"But how many pathogens are sensitive to pure silver? The truth is, the answer is not fully known. Independent in vitro medical research conducted by Dr. Larry C. Ford, M.D. demonstrated that pure silver by itself was effective against well over 600 different pathogenic microorganisms. If this number can be confirmed in additional research, it demonstrates phenomenal broad-spectrum anti-microbial killing power for pure silver that goes far beyond anything that can be provided by traditional prescription antibiotics." silver primer

"According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the average adult can consume 350 mcg of silver daily for up to 70 years without any known risk, or take the equivalent dose of seven teaspoons of Ionic Silver daily. For more serious or persistent problems, a doctor may wish to gradually increase dosages and direct their patients to take from 3 to 7 tablespoons daily. An average adult under medical supervision could in principle take such dosages for up to 65 years with no definable risk! Ionic Silver water performs best when taken on an empty stomach, followed by food 25 minutes later.

Should people who are healthy and just want to remain that way consider supplementing with Ionic Silver water? And if so, " What is a prudent and adequate daily intake for dietary silver?" The daily value (DV) for silver has not been determined; it is not considered an essential mineral. However, for many years selenium was not considered essential, yet its many benefits begged the same question. When no DV amount has yet been determined, it is customary for scientists to look at the typical diet content for the mineral. Past studies have pointed out that average diets contain from 23 mcg to 88 mcg of silver daily. However, modern trends in agriculture have revealed an alarming decline in the mineral content of our foods since the1930's. From Senate Document No. 264 (1936) it states, "The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us - no matter how much of them we eat. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them. The truth is that our foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food…Our physical well being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume."

In fact, up to 80% of the mineral content in our foods has been lost since the early part of the last century. Thus, our diet may be providing much less than 88 mcg silver daily. So what are reasonable guidelines for silver as a dietary supplement?

First, up to seven teaspoons daily may be safely taken for extended periods when immune support is needed or desired. Second, adjust for weight in younger adults and children as appropriate, typically one half the adult dose. And third, consider one teaspoon or more for general daily maintenance."

WARNING: However, for those people working in the silver industry or for those exposed to silver compounds regularly or for long periods, only a doctor should direct Ionic Silver supplementation. ultimate anti-biotic

• In Canada, Switzerland and the US, physicians use various forms of silver to treat a multitude of infections.
• In the US, silver is used in bone surgery and in 70 per cent of US burns centres.
• Naturopaths and chiropractors use colloidal silver to treat the effects of Cryptosporidium. Ayurvedic and Chinese practitioners regularly use silver in their treatments.
• Colloidal silver water filters are approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency and also by the Swiss government for use in homes and offices.
• The American space agency NASA uses a silver water purification system for its space shuttles, as do the Russians.
• The airline companies Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, Canadian Pacific, Japan Airlines, Pan Am SAS and Swissair use silver water filters to curtail waterborne diseases.
• Silver is often used in place of chlorine in swimming pools because it doesn't sting the eyes.
• Japanese companies are using silver to remove cyanide and nitric acid from the air.
  Nexus Magazine, Vol.4,No.1 Universal Germicide

"Silver protein products are the second most prevalent type of so-called colloidal silver products on the market. These products consist of a combination of metallic silver particles and a protein binder, and can easily be produced by simply adding water to silver protein powder sold by various chemical companies.

Most products claiming to be high concentrations of colloidal silver (typically in the range of 30 to 20,000 ppm) are in fact silver protein colloids. While some of these products are labeled as Silver Protein or Mild Silver Protein , many such products are simply labeled as colloidal silver and the word protein does not appear anywhere on the label or in the product advertising literature.

Silver protein products generally have very large silver particles, so large that they would not remain suspended as colloidal particles without protein additives. Protein additives help to keep the large particles from settling. While various protein binders may be used, the protein most commonly used is gelatin , which is made by boiling the skin, tendons, and ligaments of animals. For large metallic silver particles to remain suspended in water, they need additional buoyancy to keep from sinking. Gelatin molecules will encapsulate each particle of silver and add enough buoyancy so that it does not sink to the bottom. The presence of gelatin creates a risk of bacteria and is one of the dangers of taking this product.

Of the three types of colloidal silver, silver protein products have the lowest particle surface area for a given silver concentration , making the silver inaccessible for safe human absorption and less effective for human use. Particle surface area, as we will cover later, is the single most important determinant of colloidal silver effectiveness. Click here for scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of silver protein products that clearly show the very large size of the silver particles (which appear to range in size from about 100 nm up to 10,000 nm with some much larger).

Testing For Silver Protein To find out whether you have a silver protein product rather than a true silver colloid, look for these characteristics:

Makes foam: When shaken, a silver protein product produces foam above the liquid that will persist for minutes after being shaken. This is probably the single most reliable indicator. Even when the product label identifies the product simply as colloidal silver and never mentions the word protein, this indicator will signal the presence of a protein binder. Shake the bottle and look for foaming. When the foam persists, protein is present.

Concentration: Silver protein products tend to have very high concentration values, typically in the range of 30 to 20,000 ppm. Concentration is expressed in parts per million (ppm) and is numerically the same as milligrams of silver per liter of water (mg/L).

Color: The color ranges from light amber to almost black with an increasing concentration of silver.

Dangers Due to the high concentration of large silver particles, silver protein products are known to cause argyria, a condition that causes the skin to turn blue-gray." colloid reports

Partial List of Silver Protein Products:

The products listed below contain silver particles suspended in a protein polymer or synthetic polymer solution. Protein polymers would typically be either an animal protein also called gelatin or dairy protein called casein. Some of these products are labeled as "colloidal silver" and do not mention on the label or in their advertising the fact that they are protein or polymer based products. Not all products in the table have been tested. A dash (-) indicates that the product has not been tested.

Partial List of Products that are True Silver Colloids:

The list of products below are "true silver colloids". The silver content in these products consist of both silver ions and silver particles. The majority of the silver content is in the form of silver particles which makes these products true colloids.

How To Compare Colloidal Silver Products:

Web Silver colloids: http://www.silver-colloids.com/Papers/Howtocompare.html

Because there is no accepted standard for reporting the contents of colloidal silver products, producers report the properties of their products is various ways. The normal practice is to report the total silver content and nothing else. One problem with reporting total silver is that it lumps together the silver particles and silver ions in a single value. The technical differences between ions and particles are significant. We will try to explain the differences in an easily understood fashion. (See The Truth About Ionic Silver).

Another problem with using total silver for comparison purposes is that it does not take into account either the particle size, particle surface area, or the particle concentration which are the most important properties of colloids.

Particle Size: In his booklet "Silver Colloids", Professor Ronald Gibbs wrote "The size of the particles in the colloidal silver suspensions we use for health purposes is very important. Particle size controls the surface area and therefore the effectiveness of the colloidal silver suspension."

Particle Size and Particle Surface Area Particle surface area is the property of a colloid that determines its effectiveness. Particle size has a direct effect on particle surface area, but in the exact opposite way from what you might expect . . . because particle surface area increases as particle size decreases.

To understand the effect of particle size on surface area, consider a U.S. silver dollar. The silver dollar contains 26.96 grams of coin silver, has a diameter of about 40 mm, and has a total surface area of approximately 27.70 square centimeters. If the same amount of coin silver were divided into tiny particles � say 1 nanometer (nm) in diameter � the total surface area of those particles would be 11,400 square meters, which is equal to 122,708 square feet, or 2.817 acres! When the amount of coin silver contained in a silver dollar is rendered into 1 nm particles, the surface area of those particles is 4.115 million times greater than the surface area of the silver dollar! So you can see by this example that the smaller the particles and the more of them, the greater the particle surface area.

The Importance Of Particle Surface Area: Particle size
Particle surface area is the property of a colloid that translates directly to the ability of the colloid to react with its environment. Effectiveness of colloids is predicated on exposing the largest possible surface area of the metal particles to the areas of interest. The importance of colloid particle surface area cannot be over emphasized. It is the single most important attribute for determining how effectively the colloidal particles will interact with their environment inside the human body.

In the chemical world, reactivity increases with increasing surface area. For this reason particle surface area is an excellent metric for comparing the physical properties of colloidal products. A more technical discussion on particle surface area can be found by clicking here.

Particle Concentration The metal concentration in parts-per-million (ppm) expresses the weight of the metal vs. the weight of the liquid it is suspended in. Particle concentration can be a very confusing measurement when comparing colloidal silver products because colloids having very large particles can have a high concentration of metal (ppm) but a very low particle surface area. Concentration (ppm) by itself is not what determines colloidal effectiveness; it is only the particle surface area that does.

Particle surface area increases as the concentration of silver particles increases. Therefore, true silver colloids that have a high percentage of their silver content in the form of particles will have the highest particle surface area.

To achieve a high particle surface area for a given concentration (ppm) of metal requires that the size of the particles be extremely small. The smallest colloid particles ever measured in the lab are only a few times the diameter of the atoms themselves and are less than one nanometer in diameter. The highest particle surface area is achieved when there is a high concentration of these nanometer- sized particles. While this is the desired result, it is also the most difficult to achieve.

Comparing Colloidal Silver Products:

Since most producers of colloids neither indicate nor differentiate the properties of particle size, particle surface area or particle concentration on the labels of their products, the only way to know these properties is by laboratory analysis. Unless the lab has specialized scientific equipment specifically designed to characterize the properties of colloids, the data can be of questionable accuracy. Particle surface area in particular can be very challenging to measure. It first requires an accurate determination of the particle size and concentration. Because of the difficulty involved, these measurements should be performed by a laboratory that specializes in performing analysis of colloids.

Colloidal Science Laboratory (CSL)  performs these measurements and publishes the results of a standardized set of physical property measurements. These results include calculating the particle surface area. See Determining Properties for technical details about how the laboratory analysis is performed by CSL.

CSL produces a Comparison Table that shows an example of how to evaluate various products by comparing the properties associated with particle surface area. Data from the product reports is compiled into a table so the reader can compare products based on costs and particle surface area. Surface area is expressed in square centimeters (cm 2) per milliliter (mL) of colloidal solution, and is written as (cm 2/mL).

1. Manufacturing Process: It should be manufactured by the electro-colloidal process, meaning that ultra-fine particles of silver are suspended in pure water by an electrical charge placed on the silver. This process is done without the use of chemical solvents or chemical stabilizers.

2. Purity: High quality colloidal silver consists of pure water and 99.999% pharmaceutical grade silver. Manufacturers are required to conduct microbiology testing to guarantee that the product is free of contamination.

3. Particle Size: To insure proper absorption and assimilation, the particles of silver should be less than one (1) micron in diameter.

4. Concentration: For use on a regular basis the concentration should be between 5 and 20 ppm of silver. Highly concentrated colloidal silver products may be a health risk if taken internally on a regular basis and should only be used under a medical doctor�s supervision.

5. Additives: Colloidal silver should not contain any silver proteins, chemical stabilizers like E.D.T.A., P.V.P., carbopol resin, or any other chemical additive.

6. Color: The rule of thumb in colloidal chemistry is the smaller the silver particle size the lighter the color. Colloidal silver produced by modern technology should be clear to light yellow in color. Avoid products that are murky, brown, grey, black, or that contain yellow food coloring. Golden yellow solutions are indicative of products containing a larger particle size, silver protein, or stabilizers, similar to the type of colloidal silver that was produced in the early 1900s.

7. PH: The pH should be neutral (alkaline). Low pH (acidic) products can indicate the use of chemicals. It can also be an indication that the silver particles are �falling out� of solution.

8. Shelf Life: A quality colloidal silver product should have a guaranteed shelf life of more than one year. The solution should be free of any sediment or particles of silver floating in the liquid or settled on the bottom of the bottle. High quality colloidal silver can be bottled in plastic or glass without any effect on the product.

9. Outdated Technology: Colloidal silver was commonly used in the early 1900s prior to the advent of antibiotics. At that time technology was not advanced enough to create colloidal silver without the use of chemical or protein stabilizers. These stabilizers block the charge on the silver particles and bind to the silver to help keep it in suspension; however, it can cause the silver to be retained in the body too long. With today�s advanced technology it is no longer necessary to manufacture colloidal silver using chemical or protein additives.

10. Concentrates: Concentrates of colloidal silver should not be diluted. Colloidal silver should be used in the same concentration in which it is formulated. When colloidal silver is manufactured correctly, the electrical charge is passed through the water and silver simultaneously. When colloidal silver concentrate is diluted by water the disruption in the electrical charge can significantly decrease the efficacy of the product.

11. Tyndall Effect: The Tyndall test is outdated. It was used decades ago by chemists to determine if a colloidal silver product contained any silver suspended in the solution. This method can still be used, but it only works for products containing large silver particles. In order to get a Tyndall effect the particles must be large enough to refract light. The new ultra-fine colloidal silver products that contain silver particles less than one micron in diameter will exhibit very little, if any, Tyndall effect, therefore rendering this type of test obsolete.

12. FDA: According to Federal regulations, colloidal silver must be manufactured in a registered FDA facility and be subject to strict quality control. Distributors of colloidal silver should be issued a certificate of analysis from the company from which they buy colloidal silver. This analysis should specify purity, microbiology testing, silver particle size, concentration (ppm), and use of chemical stabilizers, pH, and color. Information provided by Bob Beck and G. Henry Collins. For more information call 310-452-8649.

In short, what the researchers found is that when they used the liquid silver solution in conjunction with the antibiotic drugs that had previously lost their effectiveness against MRSA and other deadly super pathogens, the antibiotics began to work again. 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!

Case #2: Iranian Clinical Study Proves Silver Increases Effectiveness of Antibiotic Drugs Against Staph:   This study was conducted by the Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Medical Nanotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of Tehran, Iran. Say what you will about the Iranians, but when they do a medical study, they do it up right. Apparently Iranian scientists were two full months ahead of the Brigham-Young team above in proving that the addition of silver to antibiotic drugs boosts their ability to kill resistant staphylococcus aureaus.

The study was called, "Synthesis and effect of silver nan oparticles on the antibacterial activity of different antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli." In part, the researchers demonstrated:

"Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have been known to have inhibitory and bactericidal effects. Resistance to antimicrobial agents by pathogenic bacteria has emerged in recent years and is a major health problem. …these [silver] nanoparticles were evaluated for their part in increasing the antimicrobial activities of various antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The antibacterial activities of penicillin G, amoxicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, and vancomycin were increased in the presence of silver nano-particles (Ag-NPs) against both test strains. The highest enhancing effects were observed for vancomycin, amoxicillin, and penicillin G against S. aureus."

So once again we see that it is the addition of silver to the three specific antibiotics (vancomycin, amoxicillin and penicillin) that almost magically renews the effectiveness of each of these antibiotic drugs against today�s most deadly pathogens, including staphylococcus aureus (aka MRSA). Silver, as usual, is the key!

Case #3: Taiwanese Clinical Study Proves Colloidal Silver By Itself Kills MRSA:   Another study, this one conducted in Taiwan, also demonstrated that silver colloids kill both MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, another deadly and extremely opportunistic superbug. In this study, a special colloidal silver solution was tested on contact surfaces where the deadly pathogens are known to colonize, and from which they can spread to humans. The silver solution proved to be completely effective against both the MRSA and Pseudomonas super pathogens.

The study, which demonstrated conclusively that silver could be applied to contact surfaces to stop colonies of MRSA super pathogens from forming, was titled, "Formation of colloidal silver nanoparticles stabilized by Na(+)-poly(gamma-glutamic acid)-silver nitrate complex via chemical reduction process," and was conducted at the Department of Textile Science, Nanya Institute of Technology, Chung-Li, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan. It was published in the journal Colloids Surface B Biointerfaces in October 2007.

Case #4: Czech Clinical Study Proves Silver Particles Kill MRSA:   This study was conducted at the Department of Physical Chemistry at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. It was later published in the prestigious Journal of Physical Chemistry B in August 2006. Titled "Silver colloidal nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and their antibacterial activity," the study demonstrated that…

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"CS is also incredibly marketable and profitable, and because of this it attracted many unscruplous individuals and companies who marketed it thouroughly, misleading their customers and ignoring established standards of quality. These 'snakeoil' salesmen were so blatant that they attracted the unwanted attention of both the FDA and the AMA.

While it is true that CS is a remarkable substance with a variety of uses, it is important that one become well informed before using using or making this elixer. For this reason LW Publishing has greatly expanded this colloidal silver website, so readers can access the most current and accurate information available. Lightman has been a colloidal advocate since 1999, offering accurate information and free CS generator plans. Included are designs for four colloidal silver generator that you can construct easily at home, using inexpensive and even recycled parts.

"This document will specifically address the properties of colloidal silver solutions that define the overall quality of the solution. The operative definition of a colloid is a solution containing suspended particles whose sizes range from 1 micron down to 0.001 microns (1 nanometer). The particles are suspended in pure water.

This document is intended for those seeking a scientific description of how to measure the relevant properties that define the quality of a colloidal silver solution. This may include labs that are asked to perform quantitative measurements of silver colloids, producers of colloidal silver solutions, producers of machines that make colloidal silver as well as interested consumers who are technically inclined. Recently, much has been written about colloidal silver that lacks scientific validity. This document will discuss the measurement procedures in scientific terms such that an independent lab can duplicate the results described herein."

SILVER CONCENTRATION Silver concentration is most frequently reported as total silver measured in milligrams per liter (mg/L), which is numerically the same as parts-per-million (ppm). The total silver consists of silver in two distinct forms, silver particles and silver ions. While the measurement of total silver is fairly straight forward, the measurement of the ionic silver is less so. It is important to know how much of the total silver consists of particles vs. ions because it is the particles that define the colloid. In most processes used to produce colloidal silver the particles make up only a small fraction of the total silver.

Why is it important to know how much of the total is ionic?  The benefits of colloidal silver are produced by the nanometer sized metallic silver particles .... and not the ions. In most colloidal silver products a large quantity of ionic silver is produced as a by-product of generating the silver particles.   The prominent methods of production are electrochemical processes using either low voltage DC current or high voltage AC. Both the AC and DC process may employ a constant voltage or a constant current source. Both the DC and the high voltage AC produce a significant percentage of the total silver as ionic. Typically, 75 - 99% of total silver is ionic depending on process variables. In some products claiming very high concentration levels, almost the entire silver content is ionic. To state the silver concentration in ppm without specifying what percentage is ionic is misleading to say the least. Therefore, it is important to know what percentage of the silver concentration is ionic to properly evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the product." 

"Summary:  A fixed amount of colloidal silver was ingested each day for several months before a preliminary 24-hour silver balance was attempted by measuring the amount of silver found in feces, urine, nails, hair and perspiration. After estimating the amount of silver produced in 24 hours from each of these sources, it was concluded that urine and feces provide a good first approximation of the total amount of silver excreted by the body. This study was followed by a second more extensive effort which was designed to monitor the residual quantity of silver eliminated over time by estimating the weight of silver in feces and urine from weekly (and later, tri-weekly) 24 hr. samples. During this period, a single test was made in an attempt to demonstrate the influence of water intake on the quantity of silver excreted in urine.

Conclusions Ingestion of properly prepared CS does not result in silver accumulating in the body. There is no evidence that silver deposits significantly in hair or fingernails and, in fact, the data support the conclusion that after taking more than 2 mg of CS per day for several months, silver seems to be purged from the body (mostly through urine) at about the same rate at which it is consumed. Furthermore, upon terminating CS intake, it appears that as much as half the silver residing in body tissue will be purged (through urine and feces, but more and more through feces as time goes on) in less than a month. Even this relatively short residence time could be reduced substantially if several liters of water were consumed daily."

"Many ionic silver products are promoted using in vitro tests that claim to prove their effectiveness against bacteria and other pathogens. The design of most of these test protocols are severely flawed resulting in conclusions that are at best misleading and at worst completely false."

Example  "colloidal silver solution:  – A solution containing pure water and nanometer sized silver particles in a colloidal suspension. Most silver colloids also contain silver ions . Typically, the silver in ionic form constitutes 90% or more of the total silver in solution . If the solution contained all ions and no particles, it would be considered an ionic solution, not a colloid since there would be no particles suspended in the water. If the solution contained only particles and no ions, it would be considered a pure colloid. The particles remain suspended in the water owing to a particle charge which causes an electrostatic mutual repulsion of the particles. This particle charge is due to adsorption of ions from the surrounding solution and is called zeta potential."

Silver-containing products are used in hospital and hotel water distribution systems to control infectious agents (e.g., Legionella).

Silver has been used to sterilize recycled water aboard the MIR space station and on the NASA space shuttle

Silver is a health additive in traditional Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic medicine.

In Mexico, supermarkets sell Microdyn, colloidal silver in gelatin, to disinfect salad vegetables and drinking water. Johnson Chemicals (UK) uses an inorganic composite with immobilized slow-release silver as a preservative in cosmetics and toiletries.

In Japan, a new compound is mixed into plastics for lasting antimicrobial protection of telephone receivers, calculators, toilet seats, and children's toys.

Metallic silver-copper containing ceramic disks, marketed as "Clean Power Plus," are sold as an alternative to laundry detergents. Silver addition to fabrics (similar to clinical use of Ag-nylon) is proposed to reduce buildup of microbial populations and therefore offensive smells in camping gear and clothing. While folk remedies and "snake oil" preparations are not the same, they are coupled here as representative of applications with suspect benefit. Over-the-counter Ag+ health food supplements are probably not effective20 and are frequently mislabeled.

Silver Used By Big Business to Make Antimicrobial Clothing

Many companies are now producing silver-based antimicrobial clothing and fabric products including shoes, socks, sportswear, dish rags, facial towels, sleeping bags and more. This has been made possible, in part, by a company called Noble Fiber Technologies (NFT) of Clarks Summit, PA which developed and patented a process by which nylon fused with silver ions is woven into a variety of fabrics. The patented process is called X-Static®. Following is a brief list of new, silver- based fabric products using the X-Static® process, currently being offered by U.S. companies, and marketed for their antibacterial and antifungal properties. Note that the FDA and FTC apparently accept the antimicrobial claims these companies make about their silver-based fabric products, and do not harass them. Yet the very same claims made by colloidal silver vendors are automatic grounds for threats, fines, and even property seizures by the medical bureaucrats!

Acor Shoes – A specialty manufacturer of shoes for diabetics. Silver fiber is impregnated into these shoes to prevent foot fungus and bacteria from growing. This is extremely important to diabetics as they are prone to serious foot infections such as gangrene, which can result in amputation of the foot or limb if infection is allowed to set in.

Marmot – A major U.S. manufacture of outdoor equipment. Silver fiber is used by this company to prevent bacteria and fungi from growing in their special line of down sleeping bags and cold-weather jackets, as well as cross country ski clothing, hiking clothing and cycling Jerseys.

Spyder Gear – A major U.S. manufacturer of sports apparel. This company now weaves silver fiber into a wide variety of sports apparel to provide sustained antibacterial and antifungal action during prolonged sporting events such as cycle races or cross country skiing. The non-clinical uses of silver appear endless, with one possible, detrimental side-effect being the lessening of its usefulness as an antimicrobial agent.

Home appliances: Here is a brief excerpt from a recent Samsung press release describing this phenomenal new innovation:

New Delhi, March 4, 2005: Samsung India Electronics, a leader in consumer technology products, today announced the launch of an entire range of “Silver Nano Health System,” home appliances. Over 55 new models of washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners will be available with sophisticated silver-technology that minimizes the spread of bacteria in the home.

…Samsung chose to use silver because it is a safe and healthy method of sanitizing and deodorizing surfaces that come in contact with food and skin. “Silver Nano technology will help prevent bacteria from growing in your washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners,” said H. C. Ryu, Director – Sales and Marketing, Samsung South West Asia. “The interior of Samsung refrigerators and filters of air conditioners are now coated with nano-size silver that brings anti-bacterial and deodorization benefits, ensuring that the clothes you wear, the air you breathe and food you eat are fresh and safe for your health and the environment,” Mr. Ryu added.

Silver Used by Goverments to Help Fight the Spread of Deadly Contagions and Bioterorism:

The recent outbreaks of highly contagious drug resistant illnesses such as SARS, Avian (Bird) Flu, and other deadly pathogens, as well as the ever-increasing threat of bio-terrorism, has spawned a new strategy for dealing with these contagions –– a new way of thinking. The idea is to use silver ion-based technology to reduce the spread of contagious microorganisms through continuous decontamination of all surface areas that humans may come into contact with. In short, they are sterilizing contact surfaces by coating or impregnating them with silver ions!

The idea of sterilizing contact surfaces is nothing new, of course. There are dozens of antiseptic cleaning products that do a very good job at killing germs on contact. The problem is, this protection only lasts as long as the product is present on the contact surface. Most antiseptic products used for cleaning surfaces break down quickly, and therefore must be reapplied frequently throughout the day in order to maintain their germ-killing effect. Any surface that has been cleaned can become re-contaminated with dangerous microbes within a very short period of time if the antiseptic cleaning product is not re-applied over and over again throughout the day. Microbes can be carried to contact surfaces on something as innocuous as a small breeze from a person walking by……or a sneeze or cough that sends billions of microbes into the air in a room. It is for this very reason that hospitals have large full-time cleaning crews that are constantly cleaning and sterilizing doorknobs, counter tops, floors etc. Yet hospitals are nevertheless among the most contaminated public buildings in the world. Microbes such as the deadly staphylococcus (staph), have made hospitals their favorite stomping grounds. In short, hospitals have been fighting a losing battle for years.

Former CIA microbiologist, Larry Harris, stated that silver is known to be effective against multiple disease-causing pathogenic microorganisms, including anthrax, diphtheria, influenza, whooping cough, and typhoid. In fact, it appears to be nature's most powerful antibiotic. According to experts, no microorganism ever tested has been able to stay alive for more than six minutes when exposed directly to colloidal silver. It is also recognized as one of the most potent antidotes for food poisoning. It has been recognized that silver disables the specific enzyme that many forms of bacteria, viruses and fungi utilize for their metabolism. When silver nears a virus, fungi, bacterium or any single-celled microbe it is effective against, it disables the oxygen-metabolism enzyme. This destroys the microbe's ability to “breath” and within a few minutes, the pathogen suffocates and dies. The dead germ and its toxins are then cleared out of the body by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems. It is not exactly clear how silver disrupts the enzymes in these single celled animals, but it is believed that the silver's natural positive electrical charge is influential. This is why colloidal silver is the absolute best form of silver for fighting infection and related infectious diseases.

Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, which destroy beneficial bodily enzymes, colloidal silver leaves our bodies tissue and cell enzymes intact, as they are different than enzymes found in single celled pathogens. Thus colloidal silver is generally considered safe for humans, pets, plants and all multi-celled living matter. Some health care professionals believe silver may be linked to the proper functioning of our immune system and that people with inadequate intakes of silver may be more prone to infection.

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”-- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus”Physician, heal thyself.”-- Luke 4:23This doctor recommended, clinically tested colloidal silver has been successfully used in African hospitals to treat malaria, cholera, AIDS, flu, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureaus), hepatitis, respiratory infections (pneumonia, bronchitis), tuberculosis, gonorrhea, sinus infections, food poisoning, vaginitis, staph and strep infections, thrush, burns, wounds, skin infections, diaper rash ... and the list goes on and on.

"ABRAHAM R. LIBOFF, Ph.D. Toward an Electromagnetic Paradigm for Biology and Medicine, THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE, Volume 10, Number 1, 2004, pp. 41–47. ABSTRACT: Work by Lund, Burr, Becker, and others leads to the inescapable conclusion that organisms tend to express quasisystemic electric changes when perturbed, and, conversely, will tend toward wellness either through endogenous repair currents or the application of equivalent external currents."

"Every living organism is completely described by an electromagnetic field vector Po that is specifically determined by a transformation from the genome. All pathologies, abnormalities and traumas are manifested by deviations from the normal field Po, and, within limits, these deviations are compensated for by the homeostatic tendency of the system to return to Po."