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Types Of Colloidal Silver

By Ben Mester

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Published: 09Feb2011
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Colloidal silver is a natural health supplement that I've been taking for a very long time in order to battle disease and infection. But because of its popularity in recent years, many new manufacturers of colloidal silver have hit the market with different types of silver, each claiming to have the best brand. This article will try and show you the determining factors for a good brand of colloidal silver versus a bad brand, and what the different types of colloidal silver are out there. Before we get going, let's talk a bit about what colloidal silver is. Colloidal silver is produced by a very simple process. Silver thread or rods are suspended in water and then an electric current is passed through it. But it has to be a low voltage current in order to correctly strip the silver away and suspend it in the water. The low voltage current causes the silver to slowly strip away from the electrified source, ionizing it and suspending it in water, thus creating colloidal silver. An ion is just a particle that has either a positive or a negative electrical charge, and therefore, colloidal silver is a solution of silver ions suspended in water.

In the past, colloidal silver wasn't always made with pure water. Different solutions were used, many of which may have contributed to the side effect called Argyria, which causes the skin to slowly turn blueish gray permanently as more silver is consumed. These protein silvers, as they were named, didn't use pure water as a base for their solution and didn't have proper ionization levels of the silver. As a result, too much silver was consumed that was suspended in a poor quality liquid. In the modern age, there is less risk of Argyria, but one still has to be cautious. According to EPA, a safe colloidal silver dosage is about 350 mcg of silver daily. That's where the parts per million comes in. One can safely consume 7 teaspoons daily of a 10 ppm colloidal silver solution. If your solution is stronger, you have to tone down the amount taken. 20 ppm solutions are twice as strong and therefore the dosage should be half as much, 3 and 1/2 teaspoons. That's about as strong a dosage as you should take. Some silver products even boast a 100 ppm strength, so beware.

The two things to look for in a brand of colloidal silver are particle size and concentration. One of the things that many of the top distributors of colloidal silver boast is a very small particle size. Their methods of ionization create very small particles of ionized silver in the water solution, which is beneficial because the smaller the particle size, the more easily absorbed and utilized by the body. So when you go to buy colloidal silver from one of the top distributors, check out what they have to say about particle size. Also be aware of concentration. Many new distributors are boasting that since their colloidal silver is 100ppm it's somehow superior. The real truth is that because the concentration is so much stronger, a person needs to be very careful how much they consume. A higher ppm isn't the same thing as better quality. I myself have never taken silver stronger than 20ppm.

Colloidal silver is a substance that I've grown to really prize in the realm of natural health. I'm glad you're doing your research on how to pick out the right brands and what the qualifications are for proper silver manufacturing. For more, check out my article on colloidal silver dosage.

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