According to R.O. Becker, silver is very helpful in restoring nerve function. And, "heavy metals" start at atomic weight 200; silver is 107.8 and some change.
Much positive material there, but some misinformation; ignorance or deliberate. Who funds that group? James Osbourne Holmes FTNWO -----Original Message----- From: Marsha Hallett <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:38 AM Subject: Re: CS>Silver - an article > > >> This is a very interesting read. >> >> http://www.silverinstitute.org/news/bkhealthmet.html >> >> Ivan. > >Dear Ivan, Yeah, but this part bugs me: >"The removal of silver and other heavy metals is the function of the >metallothioneins. These ubiquitous proteins are found in all vertebrates and >invertebrates and act to transport, store, and detoxify essential and >nonessential trace metals. The metallothioneins chelate or agglomerate heavy >metals and convey them from the body. Their action can be overwhelmed by >ingestion of excessive amounts of heavy metals. In the case of silver, >excessive amounts may eventually deposit in the skin, giving it a gray >color. This deposit is called argyria and cannot be removed. > >Silver, being a highly conductive metal, has been shown to have a >deleterious effect in the presence of nerve cells. While heavy metals are >blocked from the nervous system and the brain by the blood-brain barrier by >a membrane whose purpose is to filter out heavy metals, certain stresses, >such as hypoxemia (the dangerously low level of oxygen in the blood that >occurs to some climbers at very high altitudes), may weaken this barrier." > >Silver is NOT a heavy metal, and CS has never been shown to cause argyria. >Sigh... >Marsha > > > >-- >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: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
