themselves over the long run.
Back to Square One
And that brings us back to Dr. Wright’s contention that
colloidal silver should only be used for short periods of time during which
you’re fighting an active infection.
That’s a legitimate contention I have no problem with at all. If a person is relatively healthy there’s
just no reason to start using colloidal silver on a regular daily basis.
I honestly don’t believe it would hurt to do so, as long as a small, responsible, adult daily dosage
were followed. But there’s just no
purpose in it if you’re relatively healthy the vast majority of the time.
But a person who tends to get sick frequently might want to
take small daily amounts of colloidal
silver in order to help keep their underlying disease process in check, and
help prevent secondary infections from kicking in.
My Personal Take on Dosages
In general, it's important to understand that there are two basic kinds of dosages, directly corresponding
to the first two kinds of colloidal silver users I described above.
- There's the small amount of colloidal silver you
might take daily, as a preventive measure, to help keep your immune system
operating at a high level and to prevent getting infections. For most people, that’s usually about a teaspoon
full per day, up to half an ounce per day, depending upon body weight.
- And there's the somewhat larger amount of
colloidal silver you might take daily if your body is already fighting an
active infection; for most people, that's usually about four times their normal daily dosage.
So the first thing you need to do is establish your safe, maximum daily dosage
level. This is the amount of colloidal
silver you could drink daily, for the rest of your life if you wanted to,
without experiencing any harmful effects such as silver accumulation, internal
toxicity or argyric skin-staining.
In the last chapter of that report, you'll find a very
simple calculation allowing you to determine your safe daily dosage rate based
on your body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver product you're using.
Once you've determined your personal safe daily dosage level
(most people end up at around a quarter to a half-ounce of colloidal silver per
day, but it depends upon your body weight), then you can determine how much additional colloidal silver you might
need to take when you're sick and want to use colloidal silver as an adjunct to
help your body fight the infection.
As I mentioned, most people take about four times their normal daily dosage level when they're sick with
an infection. But they only do so for short
periods of time, for example, for a week or maybe ten days at the most, i.e.,
just enough time to allow their body to defeat the infection.
Then, they take a colloidal silver "holiday,"
meaning they stop using colloidal silver for a commensurate period of time, and
drink lots of fresh, pure water to help their body expel any excess silver that
might have accumulated from the overly-high doses taken when sick.
How Long to “Holiday”
So, how do you figure out how long you should stop using
colloidal silver after you’ve been using larger-than-usual dosages to help your
body fight an active infection? It’s
quite simple:
Let's say, for the sake of example, that your normal daily dosage level is
one-half ounce of colloidal silver per day (i.e., about 15 mL, or three
teaspoons).
But when you were sick you were taking four times your
normal daily dosage level, i.e., about two ounces per day (or 60 mL). And let's say you took that larger daily
dosage for five days.
So over the course of that five day period, you'd have
normally consumed one-half ounce per day, for a total of 2.5 ounces. But instead you took a full two ounces per
day – for a total of 10 ounces -- to help your body recover from an infection.
That's an extra one and a half ounces per day that you took while you were sick. And since you did that for five days, that's
a total of an extra seven and a half ounces that you took in that five day
period while you were sick (i.e., 5 days times 1.5 extra ounces per day = 7.5 total extra ounces).
So, in such a case, you’d stop using colloidal silver for one
day for every extra half ounce of
colloidal silver you consumed while you were sick.
If you had consumed 7.5 extra ounces of colloidal silver
during that five day period, that's about 15 extra half-ounces, right? So you'd
take a 15 day "holiday" away from colloidal silver usage, while
drinking lots of fresh pure water to help your liver and kidneys flush out any
excess silver.
Then, you can go back to your normal one-half ounce per day
dosage, which is your safe daily dosage level. (Again, depending upon one’s body
weight your actual daily dosage might be a little more, or a little less than
that; I'm just using that as an average; the simple calculation in the last
chapter of the Colloidal
Silver Safe Dosage Report will help you figure out the exact amount for
your specific body weight).
Now, if that’s too complicated for you, you’d likely be
better off using colloidal silver only on the rare occasions when you’re sick,
to aid your body in recovering from the infection or illness.
Or, you can check out what some of the colloidal silver
manufacturers are recommending for dosage, and follow what they have to say.
What Colloidal Silver
Manufacturers
Say About Dosage
Even some of the most respected brands of colloidal silver in
the world recommend only one teaspoon
full of colloidal silver daily for adults, and far less for children.
If it was completely safe to drink more than that on a
regular daily basis over long periods of time, the manufacturers would
certainly say so, because the more of their colloidal silver product you drink,
the more money they’d make.
But to the credit of most colloidal silver manufacturers,
they want their colloidal silver product to aid
you in maintaining and improving your health and well-being, and not harm
you. So they give you a dosage range
that contributes to your health and well-being, without sacrificing safety.
That’s the safe,
sane and responsible way to do it. But
listening to people who claim you can drink all of the colloidal silver you
want each day without any possibility of harm is decidedly unsafe, insane and irresponsible. Sorry, but those are the facts.
Most colloidal silver manufacturers print right on their label
the recommended oral daily dosage for both adults and children. For example, see how the manufacturers of
Sovereign Silver describe their dosage recommendations, here.
For adults, the daily recommended amount is usually one teaspoon per day. If the adult is fighting an active infection,
the amount ingested can be raised to four to seven teaspoons per day, for a
week, according to the manufacturers.
For kids 12 years old and up, colloidal silver manufacturers usually recommend
half the normal adult daily dosage if it’s being taken on a regular, daily
basis. So that’s about one-half teaspoon
per day, if the child is 12 years old or older.
For kids younger
than age 12, colloidal silver manufacturers usually recommend one-quarter the normal adult dosage. (Again,
a normal adult dosage is one
teaspoonful daily, according to most colloidal silver manufacturers; so
one-quarter teaspoon would be the amount recommended by colloidal silver
manufacturers for children under 12.)
In cases of infectious illness, during which nutritional
support is being sought, colloidal silver manufacturers say adults might take
as much as four to seven times their usual adult daily dosage, for short
periods of time, up to one week.
So if a standard daily adult dosage is one teaspoon full,
then a daily dosage being taken during an active infection might be as high as
four to seven teaspoons full, according to many colloidal silver manufacturers.
For children 12 years and up who are fighting an active
infection, colloidal silver manufacturers recommend half the adult dosage for
infections. And for children under 12 years of age, who might be
fighting an active infection, they usually recommend one-quarter of the adult amount
for infections.
Again, that's not a "prescription" or even a
"recommendation" from me. I
don’t “prescribe” or recommend. I just report.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a natural
health journalist. So I'm just quoting
what some of the major manufacturers of colloidal silver say right on their
labels, or on their websites, about adult and child dosages.
My personal
opinion is that children under 12 should not be given colloidal silver at all, except under the supervision of
an experienced natural health care practitioner.
That’s because it’s impossible to know if a young child is
allergic to silver. Also, there’s no way
to tell in advance if a youngster is going to turn out to be one of the rare
subset of people who have a problem eliminating silver from the body.
But these are things an experienced natural health doctor
can watch for, and make appropriate adjustments in dosage for.
Disagree?
I expect some people will vehemently disagree with me – especially
those from the lunatic fringe. And
that’s perfectly fine with me.
Again, if you want to overdose yourself on colloidal silver,
it’s up to you. I don’t care, as long as
you take personal responsibility for
your decisions, and not blame others after you’ve ruined your life.
Below is an excerpt from a private message I received only a
few days ago, from a colloidal silver user with argyria.
She started out taking four ounces per day (which is about eight
to ten times the normal daily dosage, depending upon her body weight), and then
upped her dosage to 16 ounces per day when the lower dosages didn’t seem to
help as much as she’d hoped. And now,
having turned gray, she’s paying the price for her over-indulgence. Here’s what
she had to say:
“After ingesting large amounts of colloidal silver to try to cure
chronic Lyme disease, I seem to have developed a very slight case of argyria.
When
I first got Lyme disease in 2011, I wasn't taking very much colloidal silver,
probably 4 oz./day for 2 months in August and September.
It
seemed to cure me, but I stopped taking it not knowing how pervasive Lyme is or
even that I had Lyme at the time.
A
few weeks later I crashed really hard and started the 4 oz./day dosage again,
but after months of that not working I kept increasing and increasing my daily
amounts of colloidal silver.
I
was using around 10 ppm colloidal silver. I would say for two years I was
taking 16 oz.+ per day...
Luckily,
I have an extremely mild case of argyria. The skin-staining is only noticeable
in certain lighting and then I just look like I have an unhealthy grayish
pallor.”
So there’s an example of a super-nice person who, out of sheer desperation to get well from a very debilitating
disease (Lyme Disease), unwittingly listened to the lunatic fringe and used
increasingly higher and higher daily dosages of colloidal silver, even though
it wasn’t helping.
And after a few years, she turned gray. Thankfully, it was only mildly so. And as she and I discussed, there’s hope that
the new laser treatment for argyria pioneered by the Cleveland Clinic might
benefit her, since it tends to work best on milder cases of argyric
skin-staining.
But the point being, there’s now countless other colloidal silver users who also listen to the
lunatic fringe, not knowing any better, and who as a result are ingesting far
more colloidal silver than they should.
And that means there’s now a LOT of gray (or blue) people in the making.
You see, when excessive levels of colloidal silver are used,
your body has to stop fighting the
underlying illness in order to work on expelling the excess silver you’ve
ingested.
So in taking excessive amounts of colloidal silver, you’re
in essence creating a two-fold problem for the body, i.e., it must fight the
disease process and fight the accumulation of silver at the same time. But it can’t do both, effectively. Sooner or later, something will have to give.
Helpful Tips
Here are a few helpful tips from the experts for those who
would like to use colloidal silver regularly, while increasing their chances of
remaining argyria-free:
1.) Use colloidal silver with the smallest particle size possible. The smaller the silver particles are, the
easier it is for the body to absorb, utilize and afterwards expel them. (Hint:
If you make your own colloidal silver, and your batches are turning out
golden colored, or milky or cloudy looking, the size of your silver particles
is excessively large and your risk of accumulation is dramatically increased.) Learn more about the critical importance using
only very small particle colloidal silver, here.
2.) Take only small daily amounts. If you’re relatively healthy, there’s no
need to take colloidal silver daily. But
if you feel you have a good reason to take colloidal silver daily (i.e., you
have an underlying chronic infection, or you’re otherwise often sick), take
only small daily amounts in accord
with the manufacturer’s label, or use the Colloidal Silver Safe
Dosage Report to help determine your safe daily dosage. Remember, taking excessive levels of colloidal
silver won’t help your disease condition. It only causes the body to have to
fight battles on two different fronts,
i.e., the disease front, and the prevention of toxicity from silver
accumulation front.
3.) Take colloidal silver “holidays” after using larger dosages. If you’re sick with an infection, and you
choose to take larger-than-usual daily dosages for a short period of time until
you’re well, then always take a colloidal silver “holiday” afterwards, during
which time no colloidal silver at all is consumed. The “holiday” should last for at least as many
days as you were taking the colloidal silver at excessive levels, and
preferably longer. And during this time,
be sure to drink plenty of fresh, pure water daily to help the body expel any
accumulated silver. See the “How Long to
Holiday?” section of this article, above, for additional information on
calculating your colloidal silver holidays.
4.) Take antioxidant nutrients
known to help the body effectively process silver. Toxicity from colloidal silver is very
rare. But it can happen with excessive long-term usage. That’s why experts like Dr. Jonathan Wright,
M.D. recommend colloidal silver users also take specific antioxidant nutrients
known to help the body process silver more effectively. Those include vitamin E (i.e., about 400 UL
daily of mixed tocepherols and tocotrienals are often suggested), selenium
(i.e., about 100 mcg. daily is often suggested) and N-acetyl-cysteine (about
400 to 500 mg. several times a week is often suggested). Check your daily multi-vitamin/mineral
supplement label to see if these crucial nutrients are included.
As Dr. Wright has stated, “"Silver
belongs to the family of metals that also includes copper and gold (both of
which can also have numerous health benefits when they're used properly). One
of the primary concerns people tend to have about using these metals is the
risk that they'll accumulate in the body and lead to heavy metal toxicity. But
if you have plenty of antioxidants in your diet, such as selenium, vitamin E,
and amino acids like N-acetyl cysteine, you're safe from any harmful effects
from this family of metals. Germs, however, are not."
But when colloidal silver is used irresponsibly, it can result (over time) in accumulation of silver
in the body’s tissues and organs, argyria, and even toxicity to the liver and
kidneys in rare cases.
That’s the bottom line.
And don’t let anyone ever tell you that you can drink all of
the colloidal silver you want, “as long as it’s made correctly.” That’s a pure fiction. And just because everybody’s repeating it on online
colloidal silver forums doesn’t make it any truer.
There’s no substance on the face of the earth – no matter
how well made -- that can be ingested regularly, in excessive amounts, without
causing serious health issues. People
have even been hospitalized and died
from drinking excessive amounts of water.
Learn More…
If you’re interested in learning how to make and use
colloidal silver correctly, here’s
some interesting and helpful links:
- To learn how tens of thousands of people are
curing their own infections with safe, natural micro-particle colloidal silver,
see the real-life colloidal silver success stories at this link.
- To learn how truly simple it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver for
less than 36 cents a quart, click
here.
- To learn what makes the Micro-Particle Colloidal
Silver Generator superior to conventional colloidal silver generators, click
here.
- To save $100 on a brand new Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver Generator, click
here.
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,
Helpful Links:
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
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