Hi everyone This a a copy of the e-mail that I sent to Dr Austin. Ivan, I hope you didn't mind me copying part of your info. as I couldn't of answered otherwise. I'll let you all know what reply, if any, I get back. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Grant <nwgr...@inet.net.nz> To: Dr Mark Austin <functional...@paradise.net.nz> Sent: Monday, 20 November 2000 13:58 Subject: Re: colloidal silver
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dr Mark Austin <functional...@paradise.net.nz> > To: Nick Grant <nwgr...@inet.net.nz> > Sent: Friday, 17 November 2000 14:53 > Subject: RE: colloidal silver > > > Hi Mark > > Thanks for taking the time to reply to my e-mail. > > I suspect your research reflected your expectations. Colloidal Silver is > not a heavy metal. You cannot compare it to something like Mercury. > > Rather than "poisoning the selenium enzyme glutathione peroxidase, silver > reacts with selenium which makes it univaliable as the enzyme. In severe > Selenium deficientcy this can lead to radical damage because of the low > glutathione peroxidase count. However, it has been found that when a metal > reacts with Selenium, the body reduces the amount of Selenium excreted, and > raises the amount of peroxidase in the body of those with normal selenium > dietary intake. Selenium will protect against metal toxicity (cadmium > mercury copper, chromium , but not lead.) High selenium intake can be > toxic. > > There has in fact been investigations into the cancer forming potential of > silver....none has been found! > > I would be interested to know where you "researched" that lead you to your > conclusions. > > I hope you are also strongly reccommending your clients not to vaccinate > since vaccines carry heavy metals in them. > > I realise perhaps one of the reasons that you are a naturopath as well as a > GP is that you probably have come to realise that conventional medicine, > which by the way, I am very grateful to, does not hold all the answers to > health as they presume to. Alot of drugs that are marketed, do not have > "years of research" behind them. They weigh up the benefits as opposed to > the risks. This is what i have done in my use of Colloidal Silver. I am > VERY careful what I put into my body, and that of my children, but I cannot > sit here and give you gaurantees that their is no long term side-effects. > As you can give me no gaurantees that drugs are not with harm as well. Yet > you would still use and recommend them in your practice. All the evidence I > have seen as to the toxicity of CS, is positive. Yet I am ALWAYS open, as I > hope you are, to be proven wrong. > > Thank you for your time > > Tracy Grant. > -- 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>
