Silver Sol Safety
As with any new technology, questions of safety are of paramount importance.
Questions surrounding the safety of silver sol are frequent, in part due to misunderstandings that stem from a lack of differentiation between silver sol and other silver products (colloidal silvers, ionic silvers, silver proteins, silver fabrics, etc.) that have dubious or disputed safety records.
Importantly, the safety information about silver sol included below is in exclusive reference to silver sol. Confusion of silver sol safety with the ’safety information’ of other silver products should be considered in its exact form: as confusion.
The following resources provide information about the safety of silver sol:
- Silver Sol Safety Review – Scientific literature review on the topics of safety and toxicology, including human studies, cytotoxicity studies, animal studies, laboratory studies, and governmental approvals. Read article…
- Silver Sol Safety – An overview of silver sol in comparison with other silver products, including specific reference to argyria, heavy-metal poisoning, and other health concerns. Also, to provide a little perspective, the safety of silver is compared with the safety of common antibiotics (according to The Journal of the American Medical Association, antibiotics have been estimated to kill 100,000 annually as a “negative side-effect.”) Read article…
- Nano Silver Proven Safe for Humans – A response to frequently raised safety concerns surrounding silver sol, including environmental safety, cyto-toxicity, friendly digestive bacteria, heavy-metal poisoning, and other common questions. Read article…
Silver Sol & Concerns of Argyria Associated with Colloidal Silver
Though unfounded, one of the hurdles that Guardian Silver has to overcome is a perceived connection to argyria. Argyria is a cosmetic condition (non life-threatening and non-debilitating) that has been associated with the overconsumption of colloidal silver/silver salt compounds of high concentration (30 – 300 ppm). The person’s skin takes on a bluish or grayish hue.
First of all, it must be stated that Guardian Silver Sol differs from colloidal silver in many ways, including its concentration of the element1. Whereas older silver solutions and suspensions contained up to 300,000 ppm (parts per million) of silver, silver sol works very effectively at 5 – 30 ppm.2
Considerable research has been conducted on the safety of this new silver sol, including studies by Dr. Ron Leavitt, NAMSA (an international medical testing laboratory) and Roger J. Altman, Ph.D., to name just a few. Altman consumed many times the recommended dosage of silver for nearly six months and found that silver “seems to be purged from the body (mostly through urine) at about the same rate at which it is consumed.3
1 Congressional testimony of William D. Moeller, presented April 26, 2005, pp. 2, 4
2 The New Silver Solution, Kenneth S. Friedman, Ph.D. © 2006, p. 14-15
3 Roger J. Altman, Ph.D., “The Body’s Ability to Eliminate Silver” study, 1999
