Steve, I cannot answer your bacteria question, I am not qualified. At UDel, the bac-t studies discussed in Ron's book were conducted by a biochemistry professor in the medical technology department.
Clearly, much needs to be done, but it takes money. I have funded our research for several years now and there are financial limits to what I can do alone. I am in the process of launching a non-profit research foundation whose purpose will be to fund such research at universities and private labs. With regard to filtering, in our lab we use centrifugation. We have a centrifuge that can go as high as 20,000 G forces while processing up to 4 liters per minute on a continuous flow basis. The unit is made by Carr Separations, now owned by Kendro Laboratory Products. There product is called the Powerfuge. It is an industrial strength unit, not suitable for the home hobbiest due to its cost. But for commercial operations or laboratories, having the ability to set separation G forces at an infinitely variable level permits particles to be separated out down to the nanometer range. When we have needed to do filtration, we use polycarbonate membrane filters and vacuum filtration apparatus. They do not add contamination to the filtrate. We use coffee filters only for coffee. frank key > Yes, Frank, thanks for the .pdf book. Some of the research described was > unique, and I enjoyed reading it. Any plans to take those in vitro studies > to the human body? > > The research both confirmed and < apparently > refuted some personal > experiences. I'm particularly interesting in figuring out why a small > dosage of colloidal silver ( nowhere NEAR a 1:1 CS/Bacteria ratio ) wiped > out a life threatening Psuedo & Staph infection ( septic & flesh eating ). > On the surface, the data regarding the AMOUNTS of colloidal silver in > proportion to the colonies of bacteria is solid. But I wonder: What might > be the average percentage of bacteria that NEEDS to be eliminated in order > for the body's immune system to be able to handle an infection that it had > not been able to handle, and what might any variables be based upon? > > As far as the filtering goes? I noticed a big drop in effectiveness when > filtering ( I used standard non-bleached coffee filters ). I changed to > simply extracting the theoretical "best" colloidal silver in any batch with > a syringe, and using the rest for external applications. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Frank Key <fr...@strsoft.com> > To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:26 AM > Subject: Re: CS>Free Book Available > > > > Steve, > > > > There is no staff at the university continuing Ron's research. I guess I > am > > the closest thing to meeting that definition, as I worked with Ron from > the > > beginning on cs research. In fact, it was I who got Ron interested in this > > field of research in the first place. > > > > The "star" rating was an overall quality metric, not just effectiveness. > > > > The contamination criteria was chosen by Ron as being indicative of the > > quality of a commercial product. A quality commercial product should not > have > > any significant contamination. If it did, that was cause to be dropped > from > > further consideration. The worst offender was the living bacteria found in > > some products sold as "silver protein" or "mild silver protein". > > > > If a home made batch of cs is contaminated, it is up to the user to decide > if > > he wants to use it. As we learned from "Survivor", some folks are > comfortable > > eating living bugs and other criters. > > > > > -- > 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> >
