Colloidal Silver

What is colloidal silver & how is it made

Colloidal silver is basically a medium such as pure distilled water or gel that has very small particles of ionised silver suspended in it.

A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another one. Ions are atoms with a positive or negative electrical charge either obtained by gaining extra electrons or losing electrons. Water by itself has no positive or negative charge but may have a number of minerals such as Sodium, Calcium and Iron that do.

How do particles of metal, such as silver, become ionized in water? The process has actually been used for many years in electroplating, a process whereby an electric charge is applied to a piece of metal in water, which slowly strips away its atoms and ionizes them one by one, whilst another piece of metal with the opposite charge attracts the floating metal ions. Ionized colloidal silver is made in a similar manner in that it use electricity to slowly strip silver ions away from the rods, thereby ionizing them and suspending them in water.

Ionized Colloidal Silver

For countless decades intrepid explorers have scoured the Amazon rain forests of South America and the jungles of deepest Africa in search of hitherto undiscovered plants and flowers possessing great health benefits. Its somewhat ironic then that one of natures oldest gifts for our health, colloidal silver, has been largely forgotten since the commercialization of antibiotics in the mid 1900’s.

If you are reading this you probably already have your own views on the major benefits of Colloidal Silver.

Silver is considered by some to be nature’s very own universal antibiotic as it has antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties. It assists the body's immune system by inhibiting a single cell organism's mode of respiration, thereby killing it.

By the early 1900s, silver had gained regulatory approval as an antimicrobial agent, and is still widely used as a germicide and disinfectant. Samsung use it on their keyboards, NASA and a number of airlines have used it for water and air purification systems and Marks and Spencer sell socks infused with silver. With the introduction of antibiotics though, use of colloidal silver largely diminished. More recently however many bacteria have become resistant to the current range of antibiotics and interest in the use of silver to fight infections has re-surfaced and a number of papers have been published with very interesting results.

Due to FDA and EU regulations on medicines one is not allowed to advertise or report on Colloidal Silver as having any medicinal benefits. It can only legally be referred to as a water purifier or natural supplement. Colloidal silver can be used either orally as an immune system booster or topically as an anti-fungal, antibacterial.

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