Jen (Australia) on 11/01/2022
I would be interested to hear more of this "treatment"!! And any side effects!!??
In good health Jen
Replied By Art (California) on 11/01/2022
There is not one single documented case in science of a person getting argyria from using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and when you understand how argyria develops in the first place, it makes sense that you wouldn't get argyria from AgNPs because the particles are too large to be able to easily enter cells, a critical step required for the development of argyria.
Silver ions are significantly smaller than AgNPs and these ions can enter into cells because of their very small size, but once inside the cell they can bond to other molecules in the cell and once they bond, they are then too large to be able to ever exit the cell and that is why argyria is irreversible. These combined molecules can be photo reactive and change color when exposed to various light sources such as the sun and if the cells containing these molecules are close to the surface of the skin, it can give the skin a bluish gray color. This is similar to the process involved in the development of old polaroid pictures. Once the photo was ejected from the camera, the photo reacted with the surrounding light in the room and slowly developed over the period of about a minute or two.
The person who is famous for argyria is Paul Karason, but at the time that he was popular, he was making his own silver at home and at that time, making AgNPs at home was not common at all unless you were a scientist with access to a lab, which he wasn't. What ever he was making, it was capable of causing argyria, but he was taking massive amounts of it everyday. He kept taking what he was making even after he started turning blue and this got him on many talk shows which made him famous. Why would anyone continue to take something that he knew was turning him blue?
By comparison, a friend of mine who had HIV and no insurance took 16 ounces of yellow 20 ppm AgNPs everyday for two years to control his HIV until he could get insurance again. He did not turn blue or get argyria.
I myself have been using AgNPs as needed for years and I have not turned blue. Even silver ions when taken at dosing levels that most people would use to treat different ailments is not enough to cause argyria. It takes very large amounts for long periods of time that most people would never use.
Art
Replied By Jen (Australia) on 11/02/2022
What a great detailed explanation. Thank you... the info I have is from a trustworthy source... so I shall if I may, print out your explanation and hand it over to the person who told me otherwise!!??
Replied By Jen (Australia) on 11/02/2022
Just came across these comments re Agyria:https://ted.earthclinic.com/supplements/colloidal_silver.html
Replied By Art (California) on 11/02/2022
Jen,Ted is a brilliant man, but there are some things he is wrong about in what he wrote that you linked to. Argyria is irreversible and there has been no research to date to show otherwise :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563123/
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2004/0915/p1174.html
https://aoemj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40557-017-0201-0
In a description Ted says the following :
' However, there is ANOTHER way, that DOES NOT REQUIRE you to wait for three days to fully digest the free Silver. When I make a batch of colloidal silver, using the silver wire or silver rods as an electrode using any D.C. adapter, the BEGINNING solution is distilled water with a 0.5% H2O2 concentration, which is 1/2 percent H2O2 concentration, or approximate amount such as one tablespoon (plastic spoons!) of 3% H2O2 in a 1 or 1.5 liter of colloidal silver is generally sufficient, to prevent any free metal silver form occuring. '
What he is describing is not colloidal silver as he used no reducing agent and using "any DC adapter" without also using current limiting will not allow you to accurately know what parts per million batch you are making.
That post by Ted appears to have been made in 2007 and like all of Ted's posts, they are not static and as time passes and new information is brought forth, Ted always updated his protocols as the science dictated. I feel certain that if Ted was still posting and updating his protocols as was his usual, his writings about colloidal silver would have evolved and would look significantly different today than they did 15 years ago.
Art
Replied By Katzie (Canada) on 11/10/2022
Also - remember that the "smurf" guy drank a gallon of Colloidal Silver brewed with salt, every day!! That is bad, just all bad. And look what it did! He was probably paid to do that by BigHarma as a turnoff to the masses about Colloidal Silver (it worked). Smurf guy even admitted he drank too much of it. Nobody needs that much, but what he drank was actually called Colloidal Silver Iodide. There is information out there about the dangers of brewing CS with salt (to speed up the process, what a ridiculous reason! ). Don't do it. Get or make the good stuff only. Please.