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In our office nutritional therapy and supplement recommendations are a large part of what we do.  We believe that there are 3 things that effect the bodies ability to properly function and heal itself:

Traumas
Toxins
Thoughts

    So a large part of what we do is to take the patients that come to us and formulate a nutritional program for them to boost the body’s ability to properly heal and remove toxins and deficiencies from their system that is limiting their body’s ultimate potential.  We’re constantly looking for the best products on the market and for products that have multiple functions so as to help keep the cost of protocols down since you would not have to take as much.  We’ve caught flak in the past for things we recommend, but NOTHING like the flak and the questions we get for recommending a product that has been in production for hundreds of years…..Colloidal Silver.

    Antibiotic-resistant germs are now considered an epidemic in the United States.  The drug companies are having to create more and more drugs because the diseases they had made them for years ago, have changed and now the same drugs don’t work like they used to.  Did you know that each antibiotic is created to kill off around 6-8 different bacteria?  Not that many really.  Guess how many silver has been shown to kill??? 650!!  That’s right, that’s not a typo.  Colloidal Silver has been shown to kill off over 650 different germs that we come into contact with on a daily basis.

    The History….

    Some of the first recorded uses of silver were as far back as 4000 B.C.  The Eastern Persians used to put all their water in silver lined vessels to prevent disease.  The Romans, Babylonians, and Greeks all write of using silver in their culture as well.  The first settlers to America were said to place silver dollars in milk to prolong its freshness at room temperature as the silver killed off harmful bacteria.  In the 1930s, hospitals routinely used silver nitrate in the eyes of infants to protect against blindness in the chance that the mother had a venereal disease.  This is still being employed in many different countries today.   Interesting that it was used for so many years isn’t it?? Antibiotics weren’t introduced until the early 1940s.  Penicillin was the very first antibiotic widely used.

    So what’s the big issue??  Why is it supposed to be bad??

    Recently there was an article published on Consumer Reports “Health” section on their website touting the top 12 supplements to stay away from and guess who was on the list??? Colloidal Silver!  So what is the big argument against silver?  Well, a couple years ago, a man named Paul Karason got on the Today Show and was dubbed “Papa Smurf” because of his blue skin he said was the result of taking colloidal silver for the past 14 years.  On the same article, “doctors” claim that it can be harmful to the kidneys and the liver.  Interestingly enough, there are no studies on the page associated with the article and no names of these mysterious “doctors”.  So what about this “blue man” skin color issue?? Is it really a problem?? Yes, if you don’t make the colloidal silver correctly and you actually absorb it!  There is a very intricate, specific way to use purified water to make the colloidal silver and to use an electric charge to create the colloidal effect, neither of these Papa Smurf did in his home-made concoction.  When not suspended in solution correctly, the cells of the body can absorb the silver, tinting the skin blue.  That is why you should never make your own and you should buy from a reputable company.

    All of the attacks on silver are unfounded and not backed up by any scientific evidence.  Actually it is quite the opposite.  Silver is shown to kill disease-causing organisms within 6 minutes of exposure.  In the medical journal the Lancet, they examined the many uses and successes with colloidal silver.  Brigham Young University tested colloidal silver against a host of different bacteria and found it effective against: Lyme, Herpes, Legionnaire, Staphylococcus, Aureus, Samonella, Choleraesuis, Streptococci, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Neisseria, Gonorrhea, Gardnerella Vaginalis, Gangrene and Candida.   And unlike antibiotics, bacteria do NOT become resistant to silver.  Why?? Well, it’s really in the way that the silver actually kills the bacteria.  Silver is a catalyst that disables the enzyme that all one-celled bacteria, fungus, and viruses use for their oxygen supply.  So in effect, it suffocates them!  But it doesn’t harm any of the body’s normal enzymes or any of your good bacteria because of the charge put on the silver when put into solution.

    Keep your hands to yourself!! Geez!!

    I get so sick of the medical profession selling people their bag of goods using fear as the main motivator.  But if they want to freak people out and get them to go buy their drugs, then so be it.  But they can’t stop with that, they have to create lies and fear around supplements people are successfully using because it competes with the drugs they are producing!

    In our office we’ve seen amazing results with the colloidal silver.  I’ve seen many patients who were diagnosed with MRSA (Staph Infection) be totally cured of the infection after going on a regiment of the silver.  Various other infections (eyes, toes, bladder, lung, skin) virtually disappear.  One mom I was helping in the office had been very resistant to the silver we were recommending for a long long time because she had a family member who had made it in his garageand she was really afraid of it and thought it was a hoax.  So at one point when her son became ill enough that nothing else was working she asked me what she should do and I begged her to try the silver and he was over his illness in less than a day!!  Trust me, it’s not a scam, it really works.

    We carry it in the office in 3 different sizes.  A 16 oz re-fill bottle.  A 4 oz spray bottle and a 2 oz nasal spray bottle.  This is one supplement that we recommend to everyone, especially if you have children because not only does it wipe out bacteria and other contaminants, but it prevents their contact to begin with!

    In the office, aside from use with patients, we use colloidal silver as a disinfectant and surface cleaner.  We clean all of the equipment and the toys in the office with the silver to make sure there’s no bacteria left on any surface.

    So there are multitudes of uses for this particular supplement.  I definitely thing it is one of the best kept secrets of the natural health industry.   Now, I can’t vouch for every brand out there because I’m not sure how they are producing theirs.  I can vouch for ours that we buy out of Plano from a very reputable company there.  I know how he makes the solutions, and it is only 10ppm as opposed to 100 ppm like I’ve seen in the store.  The least amount you need to get the job done the better.

    I wouldn’t be without my colloidal silver.  I travel with it and we keep it in practically every room in our house!  It has definitely become, like on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” our “Windex”!!  Because it fixes everything!!

    Dr. JB

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