What do you think about diluting the 500 ppm solution with distilled water until it is in the 10 to 20 ppm range?
I think it is not a good idea at all. The key is not PPM, but rather surface area per PPM. The only 500 PPM products I know use large PPM to be as effective as better quality smaller PPM products because they use large particle silver made by an inferior process.
You could swallow a 0.999 pure silver marble and have 999,000 PPM silver - but it will not have a fraction of the surface area of quality silver that has particles that are in the tiny sub-nanometer to 10 nm size range. Think of how many basketballs you could get in a 50 gallon container and then add up their surface area. Then think of how many BB's you could get in a 50 gallon container and add up that surface area. Their is simply no comparison.
Diluting a large particle 500 PPM product just makes it that much less effective, whereas using it a full strength might be ingesting far too much large particle silver if you intend to use it in much quantity for any length of time.
Utopia Silver runs sales every couple of weeks where you get 25% off their silver, and you can get 15% off anytime with the CureZone discount code of LR001 (which is good on any product provided it is not on sale at the time).
If you want to save some money, my suggestion is to use the discount code on a Silver Bullet generator and make your own quality silver at home for pennies a gallon. No, it is not as efficient in regards to surface area and it contains less true colloidal silver (about 30%) than does their Advanced Colloidal Silver commercial product (which contains 75% or so true colloidal silver and the rest ionic). However, it has more true colloidal silver than many commercial products and virtually all other home generator products.
If it were me, I would start off with the best stuff and catch it on sale, get myself a generator at a discounted price, and follow the best stuff with home produced silver, upping the amount if you want to use the silver in large quantity. Keep some of the best stuff on hand in case of really tough problems that might come along.
May I ask what condition you intend to use the silver for?
All the best,
Tony
If the 500 PPM product were effective at diluted amounts, it would likely be sold in diluted amounts. Once again, it is large particle silver, likely very large particle silver and I would take your bet that it would be more effective diluted than the best home-made silver. Perhaps someone could help you make your own colloidal silver and you could mix it 50/50 with the Advanced Colloidal Silver - that would surely be better than the diluted 500 PPM product.
A mercury chelating DRUG? Why not use natural oral chelation substances which get rid of mercury such as chlorella, cilantro, MSM and N-Acetyl Cysteine (which is also effective against wasting)? That's what I use and I bet they are more effective and far safer than any drug. A high protein diet and no fasting are recommended during chelation therapy.
Speaking of magnesium, it is estimated that 90-95% of us are deficient in magnesium. Muscle wasting has been linked to magnesium deficiency, as it also has to deficiency in potassium. Magnesium should be supplemented on a 1 to 2 or 1 to 3 ratio with calcium, as they are important co-factors.
Your problem might be related to an immune disorder of some type. I note that you take turmeric, and that should help - though you may want to take larger amounts of up to 3000 mg per day and find a highly bioavailable form (or else take with black pepper and/or coconut milk). Curcumin (a component of turmeric) is a good immune modulator. Some others are oleander extract, blackseed oil (Nigella sativa), and magnesium. Digestive enzymes taken on an empty stomach (3 or 4 at a time two or three times daily) may also help.
All the best,
Tony
The reason most products that contain high PPM silver is that they produce their silver with larger particle, and the result of using enough larger particles to have an effective surface area comparable to the smaller nano-sized particles made by today's better manufacturers results in the much higher PPM. Once again, Tixona, it is surface area and NOT PPM that really matters. The more surface area you have the more you will have silver coming into contact with pathogens and other problems in your body. Take a thin blanket and fold it up as tightly as you can. Perhaps only a few square inches will come into contact with your body. Unfold it and you cover and contact virtually all of the body.
If the 500 PPM product would be effected diluted, why don't they just dilute it to begin with or else recommend dilution on the label and advertising? They don't and there has to be a reason for that. I think that I have the answer when I say that they have to use more of their larger particle silver to be as effective as other products, and they cover that deficiency by trying to turn it into an advantage by advertising their higher PPMs.
Most of the high PPM silver products I have looked at refer to the fact that they use the same method of producing silver that was used in the tests of silver against pathogens. That sounds good on paper, but what they are saying is that they are using outdated methods which were the only ones available at the time and those methods produced very large particles compared to the methods used today by the better manufacturers.
I note that many, but not all, of the same elements in the Cutler method are among the same as the ones I suggested. I don't see anything particularly dangerous in the Cutler method. Although there have been some questions raised about EDTA and DMPS, they are regarded as relatively safe by most people.
You are right when you state that just because the substance is labeled a "drug" doesn't mean it can't be effective or beneficial. On the other hand, mankind did not develop alongside lab created synthetic compounds and perhaps that explains why over 95% of all approved drugs have side-effects.
I have seldom seen any drug that is as safe or effective as items found in nature.
BTW, who makes the 500 PPM silver you refer to? When you make silver in concentrations that high it is virtually impossible to keep the particles from agglomerating and precipitating out unless you artificially suspend them in something like protein. And guess what - skin loves protein. Lots of silver plus skin can give result in you becoming a member of the Smurffs.
All the best,
Tony
Yes, DMPS appears to have a good safety record and it certainly is much preferable to the side-effect prone BAPS.
Now, the company you list states:
"Ultra Silver is proven to have a mean particle size of 35.2 nanometers"
Which means that there are both larger (perhaps much larger) and smaller particles which average out to 35.2 nanometers in size. I am personally not comfortable with the product and it's high concentration and since the smallest PPM product they sell is 1000 PPM, I would rather imagine that any further dilution will simply give you a lot of large particle silver with diminuishing effectiveness the further you dilute it.
I also note that they really do not state definitively whether or not they use protein to help keep their particles in suspension, but I do not see how they could keep from doing so, given the large size of at least some of their particles and the fact that silver particles begin to agglomerate (lump together) at concentrations of greater than 20 PPM, and do so increasingly as the PPM count rises.
All the best,
Tony
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