First, silver is not a heavy metal.
2nd The elimination rate of silver is about 99% in 48 hours [ Newton and
Holmes 1996]
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Health Risk Assessment of Environmental Silver
Daland R. Juberg
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, New York, USA
Presently, there is a perceived disparity among U.S. regulatory initiatives
and viewpoints
concerning the hazard potential and subsequent health risk that silver in
the environment poses to
humans. The existence of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Reference Dose (RfD
- a daily exposure level deemed to be acceptable for humans) for silver has
largely been
responsible for its inclusion on State or Federal lists of contaminants
generally recognized as
hazardous to either human health or the environment. To illustrate this
point, the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) developed a Toxicological
Profile for silver
based on Congressional mandates to "prepare toxicological profiles for
hazardous substances
which are most commonly found at facilities on the CERCLA National
Priorities List and which
pose the most significant potential threat to human health" (ATSDR 1990).
Similarly, the EPA's
Office of Solid Waste (EPA, 1997) and RCRA Program (EPA, 1996),
respectively, have included
silver amongst other hazardous environmental chemicals based on its
'potential' to cause adverse
effects in humans. However, in 1991 the EPA reevaluated the database for
silver and concluded
that silver is not associated with chronic adverse health effects in
humans. Consequently, the
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCL) for silver in drinking water
*******was deleted ******
(Federal Register, 1991). With this background, the following discussion is
intended to show that (a) the
inclusion of silver on lists of environmental contaminants that pose risks
to human health should
be revisited in light of our knowledge concerning the toxicity of, and
relative exposure to silver,
and (b) that chronic lifetime exposure to trace amounts of silver in the
environment
****does not pose a human health risk.****
Silver has not been associated with adverse health effects or chronic
toxicity in humans and there
is no evidence for carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, or
reproductive/developmental toxicity resulting
from exposure to silver. The current RfD for silver is based on argyria, a
cosmetic pigmentation
of the skin, mucous membranes, and eyes (primarily conjunctiva), that
results from tissue
deposition of a silver-protein complex or its metabolized product (silver
sulfide or silver selenide)
following long-term exposure (absorbed silver > 1 g) to silver or
silver-containing compounds. It
is important to note that argyria, the only known effect resulting from
chronic overexposure to
silver, is not associated with adverse health effects and this was the
determining factor in the
EPA's decision to delete the MCL in 1991. More relevant to this discussion,
argyria has not been
reported for, and is not expected to occur as a result of, environmental
exposures.
** (absorbed silver > 1 g) should read "retained" silver..and.. retained
despite the really fast elimination rate of 99% in 48 hours. [ ie: If you
eat a gram of silver, only 100th of a gram will be absorbed and retained
long enough to add to a total. ]
Before the RfD was DELETED, the average amount of CS at a normal
concentration taken along with a normal amount of drinking water for a day
was below that suggested max.
Even at extreme exposures, argyria is extremely rare.
Attempts to produce the condition in animals, in order to study it, have
been such abject failures that one researcher went to the silver [mining
refining ] industry to go over their records and found the rate was 1 in
2,000 workers over a period of 100 years [?]..and that the rate of
absenteeism in that industry due to illness was well below the norm.
[Info gained from following links from Rosemary Jacobs website [The Blue
Lady posterchild] back when they were there to follow...unfortunately,
didn't make copies of the studies and the links were apparently pulled
after someone actually read and comprehended what the studies revealed.]
Ode
At 11:18 AM 10/30/2009 -0400, you wrote:
Hi All,
I saw my LLMD after a year of being off bax and recently trying rife and
CS. She tells me that there are no studies on the effects of taking CS,
that CS doesn't leave the body and it stores it as a heavy metal. She
believes ABX has been clinically tested and shown to work.
Now I know talking alternative to a mainstream LLMD is going to get a
reaction. I got it!
I've been reading posts, asking questions for 3 months and wanting to move
forward. I rife weekly, have tried CS, taken IV and oral abx and more and
have continued to take organic whole food suoolements. There's much I
don't know but I've been learning nad researching.
Can anyone point me to information about the toxicity of CS or lack thereof?
Thanks so much.
BE well,
Stacy
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