What's so dangerous about
making your own colloidal silver?
It's simple chemistry. Sure,
when you put two electrodes into a glass of water, make one
positive and the other negative, then run an electrical current
through them, ions of one electrode will break-off and flow
towards the other electrode. If both electrodes are of the
same material, these break-away particles will not stick to
the other electrode: they'll stay in the water.
That's the concept behind the
"make it yourself" kits that run on batteries, or
even the more expensive ones that use house current. But here's
the problem, and why it's dangerous to make your own colloidal
silver.
Obviously, you'd want your colloidal
silver creation to be as pure as possible. You'd use ONLY
99.99% silver electrodes and you'd use ONLY distilled water
(to keep any other chemical reaction from happening), but
the thing that makes it all go wrong is salt.
Salt is what all sellers of
those kits tell you to add to the water as a "catalyst"
to make the process more effective. Salt is extremely electrically
conductive and will increase the electrical/chemical reaction
in the water.
The problem is that when you
run an electric current into this saline (salt) solution,
you create, NOT colloidal silver, but silver
chloride, a toxic substance.
Basic chemistry would tell you that.
Silver chloride will still act
in an antibiotic manner (so will ground-up pure silver, for
that matter) but it now has become toxic. Use of silver chloride
WILL cause toxic-metal buildup, resulting in a blue/grey color
to your skin.
Recently, a "blue man"
has been on TV, telling the show hosts how he makes his own
"colloidal silver" (nope - silver chloride) and
that's why he's blue.
The FDA is allowing people to
make their own "colloidal silver". Why is the food/health
"watch dog" of the federal Government allowing people
to poison themselves?
So that the truth about the
effectiveness of colloidal silver will get confused with the
dangerous silver chloride that ALL these machines make when
salt (or any style saline solution) is added to the mix.
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