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Silver Colloids - Do They Work?

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THERE IS A HUGE MARKET OUT THERE ON THE INTERNET FOR WESSITES TOUTING HOW SAFE AND UNBELIEVABLE COLLOIDAL SILVER IS AND HOW YOU CAN BUY THEIR GENERATORS AND MAKE IT IN YOUR HOME FOR PENNIES. I FOUND OUT THRU THE BOOKLET THAT SILVER IS BEST IF IT IS CLEAR(SMALLEST PARTICAL) RATHER THAN GOLDEN YELLOW. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS ELEMENT BEFORE THEY JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON. THIS BOOK SHOWS THE RESEARCH DONE. INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THEY WOULD SUGGEST THE BEST BRANDS AND GENERATORS HOWEVER.

Dr. Gibbs, one of the world's premier specialists on colloidal chemistry, has done careful, scientific study on silver. He found some significant benefits, tested the efficacy of its anti-bacterial action, found that some products perform better than others. He also found no miracle cures, and some potential side effects. This hard-headed, no-nonsense approach will stand the test of time, whereas those hyping silver as an effortless cure to everything from aging to cancer will (hopefully) be found out. A sad commentary on our times is that Dr. Gibbs will undoubtedly return to his classroom and laboratory, and have to beg for grant money, while the patent medicine people will retire to their private estates.

It is refreshing to have a book that rubs others the wrong way. I like people who can think outside the lines of standard protocol. I am glad this book took the time and energy to investigate and report on some options for treating health issues! This book has given multi-million dollar pharmaceutical companies (and people who get $'s for promoting them) a reason to hate this book. Because the truth is...if you investigate the quack watchers and other such types...you'll discover they have an agenda and close ties to the opposing view.

Gibbs' monograph is a novel contribution to the swelling "Barnum-Bunkum" literature of colloidal silver products. Unlike Farber, Gibbs does not claim that he was personally deputized by Yahweh to bring this "healing news" to the world. And, unlike the majority of vo-tech drop-outs and assorted hoodoos who quibble about the nuances of coloration, particle size, voltage levels and AC vs. DC power supplies, Gibbs' credentials suggest that he would actually recognize a true colloid if he saw one, and be able to differentiate it from the other varieties of chemical suspension/solution. Even more admirably, Gibbs rigorously defines the properties of an "ideal" silver colloid, without ever once suggesting that a sane human being should actually DRINK this stuff, or that his collection of hoary, well-trod data on silver's antibacterial impact on in vitro cultures makes it any more desirable a nutritional supplement than Clorox or Bactine.

Sure, he points out that silver compounds make a swell mouthwash or a topical burn treatment, and he raises the predictable red herring of the "post-antibiotic" apocalypse. That's pretty much the party line for the New Age generation of super-slick nostrum-hustlers. But, nonetheless, he graciously -- and one thinks wisely -- stops short of exhorting the innocent, the deluded and the justifiably desperate to place their hope for a cure in this expensive, unproven and (even by Gibbs' own assessment) largely tainted, mislabeled or mismanufactured tap-water substitute.

Granted, there may in fact be a worldwide conspiracy by the conventional medical establishment to suppress knowledge of miraculous disease treatments, even denying this information to thousands of physicians (and their families) who must also, sadly, be sacrified to terminal illness in order to protect the secret. However, on the off-chance that there isn't, I recommend reviewing the QuackWatch take on silver colloids at http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html