Why doesn’t Big Pharma simply
develop silver-based antimicrobial substances to fight the growing scourge of
drug-resistant superbugs?
After all, it’s been known for
over 100 years that silver is the world’s most powerful natural
infection-fighting agent. And it’s been known for decades that silver is
astonishingly effective against the drug-resistant superbugs.
Yet all we see are scary
headlines proclaiming that medical science is “running out of options” in the
fight against the superbugs. Are they
really? Or is something else in the
wind? Here’s what you need to know…
Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com...
You've no doubt seen all of the screaming
headlines lately about the scourge of drug-resistant superbugs that are now
able to defeat even the strongest of prescription antibiotic drugs.
Public health authorities -- both on the
national and international levels -- are sounding the alarm over the
drug-resistant superbugs.
And the news media is helping them whip up a
fervor among the general public, demanding that the governments of the world
"do something" to solve the problem.
For example, one recent news headline read, “Post-Antibiotic
World Is the Real-Life Version of the Zombie Apocalypse.”
Ah, yes.
Lions and tigers and bears. Oh,
my!
Right In Front of Their Faces
But the solution to the crisis of
antibiotic-resistant superbugs is staring medical science right in the face. And it has been for decades. And they know
it.
Numerous clinical studies have demonstrated the
fact that safe, natural colloidal silver
is astonishingly effective against antibiotic-resistant super-pathogens.
For example, one of the latest clinical
studies demonstrates that adding silver to antibiotic drugs actually
increases their effectiveness by up to 1,000x, and makes drug-resistant
pathogens susceptible to the antibiotics once again!
Here’s what the magazine Scientific American had to say about this most recent clinical study:
“Like werewolves and
vampires, bacteria have a weakness: silver.
The precious metal has
been used to fight infection for thousands of years — Hippocrates first
described its antimicrobial properties in 400bc — but how it works has
been a mystery.
Now, a team led by James
Collins, a biomedical engineer at Boston University in Massachusetts, has
described how silver can disrupt bacteria, and shown that the ancient treatment
could help to deal with the thoroughly modern scourge of antibiotic resistance.
…Collins and his team
found that silver — in the form of dissolved ions — attacks bacterial cells in
two main ways:
It makes the cell
membrane more permeable, and it interferes with the cell’s metabolism, leading
to the overproduction of reactive, and often toxic, oxygen compounds.
Both mechanisms could
potentially be harnessed to make today’s antibiotics more effective against
resistant bacteria, Collins says.”
Silver Works Alone, As
Well
More importantly, numerous other studies
demonstrate the fact that silver by itself kills numerous drug-resistant
super-pathogens.
For example, this clinical study,
published in the World Journal of
Microbiology and Biotechnology in 2010, demonstrates that antimicrobial
silver alone is effective against
drug-resistant bacterial strains, including multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa,
ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli,
and erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus
pyogenes.
Colloidal silver even kills the deadly,
drug-resistant MRSA pathogen, now responsible for up to 94,000 life-threatening
infections and 23,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone (see documentation at the
Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA
website).
In just a moment, I’ll show you even more clinical studies proving beyond any
shadow of a doubt that colloidal silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver
are devastatingly effective against the antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
The Multi-Billion Dollar Scam
But first, a question:
If the situation with drug-resistant superbugs
is so dire – and it most definitely is
– then why won't the medical
authorities embrace silver as the solution?
The answer is disturbing: Ultimately, it’s because the big drug
companies have something else in
mind.
You see, Big Pharma wants to tap into billions
upon billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, in order to pay for the cost of
developing brand new, super-strength antibiotic drugs.
In other words, they want taxpayers to pay for
the development of these new antibiotic drugs.
And then, afterwards, they want to sell these same new drugs back to the
taxpayers for additional billions of dollars in profits!
According to the news media, the big drug
companies are claiming that it’s no longer “profitable” for them to develop
antibiotic drugs.
Big Pharma wants to focus solely on developing
drugs that people with chronic health conditions such as heart disease or
diabetes will have to take for the rest of their lives, rather than drugs that
only need to be taken for a few weeks at a time to cure an infection.
So what if tens of thousands of people are dying
every year in the U.S. of drug-resistant infections? It’s all about the Benjamins. Only the money
matters. The cost in terms of human
lives is irrelevant. And the truly big money lies in developing drugs for
diseases that have to be taken for the lifetime of the patient.
But…says Big Pharma, if the
federal government will fork over billions of dollars in taxpayer monies to
help fund antibiotic drug development, then (and only then) will they begin work on new antibiotic drugs to help
stem the tide of drug-resistant pathogens.
As investigative reporter John Aziz from The
Week has pointed out, “The
incentives to produce more and better antibiotics only kick in under the worst
circumstances, when millions of people are dying from antibiotic-resistant
infections."
Greed and Avarice
What Big Pharma wants -- in their utter greed and
avarice -- is nothing more than direct guaranteed access to the public trough,
meaning to taxpayer money.
So they’ve purposely stopped developing new
antibiotic drugs -- claiming they’re “not profitable” -- until the governments
of the world agree to fund their development via taxpayer money.
And if they have to wait for millions of people
to be dying of drug-resistant infections from the superbugs before the
governments of the world give in to their blackmail, then so be it.
This is not
rank speculation, folks. This is happening right now, right in front of your faces. And you can read about it
here in my previous article
"Big Pharma Shuns Silver; Blackmails U.S. Government Into Paying for New
Antibiotic Drugs With Taxpayer Money.”
In short, the entire antibiotic-resistant drug
problem is very real, yet the so-called “hunt for a new solution” is a great
big scam of the highest order. It is an utter fraud.
There’s no “new solution” needed. They have
the solution. It’s thousands of years
old. And simply put, it is this: Pure,
natural antimicrobial silver.
Big Pharma knows for a fact that silver kills
antibiotic-resistant microbes. They’ve
known it for decades.
After all, in clinical study after study after study after
study
after study after study after study silver
has been demonstrated to kill the drug-resistant super-pathogens.
And Big Pharma is simply choosing not to use it, because if they admitted
knowing that a few cents worth of silver could eradicate an infection caused by
a drug-resistant pathogen, they’d never
get their hands into the taxpayer’s pockets to the tune of billions upon
billions of dollars in free drug development monies.
So safe, natural colloidal silver sits on the
sidelines, alone and completely ignored, even though numerous clinical studies
demonstrate it to be astonishingly effective against the very super-pathogens
you're reading about in the newspapers every day.
Proof Positive Colloidal Silver Kills
Superbugs
As I
mentioned, numerous studies have now demonstrated colloidal silver to be highly
effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Let me summarize
just a few of these studies for you, and tell you exactly what the experts are
saying, as well:
In this clinical
study, conducted quietly in October 2006 at the Department of
Microbiology/Molecular Biology of Brigham-Young University, and published in
the journal Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 7, October 10, 2006, it
was found that a number of the antibiotic drugs which formerly killed MDR
(multiple drug-resistant) pathogens such as MRSA could actually be restored to
full efficacy against the deadly pathogens, but only if a colloidal
silver solution was used in conjunction with the drug!
The researchers
found that when they used a liquid colloidal silver solution in conjunction
with the antibiotic drugs, the synergism between silver and the antibiotic
drugs brought the deadly pathogens back under control. Since the antibiotic
drugs had previously lost their effectiveness against the super-pathogens, this
clearly demonstrates that the silver
was the deciding factor in the deaths of the deadly pathogens!
This clinical study, published in the journal Microbiology in June 2013, also demonstrates the ability of silver
to dramatically boost the effectiveness of antibiotic drugs against
drug-resistant super-pathogens.
According to the study authors, “A declining pipeline of clinically
useful antibiotics has made it imperative to develop more effective
antimicrobial therapies, particularly against difficult-to-treat Gram-negative pathogens…This
work shows that silver can be used to enhance the action of existing
antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria, thus strengthening the antibiotic arsenal
for fighting bacterial infections.”
This is the
study I linked to earlier in this article, demonstrating the fact that
antimicrobial silver alone is
extremely effective against some of the most common (and deadly) antibiotic-resistant
superbugs. Most importantly, this study
demonstrates that silver is bactericidal
against these superbugs, and not just bacteriostatic. This means it flat-out kills the drug-resistant superbugs rather than merely inhibiting
their growth rate.
According to
the study authors, “We aimed to determine
through different in vitro assays the antibacterial properties of silver
nanoparticles against drug-resistant bacteria, infectious agents that
represeant a constant threat in hospital and community environments…Our data
suggest that silver nanoparticles are effective broad-spectrum biocides against
a variety of drug-resistant bacteria.”
In this
study, antimicrobial silver by itself was demonstrated to literally decimate
the deadly and very opportunistic multi-drug resistant pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The researchers concluded, “In the present
study, colloidal silver was shown to demonstrate very potent antibacterial
activity against P. aeruginosa.”
The
researchers went on to plead, “This
activity should be urgently exploited in the development of highly active
antibacterial therapeutic agents to combat the rapidly increasing infectious
diseases that currently challenge the present arsenal of antibacterial drugs.” In other words, the researchers are
practically begging Big Pharma to
look into the use of antimicrobial silver as a means of stopping the horrific
spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
In this
clinical study, published in 2010 in the International
Journal of Microbiological Research, colloidal silver was found to be highly
effective against such drug-resistant super-pathogens as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia
coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonells typhi.
According to
the study authors, their research “was the result of bioassay experimentation
on the effects of colloidal silver on multidrug resistant bacteria.” The researchers found that colloidal silver
demonstrated “powerful antimicrobial activity against multi-drug resistant
clinical gram positive and gram negative bacteria.”
In this fascinating
medical case study, lung disease specialists from Great Britain report on an 11-year
old Cystic Fibrosis victim afflicted with multi-drug resistant pathogens including
Burkholderia multivorans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
The best
antibiotic drugs the doctors could prescribe were not able to stop the boy’s debilitating
lung infections. But when his parents
learned about colloidal silver and began giving it to the boy, his astonishing recovery
from the infections literally stunned his doctors. Read about it in the doctor’s own words at
the link above.
Many Other Studies
There are many other clinical
studies just like these demonstrating the fact that colloidal silver and other
forms of antimicrobial silver kill the deadly drug-resistant super-pathogens
with ease, or can be used in conjunction with existing antibiotic drugs to kill
the deadly drug-resistant superbugs.
But Big Pharma doesn’t want you
to know about these studies, because if you did, you’d never again believe
their hysterical cries that they need billions of dollars in taxpayer money to help
develop brand new antibiotic drugs.
Expert
Quotes
My point in writing this article is to demonstrate that medical science
has known decades that antimicrobial
silver is highly effective against the antibiotic-resistant super-pathogens.
And therefore the current ongoing media scare in which the public is constantly
being bombarded with the message “The world is about to run out of effective
antibiotic drugs” is a grand farce designed solely to scare the bejabbers out
of people, and to convince politicians to funnel billions of dollars of
taxpayer monies into the coffers of Big Pharma as a means of inducing them to
develop new and more powerful antibiotic drugs.
But brand new antibiotic drugs are simply not needed. Silver is the
key. And silver always has been the key. All
they have to do is start using it,
either alone, or in combination with existing antibiotic drugs.
As the famous surgeon and medical pioneer Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.
reported way back in 1977:
"What we have done was rediscover
the fact that silver killed bacteria, a fact which had actually been known for
centuries...All of the organisms we tested were sensitive to the electrically
generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known
antibiotics...In no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver
treatment apparent."
-- Dr. Robert O. Becker,
M.D., surgeon, Syracuse Medical University, author The Body Electric
And as clinical immunologist Dr. Joseph Weissman stated back in the early
1990’s:
"Today,
many antibiotics are losing the battle with germs. Fortunately, the best germ
killer, which was discovered over 2,000 years ago, is finally getting the
proper attention from medical science - natural silver. I sincerely recommend
that everyone have electrically generated colloidal silver in their home as an
antiseptic, antibacterial and antifungal agent."
--
Dr. Joseph Weissman, M.D. board certified immunologist and Assistant Clinical
Professor at the University of California Medical School
As clinical researcher S.M. Foran pointed out over a decade ago:
"Ongoing studies on antibacterial
properties of silver...indicate that silver is effective even against bacteria
that are already antibiotic-resistant."
--
S.M. Foran, Therapeutic Properties of Silver: an Historical and
Technical Review
As researchers writing in the International
Wound Journal pointed out in 2012:
“The antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major
concern to wound care because of their ability to resist many of the
antibiotics used today to treat infections. Consequently, other antimicrobials,
in particular ionic silver, are considered ideal topical agents for effectively
helping to manage and prevent local infections.”
-- International
Wound Journal, 2012 October, 9(5):488-493; The antimicrobial efficacy of
silver on antibiotic-resistant bacteria isolated from burn wounds.
As researchers writing in the prestigious Journal of Nanobiotechnology explained in 2011:
"… it
is well known that silver ions and silver-based compounds are toxic to
microorganisms, possessing strong biocidal effects on at least 12 species of
bacteria including multi-resistant bacteria like Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as well as multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas
aeruginosa, ampicillin-resistant E. coli O157: H7 and erythromycin-resistant S.
pyogenes…”
--
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, September 2011, "Silver nanoparticles are
broad-spectrum bactericidal and virucidal compounds"
And finally, as the New York Times
pointed out over half a dozen years ago:
“Now, with
more and more bacteria developing resistance to antibiotic drugs, some
researchers and health care entrepreneurs have returned to silver for another
look. This time around, they are armed with nanotechnology, a fast-developing
collection of products and skills that helps researchers deploy silver
compounds in ways that maximize the availability of silver ions - the element's
most potent form.”
--
New York Times, January 10, 2006
The point being, silver’s astonishing effectiveness against
antibiotic-resistant bacteria has long been known to medical science.
The fact that Big Pharma refuses to utilize silver, while constantly
beating the media drums claiming that we’re “running out of options in the war
against drug-resistant pathogens,” is an indictment against them for the massive
fraud they’re perpetrating.
They have their eyes on the taxpayer pie.
And that’s all they care about.
They worship the money.
And they know the truly big
money lies in tapping the taxpayer to pay for the development of brand new
antibiotic drugs, rather than simply letting people know that a few cents worth
of safe, natural silver by itself, or added to existing antibiotic drugs, could
solve the entire antibiotic-resistant superbug crisis virtually overnight.
As I pointed out in my previous article
“Big Pharma Shuns Silver; Blackmails U.S.
Government Into Paying for New Antibiotic Drugs With Taxpayer Money" at this
link:
“Big Pharma has no intention of looking into
antimicrobial silver.
After all, silver is a
natural substance, and even if you could patent it as a drug and sell it for
hundreds of dollars a prescription, people can still make and use their own
colloidal silver for just pennies per batch in the comfort and privacy
of their own homes.
So Big Pharma ignores silver in the fight against
drug-resistant infections. And
now they’re forcing governments to tap into the taxpayer’s wallets for new drug
development.”
The Truly Good News!
The truly good news is that you don’t have to
wait for Big Pharma to develop new and stronger antibiotic drugs.
Nor do you have to keep your fingers crossed
hoping they’ll finally break down and release a silver-based antibiotic drug.
After all, with a new Micro-Particle Colloidal
Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com you can make all of the safe, natural colloidal silver you could ever need,
quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for just pennies per batch.
And it’s literally so easy to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, you’re going
to be absolutely shocked if you’ve never tried it before.
To see how easy it is to make
your own high-quality colloidal silver, just click the link in this
sentence to check out a short “how-to” pictorial.
And if you’re ready to learn more about making
your own high-quality colloidal silver with a brand new Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver Generator from TheSilverEdge.com, just click this link.
You can also learn what dozens of users of the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver
Generator have to say about it at 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
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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