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Advanced
Colloidal Silver
Advanced
Colloidal Silver is approximately 20% ionic
silver and 80% non-ionic silver particles with a mean
average of about 2 nanometers. This small particle size
results in a vastly larger surface area of silver for a
given concentration. Because of this, the 20 ppm product
is potentially more effective than those products with
much larger particles and higher ppms.
Advanced
Colloidal Silver is produced with a completely
different process than are most other "colloidal
silver" products. Most products are of a very high
ionic content or are silver nitrate solutions in
gelatinous bases. The gelatin/protein bases are required
to maintain the suspension of the large particles. These
silver particles usually range in size from 10-500
nanometers and more. The products using gelatin are
typically called 'silver protein' or 'mild silver
protein'.
You
may ask: How can such a small amount of silver have an
effect against microbes? The secret is in the
infinitesimal size of the silver particles. A billion of
these particles could sit side by side on a cross section
of human hair. These silver nano-particles are smaller
than any blood cell, bacteria, fungus spore, or even
virus.
According
to research, silver is effective because it inhibits the
growth of one-celled micro-organisms by deactivating the
organism’s oxygen metabolism enzymes. This action in
turn, destroys the organism’s cell membranes, stopping
the replication of the organism’s DNA.
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History of
Silver
Man
has used silver to support the immune system throughout
recorded history. Here is an ancient anecdote from the
writings of Herodotus, the Greek philosopher, dating this
use of silver to before the birth of Jesus the Messiah.
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The
Greek historian Herodotus, called the
"Father of History", is one of our
prime sources for information known about the
fall of Babylon. Herodotus lived a century after
the time of the Biblical prophet Daniel and
traveled widely in the East. In his
"Histories", we learn of the campaign
of Persia's King Cyrus against Babylon. The
details include the fact that no Persian king,
including Cyrus, would drink the water of any
stream other than the Choaspes, a river that
flows past the Persian capital of Susa. Wherever
the king went, a long train of four-wheeled mule
wagons followed him transporting silver jars
filled with boiled water from the river's
waters. The water would keep fresh for years
during his long military campaigns.
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The
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and many peoples
from the "Dark Ages" used silver in one form or
another to preserve food and water. In the "Middle
Ages," during the infamous pandemics, silverware
protected the wealthy by warding off these diseases. In
the old west, pioneers used silver coins to preserve milk
and water. In the last century, man was beginning to
develop more sophisticated forms of silver to kill germs.
In 1938, the FDA was formed, Penicillin was introduced and
the modern pharmaceutical industry began to dominate
anti-microbial science. Since silver preparations were
more expensive they receded from favor.
The
use of some silver preparations in modern, mainstream
medicine has survived until this "Modern Age."
Among them are the use of dilute silver nitrate in newborn
babies' eyes to protect from infection and the use of
"Silvadine," a silver based salve, in virtually
every burn ward in America to fight infection. A silver
coated nylon material was patented as "Silvalon"
and licensed by FDA as an anti-microbial bandage. Clearly,
silver has historically been one of man’s most reliable
tools in fighting bacterial infections, even before he
knew what bacteria was.
Advanced
Colloidal Silver is simply cutting edge
technology of an ancient and historical product.
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Science of Colloidal Silver
Colloidal
silver is metallic silver particles suspended in a base of
some other material. The base can consist of water alone
or another liquid. It can have a stabilizer or surfactant
in it. If the silver is in solution, i.e. ionic and it
contains no silver particles, it is not a colloid. Most
colloidal silver products contain a substantial amount of
ionic silver, however, so we will be referring to
colloidal silver to include the ionic content though
recognizing the incorrectness of the reference.
Mild
silver protein is not colloidal silver and will not be
analyzed here except to observe that compounding silver
with a protein is not necessary to derive efficacy. We
will not address other silver compounds either, as they
are an entirely different subject with very different
properties, effects and uses. For purposes of this
treatise, we will be considering colloidal silver products
containing particles and ions in a base of distilled or
de-ionized water.
Basically,
there are two silver components in colloidal silver
products which give them their properties, silver
particles and silver ions. Silver ions are silver atoms
which have an electron missing in the outer shell. They
are the smallest possible form of silver, about .28
nanometers. Silver particles are metallic silver
consisting of clusters of silver atoms. They can range in
size from less than a nanometer up to 1000 nanometers (1
micron).
Silver
ions will combine with chloride ions readily where they
are present. The human stomach contains a strong solution
of hydrochloric acid. Silver chloride forms immediately in
the stomach when silver ions enter it. Though silver
chloride is harmless and in fact not even soluble in the
body, it also has very little value. The same thing
happens to silver ions in the bloodstream by virtue of the
high chloride content due to the presence of sodium and
potassium chloride. Silver ions, therefore are of little
value inside the body as they are quickly combined with
the available chloride ions to form silver chloride. One
researcher, Dr. Meade, has estimated the half-life of a
silver ion inside the human body as 7.8 seconds. The only
component of colloidal silver products which survives to
work inside the body, therefore, is silver particles. This
discovery is what has compelled us to strive for the
greatest quantity of particulate silver possible in our
product.
Although
ions are of an exact and uniform size, particle sizes vary
greatly. The pursuit of small particles is at the
forefront of research efforts. The reason that small
particles are so desirable is that the smaller the
particles, the greater the total surface area presented to
the solution by a given amount of silver. Imagine a silver
particle the size of a 55 gal. barrel with the outside of
the barrel being the surface area that comes in contact
with the surrounding environment; then compare that with
the same barrel filled with silver particles the size of
marbles or BBs. There are many times more effective
surface areas to contact the surrounding environment with
the smaller particles than with the larger particles. The
differences are significant. In a 1 PPM colloid of
particles at 100 nm (nanometers) in diameter, the total
surface area of silver in a cubic centimeter of solution
is .042 square centimeters. With 10 nm diameter particles,
the total surface area is .42 square centimeters or 10
times as much. We can say, therefore, that available
silver is 10 times greater between the two.
Proportionately, then, a colloid with 1 nm particles is
100 times as effective as a colloid with 100 nm particles. Advanced
Colloidal Silver has a mean average particle size of
approximately 2 nanometers. For a visual product size
comparison, go to:
http://advanced-colloidal-silver.com/surface_area_comparison.htm |
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