Philip Collins wrote: > > Far as I know, antibiotics do not destroy the immune system.
Maybe, maybe not. A couple of things that is clear is that antibiotics do kill the friendliest bacterial and leave you open to fungal invaders that the freindlys held in check. Also man made antibiotics encourage the bacteria to mutate into a more dangerous form. 50% of all TB is now antibiotic resistant. In other words, they are smarter than the people who make the drugs. BUT. When > your immune system has to deal with an infection *by itself*, either the > invaders overwhelm it and you die, or else your immune system rises to the > occasion, creating antibodies that can kill off the invaders, and thus > strengthening itself, especially against those invaders. That's how you > develop immunity to certain diseases. I believe that if you depend on > antibiotics, or CS, or anything external, to fight infections, the immune > system gets less chance to exercise its functions, and does end up weaker > than it would be if it could have dealt with the infections by itself. So I > do not think it is a good idea to depend on *any* external microbe killer > until you have given your immune system a chance to handle it by itself. If > that doesn't work, then it makes sense to use external help. My theory is that trace amounts of silver in your body enhances your immune system. Sort of like Vitamin C prevents scurvy. It could very will be that there may be a RDA of silver in your vitamin someday. I don't think it is safe to assume that we (they) know all there is to know about the functions of minerals that the body can take advantage of. Also, the bad guys that silver is effective against, have never demonstrated the ability to mutate to survivability in the presence of silver. You have not persuaded me to stay sick, so I can stay healthy. Remember, we are dealing with a natural substance and not something that is cultivated in a test tube. bjs -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
