American Chronicle | Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues 8/31/09 2:10 AM

August 31, 2009 2:10:44 AM GMT+02:00

Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

The recent widespread mainstream media coverage of the "blue man" Paul Karason and his rare skin condition known as
Argyria is the latest in a series of largely misleading and sensationalized scare stories about the dangers of colloidal silver
turning a person skin blue.

Although this latest story did not appear to originate from mainstream medicine or the FDA, there is little doubt that they
have welcomed it with open arms and have been quick to trot out "medical experts" and past FDA warnings to help "sing
the blues" about colloidal silver. The truth is that mainstream medicine has a very good reason to cry long and loud about
colloidal silver, because it does represent a very real danger a danger to the huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry
s patented antibiotics.

The truth is that silver has been used effectively by mankind to fight germs and ailments for thousands of years, and the
instances of modern use of colloidal silver turning peoples skin blue are so rare as to be almost non-existent - and
thousands of prescribed and approved over the counter mainstream medications including the common aspirin, silver has
never killed anyone. As a matter of fact, almost all of the relative handful of reported instances have involved one or more
of the following: older silver products that contained as much as 10% or more silver (compared to mere parts per million
in modern colloidal silver), silver nitrate, home made colloidal silver that was contaminated with salt, and silver that has
been consumed continuously in very large quantities over a very long period of time.

In the case of Karason, he made his own ionic silver at home for almost two decades and for many years consumed a
quart or more per day. I daresay that any prescribed or over the counter medication whose recommended dosage was a
couple of teaspoons a day would do far worse than turn a person blue if they drank a quart or more of it a year! For the
sake of comparison, drinking a quart or more per day of colloidal silver would be like a person taking several bottles of
aspirin a day, a practice that would be lethal in short order. Karason actually appears to enjoy his notoriety as the Papa
Smurff blue man, and even though he sings the praises of how colloidal silver saved his life and the many ailments he
believes it cured, the focus of attention is on his blue skin - a condition that is actually reversible with proper diet and
herbal cleanses despite mainstream claims to the contrary.

What is also true about colloidal silver is that it is far safer, more effective and less expensive than the marginally effective
and side effect laden mainstream antibiotics - and has mainstream and university studies proving it which date back to the
early 1900's. The best and strongest of the FDA approved antibiotics are effective for a handful of bacteria at best,
whereas colloidal silver is supremely effective against just about every kind of single celled pathogen, including bacteria,
fungal growths and viruses (which antibiotics are often wrongly prescribed for, despite the fact that antibiotics have no
effect on viruses).

If the public were told the truth, a rarity when it comes to mainstream drugs versus natural competition, colloidal silver
would represent a huge threat to literally billions of dollars of profits and so it is no wonder that mainstream medicine and
their allies in the mainstream media are once again loudly singing the blues just as they have repeatedly done in the past
with misleading stories and studies about a great many popular natural plants, supplements, vitamins and minerals that
represent threats to mainstream drug profits because they are safer, more effective and less expensive alternatives to the
unnatural, side effect laden, hugely expensive and marginally effective synthetics created in the labs of the powerful world
pharmaceutical empire.

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While there are a great many natural threats to mainstream profits, whose use and track recordsof safety and effectiveness
date back hundreds and even thousands of years, perhaps no natural alternative to mainstream drugs represents as big of
a threat to industry profits as colloidal silver, and it is no coincidence that colloidal silver has been placed at the very top
of the FDA/mainstream medicine hit list.

However, when it comes to warning and scaring people away from silver, both the mainstream medical industry and the
FDA have serious credibility problems. First of all, silver has a history of safe and effective use dating back thousands of
years. In addition, it continues to be widely used today, including being used by NASA, the US military and Potters for
Peace for water purification, being used as a germicidal agent by hospitals and medical suppliers and recently was
incorporated into a new line of hospital pajamas to prevent the spread of infection, to name just a few of it's present day
uses.

The biggest credibility problem of all for mainstream medicine and the FDA regarding silver is likely how they both
approved and embraced silver for medicinal use at one time. yet now would have us believe that silver is both ineffective
and dangerous. At one time silver products were very much in favor with both mainstream medicine and the FDA. No
fewer than 34 different prescribed and over-the-counter medications containing silver were not only widely sold by
industry, they were also approved by the very same FDA which now seeks to warn us of its dangers and have us believe it
is ineffective.

What changed their minds? Perhaps the obvious answer can be found in the fact that silver fell out of favor at the very
same time that patented sulfa drugs and patented antibiotics created in drug company labs came on the market. Once
that happened, the non-patentable silver was no longer a tool for healing, but a threat to profits.

Zealous protection of mainstream approved drugs and suppression of natural competition is nothing new - look at the
estimated 100,000 or more deaths caused by Vioxx before the FDA finally removed it from the market. Look at the
ridiculous actions of the FDA when it threatened Washington cherry growers for telling the truth about the health benefits
of eating cherries, or at the storm trooper actions against the makers of Charantia (bitter melon) tea in Florida who dared
put references to some of the 650 plus PubMed studies and citations about bitter melon on their website.

The FDA persecutions and prosecutions of cherry farmers, bitter melon, and a long line of other natural alternatives points
out just how extreme the protection of the big drug companies products and profits really is. Consider this: other than
issues of national security, only in natural health is it a crime to tell the truth due to the way the FDA has construed their
rules and definitions to protect industry. For example, if a company were to advertise that vitamin C was a cure for scurvy,
as everyone knows is true, that company could be prosecuted for selling unapproved drugs. The same would be true if a
company printed a testimonial from someone who reported health benefits due to vitamin C, or any other vitamin,
mineral, supplement or non FDA approved drug.

For example, only the makers of FDA approved drugs can use the word cure, or even imply and health benefits without
the FDA considering the product a drug. The catch is that in order to be FDA approved, no matter how many PubMed
cited studies or other studies have been performed, and no matter how much of a history of hundreds or thousands of
years and users, the FDA only approves drugs that go through its specific approval process one that costs hundreds of
billions of dollars.

When it comes to natural alternatives, spending such money on a natural product is prohibitive, since it could not be
patented and could be freely and cheaply sold by any number of competitors and it would be virtually impossible to ever
recover all the costs of getting the natural product approved. Though the process is purported to be one which protects
the public from unsafe medicines (and we see how well that worked for hall of shame list of drugs like Vioxx, Avandia,
etc.), the net effect of the FDAs drug definitions and approval process is to exclude natural competition and insure that
only the patentable and profitable synthetics created in drug company labs can be approved and marketed as having
health benefits.

The most recent example of such one-sided treatment favoring industry came in the following news story earlier this past

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week about a lawsuit filed against the FDA by Public Citizen after the FDA ignored years of complaints about the dangers
of ruptured tendons caused by one of the drug industrys most powerful and profitable antibiotics:

WASHINGTON, D.C. Despite long-standing evidence that fluoroquinolone antibiotics can cause tendon ruptures, the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed to increase its warnings to patients and physicians about the dangers of the
medicines, Public Citizen told a federal court Thursday.

Public Citizen sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia , asking the court to force the FDA to act upon a
petition the consumer group filed with the agency 16 months ago. The FDA has failed to respond to the petition, which
asked the agency to put a "black box" warning on fluoroquinolone antibiotics (such as Cipro, Levaquin and others) to make
doctors and patients more aware of the risk of serious tendon injury before tendons actually rupture.

The petition also urged the FDA to send a warning letter to physicians, as well as require an FDA-approved medication
guide to be dispensed when prescriptions are filled. Public Citizen contends that the FDA is violating the Administrative
Procedure Act by not acting upon the petition.

Stronger warnings could lead to earlier intervention and prevent needless injuries by allowing doctors to switch patients to
other antibiotics, said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizens Health Research Group.

"While the FDA sits idly by and ignores the problem, more people will suffer serious tendon ruptures that could have been
prevented," Wolfe said. "The current warning is buried in a long list of possible adverse reactions and is far too easy to
miss."

From November 1997 through December 2005, the FDA received 262 reports of tendon ruptures, mainly of the Achilles
tendon, 258 cases of tendonitis and 274 cases of other tendon disorders in patients using fluoroquinolone antibiotics. An
additional 74 tendon ruptures have subsequently been reported to the FDA for a total of 336. Because only a small
fraction of cases are typically reported to the FDA, the actual number of ruptures and other tendon injuries attributable to
the antibiotic is much higher

Source: Healthy News

One can only imagine the FDA's reaction if 336 tendon ruptures had been reported for those who take the best antibiotic
and pathogen destroyer on the planet - colloidal silver. No doubt, they would have raided the manufacturer with storm
troopers and shut it down years ago, just as they have done many times with the manufacturers and sellers of other
natural competitors to drug company products.

In conclusion, as far as I can tell, not one single instance of Argyria has been attributed to properly made colloidal that
was not consumed in amounts that were up to hundreds of times the recommended dosage, that has not stopped the FDA
from continuing to "sing the blues" about silver or from going after those who make and sell colloidal silver products, not
because silver represents a whit of threat to human health but rather because it represents a threat to the inflated bottom
line profits of the mainstream drug manufacturers.

Finding out who the FDA really serves is a simple task - all you have to do is follow the money. But don't simply take my
word, let a noted past FDA commissioner tell you very clearly what the FDA is really about:

"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers
they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.

It isn't.

What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."

Dr. Herbert Ley

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Dr. Herbert Ley

Former U.S. FDA Commissioner

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