Re: Re:colodial silver - My Opinion - to Ian

[Guest guest]

Hello Ian,

When I say she had it tested, I meant to say that they tested it for PURITY

only, and nothing else. All the common contaminants found in many over the

counter products, like benzene, isopropyl alchohol, pcbs, etc....

She didn't really discuss with us the PPM comparison or anything else

really. She just wanted to make sure it was " clean " . Remember - it is the

silver

ION that makes silver the wonderful antibiotic that it is. " PPM " comparisons

can be misleading.

Below is an except from a newsletter that the manufacturer of Silver 100

released. PLEASE - know that I am NOT trying to hock product here, but I

believe anyone truly interested in using silver and knowing as much as they can,

will enjoy this information.

Silver100 is the only patented Silver product on the market. Jay Newman

from Invision International is the inventor and his whole life revolves around

silver and these products. He is very informative. These are his words - not

mine.

If anyone is unintersted in this info, please delete.

Take care.

Nina - HHP

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How does Silver 100â„¢ Ionic Silver Complex differ from " colloidal " silver?

– Additional information

COLLOIDAL SILVER

Colloidal silver particles are called " colloidal " simply because they are

not dissolved in solution in the water, yet they aren't floating to the top or

sinking to the bottom—they rather " hang " in suspension in the water. The term

has no mysterious meaning other than that. (Note that the textbook

definitions of " colloidal " vary in that sometimes a particular particle size

range is

specified, and sometimes the term " solution " is, in fact, attributed to

colloidal suspensions although it's usually qualified by being called a

" colloidal

solution " to differentiate it from an " actual " solution where a substance is

" dissolved " in the water.)

Colloidal silver can provide a decent delivery system of silver ions, but

the process used to make colloidal silver has substantial limitations in terms

of the inability to deliver an adequate concentration of silver as ions, and

also in terms of consistency, purity, and shelf life.

Colloidal silver is typically produced through a rather crude,

hundred-year-old process known as electrolysis. The electrolysis process used

to make

colloidal silver involves placing two metal rods, at least one of which his

made

out of silver, into a vat of water and then conducting electricity across the

two rods through the water. Tiny pieces of the silver rod break off into the

water. These pieces of silver hanging in colloidal suspension in the water

are largely made up of inert, atomic silver, but have some silver ions spread

through them.

When ingested, these colloidal silver particles are intended to release

silver ions in a gradual manner as the body's chemistry breaks down the silver

particles, affording the opportunity for mobility through the system and

allowing a gradual release of free ions in the system. Because the particles

have

some mass to them, mobility and timed release of the silver ions is

facilitated since the body gradually breaks down these particles.

While colloidal silver has often been reputed as being able to do marvels,

the technology is inherently very limited and enables only a fraction of the

potential that we believe is possible with silver ions.

The useful concentration of colloidal silver is limited to about 5 to 10 or

possibly as high as 20 ppm. Even at the optimally low levels of silver

concentration below 15 to 20 ppm, a large portion of the silver in colloidal

silver

is inert. It is inert, atomic silver, rather than silver ions. It's just

there to provide the delivery mechanism for the small portion of those

particles

that consists of ions.

The electrolytic production process through which it's made has an almost

instantaneous point of diminishing returns: the more silver that goes into the

water, the smaller the percentage of ions in those pieces of silver. At

around 10 to 15 ppm of silver this point of diminishing returns has already

become

a major limitation. According to many scientific experts, by the time the

silver concentration reaches about 15 to 20 ppm, the point of saturation has

essentially been passed and there will be virtually no silver ion content at

all in any additional silver that goes into the water.

SILVER 100â„¢ WITH OPTI-SILVERâ„¢

The key ingredient in Silver 100â„¢ is called Opti-Silverâ„¢.

Silver 100â„¢ with Opti-Silverâ„¢ consists of silver ions complexed through a

very deliberate fashion with a specific form citrate in order to temporarily

" plug up " the missing electron positions on the silver ions. Potassium is

added for electrical stability while in the bottle. The formula is designed so

that the silver ions will remain " married " to the citrate virtually

indefinitely while in the bottle, but to efficiently deliver the silver into

the system

and then gradually release it as ions once it's exposed to the body's

chemistry. Citrate, a key constituent of the metabolic system and of the Krebs

cycle, is aggressively drawn to the cells throughout the body, and we believe

this

characteristic further facilitates the efficient delivery of silver ions

into the system.

Our unique, proprietary method of marrying silver ions with the specific

form of citrate that we utilize is deliberately designed to entirely overcome

the inherent limitations of colloidal silver technology and provide a 100-ppm

silver concentration that can deliver all of its to the body silver as ions

and do so in an extremely efficient manner, providing the slow, gradual release

of silver ions that's desired and delivering them where they body needs

them.

The production method through with Silver 100â„¢ is made completely lends

itself to pharmaceutical grade standards in the manufacturing process, enabling

the product to be entirely consistent from batch to batch, to be extremely

pure, and to have many years of shelf life.

The Opti-Silverâ„¢ ingredient is so small it can't even be seen under an

electron microscope.

The ingredients in Silver 100â„¢ are all common constituents of our diet. It

contains only silver, citrate, potassium and pure water. The ingredients are

all dissolved in solution in the water. No electrolysis is used in the

manufacturing process, and no oxides exist in the product. Silver 100â„¢ is

virtually

clear in color, with a very slight silver tint, which is the color you would

expect to get with a 100-ppm silver formula that has not undergone oxidation.

What's the particle size of Silver 100â„¢?

– Additional information

Colloidal silver particles typically range from about 0.0003 to about 0.01

microns in diameter. In an effort to stand out from the pack of hundreds of

colloidal silver products, some colloidal silver manufacturers are claiming to

have smaller particles. This is not only untrue in many cases, but worse,

it's actually quite undesirable with colloidal silver in the first place. It

defeats the entire purpose of why colloidal silver is made. Since colloidal

silver relies on the mass of the particles of silver, which are largely inert,

atomic silver, to " encase " the silver ions within them and carry them into the

body's system, the best performing colloidal silver products, based on our

experience, have particles at the middle to higher end of the typical range of

colloidal silver particle sizes.

Colloidal silver manufacturers that claim to have smaller particles often

talk about the ability of these smaller particles to get into the cells, but

the fact is that this whole line of thought is entirely meaningless, for three

reasons:

1) Even the colloidal silver particles at the higher end of the typical

size range are already far smaller than the body's cells and far smaller than

virtually any microorganism in the body.

2) Colloidal silver particles are gradually broken down by the body's

chemistry and therefore will become smaller and smaller once exposed to the

body's

chemistry. This is why the medium and larger sized particles work best—they

provide the gradual release mechanism for the ions within them that's

desired. To have just the smallest particles completely misses the boat on this

issue.

3) The particle of colloidal silver itself is not what's needed for doing

the actual work, just the ion that ultimately gets released. The ion is always

far smaller than any cell or microorganism. The particle of colloidal

silver, however, needs to have mass to deliver the ion—to get it to the

cells.

The goal with colloidal silver is to have some size or mass to the particles

in order to serve as the delivery mechanism.

While " smaller " size sounds nice to the lay person and would appear to

facilitate absorption into the cells, the goal with delivering silver ions is

not

a matter of absorption or getting them into the cells as much as providing a

delivery mechanism that will carry them to where they need to go and then

slowly releasing them. One could say that the challenge with silver ions is

that

they are " absorbed " too readily by the body to be effective unless that this

absorption is deliberately controlled for efficiency, which is exactly what

Silver 100â„¢ is specifically designed to do.

By the way, we're now even seeing some silver products claiming to have only

the very smallest particles, measuring them in angstroms (under 0.001

microns), and while this sounds very nice to the layperson, the lack of an

efficient delivery mechanism makes this extremely undesirable. At that level,

they're

approaching, if not, in fact, reaching the level of having " free " silver

ions, which is exactly what doesn't work well in the body and what all the

science surrounding silver ion delivery, including colloidal silver, is

intended

to overcome. That's why colloidal silver is made in the first place. The

products that delivery free silver ions, such as silver nitrate and silver

acetate, were abandoned decades ago because they don't work very well since

they

have no delivery mechanism.

The fact that some colloidal silver manufacturers are going to smaller

particles to appear competitive, in spite of the fact that doing this is moving

away from the very purpose behind colloidal silver, speaks to the fact that the

entire technology is quite antiquated and obsolete.

Why is Silver 100â„¢ superior to colloidal silver with even 500 ppm or more of

silver?

– Additional information

The electrolytic production method by which colloidal silver is made is

inherently very limited. As soon as silver particles start to go into the water

during the production process, an almost immediate point of diminishing

returns is reached, whereby the more silver that goes into the water, the

smaller

the percentage of those silver particles is made up of ions. Any additional

silver that exceeds a silver concentration of roughly about 5 to 15 ppm, or

perhaps 20 ppm at most, ppm is essentially useless silver because you stop

getting ions above about 15 ppm.

Today, many manufacturers produce colloidal silver products above 10 to 20

ppm—some go as high as 500 ppm or even over 1,000 ppm—in spite of the fact

that they provide no more ions and therefore no more effectiveness than a

colloidal silver product containing 10 to 20 ppm of silver. The higher ppm

looks

nice on the label and in advertising, but scientists know that this higher ppm

is meaningless.

Because colloidal silver is limited to very low silver concentrations before

the rest has no ions, colloidal silver that is above about 15 to 20 ppm is

believed by many scientists to be about equal in its ability to deliver silver

ions as is a colloidal silver that contains higher concentration levels—even

to those containing 500 or even 1,000 ppm of silver—assuming that equal

quantities of either product are consumed. Therefore, while higher ppm levels

look nice in marketing, users end up consuming a lot of silver that is not

delivering any ions.

The fact that some colloidal silver manufacturers are increasing the ppm of

their products in order to appear more potent on the label, in spite of the

fact that these higher silver concentrations move away from the effective

range of colloidal silver in terms of silver ion content, is yet another

illustration of the fact that the basic concept of using colloidal silver to

deliver

silver ions is outdated and the technology has hit its peak and is moving

backwards for marketing purposes.

KEEPING " PPM " IN THE PROPER CONTEXT

Some colloidal silver manufacturers have been knows to state that a low

concentration level of colloidal silver, say, 5 or 10 ppm, " is best " , or " works

best " . (Some even go as far as to say it's safer.) The reason for these types

of claims, of course, is not because the body responds better to a lower

concentration, but rather, as we've explained, because higher concentrations of

" colloidal " silver products don't increase the concentrations of silver ions,

just of inert, atomic silver. This, of course, is not at all a limitation

with Silver 100â„¢.

There really is no " ppm " that is " best. " The body doesn't really care what

ppm the silver comes in, only the total that is consumed and, we believe, of

course, the efficiency with which it delivers ions. For instance, whether you

take ten 50-milligram tablets of vitamin C or one 500-milligram tablet makes

no difference to the body; it's still a total of 500 milligrams of vitamin C.

The reason Silver 100â„¢ contains " 100 ppm " of silver is that this is a good

balance between having a highly efficient concentration of silver while also

allowing a user the ability to use only a small amount as desired.

If all things were equal—which they certainly are not since colloidal silver

can't get even close to 100 ppm of sliver and still hope to deliver more

than a small fraction of its silver as ions—the only issue that would really

be

pertinent regarding ppm is cost to the consumer. To get a given quantity of

silver, as with anything else, you'd simply compare the total of each product

that you'd have to use to get an equal amount of silver, and then compare

costs. Naturally, since Silver 100â„¢ is designed to be entirely superior to

colloidal silver in terms of silver ion delivery, this plays a major factor in

comparing cost, making Silver 100â„¢ far more economical to use than virtually

any

colloidal silver product.

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