What is Ionic Colloidal Silver?

There is actually a lot of debate on the internet about particulate vs ionic silver. Some colloidal silver manufacturers claim that only "particulate" silver is truecolloidal silver and as such, always works best, while ionic silver is somehow its vastly inferior cousin.

Ionic Silver is another step forward from Colloidal Silver.

Lab Study Concludes: Ionic Silver is up to 10,000 times more effective.

 In reality, ionic silver solutions are not in the least bit inferior to particulate silver solutions. In fact, recent studies have shown quite the opposite. As you'll see on this link, ionic silver solutions have been demonstrated to be up to 10,000 times more effective against pathogensthan particulate silver solutions.
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Ionic Silver is another step forward from Colloidal Silver.

 When colloidal silver is stored over a period of time, the particles tend to agglomerate (clog) and build even larger clusters... which then reduces the amount amount of usefulsilver ions, thereby reducing the silver's effectiveness.

 What Doctors Say About Silver

 Dr. Harry Margraf, a biochemist and pioneering silver researcher who worked with the late Carl Moyer, M.D., chairman of Washington University's Department of Surgery in the 1970s:"Silver is the best all-around germ fighter we have."

 Science Digest cites colloidal silver as "...a wonder of modern medicine," and further states"Antibiotics kill perhaps a half dozen different disease organisms, but silver kills some 650. Resistant strains fail to develop.Moreover, silver is non-toxic. Colloidal silver, used as an anti-microbial agent, will not create super bugs as antibiotics do."

 Alfred Searle, founder of the giant Searle Pharmaceuticals (now Monsanto) stated,"Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results.For internal administration ... it has the advantage being rapidly fatal to pathogens without toxic action on its host. It is quite stable." Further information indicates that Colloidal Silver does not cause harmful interactions with other medications or topical treatments.

 In laboratory tests with colloidal silver, bacteria, viruses, and fungal organisms are killed within minutes of contact. Larry C. Ford, M.D. of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine, Centre For The Health Sciences reported in November 1, 1988, " I tested them (the silver solutions) using standard anti-microbial tests for disinfectants. The silver solutions were anti-bacterial for concentrations of 105 organisms per ml of Streptococcus Pyogenes, Staphylococcus Aureus, Neisseria Gonorrhea, Gardnerella Vaginalis, Salmonella Typhi and other enteric pathogens, and fungicidal for Candida Albicans, Candida Globata and M. Furfur."

 Dr. Robert O. Becker, MD, noted biomedical researcher from Syracuse University, and author of The Body Electric and Cross Currents, recognized a correlation between low silver levels and sickness. He said silver deficiency is responsible for the improper functioning of the immune system.“What we have done is rediscover the fact that silver killed bacteria, which had been known for centuries.” In the process of his work,

 Dr. Becker discovered that he had wiped out types of bacteria across the board, even those that were resistant to antibiotics." Regarding the innate ability of metallic silver to control infection, Dr. Becker said: "all of the organisms that we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics." On the safety of silver, he said,"in no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent."

 Dr. Bart Flickof Argentum Medical LLC, another early pioneer in silver medical research, invented FDA approved Silverlon wound contact dressing."The antimicrobial activity of silver rests upon the interaction of silver with the bacteria's cellular membrane. This interaction can occur through the presence of asilver ionin solution or the release of silver in an ionic moiety directly from the surface of metallic silver when a bacterial cell membrane comes in direct contact with the metallic surface."

 Use of Colloids in Health Disease

Ionic-colloidal silver has a higher  ionic silver content, and a smaller percentage of (particulate) colloidal silver content.

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