by Ben Taylor (UtopiaSilver.com)
The question “are colloidal silver products safe?” depends on what kind of silver products we're talking about and who is defining what “safe” means. Utopia Silver's colloidal silver, taken according to our maintenance dose suggestions, contains less than one third the amount of silver referenced as safe to be taken every day by the EPA (350 micrograms) in their drinking water standards. It is probable that their reference guidelines are artificially low considering pharmaceutical company and government agency bias against silver.
Drinking water contains a broad spectrum of naturally occurring minerals- both those essential to good health and those known to be harmful to health- such as Mercury and Lead. Utopia Silver Supplement’s suggested daily maintenance serving contains approximately 100 micrograms of silver. That equates to approximately three and one half teaspoons of our Advanced Colloidal Silver product. If it is safe to drink from the public water supplies of America containing naturally occurring silver, it is perfectly safe to use silver as a dietary supplement, even above the suggested serving for any purpose you choose-whether internal or external.
Silver Has No Known Toxic Level
Silver is one of the minerals for which there is no established or known toxic level. The worst that can happen when the "wrong" kind of high ppm/large particle silver produced with silver nitrate in animal protein is a cosmetic skin discoloration called Argyria. Even that has to be consumed for an extended period in excess of any therapeutic levels. These products are not colloids at all, but are suspensions of silver in animal protein, gelatin, or saline solutions. Our Advanced Colloidal Silver is not a protein, not a gelatin, and not a saline based product. It is simply the mineral silver and de-ionized water.
Forensic toxicologists accept that there is no known toxic level that has been established for the minerals silver or gold. Silver is one of the few substances that has a reference dose not based on an adverse health effect and for which the EPA removed the maximum silver contaminate level for drinking water. This action was obviously driven by the recognized non-toxicity associated with this immune boosting mineral.
Many Essential Minerals Can Be Toxic In Excess
There are many essential minerals without which we cannot survive that are also acutely toxic in excess. One of the most important is Iron. We can’t live without Iron in our blood, but too much can cause liver damage and even death. Without zinc our immune systems are severely compromised, but zinc toxicity can also cause severe sickness. The same goes for most minerals essential to good health- such as chromium, vanadium, selenium, calcium, iodine, etc.
Anything can be abused or misused. An aspirin or two may relieve a headache, but a bottle of aspirin taken at one time can cause death. Most over-the-counter pain medications cause thousands of deaths and thousands of damaged organs each year. Patented antibiotics also cause thousands of deaths each year. Over-consumption of drinking water in a short time span kills a number of people each year by severely diluting the electrolytes or rupturing the stomach, …but should any of these be what defines our use of water?
One rare possibility to be aware of concerning silver and gold. There are a very small percentage of people who have allergies to these metals. If you cannot wear silver or gold jewelry because of allergic reactions, it may be best not to supplement with them either.
How Can Low Content Colloidal Silver Be Beneficial?
You may ask: How can such a small amount of silver have a positive effect within the body? The secret is in the infinitesimal size (nanometers) of the silver particles. A million of these silver particles could sit side by side on a cross section of a human hair. The reason nano-sized silver particles work so well is that more of the surface area of silver atoms are exposed to the body’s fluid environment. This allows these tiny particles to penetrate even the deepest tissues of the body and thereby supporting the immune system against bacteria and viruses. These silver nanoparticles are smaller than any blood cell, bacteria, fungus spore, or even virus. This is the key to the effectiveness of Advanced Colloidal Silver and the primary reason a low ppm silver product is all that is required to be effective. You need not take any large particle/high ppm silver product for a beneficial effect.
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