Hello G., Monday, June 18, 2001, 10:35:11 PM, you wrote:
GH> This might help, from; GH> http://risk.lsd.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/silver_f_V1.shtml GH> Exposure of rats to 222 mg silver/kg/day in drinking water for 37 weeks GH> resulted in growth depression and shortened lifespan. Also observed were GH> granular silver deposits in the eyes (Matuk et al., 1981). GH> Olcott (1948, 1950) reported enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart GH> in rats receiving drinking water containing 635-660 mg silver/day as either GH> silver nitrate or silver chloride for life. Histologic examination showed GH> slight thickening of the basement membranes of kidney glomeruli in the GH> absence of severe renal lesions. Deposition of silver granules was observed GH> in the skin, eyes, and several internal organs. (Gee, there's a surprise! g) GH> Ummm. Yup. Hmmmm... The first reference doesn't state if it is a salt, or the metal itself. If it is the metal, and I weigh 100 kilograms, I would have to eat 810.3 grams a year. That's a little over 26 Troy ounces. Yep, I can see how someone in the real world could consume 26 silver "rounds" in a year. NOT! As a comparison, if one were to consume 1 gallon of 20 PPM colloidal silver, every single day, for a whole year, you would consume 0.888 of a Troy ounce. In other words, you would have to drink over 29.25 GALLONS a day to reach that level. For the second reference, you would have to consume nearly 8.5 gallons of that same 20 PPM silver a DAY, and all of it would have to convert to either chloride or nitrate. In either case, your kidneys would be long since dead, because just consuming that much plain water in a day will upset the potassium/sodium balance to the point of cardiac arrest. -- Best regards, Solar mailto:so...@neo.rr.com -- 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>
