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From your link: "Colloidal silver preparations primarily deliver inactive metallic silver, rather than the active microbicidal silver ion." From TFA: "Collin
by colanderman 13y ago
From your link:
"Colloidal silver preparations primarily deliver inactive metallic silver, rather than the active microbicidal silver ion."
From TFA:
"Collins and his team found that silver — in the form of dissolved ions — attacks bacterial cells"
- gngeal 13y agoObviously, it's the colloidal silver version of homeopathy! I just hope the authors of the article haven't lulled themselves into thinking that they've just invented a silver bullet for infections.
- viraptor 13y agoThe idea of homeopathy tries to make the solutions "stronger" by dissolving them with water. It's the main process behind it - the point where you're pretty much left with just water. Nothing like that is claimed here. This idea is based on how ions of silver interact with cells which was also described. You may not agree with the article, but comparing it to homeopathy is just silly.
- dnautics 13y agoit's a little silly to believe that the high doses of colloidal silver that the crazies take (enough to make their faces literally blue) doesn't slough off silver(I). The high surface area of colloidal silver means that plenty of it is exposed to oxygen in a highly-reactive surface.
- DanBC 13y agoIt'd be great if there was a nice infographic that people like me could use to point out the difference between what this paper talks about (real) and colloidal silver (harmful, with a lot of false information) so that when cranks use this paper to peddle lies I can give people simple to understand information.