I'm new here, but let me say that I'm very grateful to have found all of you in one place!  This is my first posting on my first list (hope I do it right).  Many of you are knowledgeable, generous, and helpful and I'm very grateful you take the time out of your busy schedules to share what you know.  Thank you.  I've been taking CS for a couple of years now, from several different sources, and I'm convinced it helped to wipe out my Hep C.  I was very sick before, but not now.  In fact, no one in my family has been to a doctor since we started on it.  Anyway, I've been researching CS online hoping to learn enough to be able to get a good generator to make it at home (I give it away to everyone - family, animals and friends - so it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep buying it at this rate), but I seem to need a little input from those who aren't hoping to make a profit from me.  While reading up on it, 2 totally conflicting theories on CS came up.  From what I can gather, the first camp bases their theory on studies performed outside of the body in laboratory dishes, and they insist that only the surface of silver "particles" effectively kill germs.  They are convinced that silver particles must come into contact with the offensive germ for the CS to be effective and that silver "ions" will interact with salt in our saliva, stomachs and blood to form silver chloride (? - please excuse me if I use an incorrect term) which is useless.  Whereas the second camp believes, especially when dealing with viruses and germs inside of the body, that the bio-availability of silver ions is the one and only thing that makes CS effective, and not the silver particles, because the body is unable to break down the full particles for use (?).  They say that the body makes metallaproteins to keep silver ions from interacting with saline in our bodies and that metalloproteins safely transport silver ions throughout the body to kill offensive germs.  Now, I've been told that home CS generators make only the ionic form of CS by Camp #1, but particles are still produced as well according to the laboratory analysis reports I've seen!  All of the conflicting information has me frozen and can be very intimidating when it's backed up by studies and professors, but I'm beginning to wonder about that, because there is convincing evidence on both sides.  Everyone seems to be selling something and putting out the info that goes with what they're selling (of course)!  So - here I am.  Can you all tell me what, if anything, you've concluded about all of this?  My gut feeling is that  probably any properly made CS is better than none at all, and will do what we need it to, as long as it's made with clean, distilled water (and no salt, baking soda or toxins).  It probably works even when it isn't properly made, it just might take longer and require more.  My gut also tells me that oftentimes, when there are conflicting opinions with each side on very opposing poles, as there seems to be with CS, the truth can lay somewhere in that middle "grey" area where both sides contributed relevant truths, but I'm hoping you all can shed some more light on this for me.  Anyway, can you all also tell me if there is a generator that is very safe, very simple and economical, that produces CS that is clear?   It would be a big plus if there was a lab analysis of the CS the generator produces online as well, but I'm interested in your recommendations regardless.   Thanks, Jodi 
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Jodi Waldman Menard

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