Why do mainstream medicine apologists attack colloidal silver?
Prior to the advent of patentable and more profitable antibiotics, medicines containing silver were the most widely prescribed infection fighters by doctors and there were no fewer than 34 different approved prescription and over the counter medications with silver particles.
Now, after improved and nano-technology, and the elimination of most large particle and silver nitrate products, colloidal silver proponents claim that it is safer and more effective than ever. At the same time, however, it has been the subject of increasing attacks as a scam, quackery and/or dangerous by mainstream medicine and the bloggers and apologists who oppose alternatives to non-approved medicines.
When it is pointed out that colloidal and nano-silver is used by NASA, Potters for Peace, the Hong Kong Subway System, Cure-Aid, and major hospital burn units, the detractors say yes, perhaps it works externally, but when taken internally it causes dangerous toxicity due to silver build-up, causes people to turn blue, and, in a familiar refrain, claim that it has no "scientifically" proven benefits.
Yet, the EPA says that 90-95% of ingested silver particles are eliminated from the body within two days and 99% within a week, and the bluest of the blue people, "Papa Smurf" Paul Karason (who, like the Montana senator, actually took large quantities of home-made silver made with tap water and contaminated with salt for a prolonged period of many months) was given a clean bill of health at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Insofar as scientific studies, last year it was reported that researchers in Hungary found specific silver receptors on human tissue - an indication that silver plays an important role in human health. A joint study between the University of Texas and Mexico University published in the Journal of Nanotechnology which showed that silver nanoparticles of sizes 1-10nm attached to HIV-1 and prevented the virus from bonding to host cells.
A study conducted by the Department of Microbiology at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea, and published in the prestigious Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, found that nano-silver was comparable in effectiveness to Amphotericin B, one of the most powerful prescription antifungal drugs known to man, which is often used intravenously to cure serious systemic fungal infections, and was found to be superior to the well-known anti-fungal drug fluconazole (popularly known as Diflucan).
And then there is the recently completed study conducted by researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Akron, Ohio, and presented at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, where researchers infected a group of mice with the bacteria Pseudomona aeroginosa, a common cause of bacterial pneumonia in humans, especially those on ventilators, those with cystic fibrosis or those with compromised immune systems. All the mice which inhaled aerosolized nanoparticles known as silver silver carbene complexes (SCCs), had significantly lower concentrations of bacteria in their lungs than mice inhaling placebo nanoparticles. Most significantly, none of the mice in the SCC group died, while all the mice in the control group did.
Were all those doctors who prescribed silver products and the scientists who conducted the studies liars, scammers and/or quacks? (Must have been the placebo effect, huh?) Meanwhile millions of people around the world are taking it and reporting cures of pneumonia, staph, candida, MRSA, Chrohns, Lyme, flus including the H1N1 flu, and much more.
So, is mainstream medicine and its advocates and agents attacking colloidal silver because it really does not work and is dangerous, or could it be that they simply attack it and anything else that represents a threat to the hundreds of billions in profits from patented drugs? What do you think?
Sources:
1. The Environmental Protection Agency, Integrated Risk Information Program (IRIS), Silver; CASRN 7440-22-4
2. www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,4091,00.html
3. The Crusador - interview with Dr. Eric Rentz, circa June 2008
4. www.physorg.com/news7264.html
5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18756112
6. www.naturalnews.com/026952_nanoparticles_silver_bacteria.html
Posted by gazeygoo
Simply put, I agree, it just doesn't work.
Posted by TheGirlWhoPlaysWithFire
Colloidal silver is extremely dangerous. They used to think it could cure everything, but it actually cures nothing, it might have a placebo effect but it's doing more harm than good. Search google images for the blue man or colloidal silver skin, and you will see that it makes your skin turn greyish then bluey grey. All of the silver is toxic and building up inside you. If it makes your skin grey, it is also damaging your internal organs. Unfortunately, this damage is slow to undo itself or you may just never go back to normal (like the blue man). Colloidal silver is a scam and is extremely dangerous, the scammers selling it prey on people who want a miracle cure for all sorts of ailments and don't bother to do a quick internet search to see if it is safe or not.
Posted by Az R
First of all, your Fox News link is broken, and does not work. Mainstream news outlets tend generally to not have accurate reports of anything to do with biological, medical, or chemical science - unless this contains links or references to any original publications, I'd flat out discount it.
The physorg source is interesting, but does not contain proper references to the original papers, however, what they're describing is not colloidal silver. Far from it. It's an extremely complex system of nanoparticles coated in a water-soluble polymer and stabilized in a complex organic growth medium. While the description in this article is vague, and they do not link to the original research or provide a reference, based on this description this preparation would be extremely challenging and expensive for even the most talented CBEMS Ph.D student to prepare. The synthesis of even polymer-coated liposomes is extremely challenging.
The NCBI piece is somewhat interesting, however their stock solution of silver is 3000-30,000 times more concentrated that colloidal silver products sold on the internet. While they work with dilutions thereof, even at their lowest effective doses they still appear to be several hundred times to several thousand times higher concentrations that are sold out there.
The difference between external and internal application is extremely profound. I can apply ispropyl alcohol to a cut on my hand to prevent an infection. If I were to drink enough isopropyl alcohol to deliver the same amount to that cut from the inside of my body (or alternatively, any other area of my body), I would be very, VERY dead.
In the EPA document you cite, the 90-99% elimination rate is for silver nitrate. This is not a silver colloid in any sense, and has nothing to do with the filtration rate of nanoscale particles, or their ability to evade the RES and persist in the body for a substantial amount of time.
In short, from the sources I can inspect, you've completely misinterpereted the results in favor of your particular idea, in one case material that has absolutely nothing to do with colloidal silver as it is known to the alternative medicine community. The other material is improperly sourced, and I'll be honest, if you've shown an ability to comprehend and interpret like you have with the material I can see, I doubt you've done better with what I can't see.
Oh, and thank you, my bottle of Cipro cost $ 1.60.
You might take a look at this as well, where colloidal silver failed to demonstrate any efficacy against bacteria in a standard test: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15114827
Posted by rickyoutfield
I would guess that it probably works if the mainstream media is against it.
Posted by Gary Y
One reason may be that proponents of colloidal silver use weasel words, like "mainstream medicine apologists", to spin or alter people's perception of an issue.
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