Re: a few things

From: brent (borgersbrent_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:23:15 GMT

On 16 Feb 2005 20:42:44 -0800, "eugeneshapiroisapig"
<mockingbirdstl@aol.com> wrote:

> Now,
>fortunately if anything good came out of this nightmare it was that a
>close relative of mine who is dean of a major US medical school
>experienced what I went through as well because I spent two months at
>his school being studied and was misdiagnosed. So at least one person
>who's up there (way above steere) in the medical heirarchy is now out
>there spreading the word about all this BS engendered by steere.

As someone who knows first hand what you went through congrats on
fighting your way through this disease. Maybe you can pass this on to
your friend.

The University of Northern Iowa has become enlightened and are now
reteaching collodial silver as an "antibiotic substitute".

http://www.bio.uni.edu/cei/lyme.html

 A new catheter-electrode system, using a low-intensity current to
push bacteria and virus-fighting silver ions into the bloodstream, has
been patented by a Pennsylvania company. IN VIVO testing works should
we be surprised...

http://www.silverinstitute.org/news/4b01.html

lastly (but I have dozens more links which show the absurdity of the
situation) is a reply from Stuart Thomson to some idiot who MUST be
related to weisman. I would be interested in your friends (and yours)
opinion on this matter.

The Editor
16 May 2003

Mid SC Mail
By e-mail

Dear Editor

With reference to the recent letter by Mike McCarthy concerning
colloidal silver, whilst Mike is to be applauded for his concern and
vigilance in the public interest, as a role-player in the introduction
of colloidal silver to South Africa, I would welcome an opportunity to
balance your reader’s current perspective by presenting pertinent
information that Mr McCarthy, in his zeal to make his many valid
points regarding exaggerated health claims, has overlooked.

Modern electrolytic colloidal silver is an oligodynamic (effective in
ultra-low concentration) naturally microbicidal earth element by
virtue of disabling only the metabolic enzymes of anaerobic
unicellular micro-organisms, yet is uniquely harmless to mammals at
effective concentrations (Thurman R et al, 1st International
Conference on Gold & Silver in Medicine, Silver Institute, Wash,
1989). Modern soil depletion, food processing and water treatment
(flocculation and filtration) mitigate against reliably receiving
adequate dietary amounts of this protective element, which constitutes
about 0.07ppm (parts per million) in the earth's crust and until
fairly recently, was readily available via the food chain and was
supplemented by food related silverware without any epidemiological
evidence of harm.

Rosemary Jacobs, the most popularised argyria victim, who is used to
demonise colloidal silver, was poisoned more than forty years ago by
"silver nose drops of unknown composition" (NEJM, 340(20), 1999).
There are no cases of argyria in modern medical history as a result of
electro-colloidal silver, despite its popularity. All reference to
toxicities, on careful checking, leads directly to industrial
exposures or abuse of orthodoxy sanctioned, now discontinued medical
silver products, usually not even colloidal silver and if so, always
by a defunct grind method, and in cases of severe toxicities,
intravenous injections in gram-plus quantities in animal experiments
(US EPA, Integrated Risk Information System, “Silver”, 1998). The key
to the safety and efficacy of modern colloidal/ionic silver is its
atomic and sub-atomic particle size and hence greater individual
number and total active surface area.

Exaggerated commercial health claims for colloidal silver use against
serious medical conditions and OTC or self-treatment without adequate
supervision or well-informed protocols, adds legitimacy to regulator’s
concerns, yet much misinformation about colloidal silver toxicity has
its genesis in the protectionist pharma-cartel and its bought and / or
ideologically biased lap-dog regulatory agencies. As an example,
consider this paradox, forced upon the Australian Therapeutic Goods
Administration when it recently attempted to regulate colloidal silver
as a medicine because of “significant toxicity and no legitimate uses”
but had to amend its own illogical legislation so as to effectively
exempt colloidal silver provided it is sold for use in the
“purification or treatment of drinking water without therapeutic
claims” (Commonwealth of Australia, Special Gazette No S 486, 20
December 2002). The obvious absurdity is that a substance cannot be
toxic and useless only when sold with therapeutic claims, yet safe and
efficacious if added to drinking water at the same approved
concentrations, in this instance, over an entire lifetime.

Some foods accumulate silver, eg mushrooms may boost silver
consumption up to between 200 to 300ppm per day. Approximately 10% of
orally-ingested silver enters systemic circulation and of that, up to
98% is gathered up by metallothioneins, which transport, store and
detoxify essential and nonessential trace metals (Silver, The
Healthful Metal, Silver Institute, Wash, December 31, 1999). Argyria,
a bluish-grey discoloration of the skin, although not aesthetic, is
extremely rare, is “non-pathogenic” / “medically benign” and a daily
ingestion dose of 1-30gram would be required to induce the condition
(Fowler B, Nordberg G, “Silver”, in Handbook on the Toxicology of
Metals, Friberg L et al, eds. Elsevier Sci Pub, Vol 2, 521-31, 1986);
(US EPA, Integrated Risk Information System: ‘Silver’, 1998).
Approximately 3.5gram daily over an entire lifetime will be required
to cause argyria, according to a year 2000 estimate by international
trace mineral expert, Prof Alexander Schauss, PhD, Director of Life
Sciences at John Hopkins University, in response to FDA proposals,
which is 10,000 times that advocated.

Ionic/atomic silver is an effective antimicrobial at concentrations
astronomical orders of magnitude below what is harmful to higher life
forms. Concentrations necessary to sterilise drinking water (or by
extension, body fluids – we are 70% water) contaminated with pathogens
are 40-200 gamma / .04-.2ppm (1ppm = 1000 gamma) (Thomson N,
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, NY, 1973). Most colloidal
silver available in South Africa is generated by a water purification
device from the Gaia Research Institute, producing 1ppm of silver (and
possibly a suggested microbicidal synergism with 5-15 drops of
hydrogen peroxide). One teaspoon (5ml) of 1ppm colloidal silver in a
glass (250ml) of water equals 20ppb. Since drinking water guidelines
relate to lifetime exposure for the most susceptible sub-groups,
calculated at 2 litres a day over an entire lifetime, one could safely
consume 8 glasses each with 5 teaspoons (25 ml) of 1 ppm of colloidal
silver every day without risk of argyria, the only and purely
hypothetical risk to users. Most commonly used is a mere teaspoon in a
glass of water 3 or 4 times daily.

Colloidal Silver and hydrogen peroxide, especially in combination,
exhibit significant microbial inactivation at concentrations that pose
no health risk according to the EEC, WHO and US EPA. Several
countries, including Switzerland, Germany and Australia have given
approval for the use of colloidal silver and hydrogen peroxide as a
drinking water disinfectant. The EEC and Israel Ministry of Health
have specifically approved the use of colloidal silver as a drinking
water disinfectant at an MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) of 80ppb
(Pedahzur, R et al, Water Sci Technol, 31(5-6), 1995). Widespread use
might result in potential for uptake of silver ions by humans, but
research suggests that: “risks are minimal under all likely scenarios”
(Final Report: Evaluation of the Efficacy of a New Secondary
Disinfectant Formulation Using Hydrogen Peroxide and Silver. US EPA
NNCER, Dec 3, 2001).

The USA EPA has declared that “silver does not cause adverse health
effects” and set a MCL at 100 ppb for all drinking water. Recently an
EU Drinking Water Standard proposed removing any upper limit for
silver in drinking water, following the WHO’s Guidelines for Drinking
Water Quality, which states that: "it is not necessary to recommend
any health-based guidelines for silver as it is not hazardous to human
health" ("Silver Water Purification Systems Offer Reliable Alternative
to Chlorine", The Silver Institute, Wash, March 25, 1997). The World
Health Organisation still advocates 100ppb levels of silver for
drinking water (Pelkonen K et al, Toxicology, 186(1-2), 2003). I shall
resist arguing for the efficacy of colloidal silver against bacteria,
viruses, spore-forming organisms, yeasts and mould fungi, since this
should be beyond dispute. As mentioned previously, we are comprised of
75% water. By restoring and maintaining the integrity of that water,
we restore and maintain the integrity of the body by freeing it of
pathogens. Herein lies the paradox of philosophically diametrically
opposed public health authorities both praising and demonizing the
same substance. I shall leave it to the now informed reader to decide
either way.

Stuart Thomson

Director, Gaia Research Institute, Knysna.
 
http://www.gaiaresearch.co.za/silver2.html

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