MSNBC and the Colloidal Silver “Blue Man”

Recently, MSNBC conducted a very interesting follow-up broadcast with Paul Karason, the so-called “Colloidal Silver Blue Man.”

Paul is the man whose skin turned blue after he ingested incredibly excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily, for over a decade.

Once again, Matt Lauer, the MSNBC TV host of The Today Show, interviewed Karason. And overall, he treated Karason with respect and dignity.

More importantly, Lauer got the story right.

He carefully noted that Karason’s doctors had given him a clean bill of health, and accurately stated that none of the rigorous medical tests Mr. Karason had undertaken could find any harm to his internal organs or nervous system from the excessive levels of colloidal silver he’d been ingesting daily for over a decade.

Mike Celizic Blows It

Unfortunately, afterward, MSNBC news journalist Mike Celizic really blew it when he published a news article based upon Matt Lauer’s interview with the colloidal silver “blue man.”

If his article is any indication of his journalistic prowess, Mike may have to go back to journalism class and take a refresher course in fact-checking, and also in errors of omission, before continuing to write for MSNBC News.

Here’s a brief excerpt from Celizic’s article:

"Colloidal silver is a suspension of silver in a liquid base — in this case, distilled water. Silver has antibacterial properties and has been used to fight infection for thousands of years. But it went out of use when penicillin, which is far more effective, was developed.

It continued to be used in some over-the-counter medicines until 1999, when the FDA banned it because it causes argyria, which is a result of the silver reacting with light the same way it does in photography. The silver collects in the skin and other organs and does not dissipate. Karason is blue for life."

What’s wrong with the above statements?

First of all, penicillin is not “far more effective” than colloidal silver. It may have been at one time. But the truth is -- and Celizic should know this -- pathogens have been mutating so rapidly that penicillin today is a mere shell of itself in terms of its effectiveness against the very pathogens it had previously been used to treat.

In fact, some pathogens have developed such a profound immunity to penicillin they can actually feed on it with no adverse effects. This is precisely why the big drug companies have had to come out with increasingly stronger alternatives to penicillin.

What’s more, a 2006 clinical study from BYU (published in Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 7, 10 October 2006) documented the fact that adding colloidal silver to an antibiotic drug such as penicillin actually increases the efficacy of the antibiotic by a factor of as much as tenfold when used against antibiotic-resistant microbes.

In other words, the study demonstrated that standard antibiotics – including penicillin -- tend to work significantly better against antibiotic-resistant microbes when colloidal silver is added!

That should tell you that the antibiotics simply aren’t as effective against today’s new mutated breeds of pathogens, but colloidal silver is still just as effective as ever.

In fact, since way back in the late 1800’s when medical researchers first learned how to run currents of electricity through pure silver wire suspended in water and created the first crude colloidal silver solution, colloidal silver has never lost its powerful infection-fighting qualities against the myriad of pathogens it’s been used to treat.

Even though pathogens are constantly mutating against common antibiotic drugs like penicillin and becoming immune to them, there has been no significant pathogenic immunity developed against silver. Colloidal silver still kills pathogens just as quickly and effectively as it always has.

No FDA “Ban” on Colloidal Silver (At Least, Not Yet)!

Another serious journalistic infraction committed by Mike Celizic in his MSNBC news article was his claim that the FDA had “banned” colloidal silver in “over-the-counter medicines” back in 1999.

Of course, the FDA never “banned” colloidal silver in 1999, or at any other time. No such thing ever happened, folks. And again, MSNBC news writer Mike Celizic should know this, or at least do his homework on claims before printing them.

In reality, the FDA merely wrote and published a position paper in 1999 stating that colloidal silver could not be sold by manufacturers or other vendors with accompanying printed health claims, such as “cures colds and flu” or "natural antibiotic" or "kills germs, fungi and viruses."

In other words, the FDA banned label and advertising claims for the powerful, antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral qualities of colloidal silver, but not the actual sales of the product.

In fact, to this very day, colloidal silver is still sold in every well-stocked health food store in America, throughout Canada, as well as throughout eastern and western Europe, Mexico and South America. Its sale or use has never been “banned.”

But Mike Celizic’s erroneous claim is now being quoted around the internet by people using it as evidence that the FDA has “banned colloidal silver” when nothing of the sort has happened. In my view, that’s a far cry from the concept of responsible journalism.

Why Did FDA Ban Label and Advertising Claims for Colloidal Silver?

So why did the FDA outlaw label and advertising claims for colloidal silver’s powerful antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral qualities back in 1999?

The FDA says it was to prevent the public from being misled into thinking that colloidal silver is an approved over-the-counter drug, rather than a mere nutritional supplement.

But critics say it was because millions of people were turning to relatively inexpensive colloidal silver in place of expensive and potentially dangerous antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral drugs.

In other words, many people believe the FDA banned health claims about colloidal silver, in order to protect drug company profits! (You can read more about it, here.)

10 Million Colloidal Silver Users Can’t Be Wrong

Today, colloidal silver usage is surging. There are an estimated 10 million regular colloidal silver users throughout North America alone, according to published sources. And millions more people who use colloidal silver only periodically, when they’re feeling a bit under the weather, so to speak.

Indeed, the FDA’s 1999 ban on label and advertising claims for colloidal silver actually drew more public attention to the substance than any other single factor in its 100 year history. This helped make colloidal silver one of the most popular nutritional supplements in America virtually overnight.

Even big business has been busy incorporating silver into products because of its powerful antimicrobial benefits. You can read more about it in the article "Big Business Moves Into Silver-Based Antimicrobials in a BIG Way" at this link.

Celizic Got At Least One Thing Right

At least MSNBC news journalist Mike Celizic got one thing right when he wrote that Mr. Karason passed his medical examinations "with flying colors, and was given a clean bill of health."

This clearly demonstrates that the excessive amounts of colloidal silver Paul Karason took daily for over a decade caused him no apparent physical or medical harm, except for the blue-tinted skin.

You may remember all of the predictions of nervous system damage and organ failure made by doctors back in February of 2008, when Paul Karason’s story first came to public attention. Not one of those predictions has come to pass. The only consequence Mr. Karason has suffered from his decade long bout with excessive colloidal silver usage has been the blue skin.

Irresponsible v/s Responsible Usage

Of course, we’re not advocating or making excuses for excessive use of colloidal silver. On the contrary, while some overly enthusiastic colloidal silver advocates have claimed colloidal silver is “harmless at any level,” we have always been advocates of the safe, responsible usage of colloidal silver.

We believe it’s important for natural health advocates to remember that taking any substance in excess, for long periods of time, is generally going to result in some kind of health problem.

If, for example, you drink excessive amounts of carrot juice daily, for long periods of time, your skin will actually turn orange.

But that shouldn't stop you from drinking carrot juice from time to time if you like it. In responsible amounts, carrot juice is extremely healthy for your eyes and skin, your immune system, and for healthy organ function as well.

If you drink water in excess, for long periods of time, you can end up with water intoxication leading to a condition known as hyponatremia. That’s a sodium imbalance that can trigger a massive heart attack.

But of course, responsible daily intake of water is essential to good health and well-being.

Similarly, if you take too many aspirin daily, for long periods of time, you'll end up with bleeding ulcers. You could even end up bleeding to death internally.

But responsible usage of aspirin can relieve pain, protect against blood clots, and even save you from a heart attack.

I could go on and on naming the serious detriments that can be caused by the irresponsible usage of common, everyday beverages, foods, medicines and, yes, even nutritional supplements, all of which are extremely good for you in moderate, responsible dosages. But I think you get the point.

Colloidal Silver Is No Different

Colloidal silver is no different. Used responsibly, it boosts immunity and heals bacterial, fungal and viral infections of all sorts. It even kills the deadly antibiotic-resistant MRSA pathogen (see the medical studies at http://www.colloidalsilvercuresmrsa.com/).

However, used irresponsibly, in excessive dosages for long periods of time, it can turn your skin greyish-blue.

That’s because when colloidal silver is used in excess, your liver and kidneys are unable to flush out all of the silver particles you’ve ingested. And your body ends up pushing the excess mineral silver out toward your skin. There, it can turn grayish blue upon exposure to ultraviolet light (i.e., sunlight).

In other words, sunlight tarnishes the silver that ends up in the skin of people who have used excessive amounts for overly long periods of time. And that is what causes the skin discoloration.

The condition is caused argyria. As we’ve seen from the story of the colloidal silver “blue man,” it is generally a harmless condition, albeit cosmetically unappealing.

Paul Karason, for example, has admitted in previous interviews that he was brewing up extremely concentrated batches of colloidal silver (perhaps as concentrated as 50 to 100 ppm) and drinking between 10 and 20 oz of this highly concentrated solution per day. And he apparently did so for years on end.

That’s a perfect example of the irresponsible (albeit, in his case, unwitting) over-usage of colloidal silver, particularly considering the fact that most experienced users ingest only a teaspoonful to a couple of ounces a day, depending upon whether they are just taking it for general health and immunity purposes, or are battling an active infection.

“The Dose is the Poison”

As Paracelsus, a physician living over 400 years ago who is often referred to as the "Grandfather of Pharmacology,” wisely observed, “The dose is the poison.”

This means that just about anything can be harmful to you, if you take a high enough dosage for a long enough period of time.

FREE “Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage” Report

The key to responsible colloidal silver usage, obviously, is the dosage.

That's why I recommend that people who want to use colloidal silver for its powerful antimicrobial, anti-infection and immune boosting properties download a free copy of the "Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Report" at http://www.thesilveredge.com/.

This FREE report will help you determine the proper dosage of colloidal silver for your body, based upon your own body weight.

What’s great about the report is that the calculations are based upon official EPA figures for maximum safe daily silver intake over an entire lifetime. So thanks to the EPA, you can actually calculate very closely how much colloidal silver you’ll be able to drink each day for the rest of your life, without risking argyria!

Colloidal Silver’s Astonishing Benefits

By the way, brand new medical research indicates that responsible colloidal silver usage may even help prevent blood from clotting, which could prove to be a boon for heart patients.

You may not realize it, but colloidal silver is also used for its antimicrobial qualities by NASA astronauts in the space shuttle, as well as in swimming pools and spas around the world.

The famous natural health author and best-selling author Dr. James Balch, M.D., recommends responsible doses of colloidal silver for over 25 different health conditions in his long-time bestselling book, Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing.

And numerous well-known doctors and health experts – including renowned virologist Dr. Gordon Pedersen -- are now recommending responsible usage of colloidal silver for Swine Flu and other viral pandemics.

Learn More About the Responsible Use of Colloidal Silver

If you'd like to learn more about the responsible use of colloidal silver to boost immunity, heal infections and even prevent and cure illness and disease, you might want to consider obtaining an inexpensive copy of the brand new, full-color, 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets Video from Life & Health Research Group.

The video is chock full of hands-on demonstrations showing you exactly how to use colloidal silver for a myriad of beneficial purposes, such as to heal eye infections, ear infections, sinus infections, sore throat, toenail fungal infections, infected cuts, scrapes and burns, and even intestinal infections, upper respiratory infections, and much more!

It’s the perfect guide for beginning colloidal silver users and for those who simply want to know more about colloidal silver and its many healing and even life-changing benefits.

And for those who may want usage information on colloidal silver that is absolutely encyclopedic in scope, be sure to check out the newly updated, 547-page Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, the world’s #1 best-selling guidebook to responsible colloidal silver usage.

This phenomenal book is the result of over 13 years worth of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage, and over 2,000 interviews with experienced colloidal silver users including medical doctors, naturopaths, nurses, dentists, clinical researchers, and even missionaries who use it to treat natives in foreign lands where antibiotics are scarce.

You’ll find 40 in-depth chapters, including three full chapters on specific dosages for specific diseases!

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that you can’t trust everything you read or hear about colloidal silver in the mainstream news media. Some of it is true. And a lot of it is blatantly false.

Journalists often regurgitate information they receive from other sources, without checking the facts. And sometimes they also end up omitting important information that would otherwise throw an entirely different light on the subject matter.

So you have to be careful, and study for yourself important issues that could impact your health and well-being. Don’t let the mainstream news media be your sole source of information. After all, it’s your life and health that’s at stake.

Helpful links:

http://www.thesilveredge.com/
http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/
http://www.colloidalsilversecretsvideo.com/
http://www.ultimatecolloidalsilvermanual.com/
http://www.colloidalsilvercuresmrsa.com/
http://www.colloidalsilverkillsviruses.com/
http://www.microparticlegenerator.com/
http://www.colloidalsilversecrets.blogspot.com/
http://www.secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/

Using the Colloidal Silver "Blue Man" to Discredit Colloidal Silver Usage

Using the Colloidal Silver “Blue Man” to Discredit Colloidal Silver Usage

People have written to ask me what I think will happen next, in regards to the colloidal silver "blue man" story.

Undoubtedly, the saga of the colloidal silver “blue man” will likely continue to play out, as long as the corporate controlled news media are getting what they want out of it.

As mentioned in previous blog posts on this site, the corporate controlled media are using this single example of a man with a very unusual side effect, which he got from taking excessive daily dosages of colloidal silver for years on end, in order to completely discredit colloidal silver usage.

Indeed, it is obvious to everyone but the most myopic of viewers that the only beneficiaries of the colloidal silver “blue man” sideshow are the major drug companies and the corporate controlled media who rake in hundreds of millions of dollars a year running prescription drug ads for them.

Battling Against Colloidal Silver Since 1999

The drug companies have battled against colloidal silver usage for years, through their front men in the FDA. In 1999 they even tried to have colloidal silver banned by the FDA, but failed.

And every time they have attacked colloidal silver, it has only served to shine the spotlight of truth on this remarkable natural infection-fighting and immune-boosting substance. As a result, to date, the drug companies and their bureaucratic enforcement arm (FDA) have failed to stop the colloidal silver juggernaut. Indeed, today there is now an estimated 10 million colloidal silver users throughout North America alone, and millions more around the world. And the numbers are growing daily.

This is why the medicrats have switched gears. They have finally figured out that they have to be more subtle (actually, more subtil, i.e., sneaky) in their approach if they are to ever get their ban on colloidal silver through.

Emotionally-Laden Propaganada Tactics

So now they are now using emotionally-laden corporate propaganda tactics. They know they have to reach the public emotionally in order to scare them away from colloidal silver, so that once they propose to ban this powerful natural infection-fighting agent again, there won't be much resistance to the idea from the general public.

As part of this new tactic, several years back the various media shills for the medical bureaucrats started pushing the story of the Montana "blue man," Stan Jones -- even going so far as to doctor photos of him to look blue, when in reality he merely had some small patches of skin graying on his face and under his fingernails at the time.

You can read an interview with Mr. Jones on my web site which we conducted with him several years ago. Just click on the "Did Colloidal Silver Turn This Man Blue?” link, and you’ll see how the news media purposely distorted the story for their own ends, and caused Mr. Jones to lose the election to the Montana Senate seat he was running for at the time, as the Libertarian Party candidate.

Gray Skin, No Eyes

Then, shortly afterwards, the bureaucratic medical shills for the drug companies began posting photos of a small handful of argyria victims on certain medical web sites across the internet. But they purposely cut the eyes out of the people in the photos so that the argyria victims looked a hundred times more ghastly than they otherwise would have.

There was absolutely no reason to doctor those photos by cutting out the people's eyes except that it made them look like they came right out of some horrific zombie movie. It increased the emotional impact of the photos by a hundred fold.

If they had wanted to simply preserve the personal privacy of the argyria victims in the photos, they could have easily used the traditional black bar across the eyes, or used pixelation on the face to hide the people's identities. But instead, they did what had the most emotional impact on the viewers of those photos.

Then, they got certain “quackwatch”-style web sites to post links to these photos, publicizing them and claiming the argyria portrayed was the direct result of colloidal silver usage. A little detective work, however, reveals that these particular cases of argyria were caused by the usage of chemical-based prescription silver compounds such as silver nitrate, rather than properly made, electrically generated colloidal silver.

How to Manipulate the Public

Tactics like this are right out of the "how to manipulate the public" propaganda handbooks. And so today, on mainstream internet sites such as the Yahoo "Ask" pages, and many others, you can see people linking to those scary-looking photos of argyria victims, while posting wild warnings about the "dangers" of using colloidal silver. Yet not one of those victims of argyria portrayed in those photos had used properly made, electrically generated colloidal silver.

Now the drug companies have the benefit of the new "blue man," Paul Karason. He's an affable fellow. In fact, after listening to him for awhile, you can’t help but like him. And it is certainly very cool the way he continues to advocate colloidal silver.

But it is also clear the corporate media is using him to promote the idea that colloidal silver usage is dangerous, will "turn you blue," and only "kooky" people like Paul would ever dare risk using it, much less continuing to use it after they turn blue from it.

Kooks and Recluses

Have you noticed, for example, that in every single television interview with Mr. Karason, the host inevitably leads him to talk about his life-long tendency toward reclusiveness?

This is very purposeful, and a very powerful tactic. In fact, it is an emotionally-laden public relations propaganda tactic designed to impact the public psyche. It is like the "lone nut" killers they always trot out for public consumption when there are assassination attempts against major public figures, such as the JFK assassination.

By constantly harping on Paul Karason's lifelong "reclusiveness" the general public is left with the impression that only kooky "recluses" use things like colloidal silver, and they get what they deserve for not joining in with the multitudes and trusting in mainstream medicine.

And of course, the television hosts always conveniently fail to mention the fact that there has never been a recorded death or serious injury, or even a serious adverse event, from colloidal silver usage, other than the half dozen or so people every few decades who take it in excessive amounts and stain their skin.

And they certainly won't tell the public that in contrast, over 120,000 people a year are flat out killed (some would say murdered) by mainstream medicine's prescription drugs, and hundreds of thousands more are injured or suffer from serious adverse events (i.e., side effects), oftentimes permanently.

Scare Tactics: They Use Them, Because They Work

The entire idea behind the "blue man" propaganda saturation campaign is to leave the public believing that mainstream medicine is for "normal" people and is always good for you, whereas natural health is for "nuts," "kooks" and "recluses," and will ultimately hurt you.

They know they have to scare people away from even trying natural health remedies, if they are to stop the growing exodus of people from mainstream medicine. And to do so, they must portray natural health advocates as "nutty" and "kooky" and "reclusive."

And so they use these emotional P.R. and propaganda tactics, because they work better than raw force (i.e., such as outright product bans) which always triggers public resistance and resentment.

The Coming Ban on Colloidal Silver

Ultimately, however, the colloidal silver ban will come. They are just softening up the public, first. They are reducing resistance to a ban on colloidal silver, by portraying it as a substance only mentally challenged "lone nuts" would partake of.

Right now, Health Canada (the Canadian version of the FDA) is sending out public warnings about commercially sold colloidal silver products, and actively soliciting "adverse events" reports on colloidal silver from the public.

This means two things: One, they don't have any significant adverse events reports on colloidal silver in their files, so they have to actively solicit them. Two, once they have compiled some "adverse events" reports, they are planning on using them. In short, they are planning a ban on colloidal silver, and are trying to amass the "evidence" they need in support of a ban, in advance.

Of course, under normal circumstances product bans are usually the result of real "adverse events" reports that come in spontaneously and unsolicited from the public over a period of time. These reports are then investigated, and if there is evidence that the substance in question poses a danger to the public, then action is taken against that substance. But in this case the medical bureaucrats in Canada have no significant evidence against colloidal silver. So they are actually prodding the public to provide them with some.

Here in the U.S. things are getting equally dodgy behind the scenes. For example, the medical bureaucrats are going after our friends over at Utopia Silver, trying to set them up and use them as a test case in order to go after other colloidal silver vendors later.

This is called "setting up a precedent," and it is almost always the harbinger of additional bureaucratic harassment and legal maneuvering to come.

The bottom line is that colloidal silver is once again under attack. Only this time, it is from a completely different angle than the outright strong-arm attempt to ban it in 1999. This time they are using a combination of long-term emotional public relations and propaganda tactics combined with seemingly unrelated "enforcement" actions.

Codex Alimentarius and the Global “Harmonization” of Supplement Laws

My personal belief is that ultimately, this all has to do with the Codex Alimentarius process of globally "harmonizing" bureaucratic regulations concerning nutritional supplements, as well as with the coming so-called "North American Union" in which the economies and laws of Canada and the U.S. are to be merged, followed by Mexico, then Central and South America, until the corporate globalists have achieved a complete economic "Union of the Americas" that can compete with the European Union.

I know it is difficult for most people to widen their views and see things from a larger global perspective. Most people are too caught up in their daily personal lives, or in trying to figure out who is going to lose in the next episode of American Idol, to see the bigger picture. But the corporate globalists – particularly the big international drug companies -- want complete control over you, as well as your personal health and medical choices. And they are simply taking it, one step at a time.

I've stated this before, but it bears repeating: Only ten short years ago, when I used to attend the big health shows in major cities where all of the natural health companies came together to display their wares, most of the companies who came were run by former hippies, or herbalists, or were little "mom and pop" natural health care operations, or were otherwise really laid-back individuals who had a sincere interest in promoting natural health as a means of changing the world for the better.

Today, when I attend these same big health shows, they are filled with nothing but corporate suits and stuffed shirts. I'd wager that half of the companies displaying their wares at these big "natural health" events are subsidiaries of the major drug companies.

The old-timers, and the mom-and-poppers, and the sincere "Dr. Christopher" herbalist types are all being squeezed out of the picture.

Soon, the very people responsible for today’s institutional medical nightmare are going to be responsible for your natural health care choices, too. And you will only be able to get what they want to offer you. And they won't offer you anything that competes with their pharmaceutical industry "upline."

Okay. Enough ranting. The handwriting is already on the wall for those who care to see it.

In the meantime, my personal goal is to help put the means of colloidal silver production into the hands of as many American families as possible, before commercially sold colloidal silver preparations are banned altogether.

And believe me, that ban is coming.

But once you own the means of colloidal silver production, the medical bureaucrats can never take colloidal silver away from you. You can make all you want, any time you want, for just pennies per quart. In fact, you can make it so cheaply, you can literally afford to give it away to people around you who may be in need, such as friends, family members, co-workers, members of your church or fellowship, etc.

That's why I urge everybody to own a colloidal silver generator, whether you buy one from The Silver Edge, or from someone else's company. Just do yourself a favor, and get one.

As Dr. Bob Beck used to say, the only way to "take back your health" is to own the means of production. That's why he invented so many self-treatment devices. Same with Hulda Clark. Once you own the means to protect your health, you are no longer completely dependent upon the whims of the medical bureaucrats who can ban any substance, at just about any time.

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Colloidal Silver "Blue Man" Returns to Today Show

Colloidal Silver "Blue Man" Returns to the Today Show

The so-called colloidal silver "blue man," Paul Karason, was back on the Today show this week. He had previously appeared on the show and had promised to allow blood tests to be administered to himself in order to ascertain if his excessive colloidal silver consumption had caused any health or medical problems other than the argyric skin staining.

While it is still available, you can view the video replay of the "blue man's" return to the Today show at http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=d6a1779b-2830-4b59-950f-dea99cb7ff44&playlist=videoByTag:mk:u

According to Today show host Matt Lauer, Mr. Karason's blood tests were all within normal limits, meaning so far no damage to his organs have been found. Blood cell counts were all normal, and heart, lung, kidney and liver function were all perfectly normal, to boot.

This turns out to be a far cry from the "silver toxicity" and "silver poisoning" some of the medical talking heads on various television shows have recently assured their viewers Mr. Karason would have. Based upon these blood tests, he actually seems to be as healthy as a horse.

It is also a testament to the general safety and lack of toxicity in silver-based products such as colloidal silver. Even when overdosing for years on end, as Mr. Karason obviously did, there has still been no apparent damage to his blood cells, and no disruption whatsoever of heart, liver or kidney function.

His blood tests were performed by Dr. Seth Uresky at St. Luke's Hospital in New York. According to the doctor, "Based upon these results, I would say that Mr. Karason is in good physical and medical condition. However, final judgement should be reserved until blood silver level results are available."

Host Matt Lauer stated that the Today show would have Mr. Karason back on when the results from his blood silver level tests were available. And he asked Mr. Karason whether or not he was worried about the remaining test results. The "blue man" replied that he was not in the least bit worried because all previous tests for silver levels in his blood have turned out to be normal as well.

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Or for more comprehensive information on colloidal silver usage, check out the brand new 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets video, which is now available in both DVD and VHS formats for under twenty bucks, at http://www.LifeandHealthResearchGroup.com/

Man Turns Blue (Really Blue) From Drinking Colloidal Silver for the Past 14 Years

Man Turns Blue (Really Blue) From Drinking Colloidal Silver for the Past 14 Years

If you haven’t yet seen the CNN news video of the so-called colloidal silver “blue man,” you should probably go online as soon as possible and watch it. You can find it simply by using the Google search engine and typing in “colloidal silver blue man.” The video is currently on dozens of web sites across the internet.

Several things about this news story that strike me as odd right off the bat: First of all, the man is really blue. I mean really blue. When people contract argyria (i.e., skin graying) from ingesting excessive amounts of colloidal silver over long periods of time, they usually turn grey, not blue. That’s because the excessive silver buildup in their body has worked its way to the skin (the human body’s largest organ of elimination), and when the sun strikes the skin it tarnishes the large number of silver particles lodged there, turning the skin slate grey.

It is quite possible this man actually has a heart disease resulting in cyanosis (skin bluing from oxygen deficiency in the blood). Nevertheless, he says his condition is the result of taking colloidal silver for the past 14 years, so we have to take his word for it.

As I have been warning for the past 12 years, drinking excessive amounts of colloidal silver on a daily basis for long periods of time will indeed result in argyria for many people, particularly those with poor kidney and liver function. That’s because the excessive daily intake of silver particles is more than their kidneys and liver can expel at any one time. This can result in a residual buildup of the silver particles in the body’s tissues each time a person drinks more silver than their excretory organs can expel. Eventually, over time, the body tries to push this residual buildup of silver from the tissues out toward the skin, at which point the skin turns grey upon exposure to sunlight.

Also, the news story doesn’t tell us how much colloidal silver this man was taking daily. This is a typical ploy of the corporate news media. They want you to believe that any amount of colloidal silver is potentially dangerous, when that is in reality the farthest thing from the truth. But to create the illusion, they don’t bother to tell you how much colloidal silver was taken each day for those 14 years, even though that is the most critical factor in the story! As one experienced colloidal silver user stated in a blog regarding this news video, “This idiot would had to have drank Colloidal Silver by the gallon to have that happen to him!” While we disavow the name-calling, the point is well taken. You have to try real hard to discolor your skin by drinking colloidal silver. It is actually easier to turn your skin orange from drinking too much carrot juice than it is to turn your skin gray (or blue) from drinking colloidal silver.

We also noticed that in the original news video of this story from CNN, the man is shown using a conventional colloidal silver generator distributed by a company in Canada. We are familiar with the company that makes the exact generator displayed in the news video, and personally like the people behind the company. We have spoken with them several times in the past, and they are clearly very sincere about helping, educating and empowering people to be responsible for their own health. But as we have warned you for many years now, most conventional colloidal silver generators produce overly-high levels of silver (i.e., ppm, or silver by weight) in every batch, and the particle size of the silver is also often overly-large. So you have to be very careful if you are using a conventional colloidal silver generator.

This is precisely the reason why we chose to recommend the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, which allows you to produce silver particles so small it takes a Transmission Electron Microscope operating at a whopping 175,000x magnification to see them. In comparison, silver particles produced by conventional colloidal silver generators can generally be seen under a standard microscope operating at only 20,000x magnification. This means the silver particles produced by the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator are an astonishing 875% smaller than those produced by conventional colloidal silver units. In other words, they are far smaller than any blood cell, blood vessel, virus, bacteria, or fungus.

You can see a Transmission Electron Microscope photograph of these tiny sub-microscopic silver particles by going to http://www.thesilveredge.com/ and scrolling down until you get near the bottom of the page, where you will see it on the right-hand side. As you will see, the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator produces silver particles as small as .0008 microns, which is eight ten-thousandths of a single micron. As far as we know, these are the smallest silver particles produced by any low-voltage colloidal silver generator on the face of the earth. This is probably why the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is now the world’s #1 most popular colloidal silver generator.

Finally, this gentleman’s contention that his skin turned blue from rubbing colloidal silver on it, rather than from drinking it, is…well…rubbish. If the colloidal silver actually did cause his condition, then it was from drinking it in excessive quantities over long periods of time. If he rubbed anything on his skin and turned it blue, I can assure you it was not colloidal silver. This man is apparently blue nearly from head to toe. It is highly unlikely he was rubbing colloidal silver all over his body. And even if he was, it would not have turned him into a Smurf.

One final point : He claims that he was rubbing colloidal silver into his skin because of a dermatitis he contracted 14 years ago. My goodness, if you can’t cure a case of dermatitis in a week or so, you really need to switch remedies. Rubbing colloidal silver into the skin for well over a decade is not a sound remedy…it’s an obsession.

Also I would be extremely remiss if I did not point out one more vital fact in regards to this news video: Out of the estimated seven to 10 million regular colloidal silver users in the United States alone, this is only the second or third person the news media have been able to find in the last 20 years (to my knowledge, anyway) who has “turned blue.” I still find it absolutely amazing that the news media will find two or three people who get this benign but unsightly skin condition out of the literally millions of regular colloidal silver users in the U.S. and Canada, and then broadcast it from the rooftops as if it were the norm. But they won't mention the astonishing 2.2 million people who suffer serious and quite often life-threatening adverse reactions from prescription drug use every single year, or the 100,000 Americans KILLED each year from prescription drug use, which is 30 times more than all of the U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war! Let’s see now: two or three people turning blue in 20 years from excessive colloidal silver usage, versus 100,000 people a year being flat-out put into their graves by common drugs their doctors prescribed them. Which is more newsworthy? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

This man’s case is obviously an extremely rare one. But it is a good example of what we have been saying for years: In much the same way you wouldn’t eat a half a bottle of vitamins a day unless you want to endure some potentially nasty side effects over time, you also can’t take excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily without eventually provoking a nasty side effect called argyria. Most people are intelligent enough not to take the kind of huge daily dosages that would be necessary to stain your skin like this man has apparently done over the course of the past 14 years. But there are still many web sites out there that claim colloidal silver has “no side effects whatsoever” and that you can “drink all you want with no risk.” Those are blatantly untrue statements. And we have been sounding the alarm against such statements for years.

Again, just as you can’t take all of the vitamins you want every day without risk, so you can’t drink all of the colloidal silver you want each day without risk. If you take excessive quantities of colloidal silver daily for long periods of time, you do indeed risk contracting argyria (i.e., skin graying). It is not a guarantee you will become argyric. But it is a very real risk. The key to avoiding side effects from colloidal silver, or from any other natural supplement for that matter, is the same one your mother taught you when you were a little child: “Don’t overdo it; use MODERATION in all things.” If an ounce or two of colloidal silver a day works good for you, then for goodness sakes don’t start thinking that maybe 16 ounces a day will be even better. It is that “more must be even better” mentality that ultimately produces these rare cases of side effects which the news media in turns capitalizes on in order to scare people away from using this otherwise safe and powerfully effective all-natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster, which has been used by tens of millions of people worldwide since it was first invented in the late 1800’s shortly after Edison harnessed electricity.

For those interested in learning more about colloidal silver dosage, you can visit http://www.thesilveredge.com/ and download a FREE special report titled “What's the "Safest" Daily Dosage for Colloidal Silver?” which uses the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) own figures to determine how much colloidal silver is safe to take daily. Just use the link in the located in the upper left-hand corner of the home page.

What’s more, that web site will explain how a company called The Silver Edge became the largest colloidal silver generator distributor in the world, and it also reveals their role in helping develop the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator – the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator – which produces silver particles so infinitesimally small the human body is able to absorb, utilize, and successfully excrete them with greater ease than any of the silver solutions produced by conventional colloidal silver generators. This superior absorption, utilization and excretion alleviates the need to take huge daily quantities of colloidal silver, giving you all of the benefits of this powerful natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster without the risk associated with excessive usage.

Finally, if you want to learn even more about the safe usage of colloidal silver, I am happy to announce that Life & Health Research Group has recently placed their one-hour, studio-quality Colloidal Silver Secrets video on sale for only twenty bucks. If features Steve Barwick, author of The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, being interviewed relentlessly by television personality Kristyn Burtt on just about every aspect of colloidal silver usage you can imagine. He even demonstrates how to make a crude, emergency colloidal silver generator out of common household implements in under two minutes. I don’t know how long they will keep this great 60-minute long video (available in DVD or VHS) available at such a low price, so you should check it out now at http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com/