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December 20, 2007
Filed Under (Found Items) by Morten Rand-Hendriksen
From ABC30.com: Paul Karason, a 57 year old Central Valley resident is a little bit different. He is blue. No, it’s not a neat PhotoShop trick or bad white balancing. He is actually blue. Watch the video and see for yourself. Mr. Karason’s skin took on this colour – usually associated with typhoid, oxygen deprivation and Smurfs – after he started drinking water laced with colloidal silver. Why? Because a man on TV told him to. It all started 14 years ago when Karason bought a device that dissolves silver in water after watching an infomercial. Colloidal silver was used as an anti-bacterial, fungal and viral agent back in the late 30s and was touted as being a miracle drug by a salesman. Karason took this claim to the letter and started drinking the substance every day. As luck would have it, he then developed a rare but (cosmetically) serious side effect called argyria that turns the patient’s skin grey, blue or purple. In spite of looking more and more like Papa Smurf, Karason continued drinking the water and as a result, he is now completely blue.
This is not the first time such an incident has happened. Montana Libertarian Senate candidate Stan Jones turned the same shade of blue when he started ingesting a home made silver cocktail in preparation for what he feared would be a severe shortage of antibiotics after the Y2K disaster. Jones was criticized for using his blueness as a means to get attention during his campaign. But even if it’s true, it didn’t work. He ran unsuccessfully for Senate in both 2002 and 2006. The sad part of this story is that one of the very reasons why medical professionals stopped using colloidal silver was because of this side effect and if Karason, Jones and others had trusted medical professionals rather than TV salesmen or their own medical home brews, they would still be in perfect health without looking like geriatric members of the Blue Man Group.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
Several things about this news video from CNN that strike me as odd right off the bat:
First of all, the man is really blue. I mean really blue. When people contract argyria (i.e., skin graying) from ingesting excessive amounts of colloidal silver over long periods of time, they usually turn grey, not blue. That’s because the excessive silver buildup in their body has worked its way to the skin (the human body’s largest organ of elimination), and when the sun strikes the skin it tarnishes the large number of silver particles lodged there, turning the skin slate grey.
It is quite possible this man actually has a heart disease resulting in cyanosis (skin bluing from oxygen deficiency in the blood). Nevertheless, he says his condition is the result of taking colloidal silver for the past 14 years, so we have to take his word for it.
As I have been warning for the past 12 years, drinking excessive amounts of colloidal silver on a daily basis for long periods of time will indeed result in argyria for many people, particularly those with poor kidney and liver function. That’s because the excessive daily intake of silver particles is more than their kidneys and liver can expel at any one time. This can result in a residual buildup of the silver particles in the body’s tissues each time a person drinks more silver than their excretory organs can expel. Eventually, over time, the body tries to push this residual buildup of silver from the tissues out toward the skin, at which point the skin turns grey upon exposure to sunlight.
Also, note that the news video from CNN doesn’t tell us how much colloidal silver this man was taking daily. This is a typical ploy of the corporate news media. They want you to believe that any amount of colloidal silver is potentially dangerous, when that is in reality the farthest thing from the truth. But to create the illusion, they don’t bother to tell you how much colloidal silver was taken each day for those 14 years, even though that is the most critical factor in the story! As one experienced colloidal silver user stated in a blog regarding this news video, “This idiot would had to have drank Colloidal Silver by the gallon to have that happen to him!” While we disavow the name-calling, the point is well taken. You have to try real hard to discolor your skin by drinking colloidal silver. It is actually easier to turn your skin orange from drinking too much carrot juice than it is to turn your skin gray (or blue) from drinking colloidal silver.
We also noticed that that the gentleman in the CNN video is shown using a conventional colloidal silver generator distributed by a company in Canada. We are familiar with the company that makes the exact generator displayed in the news video, and personally like the people behind the company. We have spoken with them several times in the past, and they are clearly very sincere about helping, educating and empowering people to be responsible for their own health. But as we have warned you for many years now, most conventional colloidal silver generators produce overly-high levels of silver (i.e., ppm, or silver by weight) in every batch, and the particle size of the silver is also often overly-large. So you have to be very careful if you are using a conventional colloidal silver generator.
This is precisely the reason why we chose to distribute the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, which allows you to produce silver particles so small it takes a Transmission Electron Microscope operating at a whopping 175,000x magnification to see them. In comparison, silver particles produced by conventional colloidal silver generators can generally be seen under a standard microscope operating at only 20,000x magnification. This means the silver particles produced by the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator are an astonishing 875% smaller than those produced by conventional colloidal silver units. In other words, they are far smaller than any blood cell, blood vessel, virus, bacteria, or fungus. You can see a Transmission Electron Microscope photograph of these tiny sub-microscopic silver particles by going to our home page at http://www.thesilveredge.com and scrolling down until you get near the bottom of the page, where you will see it on the right-hand side. As you will see, the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator produces silver particles as small as .0008 microns, which is eight ten-thousandths of a single micron. As far as we know, these are the smallest silver particles produced by any low-voltage colloidal silver generator on the face of the earth. This is probably why the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is now the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator.
Finally, this gentleman’s contention that his skin turned blue from rubbing colloidal silver on it, rather than from drinking it, is…well…rubbish. If the colloidal silver actually did cause his condition, then it was from drinking it in excessive quantities over long periods of time. If he rubbed anything on his skin and turned it blue, I can assure you it was not colloidal silver. This man is apparently blue nearly from head to toe. It is highly unlikely he was rubbing colloidal silver all over his body. And even if he was, it would not have turned him into a Smurf.
Also I would be extremely remiss if I did not point out one more vital fact in regards to this news video: Out of the estimated seven to 10 million regular colloidal silver users in the United States alone, this is only the second or third person the news media have been able to find in the last 20 years (to my knowledge, anyway) who has “turned blue.” (For the inside scoop on the last news media “blue man,” see our web site at http://www.thesilveredge.com and scroll down to the link titled “Did Colloidal Silver Turn This Man Blue?” As you will see, the news media claimed a man turned blue from taking colloidal silver back in 2002, but that story turned out to be highly exaggerated.)
At any rate, I still find it absolutely amazing that the news media will find two or three people who get this benign but unsightly skin condition out of the literally millions of regular colloidal silver users in the U.S. and Canada, and then broadcast it from the rooftops as if it were the norm. But they won’t mention the astonishing 2.2 million people who suffer serious and quite often life-threatening adverse reactions from prescription drug use every single year, or the 100,000 Americans KILLED each year from prescription drug use, which is 30 times more than all of the U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war each year! Let’s see now: two or three people turning blue in 20 years from excessive colloidal silver usage, versus 100,000 people a year being flat-out put into their graves by common drugs their doctors prescribed them. Which is more newsworthy? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
This man’s case is obviously an extremely rare one. But it is a good example of what we have been saying for years: In much the same way you wouldn’t eat a half a bottle of vitamins a day unless you want to endure some potentially nasty side effects over time, you also can’t take excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily without eventually provoking a nasty side effect called argyria. Most people are intelligent enough not to take the kind of huge daily dosages that would be necessary to stain your skin like this man has apparently done over the course of the past 14 years. But there are still many web sites out there that claim colloidal silver has “no side effects whatsoever” and that you can “drink all you want with no risk.” Those are blatantly untrue statements. And we have been sounding the alarm against such statements for years.
Again, just as you can’t take all of the vitamins you want every day without risk, so you can’t drink all of the colloidal silver you want each day without risk. If you take excessive quantities of colloidal silver daily for long periods of time, you do indeed risk contracting argyria (i.e., skin graying). It is not a guarantee you will become argyric. But it is a very real risk. The key to avoiding side effects from colloidal silver, or from any other natural supplement for that matter, is the same one your mother taught you when you were a little child: “Don’t overdo it; use MODERATION in all things.” If an ounce of colloidal silver a day works good for you, then for goodness sakes don’t start thinking that maybe 16 ounces a day will be even better. It is that “more must be even better” mentality that ultimately produces these rare cases of side effects which the news media in turns capitalizes on in order to scare people away from using this otherwise safe and powerfully effective all-natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster, which has been used by tens of millions of people worldwide since it was first invented in the late 1800’s shortly after Edison harnessed electricity.
For those interested in learning more about colloidal silver dosage, please to our web site at http://www.thesilveredge.com and download our NO COST special report titled “What’s the “Safest” Daily Dosage for Colloidal Silver?” which uses the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) own figures to determine how much colloidal silver is safe to take daily. Just use the blue link in the turquoise-colored box located in the upper left-hand corner of the home page. You might also want to scroll down the page and find the link titled “Buyer Beware: Not All Colloidal Silver Generators Are the Same” and read that article, which is posted right on the web site.
What’s more, our home page article will explain how we became the largest colloidal silver generator distributor in the world, and it also reveals our role in helping develop the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator – the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator – which produces silver particles so infinitesimally small the human body is able to absorb, utilize, and successfully excrete them with greater ease than any of the silver solutions produced by conventional colloidal silver generators. This superior absorption, utilization and excretion alleviates the need to take huge daily quantities of colloidal silver, giving you all of the benefits of this powerful natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster without the risk associated with excessive usage.
Finally, if you want to learn even more about the safe usage of colloidal silver, I am happy to announce that Life & Health Research Group has recently placed their one-hour, studio-quality Colloidal Silver Secrets video on sale for only twenty bucks. If features yours truly being interviewed relentlessly by television personality Kristyn Burtt on just about every aspect of colloidal silver usage you can imagine. I even demonstrate how to make a crude, emergency colloidal silver generator out of common household implements in under two minutes. I don’t know how long they will keep this great 60-minute long video (available in DVD or VHS) available at such a low price, so you should check it out now at http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com
Regards and good health!
Spencer Jones for TheSilverEdge.com
August 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
???? Was that a post, and artical, or an advertisment????
More Quacks. Go Mary, They may have turned you gray but they can’t take away your brain.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Can’t wait till papa smurfs liver falls out.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Rosemary Jacobs (the blue lady above) never drank colloidal silver in her life. On her website she admits this. 50 years ago, from the age of 11, she took highly concentrated silver nitrate nosedrops daily for about 4 years. (She is now in her late 60’s). The brand was probably Argyrol, the original ‘mild silver protein’. This product was commonly prescribed by doctors, as it was in Rosemarys case. The estimated strength of Argyrol was about 30,000ppm. Its nothing like the clear 15ppm colloidal silver that most people take today.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:21 am
Paul Karosan (the blue man above) has been overdosing on junk colloidal silver for 14 years. For the first 3 years he made it with salt. This brew had a ‘cloudy appearance’. He thought it was 10 ppm. It was probably 500 to 1000 ppm. For the last 11 years he’s changed to making it with baking soda. He consumes a glass or two of this junk every day. He has no idea of the strength but he knows he’s overdosing and continues to do so. And contrary to what Spencer Jones said in his cheap shot above, Paul Karosan did not use the Sota generator that is shown in the video. That generator was in fact his wife’s, who incidentally does not have argyria. Paul Karosan has his own generators of unknown brand and quality. You can read Paul Karosans story here. (I have nothing to do with Sota) http://www.sotainstruments.com/blue_man.asp
And Spencer… How do you know yours is “the worlds most popular colloidal silver generator”? Do all the other colloidal silver generator makers send you their sales figures? I doubt it.
August 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I would like to know what whole natural food contains colloidal silver?
Do we get this “natural mineral” from natural foods or is it just made in factories … with silver generators?
August 15th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Reply to ‘Wondering’
Theres no natural food that contains any significant amount of silver.
September 13th, 2009 at 3:01 am
I am a strong believer in natural medicines. There are thousands of varieties of natural medicines that come from herbs. Take White Willow Bark for example – it contains Acetylsalicylic Acid – ASA – the ingredient found in Aspirin. But one Colloidal Silver seller above admitted that there is NO silver in ANY foods. Since the Good Lord chose not to put silver in ANY natural foods, then there is no reason to believe it is something our bodies need to have. And when you read Mary’s story on her website, she gives plenty of anecdotal evidence that the “literature” often quoted by these sellers is usually either misquoted or extremely outdated (circa 1930’s). One article that promotes the use of silver also touts the benefits of coilloidal LEAD! Another one touts the health benefits of cocaine. Well, at least cocaine is a great pain-killer for the terminally ill (and comes from a NATURAL source). Also, most CS products don’t even contain ANY silver – have them analyzed by an independent lab if you don’t believe this – the reason you may have consumed it safely is because you didn’t consume any at all.
Stick to herbal medications. There are enough of them to cure every illness, you just have to take the right one at the right time. And stop eating junk food, start eating whole foods, & organic fruits & vegetables. That is far more effective at promoting a healthy body than consuming a metal that might make you turn gray.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Spencer Jones, take your quackery and go to heII.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Nano sized Colloidal Silver is completely safe and has no side-effects when taken sensibly. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly making it up or working for a Drug manufacturer that stands to lose profits from such an effective, low-cost alternative to medicines that can kill or maim.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I have been making, and taking Colloidal Silver now for over 10 years, AND I’M NOT BLUE!! Correctly made C/S will not harm you. Goodness knows how much I have saved in Dr’s bills! by grabbing the trusted old silver bottle.
Drug company’s get away with ‘murder’ with their pills and potions, example: Statins!! Which cause strokes and other terrible problems. do the drug company’s care? NO. They will just make another pill to fix up the problems with the first pill!!!Drug company’s don’t like Colloidal Silver, because they cann’t get their greedy hands on it, as it is a natural product, which cannot be patented…… and it goes on.
June 19th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
naked news fuck you go to hell fucker
July 17th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
1 in a billion takes a improperly manufactured colloidal silver solution, experiences a neagtive cosmetic reaction and it’s front page news. What about the 250,000 people that die every year at the hands of the medical profession? (Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2000 reports doctors 3rd leading cause of death due in large to prescribed drugs, misdiagnoses and failed surgeries)
That number is equivalent to 6 jumbo jets loaded with passengers crashing every day. Why isn’t the World Health Orginization and the media alerting the public about this high level pandemic? The answer is simple. The medical industry wouldn’t make a profit from a healthy society. The Health Care system
is an oxymoron. Research and become your own doctor or you’ll wind up a medical statistic.