Hi BT.

You said:
>I have been lead to believe from what I have read that anything
> less then 500 PPM is a waste of time with at least one site advocating 2000
> PPM or more.

You didn't say where you read or were lead to believe the above, but I feel
reasonably sure it wasn't from within the "silver community."

Medicinal silver preparations in the "potency" (PPM concentrations) you
mention are undoubtedly NOT genuine colloidal silver, nor are they
electrically isolated silver, or electro ionic silver EIS). Genuine colloids
and ionic silver solutions as produced by electrolysis simply will not
produce an end product with a PPM anywhere near that number.

If the products are actually the PPM listed on the label (which I highly
doubt) or anything near that level the must be some sort of Mild silver
protein (MSP). MSPs are by their very nature dramatically less effective than
Ionic silver. I believe the most frequently quoted figure I've heard is
something like 50 times less effective than a genuine EIS. That means that to
get the antimicrobial action of a 10 PPM EIS, one would need to use a 500 PPM
MSP.

There are many actual dangers in ingesting high PPM MSPs as well.

If the silver product one is using is anywhere from 10 to 20 PPM that is more
than enough to act as a very effective antimicrobial.

Another thing to keep in mind is that silver, whether ionic, colloidal, or
some other form is not particularly effective in treating intestinal bacteria
imbalances because most of the silver is eliminated in the urine and what
does get through to the intestines is so bound up in stool as to make it
inactive against intestinal bacteria. I suspect that most of the favorable
results you're having is the result of the probiotics you are taking. BTW
always take ionic or colloidal silver separate from any probiotic, as the
silver will kill the cultures in the probiotic.

I'm not sure what your aversion to making your own is, but if you feel you
must or simply prefer to pay retail prices for your medicinal silver I would
suggest you check out Natural immunogenics at:
http://www.natural-immunogenics.com/
They make a high quality product.
If you want some information on medicinal silver you can genuinely trust, I
suggest you visit the Silvermedicine website at:
http://www.silvermedicine.org/

I hope this is of some help to you.
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LTR
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