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Colloidal Silver Tips from My Family to Yours!

My Personal Tips for Staying Healthy:
Incorporating MSM/ Vitamin C with Colloidal Silver Use

There is an inseparable component to colloidal silver use in remaining illness-free in my household.  It's not a secret, but it's not usually ever mentioned in the literature that I am aware of, or rather I should say that it is not linked with colloidal silver usage as enhancing and making colloidal silver even more effective.

Through personal experience and through reading a variety of sources (you understand I am sure that you really must not take any one individual's opinion as gospel when reading articles on the internet, especially on the topic of colloidal silver... you truly need to read at least 6 or 8 articles, even if they outright conflict, before you can feel confident enough to make your own educated decisions), I became aware years ago of the insidious nature of inflammation.  It was then that I was introduced to MSM coupled with Vitamin C (I use Ester-C because the acidic nature of standard Vitamin C).  MSM is a natural anti-inflammatory substance, extremely effective, and available at ridiculously affordable prices.

As with most all herbal and vitamin/mineral supplements, I begin a regiment based on what the label recommends, and then I adjust over the next several days or weeks to find the most effective usage level for myself (as you know, we are all different and have different needs).  A booklet I read back in the mid-1990's, when I first began to take MSM, recommended that every person should be taking 5 grams of MSM per day.  I worked up to 5 grams (5,000mg) after a few weeks, and have been taking it every day since then.  (Some people simple do not need 5 grams a day.  I have a friend who cannot handle a 1000mg capsule.  He must take a 500mg.  How do we know when we have taken too much?  We get what we call "MSM headaches."  Pretty painful, and they can last up to 6 hours and not really respond to pain killers.  I speak from experience:-)

Before I found colloidal silver, I took large amounts of MSM when I was fighting an illness.  For me, my regular dosage is 2000mg, with 500mg of Vitamin C.  I take this morning, noon, and cut it in half at night.  This stems off just about anything that could infect me.  If I did come down with something, I would take this dosage every 2 hours, or every time I would feel the symptoms heighten.  And I would find myself usually coming down with something a couple of times a year.

Enter colloidal silver.  Colliodal silver will indeed take care of the infection (bacterial, viral), but often I would retain symptoms of inflammation.  I discovered that if I treat something with both MSM/Vitamin C and colloidal silver (with the nasal mister and oral mister), I can remain virtually illness free.  I have been doing this treatment on myself now for about a year, in all circumstances (stressful situations at work, or long periods with very little sleep and rest, etc) and in all weather season with spectacular results.  I haven't been ill.  Hardly a sniffle.  So I felt it was time to share this tip.

I have found a great source for very well priced MSM.  I have found that, other than purchasing granules, there's really no difference in quality between expensive off-the-shelf MSM at a health food store, and Walmart's 1000mg capsules.  But I have found a site that even beats Walmart's prices significantly.  Walmart sells MSM in 1000mg capsules @ $9 for 90 capsules.  Not bad.  Certainly better than health food store prices.  My source is 240 1000mg capsules for $8.95.  It can be found at www.BestVite.com  I usually buy 2 bottles at a time because there's a discount, and you get free shipping on $15 orders.  While you are there you might want to look around for pricing on the other things you take.  I get my Acai there, along with my CoQ10 and things like that.  I'm not at all affiliated with the site, and they have no idea I am recommending it on this website, but I think you will really find some great deals there.

Hey!  TAKE CARE!  I've had this site up now for about 3 years, and you guys have been AWESOME.
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The Value of the Nasal Mister and the Oral Mister
(see Accessories Page for more information)

My personal discovery of the value of the nasal and oral misters warrants mention here.  For me, using these two misters with colloidal silver has become an invaluable component in my personal prevention and treatment of illness with colloidal silver. 

I use them both almost every day as part of my supplement maintenance program, instead of taking the colloidal silver orally.  I have discovered that this simple preventive measure as part of my daily routine has accomplished two things:

          1.  I experience the same positive preventive results as taking colloidal silver orally.
          2.  I use far less colloidal silver as a result.  Given that my colloidal silver remains clear and stable over time, it is not uncommon for our household to produce colloidal silver only 3 or 4 times a year (based on need).  This GREATLY extends the life span of a pair of pure silver rods!

I recommend that every household has at least a nasal mister for each member of the family!  And I hope you'll consider an oral mister as well, especially if you have issues with bronchitis and/or pneumonia like I have all my life.  I do offer them for sale on this website if you are unable to locate one at your health food store.  (Or, you might find a nasal mister on the shelf at a retail establishment that you can purchase.  Just empty the bottle, clean it real well, and use it for your colloidal silver.  Oral misters are a little harder to find out there.)  Here's the page where you can order your own nasal misters and oral misters, and read more about my usage of them.

Summer Colloidal Silver Tip: "Patchy" Suntanned Skin

We posted this tip last summer, and it was such a valuable tip that we're mentioning it again this year.

If you live in a warmer climate, or if you spend your weekends out on the lake, and you're working on a tan for the summer months, you or someone in your family might have discovered that your skin develops patches or spotting.  It's not a very good look, is it?:-)  You'll have this great tan on your arms, and you get out of the shower a few days later, and you've got these lighter patches or circles showing on your arms, chest, back or neck.  The next time you go out into the sunshine, those patchy areas refuse to tan, and worse, the sun seems to aggravate them!  They tend to turn bright red, and you'll even feel a burning sensation.

This happened to me, and I began trying to determine what was causing it.  I discovered that it was a type of skin fungus that was "very difficult" to eliminate.  The article I read provided me with 2 options:  Visit a dermatologist and spend a fortune on some kind of antifungal cream, or try to eliminate it at home by slathering Celsun Blue dandruff shampoo all over my body, letting it soak in for 15 minutes, then washing it off, repeating this process for 5 straight days!  Yikes!  And then there was no guarantee that the fungus would not appear within a few weeks.  And sure enough, later that summer, the same fungus showed up.

Then it dawned on me that colloidal silver was a powerful anti-fungal product!  The next time the patchiness showed up early in the summer, I poured some colloidal silver onto a paper towel, and rubbed down my skin on the areas that had the patchiness (for me, it was on my chest and stomach, and even my upper arms).  The weekend rolled around, and not even thinking about it any longer (because after using the silver, the usual accompanying itchiness disappeared), I headed out into the sun.  By the end of the weekend, my skin color had become even again, with no sign of patchiness!

This is why today I keep a spray bottle on hand, especially during the summer months, filled with my colloidal silver.  And yes, we offer spray bottles on this website for just these household needs.  Just click onto the Accessories page.  Colloidal silver very simply and very easily, in a matter of moments, killed the skin fungus that caused itchiness and unsightly patches on my skin.  I highly recommend it!

Colloidal Silver vs. Ionic Silver:  My Opinion Based on Personal Experience

Have you noticed how there is this HUGE online debate about the value (or lack of value) of ionic silver?  From my reading and personal experience, ionic silver is simply silver molecules that are gigantic (therefore not colloidal), and are too large to enter cell walls to work their magic within the cell.

Where does ionic silver come from?  From my understanding from reading various sources:  If you are using electricity in any form to generate colloidal silver, you will produce a certain amount of ionic silver in addition to your colloidal silver.  It is unavoidable.

But is it "dangerous" as some sites declare?  Nope.  Not a bit, in my opinion based on my own experience.  Maybe less effective perhaps on illness, but not harmful.  I had been producing a high amount of ionic silver for years before I learned the value of agitating the distilled water during production.  Agitating the water DRAMATICALLY reduces the amount of ionic silver (generally producing only about 3 or 4 ppm ionic silver during average production times), and dramatically increases the amount of colloidal silver.

So how do I know I had a large amount of ionic silver in my solution?  By using a TDS meter, it was not uncommon for me to produce a solution that had a reading of 20 to 30ppm.  Given that a TDS meter measures "impurities" in water, it was capable of reading my ionic silver.  I discovered that the longer my solution sat in the jar (even out of direct sunlight), the more "amber" in color it would become.  The rate at which the solution turned dark was in direct relation to how effective the solution was when I took it orally to fight illness.  Over time, the amber solution became less and less effective.

This all changed when I discovered the power of agitating the water during production.  The result is that I have a TDS reading of about 3 or 4ppm, but a colloidal solution that remains extremely effective in allowing me to treat illness, and one that is extremely stable over time (it never changes color, even after several months of storage).

So, is there a use for ionic silver?  Yes.  I believe there is.  Because ionic silver molecules are so huge in relation to colloidal silver, I purposely make ionic silver solutions (by my old method, which is by NOT agitating the water during production).  Why would I do this?  Because I discovered that ionic silver is extremely effective in treating myself for topical anti-fungal, anti-bacterial ailments.  Because ionic silver is so large, it remains on the surface of skin or tissues.  This includes skin fungus (see above), sunburn, cuts, scrapes and even some intestinal problems.  I remember getting some food poisoning once at a local restaurant.  At that time I was making only heavily ionic silver, the amber-colored type mentioned above.  I found that I got phenomenal relief within about 10 to 15 minutes by drinking a "gulp" or two of my ionic silver solution every 6 hours or so.  It meant that more than likely, the ionic silver remained in my digestive tract (without being absorbed into the cells) and moved quickly to kill the bacteria that was trying to take over. 

Could I just be "blowing smoke" here?  Of course.  I am just going on my own experience, and sharing with you my own impressions, experiences and thoughts on the matter.  I acknowledge that I could be way off base in analyzing the results of my own use.

But the bottom line is this: 

Given that we all are making our own colloidal silver by using some form of low voltage electricity, producing a certain amount of ionic silver is unavoidable.  And it is not necessarily a bad thing, but can be a beneficial result in many cases.  So let's not sweat the small stuff.  Have you noticed how overwhelmed you can become when you read about colloidal silver on the internet?  Let's remember that we have a powerful anti-bacterial, anti-fungal remedy that could literally change the world if profit were not the motive from gigantic pharmaceutical companies.  I know that colloidal silver has changed my life and the lives of my family.  The secret's out, and there are a lot of people who have a lot to lose if the credibility of colloidal silver were broadcast to the masses.  So, let's just be grateful for our knowledge and our capacity to produce colloidal silver to keep our families healthy, and pray that if there are those who need what we have to offer, that they find us so that we can help.

Agitating the Water:
Heating and Adding Saline Solution

I have been contacted by several individuals recently, asking me if I have tried heating the distilled water prior to production, along with adding saline solution.

Honestly, I have not tried producing colloidal silver with this method, so I really don't have grounds to make comments about it.  These individuals have assured me that they are able to produce stable colloidal silver very easily and quickly through this method.  I say:  "Do What Works!"  If this works well for you, then by all means continue it.  Remember that I feel that our greatest challenge in producing colloidal silver from home is making a product that is clear and stable over time, and one that is as high as possible in colloid content and is as low as possible in ionic content.

Common sense tells me that heating the water is another form of agitating the water.  Which I am wholeheartedly in support of.  As you know by reading various comments on this site, I have become a big big fan of agitating the distilled water during colloidal silver production.... by whatever means available to you.

However, I have chosen not to use saline (or salt solution).  My reading concerning colloidal silver indicates that use of salt solution in colloidal silver production will generate silver chloride.  And consumption of silver chloride over time creates the "blue man" condition, known as argyria.

So, let's just get it done.  By whatever means.  And let's make the highest quality product that we can!  And thank you to those of you who have sent me your tips and comments.  I appreciate being in contact with you!

Winter (and year 'round!) Colloidal Silver tip

Here's a tip for Fall and Winter colloidal silver use...

I use a nasal mister through the cold weather months, filled with my own colloidal silver.  I discovered that whenever my sinuses are stuffy, the possibility of a cold or flu is nearby.  But you say, "My sinuses are always stuffy!"  I know what you mean!  I don't become ill through the winter months often... especially now that I make my own colloidal silver... but I discovered that whenever I did become ill, it seemed that the very first indicator was stuffy sinus.  So, I began to use a nasal mister once a day, sometimes twice a day, and here's what I noticed:

1.  No more sinus headaches.  When I feel sinus pressure, I use the mister.  It stops sinus headaches in their tracks.
2.  No more colds.  I've not had a single cold since using the mister.
3.  Taken before traveling by plane, no more getting sick after arriving at my destination, or returning home.
4.  No more snoring complaints from my spouse!  I'm not kidding!  I never saw that one coming....  I'm not saying that using a nasal mister with colloidal silver before bed will cure snoring.  But apparently it did for me!
5.  I use far less colloidal silver.  When using a mister, I have discovered that there is no need to take colloidal silver orally except on rare occasions.  If I am only making colloidal silver 4 or 5 times a year, my silver rods are lasting YEARS longer.  I only make enough colloidal silver to fill my mister bottle about once a month, and to have enough on hand in case someone in the family wishes to take some orally to stop inflammation or infection.

Yes, we sell a nasal mister on this site!  You can view the mister by going to our Parts & Accessories Page. I wouldn't leave home without one.  And what's great is that it holds 1 oz. so you can carry it with you when traveling by plane, and use it whenever you feel the need throughout your flights and your time away from home.

We have these mister bottles available for only $6.95.  They are amber colored glass, and have held up for me for over a year now and counting.  I urge you to keep a mister close by, filled with your own colloidal silver!

Here's to your health!

Tip for your pet Dog and "Intestinal Issues"

          My family and I live out in the country.  We live in an area where we have a large fenced yard, and our family pet, our dog Buddy, can have plenty of room, but be contained and safe from the wild animals that live in the woods near our home.  Our pet cat, Oscar, however, can roam freely.  And Oscar does what cats will do:  he hunts.  And he brings his rodent kills home to the back door to enjoy.  What remains becomes a "snack" for Buddy, often with less than desirable results for Buddy's intestinal tract.
          Add to this that we live in an area that is known as a wintering ground for American Bald Eagles.  Not many people realize that Bald Eagles are scavenger birds.  They eat dead things to survive.  Our area poultry farms are known to toss their dead chicken house birds out for the Bald Eagles to dine on.  And they do... with relish.  We're a neighbor to a particularly large poultry producer, and we have large old growth trees around the house.  The Bald Eagles will fetch their dinners and dine in the trees on our property.  Often pieces of the dead chickens will fall into the yard to be found by Buddy.  He picks up where the Bald Eagle has left off.  And these dead animals have the same effect on his intestinal tract as the dead field rats and field mice do.
          The usual pattern is that Buddy's tract will clear up on its on... usually in about 3 days.  On day 4 (after discovering in the fur on his back end that the problem still exists), I prepare to call the vet.  But then the problem clears up... until the next batch of nasty bacteria gets into his system. 
          Recently, however, Buddy got bad bacteria from the dead animals into his system, and after about a week, I realized he couldn't deal with it on his own.  I called the vet and prepared to set up an appointment.  I prepared myself to follow Buddy around to snatch a stool sample and take it in to be tested.  But then it dawned on me, "It's a bacterium that's causing him problems.  Colloidal Silver can kill this bacterium." 
          So, I did a bit of investigating on naturopathic vet websites, and realized that I had had the solution to Buddy's problem all the time.  Based on his weight of 30 lbs., I gave him 2 to 3 tsp. of Colloidal Silver mixed in his food that night.  His condition became visibly better the next day.  I mixed Colloidal Silver in his food the next 2 nights, and his condition disappeared completely.... in just 2 days.  I stopped then, but the condition began to reappear 2 days later.  I resumed adding the Colloidal Silver, and continued adding Colloidal Silver the next 3 nights, and the problem completely disappeared, and he's been doing great since.  That was 2 weeks ago.  The Big Birds continue to feed in our trees, and Oscar continues to kill field rats and bring them home, and Buddy keeps a healthy digestive tract.  All is good in our home!
          (I would recommend that you investigate naturopathic veterinarian websites to determine the proper dosage for animals based on their weight.  I didn't want to make matters worse for my dog by overfeeding him Colloidal Silver.  So, as a measure to possibly repair any good bacterial interruption I might unknowingly cause, I did purchase a bottle of pet digestive enzymes to have on hand.)
          The result?  I have a healthy pet, and I saved on going to the vet and having to do the distasteful task of finding a stool sample.  So, it's great to know that Colloidal Silver will work on my 4-legged friends as well!

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you ship to the outside the US?

          Yes.  We ship to the European Union, Canada, South America and all other locations.
          We get this question a LOT, especially since the European Union has apparently banned the retail sale of colloidal silver.  First, make sure that your country allows the entry of these items.  Secondly, you may either make your online purchase and allow us to compute your shipping charges (you will notice that if you live outside the US, there will be no charges attached to your order), or please write to us in advance of your purchase, with the items you are interested in ordering, along with your full postal mailing address, and we will determine in advance your shipping charges. (The postal service website requires a full mailing address to compute shipping charges.)  These shipping charges are additional, and will be requested from you via a PayPal Money Request.  If you are willing to pay these charges, simply pay the Money Request.  If you do not wish to pay the shipping charges, please reply to the request letting us know, and we will cancel the request, and refund your order total (if you have already placed one).

Production questions

What is "agitating the water"?

          We discovered, along with some other Colloidal Silver Generator producers that "agitating the water" is invaluable to the Colloidal Silver production process.  In fact, learning of the value of agitating the water was the final chapter in developing a very stable, high quality Colloidal Silver product. 
          I had been reading quite a bit about "agitating the water" to reduce macro-particles of silver solution, to better stabilize the final product after production, and most importantly to generate a higher colloidal content and less ionic silver content (which is far more desirable).  In viewing photos of agitated water, it became very apparent to me that all they were doing was pumping air in the water during the production process.  That led to purchasing a small aquarium pump to agitate the water while the generator was working.  I had no idea how radically the end product would so positively change for the better!  Whatever you do during colloidal silver production of your own, buy a pump (we offer one that I use every time I make Colloidal Silver).  Agitate the water.  It makes a huge difference in the quality of your end product. 

Why do you use only 9-volt and 12-volt systems?

          You'll also notice that our generators only use a single 9-volt battery, or a 12-volt transformer.  There's a reason for this.  When I first began producing my own Colloidal Silver, I had been talking with many of my own friends who had been producing their own colloidal silver for years.  Their view was that the lower the voltage, the more satisfactory the results.  I have tried the battery-operated generators sending as much as 27 volts through the silver.  But I didn't care for the result.  The advice I received from the friends I trust, who have been supplying their own families with colloidal silver since the early 1990's, is that 9 volts to 12 volts is plenty of voltage to generate a more than satisfactory product.

How much colloidal silver do I make at a time?

For personal use, I usually make one quart jar at a time.  This quantity will normally last me up to 4 to 6 weeks if I am taking 1 to 2 Tbsp. per day as a mineral supplement.  If I am requiring more, or if I am making enough to give away to family or friends, I will move to the quart jar.  However, since I have been using the nasal mister on mostly a daily basis, I and my family use much less colloidal silver, and a quart jar can last 2 or 3 months, and retain its clarity and stability.

Which charger do I use (battery-powered or 12-volt plug-in charger)?

I use the 12-volt DC electric charger (see farther down page) most often.  I use the battery-powered device when an electrical plug is either not available, or I don't want to string an electrical extension cord across a room.  The battery-operated devices work well when traveling by car.  When traveling by plane, I take the 12-volt electric charger in my suitcase and store it with my other chargers (phone, camera, etc.)  In terms of simplicity, I use the 12-volt charger primarily.

The value of the battery-powered generator is if you have lost electricity as the result of a power outage, if you live off the grid or on a boat or in a motor home, or if you are on the road a lot, you can take this one with you anywhere. 

How long does it take me to make colloidal silver?

I use the quart jar most often.  I use the 12-volt generator mostly, along with two 6" silver rods. I often check the water every 30 minutes to an hour with a pen laser, and find most often that the silver has reached a highly effective level (a dense beam has formed when scanned across the water) in about 3 hours. A definitely high-colloid product will be produced by you when you agitate the water, and use a laser pen light to reveal the amount of colloidal silver in your water, in approximately 3 hours.

How do I know when the colloidal silver is ready?

I use a pen laser light shining through the jar during colloidal silver production (pen lasers are available on this site).  It is interesting to shine the light through the jar through the distilled water before beginning to make colloidal silver.  You will see no beam.  The water is pure.  Within 20 or 30 minutes, shine the light through the water again.  You will begin to see particles reflected in the beginning of a beam that you can see. When after roughly 2 to 3 hours for quart jars, when you see a solid beam of laser light through the width of the water in the jar, your silver is ready!  When I see a very solid beam of light shining through the jar, I know my colloidal silver is ready.

What is a TDS meter?

From www.colloidal-silvers.com, we find this valuable information:
"In truth a TDS meter gives a more accurate reading of the purity of the water rather than giving a spot on count of silver colloids. Some of the leading manufacturers of TDS meters agree to this fact although the meters are widely used for counting silver colloids. The leading manufacturers agree that TDS meters are not the perfect tools for measuring the colloid count. On the contrary this is a perfect tool for gauging the impurities present in your distilled water. You will find TDS meters being promoted as effective tools for testing colloidal silver ppm when in truth it does not give you an accurate reading.

"In order to get a 100% accurate ppm you will be required to send your colloidal silver sample to a laboratory which is well equipped to analyze the CS. This could turn out to be a rather expensive and time consuming process. This is why most of the producers of CS make use of TDS meters despite the fact that they only give you a relative ppm of the sample.

"When using a TDS meter the reading obtained is written as the number obtained followed by ppm TDS. Although the TDS meter does not give you a spot on accurate result but in general the results obtained are accurate enough to be used for basic purposes. This is because by making use of TDS meters you will not have to rely on guesses in order to determine the concentration of your CS solution."

Here is my personal interpretation of a TDS meter:
I feel that the TDS meter is primarily measuring the larger "ionic silver" particles, and not the suspended "colloidal silver" particles.  If during production electricity is used to generate colloidal silver, there will always be ionic silver particles.  The challenge is to generate as much colloidal silver as possible (far more beneficial), while reducing the amount of ionic silver.  Agitating the water during production appears to accomplish just this perfect state, under the conditions of our production.

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