This should clear up a lot of misconception Mike. Thanks, Reece. Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 21, 2014, at 10:08 AM, M.G. Devour <mdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Judy, > > Just in case there's any confusion: > > Remember that viruses are small molecules of genetic material (DNA or > RNA) that have evolved the ability to get into living cells and hijack > their reproductive organs for the purpose of replicating the virus. > Without a cell to do that work, the virus wouldn't be able to propagate. > There are viruses out there that will infect just about any kind of > cell; mammalian, plant, even bacterial. > > Bacteria are single celled organisms, some of which cause disease in > higher organisms like us. Compared to viruses, they're huge. You can see > bacteria with an optical microscope, but you need a much more powerful > electron microscope to image viruses. > > Antibiotics, as generally defined, are substances that are targeted at > bacteria. Viruses are not directly vulnerable to antibiotics. It is, in > fact, the over-prescription of antibiotics to people with viral > infections like a cold or flu that has helped create the antibiotic > resistant strains of bacteria that plague mainstream medicine now. > > The problem is there aren't a lot of really good known anti-virals, at > least that I'm aware of. Those we have tend to have side-effects that > make them less than ideal. > > So medicine is still searching for the "cure for the common cold" for > exactly the reason that they don't yet have really good anti-virals and > antibiotics don't work directly on cold viruses. > > What antibiotics do, like our silver preparations, is prevent secondary > bacterial infections from complicating the course of viral colds or flu. > This is why they prescribe them for viral infections at all. > > Silver has the advantage here, because bacteria have a much harder time > forming resistance to silver than to antibiotics. Even in the few cases > where silver-resistant bacteria have been found in nature, once removed > from the silver-rich environment they lose their resistance within a > generation or two. The immunity is not genetically transmitted. And I > know of no pathogenic bacterium that has ever done this. > > We do have some indications that silver also has at least limited > anti-viral activity, such as the reports of folks curing aids or hep-c > with it. But for most situations, it only serves to keep bacteria at bay > leaving our immune systems free to deal with the viruses. > > There is a whole cascade of processes in the immune response to viral > infection, most of which serve to control the damage being done until > the body can create antibodies targeted to the specific virus. That > finally kills the virus you've been fighting off, and you gain immunity > to it and won't generally catch that exact bug ever again. > > Viruses, however, tend to mutate so rapidly that new strains are > constantly being created which are just different enough to bypass the > immunity from the last one and re-infect us the next time they circulate > through the population. > > So there's this whole industry whose business is trying to predict which > viruses are going to be big this year so they can produce flu vaccines > in time for flu season. They don't always get it right. > > I haven't seen the show you're talking about, but if they're actually > using the term "antibiotic" to describe an anti-viral, it's a totally > new use or a mis-use of the word. > > As far as I know, the only silver-resistant bacteria that have ever been > observed were found in extremely silver-rich soil environments near > silver deposits or mining tailings or some-such unique situation. And as > I mentioned above, the adaptation reverses when the bugs are taken away > from that extreme environment. > > In our efforts to use silver therapeutically, as far as I know we've > never seen any bacterium manage to become resistant. > > As for its effect against viruses? That's less obvious. Experience shows > that it seems to help stop an infection if you catch it early enough, or > you can take it routinely as a preventative. There have been a lot of > folks that report going for years without catching a cold by taking a > little silver every day or two. I've been one of them. > > Be well, > > Mike D. > > >> On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 16:57 -0500, Judy Knowlton wrote: >> program on CNN – hunting for a new antibiotic because of the >> increasing resistance of viruses to the present antibiotics. >> >> Have I been mistaken in believing “buglets” are unable to build up a >> resistance to CS? It has been a matter of “faith” with me, I think! >> >> Judy Down Maine > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
