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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,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Colloidal Silver and Fibromyalgia Pain: The Inside Scoop

Is colloidal silver an effective remedy for fibromyalgia? While there are no significant clinical studies on the use of colloidal silver for fibromyalgia, some cutting edge practitioners routinely recommend it for the condition.

What’s more, over the past 16 years I've received numerous anecdotal accounts from readers suffering from fibromyalgia who had serendipitously decided to use colloidal silver for a minor infection such as a cold or flu, and then found their fibromyalgia symptoms were dramatically reduced as a result.

Below you’ll discover what a number of fibromyalgia victims have said about the results they’ve achieved with colloidal silver, along with some important information on the underlying causes of fibromyalgia and how colloidal silver usage can fit into a successful nutritional intervention program for this painful disease…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...

According to Dr. Kent Holtorf, M.D., of the Holtorf Medical Group, colloidal silver is one of the few natural treatments that have been found by cutting edge medical practitioners to be significantly effective against fibromyalgia.

He states:

“The effectiveness of oligodynamic silver’s antimicrobial action at extremely low doses in combination with its potential immune stimulating actions, makes it an ideal naturally occurring substance in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.”

In his report titled “Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Oligodynamic Silver,” Dr. Holtorf goes on to state:

“Hundreds of thousands of doses of oral colloidal silver and thousands of doses of intravenous colloidal silver are given every month in the United States.

This is usually done to treat acute and chronic infections including those associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM).

The effectiveness of the use of oral and intravenous colloidal silver in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia was presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine in October 2003.

The extremely low level of colloidal silver used at 23 parts per million (ppm) has been shown to have little or no potential for toxicity while having the significant potential

for clinical benefit.”

No Significant Clinical Research

While Dr. Holtorf’s statement is promising, the fact remains that with the exception of the medical conference he cited, there has been very little significant clinical research conducted on the use of colloidal silver for fibromyalgia.

Indeed, most of the information on the use of colloidal silver as a nutritional intervention for fibromyalgia has been anecdotal in nature, meaning reports from people who have used colloidal silver themselves and have found it to reduce their fibromyalgia symptoms -- sometimes quite dramatically.

And it’s largely because of these numerous anecdotal reports from fibromyalgia victims that many natural health advocates have come to routinely recommend colloidal silver as a nutritional remedy for fibromyalgia.

For example, according to natural health journalist Tony Isaacs, writing on the NaturalNews.com website:

“Fibromyalgia…is characterized by widespread chronic pain involving multiple ‘tender points’ in the upper neck, back, shoulders, and hips.

Treatments, such as painkillers, antidepressants, muscle relaxants, and the injections of anesthetics are rarely effective.

However, many may find relief from nature and alternatives as opposed to mainstream drugs and treatments.

A natural alternative which may heal fibromyalgia is to take plenty of colloidal silver -- start off with 2-4 ounces per day and maintain at least an ounce a day until you achieve satisfactory results.”

Real-Life Accounts

Over the past 16 years since I first wrote The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, dozens of people have written or called to tell me that they’ve found dramatic relief from their fibromyalgia symptoms after using colloidal silver orally.

My theory is that fibromyalgia is much like chronic fatigue syndrome in nature – that is to say, it is often connected to a hidden underlying infection, such as a mycoplasmas infection or an underlying viral infection such as Epstein Barr or Cytomegalovirus.

Some researchers have also connected fibromyalgia with systemic Candida yeast infections. And some researchers have connected it with Hepatitis C infections, as well as Chlamydia pneumonia infections.

This may well be why so many fibromyalgia victims seem to obtain positive long-term results from using colloidal silver: i.e., its inherent infection-fighting qualities appear to help mitigate the underlying infection that fibromyalgia victims suffer from, thus dramatically reducing the painful symptoms of the disease.

I’ll discuss that idea in more depth, in just a moment. But first here are some excerpts from testimonials I've received from readers who have successfully used colloidal silver for fibromyalgia:

"I’m an RN with a BSN from a large university. My father is a retired dentist.

We are a medical family. So the biggest hurdle for me was to let myself experiment with colloidal silver and give it a chance.

...I’m also a two-time cancer survivor, and had (notice the past tense) fibromyalgia after the initial chemotherapy round in 1995.

I purchased your manual, then the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, just prior to the second round of cancer/chemo.

Once I finished chemo, I treated myself for fibromyalgia as per the manual. I am convinced the fibromyalgia has at least regressed.

I still have sleep issues that go along with the fibromyalgia diagnosis, but I no longer have the deep aches and pains that affected my daily life before this."

-- C.R., Highland, Utah

Here’s another example:

"I have fibromyalgia and I take silver every day.

I feel so much... better. Less fatigue, less pain, more memory and no depression, my irritable bowel syndrome has been helped as well."

-- Cindy S.

And another example:

"I just purchased my Colloidal Silver Generator about a month ago.

I have fibromyalgia and some other health issues. Since I have been taking my home made CS [colloidal silver] my pain has gone away."

-- Christina M.

This fibromyalgia victim says she takes two ounces of colloidal silver per day and no longer suffers from the usual aches that characterize the disease:

"Hello, we have been a fan of colloidal silver for about a year. I have Hep C and Fibromyalgia and the achys that go with them.

I have found that if I take a few oz's of colloidal silver a day I don't ache anymore. Now we make it for ourselves. Good stuff!"

-- Terri R.

And this fibromyalgia victim says her fibromyalgia symptoms come roaring back “big time” when she fails to take her colloidal silver:

"...I also have fibromyalgia and can see a big difference when I forget to use my colloidal silver...all the pain comes back big time.

I have had FM for about 15 years and have felt so much better and have been able to continue to work...all thanks to colloidal silver.

I have made an extra quart when a neighbor was sick and she used it and got well in a very short time....she said she could almost feel it working!

Up ‘til then she had been sick for days and not getting any better.....AMAZING STUFF!"

-- Mary K.

Here’s a fibromyalgia victim who says she takes one shot glass full of colloidal silver a “few times a day” to stop her fibromyalgia aches:

"We make our own colloidal silver now. We bought the Micro-generator. It makes the 10 ppm.

I have many health issues but I use it for Fibromyalgia aches...also for colds etc. etc.

I take a shot glass full a few times a day. My immune system is very bad…One day I woke up and realized that I wasn't achy anymore!!!!"

-- Terri R.

These anecdotal accounts are all from the Testimonials page at TheSilverEdge.com, where you can find dozens and dozens more anecdotal accounts demonstrating the many ways people have successfully used colloidal silver as a nutritional intervention against a wide array of infectious illnesses and disease.

As you can see, a lot of people are claiming to have found dramatic relief from their fibromyalgia symptoms by taking a little bit of colloidal silver daily -- a few ounces a day, at most, it appears from the testimonials.

Many of these individuals make their own colloidal silver (for just pennies per batch!) with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

Is Fibromyalgia Caused By An Underlying Infection?

As I mentioned earlier, in my personal layman's opinion, I believe in many cases of fibromyalgia there's an underlying viral or bacterial trigger, i.e., either a virus like Epstein Barr or Cytomegalovirus, or a “stealth pathogen” such as mycoplasma. Or even a systemic fungal infection such as Candida yeast.

Such pathogens can cause ongoing inflammation in the joints and around the muscle tissues and in the nerve sheaths throughout the body, which can lead to the wide constellation of painful symptoms experienced by fibromyalgia victims.

The Road Back Foundation, a group that advocates the use of antibiotic drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis and related pain conditions, agrees that underlying infections might well be the cause of fibromyalgia as well, stating:

“The connection of fibromyalgia to infections is well documented in the literature, especially in relation to Lyme disease, mycoplasma, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Hepatitis C, Parvovirus B19, HIV, and Epstein-Barr.

It is believed as many as 25-40% of long-term Lyme patients develop fibromyalgia-like symptoms, particularly pain and fatigue; as many as 25% of HIV patients, 57% of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients and 24% of Psoriatic Arthritis patients also have fibromyalgia symptoms.”

In other words, people with known infections such as Lyme disease, HIV, Epstein-Barr and others often experience fibromyalgia-like symptoms along with the other symptoms of the disease they’re suffering from.

This has convinced many researchers that classic fibromyalgia by itself may well be caused by an underlying infection, which in turn might be causing inflammation and other cellular damage in the nerves, muscles and tissues of the victim, resulting in the broad array of pain symptoms experienced as fibromyalgia.

Other Causes of Fibromyalgia

But do all fibromyalgia victims have an underlying infection? Not necessarily. According to Dr. Garth Nicholson, Ph.D.:

"Are chronic, systemic infections the answer to all fibromyalgia and other pain disorders? Of course not!

While underlying infections are likely to be an appropriate explanation for a rather large subset of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome patients, certainly not every patient will have the same chronic infections.

Some patients may have chemical exposures or other environmental problems as the underlying reason for their chronic signs and symptoms.”

So while underlying infections are “likely to be an appropriate explanation for a rather large subset” of fibromyalgia victims, other causes can include chemical exposures or exposures to environmental toxins or perhaps even environmental allergens.

Nevertheless, Dr. Nicholson says that through the use of DNA/PCR testing (a sophisticated lab test that can verify otherwise difficult-to-find hidden infections) he’s found mycoplasma infections in approximately 50% of patients with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and arthritis.

He states:

"The identification of mycoplasma infections in the leukocyte blood fractions of a rather large subset of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome and arthritis patients suggests that mycoplasmas, and probably other chronic infections as well, may be an important source of morbidity in these patients.”

Fibromyalgia researcher D.L. Goldenberg has also found a connection between infectious microorganisms and fibromyalgia pain. He states:

“Infectious agents are capable of activating inflammatory cytokines which may in turn cause severe myalgias, fatigue, and neurocognitive disturbances...

The potential role of a microbial agent as a trigger to fibromyalgia remains tenable.

For example, antibodies to Chlamydia pneumoniae have been found in 78.3% of FM patients tested.”

That’s quite an interesting statement. The fact that infectious microorganisms are capable of “activating inflammatory cytokines which may in turn cause severe myalgias, fatigue, and neurocognitive disturbances” may well help explain why so many fibromyalgia victims find benefit from taking colloidal silver.

Indeed, recent clinical research has demonstrated that silver nanoparticles are potent inhibitors of the inflammatory response caused by cytokines.

For example, in the study “Silver Nanoparticles Interactions With the Immune System: Implications for Health and Disease,” it was demonstrated that silver nanoparticles have dramatic anti-inflammatory properties, and that these properties are a direct result of the inhibition of excessive cytokine production.

Said the researchers:

“It has been shown in vivo that silver nanoparticles decrease inflammation through cytokine modulation.

…silver nanoparticles…were found to strongly inhibit cytokine production, for example, of INF- γ, IL-6, IL-8, IL-11, TNF-α and more weakly IL-5.

…The lack of amplification of the inflammatory cytokine cascade is important in providing a permissive environment for wound repair and tissue regeneration to proceed.

These results have given an insight into the actions of silver and provided a novel therapeutic direction for wound treatment in clinical practice.”

In other words, the study authors believe that silver nanoparticles can improve wound healing because of their ability to modulate the cytokine cascade, which is to say, to prevent excessive cytokine expression in the human body which would otherwise lead to inflammation and pain and slower healing.

If it is true that silver inhibits excessive cytokine production in wound healing, would it not also be true in the case of underlying infections in which the infectious microorganism – whether bacterial, viral or fungal – is “activating inflammatory cytokines” and as a result causing “severe myalgias, fatigue, and neurocognitive disturbances”?

In another study published in the journal International Immunopharmacology, in 2007, researchers also found that silver appears to reduce cytokine-provoked inflammation to such a degree, they actually recommended it as a treatment against inflammation.

According to the study authors:

“…new research...indicates that silver goes further than this and modifies cytokines – the enzymes involved in cell growth and movement – leading to reduced inflammation and an increased rate of healing.

…MIT-based medical scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke regards the Hong Kong group’s research as groundbreaking, saying: “Silver has been used for over a thousand years in traditional Chinese medicine for wound healing, but this is the first time that a hint of the true mechanism has been shown.”

The authors of the study concluded that "These experimental data suggest that nanosilver could be used to treat immunologic and inflammatory diseases."

The bottom line is that this may well be the basis for the profound relief experienced by some fibromyalgia victims after experimenting with colloidal silver usage.

All of this leads me to believe that many people who have used colloidal silver and later witnessed a profound regression in fibromyalgia symptoms may very well have had a hidden underlying infection they were unaware of, and the colloidal silver either worked to remove the infection, or at least suppressed the inflammatory activity of the pathogen by reducing the excessive cytokine activity it would normally trigger.

Treating Non-Infectious Cases With Colloidal Silver?

However, Dr. Aundrea Adams, Ph.D., CTN, points out that colloidal silver is often wonderful for relieving pain on its own, whether or not an infection exists.

Indeed, she says that colloidal silver can heal pain because of silver’s innate quality as a “superconductor” of electrical current, including the electrical current that flows through the human body, and which pain often disrupts. She states:

“Many people are skeptical of claims that colloidal silver can take away pain and accelerate healing. Nevertheless, these impressive attributes are firmly grounded in medical science.

Pain is caused by an interruption of the electrical current that normally flows throughout the body at 50 to 70 millivolts. At the point of injury, the current drops towards zero millivolts.

This lack of electrical energy also impedes healing. Silver is a superconductor that bridges the electrical gap and restores healthy current flow.

You can prove this to yourself by placing a silver coin on a burn and experiencing instant pain relief.

In clinical trials at an FDA-approved laboratory, even silver-coated bandages were proven to have analgesic and regenerative properties.”

-- Dr. Aundrea Adams, Ph.D, CTN

In other words, sometimes colloidal silver works to relieve chronic pain simply because it can help restore proper electrical flow in the body.

This means that even if a case of fibromyalgia is not caused by an underlying infection, colloidal silver might still help relieve the pain by acting as a conductor of electrical current in the body!

Are Large Doses Necessary?

Most colloidal silver users with fibromyalgia say they’ve found relief with just a few ounces a day, taken orally.

However, some victims of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, Multiple Sclerosis or related chronic degenerative diseases feel they need to take extremely large daily amounts of colloidal silver in order to obtain relief.

This is often because they’ve read anecdotal accounts on the internet in which victims of mycoplasmas infections or related chronic degenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis or Lyme Disease have stated that they didn’t obtain relief from their symptoms until they began taking eight, 10, 12, or even 16 ounces of colloidal silver per day on a regular basis.

But that’s one heckuva load of silver on the kidneys and liver – one which I’d never recommend anyone to take, for any reason, for long periods of time. Why?

Because as I’ve written numerous times (here and here and here and here, for example), taking large daily amounts of colloidal silver for long periods of time can lead to a condition called argyria.

Argyria is a condition caused when excessive levels of silver are ingested on an ongoing basis, and the body’s normal channels of elimination become overwhelmed.

As a result, the excess silver cannot be effectively removed from the body, and ends up getting stored in the organs and tissues, and later pushed out to the skin. It then becomes tarnished upon exposure to light, permanently staining the skin blue or gray.

Colloidal Silver Is Only Part of the Solution

That’s why, for cases of fibromyalgia or other related chronic degenerative diseases such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme disease, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis and others that are suspected of being caused by underlying infections, it’s often important to use more than one nutritional intervention in order to help the body repair the damage being done by the offending pathogen, and help the immune system stop the spread of the infection.

Colloidal silver can be an important part of that nutritional intervention, but should not be the only part, and should never be used to excess.

Indeed, when you bring other nutritional supplements into the picture, you can often reduce colloidal silver usage to a tiny fraction of the excessive amounts some people have advocated, and still obtain remarkably successful results.

As a long-time victim of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia myself, I discovered that only small amounts of colloidal silver are necessary, once you learn about the other powerful and effective nutrient substances that can be used to heal the body, restore peak immune system function and eradicate problematic symptoms.

Among the nutritional supplements I’ve found to be extremely helpful in addition to colloidal silver are:

· D-Ribose, to help restore cellular function often damaged by viruses or other pathogens

· Pregnenolone, to help restore hormonal function often damaged by viruses or other pathogens

· Beta-1,3-1,6-glucan, to help restore peak immune system function

· Vinpocetine, to help restore peak brain function and eliminate “brain fog”

· Methylcobalamin, to help repair nervous system damage

There are other helpful nutritional supplements as well, but those are a great start.

The bottom line is that being solely dependent upon colloidal silver for relief from fibromyalgia or related chronic degenerative conditions can lead to excessive usage, which in turn can lead to argyria or other complications.

But by using colloidal silver responsibly, as one small part of a much broader nutritional supplement regimen designed to help the body repair and heal itself, you gain all of the benefits of colloidal silver usage, but without the very real risks of excessive usage.

In that light, you might want to read my article An Open Letter to Victims of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which discusses my own personal multi-pronged nutritional protocol for combating the viruses and other pathogens that are so often associated with both chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

You might also want to read my article on Colloidal Silver and Mycoplasmas Infections, which also discusses a broad nutritional protocol for helping the body repair itself and overcome the underlying infections that can cause the painful array of symptoms so often associated with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and similar chronic degenerative diseases.

To learn more about colloidal silver in general and how it’s used nutritionally by people to aid the body in defeating a multitude of infectious conditions, just click the link in this sentence.

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on colloidal silver…