[quote]gojira wrote:
For your information, silver is considered a hazardous constiuent per RCRA and has the same regulatory limit as chromium.
In other words any waste containing 5.0 mg/L or more would be considered a hazardous waste per RCRA.
No, household hazardous waste is not regulated (and sewage is covered by the Clean Water Act), but I bring this up to illustrate that high levels of it may not be very good for you. I would have to go back to the early Federal Registers to determine why the feds though it necessary to list silver as a hazardous constiuent.
BTW, there are only eight RCRA metals; arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium and silver.
Silver’s keeping some pretty nasty company.
You might want to keep this in mind before you go dosing yourself with it.[/quote]
Jira, you look like a totally different person in your avatar. Could you attribute this to the recent jewelry store you ate?
Edit: Seriously though, if I want to go for that badass-silver surfer bald guy look, I’m taking colloidal silver.
[quote]AgentOrange wrote:
Sure, silver does have amazing anti-microbial properties. In fact, the use of silver in dressings has advanced the treatment and healing of burn victims a long way in the last few years.
That doesn’t mean we should all start dosing ourselves with it because we think it might help fight off sickness. It’s not like we’re fighting off the plague – the only epidemic I’ve heard about lately has been obesity. [/quote]
Yeah but these people are using it to treat the mental disorder of Hypochondrial Retardis.
[quote]Magarhe wrote:
Yeah but these people are using it to treat the mental disorder of Hypochondrial Retardis.[/quote]
Or maybe just a case of nothing-else-worked-so-far-itis.
Found this interesting:
J Wound Care. 2004 Apr;13(4):154-5. Related Articles, Links
Colloidal silver as an antimicrobial agent: fact or fiction?
van Hasselt P, Gashe BA, Ahmad J.
Ear Clinic, Bamalete Lutheran Hospital, Ramotswa, Botswana. pvhasselt@planet.nl
OBJECTIVE: Colloidal silver preparations are marketed on the internet as omnipotent antimicrobial agents, but scientific support for these claims is lacking. This study reports the results of in vitro tests of colloidal silver’s antimicrobial activity against several pathogenic or non-pathogenic microorganisms. METHOD: Three samples of colloidal silver were tested: one available commercially on the internet (silver concentration of 22 ppm) and two samples (concentrations of 403 and 413 ppm) which were prepared in our laboratory using standard chemical methods.
RESULTS: In an agar-well diffusion assay none of the three colloidal silver solutions had any effect on the growth of the test organisms. All tested bacterial strains were sensitive to ciprofloxacin. Colloidal silver 22 ppm showed no bactericidal activity in phenol coefficient tests.
CONCLUSION: As the tested colloidal silver solutions did not show any antimicrobial effect in vitro on the microorganisms, claims of colloidal silver’s antimicrobial potency are misleading and there is no place for it as an antiseptic.
I take a pill that gives me about 300% selenium everyday, becuase I have heard it is good for my prostate. Should I reconsider supplementation?
There is some evidence favoring selenium supplementation as a preventative measure for prostate cancer.
It is under continuing investigation.
Dosing is still being investigated.
AlexH