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Hi Utopia,
Dr. Andrew Weil's website says it's [colloidal silver]not safe: Colloidal Silver: Is It Safe? Widely promoted as a cure-all for everything from ear infections and shingles to AIDS, colloidal silver is a solution of silver particles suspended in liquid. Promoters claim that colloidal silver is an alternative to antibiotics and can extend life and remedy mineral deficiencies that lead to a weakened immune system. 3 reasons to be wary.
Twana D.
Hi Twana,
Dr. Weil, a medical doctor has some good info at times, …BUT in this case is simply mouthing what most mainstream MDs masquerading as quasi alternative practitioners would say. Nothing surprising. The bottom line is this, how long do we continue to trust mainstream medicine and its practitioners who are trained and propagandized at schools funded and controlled by the pharmaceutical industry? They kill and maim thousands of times more people and seldom admitting it than any use of alternative/natural healthcare. I have used colloidal silver for 15+ years and I am healthier than 99% of the people I know of any age. Additionally, the so-called “Blue Man” (the one who consumed 16+ ounces of colloidal silver made with saline solution per day for years and developed Argyria) was given extensive testing for organ damage and there was none. There may well be some level at which silver can cause physical damage, but I haven’t seen it yet.
The bottom line is this, anything you put in your body is potentially harmful in excess. Too much water can kill by causing a hyper-hydration that dilutes the electrolytes to the point of interfering with your heartbeat and causing death. Too much calcium can cause arterial plaque buildup and heart attacks, as well as being deposited in the joints and tissue causing Arthritis. We cannot live and have good health without iron, copper, iodine, chromium, etc. but there are levels at which they are all detrimental to good health. An aspirin or two will relieve a headache, but a whole bottle will cause death. There is simply no substance on earth that isn’t potentially harmful in excess in the wrong circumstances.
How often do you hear the drum beats of caution about the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by approved drugs and mainstream doctor mistakes? Read “Death By Medicine”, short version- Death by Medicine longer version, http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
I hope this gives some degree of perspective to those who are constantly bombarded with the propaganda of pharmaceutical controlled mainstream medicine.
Ben Taylor in Utopia.
www.utopiasilver.com