Colloidal Silver

COLLOIDAL Silver: Despite what the Mayo Clinic Says, there does appear to be something to colloidal silver.

Scientific America’s piece on the potential benefits of silver and its anti-microbial properties.  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silver-makes-antibiotics-thousands-of-times-more-effective/

Products vary wildly and most don’t have the listed strength, so be very careful when choosing a brand. One of the best brands I have come across is made by ResultsRNA: http://www.resultsrna.com/advanced-cellular-silver-200-extra-strength

Some of the more popular brands that you see at the counter of health foods stores and promoted online actually contain very little colloidal silver. There are a few websites that present the test results if you take the time to do some research.

In my experience, I did notice when I took a few sprays before bed at a time when I was not feeling well with a cold or another infection, I would often feel better relative to no colloidal silver, but again this is anecdotal and highly subjective.

Bottom-line: There is very little substantial research on the benefits of colloidal silver, I would not make it a daily part routine. There are much more impactful and proven ways to improve your health, given the current research.  But it could potentially help, especially as some new research is coming out.  For example,  I just came across a paper that highlights the benefits of these new antibiotics being used to combat drug-resistant “Super Bugs”; a few of the new antibiotics are just the old antibiotics with silver added, which headlines say make them “1,000 times more effective”.