Hi Nick; The textbook to read about bone regrowth would be Dr. Robert O. Becker's The Body Electric or Cross Currents.
I don't have a copy handy, but the gist of it is that non-union bone regrowth (and accelerated healing) can be prompted by silver on a silk bandage wadded into a bad wound with infection (Silverlon.com) and low amounts of DC current applied to the edge of the bandage, on the order of 1 microamp. Not very much current. But the work was really about current, and less about the silver, although the silver was working very well. And it's a very invasive procedure and not a home treatment. I have not seen data WRT normal bone growth from silver supplements. The preferred methods for bone regrowth now are PEMT, and acupuncture with current applied to each side of a break. Dr. Becker often implanted silver wires to each side of the non-union and applied the current to start bone regeneration. Also, in 48 patients (non-Becker) with non-union fractures of the wrist, the break was tooled and casted. 1/2 of the patients got a magnet embedded in the cast. The reault was that the half with magnets got their casts off an average of 3 weeks earlier. hope this helps.. ciao Duncan -- 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 Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
